It’s as true in business as it is in life: relationships are everything. Build the right ones, and your business will flourish. And by the ‘right’ ones, we’re not just talking about customer relationships. As crucial as those are, there are plenty of benefits to networking beyond making sales or picking up new clients.
Build a strong, supportive network of business relationships and you can tap into advice and mentoring opportunities, forge strategic partnerships and marketing collaborations, source talent, find service providers, raise funding… you get the idea!
In short, strong relationships equal stronger businesses.
To dig a bit further into this idea, we’ve put together 6 statistics about business networking that provide interesting insights into how these relationships work, what their benefits are, and how we can all use them to drive our businesses forward. Let’s take a look.

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Where can I find a Business To Business networking group in Spartanburg, South Carolina?
Hi Rickey. Thanks for reaching out! We’d love to suggest an online networking group for you that you could join on Alignable. Can you share a bit more about your industry just so we can suggest the right ones?