FREE 6 Month Bronze Membership

as part of the

Covid19 Small Business Help Package

Sart or Join-in the Shop Local Online Campaign for your Area,

or just come online to connect with other Small Business Owners going through the same crazy experience right now

This membership is an opportunity for you to take action to connect. Connect with people locally who want to support you with online sales.  Connect with others in small business who are navigating a crazy time.

Connect and support each other, because we are in this together.

The Arena’s mission is to support small business owners to connect and support each other.  Never has there been a time when this is more important.  As well as supporting each other, we all live in communities that want to help us survive the sudden stop in consumer spending. People want to purchase from local businesses to help them re-open on the other side of ‘social distancing’ periods.

Our first priority is to help every small business to create an online store for free, and make it easy for people in their local community to find them, and support them.

With our free membership you can create a store, get listed in a business directory by region/location, within your store, categorise the products and services you can deliver even during your local ‘social distancing’ and ‘lockdown’ conditions.

All you need to get started is a Paypal Account.

This is exactly what you can expect from the Free 6-month membership:

• Sign-up and create a Profile Username for yourself personally that is not linked to your business name (for total confidentiality to discuss all the challenges of business without reflecting on your brand).

• Automatically receive a Business Directory Listing, where people world-wide can find your store by location, and product category.  The store will be public-facing, so anyone will find it, including people in your local area who are searching for small businesses locally to support.  People will be able to find you when they search for products that are in the ‘contactless delivery’ category for their local businesses.

• Come onto the Forums and share knowledge and information to help others, as well as benefit from this yourself.  No one understands what you are going through right now better than other small business owners.  Now is a time to support each other.

You only pay fees when you make a sale.  Perfect for cashflow.

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Or just choose 'Bronze Membership' as the Profile Type on sign-up

What you receive when you become a Silver Member

Barter between Members and More

If you upgrade your membership from free to $37 AU per month you will receive THREE amazing things in addition:

1. Engage in Business to Business Barter with other members
   
   We allocate ‘Community Credits’ to you automatically when you participate in the community.  You can then use these credits as a currency to barter on the stores with other business owners.  Continue to trade with others in a cashflow crisis by using a completely different form of currency inside of the community.   We can help each other to shift our inventory and still receive goods and services throughout this period, starting right now!
   
   During the Covid19 crisis we are also offering to credit all new paying members $500 AU worth of credits when they do two key things...click here to learn more

2. Discover your Entrepreneur Profile
   
   When the dust settles and you are working online at home, if you would like to make good use of spare time with some professional development, we offer you the world’s best profiling tool (like a personality report, but better).  You take a survey and receive results for 48 different thinking and attitudinal patterns, then you can work your way through our online learning to understand exactly how each one relates to success in a small business.  Interact with us on monthly live calls to understand your results, and dicuss with other members on the Forums.  Come back from the isolation period knowing exactly what your strengths are in small business, and the ways of thinking that are not serving you.
   
   When you are ready to take the journey, you just start by taking the survey!
   
   
   
3. The Resilience Program
   
   It is NOT going to tell you the obvious about being agile through a time of rapid change.  It is going to help you to personally recover from the shock and stay OK within yourself despite changes that are totally outside of your control affecting your business.
   
   It will NOT be a Ra Ra Positive Thinking Fest.  It will be research-based, with a description of the thinking patterns that help people survive a crisis experience and the thinking patterns that cause people to get stuck in states of fear.
   
   It will combine exercises you can do alone, with practical techniques you can use with others to help make a difference to how they are feeling.  These techniques work quickly, and do NOT require that you are extremely vulnerable.  These techniques sometimes feel a bit magical, but we can and will explain them with neuroscience.
   The Practical exercises require that you are in a live class with a Trainer, and work in pairs.
   
   At the end of the program, you will be invited to hook up with another Silver or Gold Member as a Mindset Buddy.   This is a peer support structure that we will be supporting centrally, for you to do something that is absolutely essential to your mental wellbeing:  avoid being isolated.  If you are willing to stay connected to one other person, and exchange listening time, then this is for you!  If not, we are happy to provide more support for you via the online Coaching services in our Shop on the Directory.

To get started, just choose the Silver Membership under Profile Types

The Gold Membership

Help each other get through the Covid19 Crisis Together in a Mastermind Group

Connect online with other Small Business Owners to give and receive targeted support through this time

This is the ultimate form of collaboration and it is both completely online and facilitated during the Covid19 Crisis period.

During this time the Mastermind Groups will only be available for established businesses who are creatively problem solving how to come through this crisis and still be standing at the other end.  The Masterminds are NOT intended as ‘start-up’ programs.

During the Covid19 period the Masterminds will meet fortnightly for 2 hours and will be facilitated by a qualified Coach with business experience.  The Facilitator will NOT be offering advice, but facilitating group members to support each other through creative problem solving with knowledge, advice, introductions, referrals and more.

The Mastermind Groups are held online using software that makes it easy, you will not need to have any additional subscriptions to attend and all communication between meetings will be in one place that is easy to find.

You will be matched into a small group of no more than 6 people.  We will work to match you with others who are working in similar conditions:

• Region/location
• Business size
• NOT in competition (different industry)
• Service based vs Product based

Mastermind Group Members receive all the other benefits of Arena Membership (online shop and forum access, the ability to earn credits and barter, and their Entrepreneur Profile).

This is $200 AUD per month, commencing immediately. Your subscription is fixed for 3 months only.  At the end of 3 months you will be able to review whether to continue or leave. We understand that conditions are changing rapidly and it is difficult to commit, however a Mastermind group does require a minimum commitment to deliver value.

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