By Jon Stojan, Contributor Investing.com
Influence Board redefines business dynamics in the modern landscape, focusing on collaboration, innovation, and goodwill.
Influence Board is a platform that connects decision-making executives to those with innovative proposals to bring to them, cutting out the noise and flooded inboxes of cold outreach and revolutionizing how business is done. By making meetings efficient and mutually beneficial to both meeting requesters and business influencers through built-in donations to a host of worthy causes, Influence Board creates a community of ‘welcomed outreach’.
Founder and CEO of Influence Board, Jay Allen, explains, “We wanted to create a system where innovation and ideas are shared effectively, without the clutter and inefficiencies of emails and cold calls. This is about making business connections more human, meaningful, and impactful for all parties involved.”
Influence Board aligns the busy schedules of influential executives with those of sales professionals, companies, and even college students and young entrepreneurs through a system of mutual exchange. Founded on shared transparency and respect, meeting requesters can reach out to executives through the platform, in exchange for an equitable donation to the executives’ chosen charity. The platform even includes a Time Value Calculator that calculates the exact donation amount for any meeting that takes place.
First, meeting requesters provide topic markers for their innovative ideas so that executives can pre-screen requests based on relevancy. This ensures that every request can quickly and easily be analyzed based on need, so that neither party wastes the other’s time. Then, with the added benefit and compassion of a worthy cause, every accepted conversation can assure meeting requesters that their words will be well attended to. Influence Board believes their platform to be the perfect triple-win, for business influencers, meeting requesters, and the world at large.
For meeting requesters— sales professionals— Influence Board provides an opportunity to stand out from their competitors right from the get-go. The platform offers appointments with executives who align with their pre-set criteria. This targeted approach saves sales professionals and their companies the resources traditionally spent in accessing C-suites, potentially leading to a higher meeting acceptance rate than cold outreach methods.
It’s more than about access: by engaging in conversations framed around shared interests and charity, salespeople can build rapport and trust more effectively. The platform also enables meeting requesters to gain insights into an executive’s values and priorities. With every conversation opener being one of deep-set values, barriers are lowered and peer-to-peer relationships are fostered, which may result in more positive outcomes.
Conversely, executives benefit by converting the monotony of another meeting into material good— exactly equivalent to the value of their time— for the causes they care for most. By setting filters for the topics they’re willing to accept and limiting the number of meetings per month, the Influence Board forms a structured and efficient way to evaluate new ideas, ensuring that a decision-maker’s time is spent on high-impact conversations.
When raising money for executives’ favorite charities is added to the mix, Influence Board transforms business development and marketing operations into a way to pay it forward. The meeting fees, as determined by the executives, go entirely to the executives’ selected charities (minus a fee to the platform) with every completed meeting, providing a path for professional engagement to transcend the transactionality of daily working life through philanthropy.
Beyond business meetings, Influence Board also includes the option of Mentorship Conversations, where young professionals and college students can request two free one-hour meetings with executives as part of their initial sign-up. These sessions often lead to life-changing opportunities, professional insights, and possibilities for career advancement. For executives, mentorship conversations uplift the next generation of leaders through a chance to share hard-earned wisdom with emerging talents.
By combining transparency, purpose, and philanthropy, Influence Board revolutionizes how business connections are formed. Now expanding its platform to fulfill ever-increasing demand, Influence Board is creating a world where outreach is welcomed, impactful, and mutually rewarding.
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