Hot off the press:

Free web hosting:

As you will now be aware we can offer free web hosting to Full members and to compliment this service we will be offering to promote your web sites. This will be through optimisation and search engine submission. Get more hits, do more business.

Ecommerce sites!

Ever wanted your own internet shop front, complete with shopping basket and merchant account? Well now you can have it all at an incredible low price.. The whole thing set-up hosted and maintained by us.Take credit card payments*, run a stock catalogue that will alert you when reordering is required and maintain a membership list (with newsletter option) Available to all  members from 10th Sept 2008.

 Newsletter update:

You have asked us to provide a newsletter archive, so we intend to add a link to previous newsletters in pdf format, on the useful links page of this site. Another popular request is to have the quarterly update sent via email, which we agree is a good idea. Watch this space.

New Membership Catagory:

To make the A.I.B accessable to all nad to let new businesses test drive our services, the Associate member level is now free. We still check and approve all applicants but this will give every one an opportunity to be part of the A.I.B 

Phone Services Anyone?

We are looking into providing 0845 phone numbers, free to members. No set up, no lease, no additional charges. You own the number so you can move it anywhere, any time. Non geographical numbers are becoming the norm and help you identify where the caller saw your advertisment. Let us know what you think by emailing us at :

phonepoll@independent-business.org.uk

New Branding and  Logo:

The new Association logo is now in circulation. All new membership certificates have the new design. Most of you will have the new artwork, if however you need a hard copy or an electronic one let us know.   The feedback has been very positive and we are very happy to have your comments.

Free Advertising (Update)

The A.I.B offers a range of free and low cost advertising services to all members at all levels.

FREE WEBMAIL.....For Everyone!

AIBmail is here, completely free, no setup cost, no running cost. When we say everyone we mean everyone. It's open to anyone in business. So if you need an extra email address or you want a less obvious web mail account then AIBmail is for you. Just click on the link and register. It comes with a calendar, appointment reminder, note pad, to do list and many more useful features. If you want yourname@AIBmail.zzn.com sign up today.