Business networking on PlaceLocal

Better business relationships start here.

Meet Australian business owners, join communities, exchange introductions and keep the conversation moving. Start free as a Guest.

Free to joinInvite businesses you knowBuild at your own pace
PlaceLocal for local business — meet useful businesses

Meet useful businesses

Connect with people you can genuinely work with and refer to.

Local business owners meeting through PlaceLocal
Start with people

A place to meet people you can work with.

Create a profile for your business, explore Groups and connect with owners relevant to your work. You can start with a few useful conversations.

A simple way in

Start with a few useful connections. Build from there.

Start as a Guest and take a look around. When you're ready to play a more active role, everything you've already built comes with you.

Show up clearly

Help other businesses understand who you are and what you do.

Meet useful businesses

Join Groups, make connections and build relationships at your own pace.

Keep momentum

Message, make introductions and keep track of the people you want to follow up with.

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Find useful connections

Find the right businesses to connect with.

Discover businesses aligned with what you are looking for, then meet the people behind them. Keep the conversation and the next step together in PlaceLocal.

Keep relationships moving

Stay close to the relationships that matter.

See where there is momentum, who to follow up with and which relationships are ready for a reconnect.

Healthy

Relationships worth keeping close.

Needs attention

The next conversation is waiting.

Going quiet

Reconnect before momentum fades.

Bring your network with you

Already have a group? Give it a place to grow.

Bring across the businesses you already know and create a home for your networking group, referral circle or business community.

Share announcements, organise events and post who you're looking to meet. Keep everyone connected between catchups.

Your Group can be public or private, free or paid, and can be promoted through PlaceLocal when you're looking for new members.

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Local businesses meeting through a PlaceLocal Group

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Communities already growing

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Membership

Start as a Guest.
Move up when you're ready.

Guest lets you explore the network. Member gives you more room to participate. Member Plus adds Prospects and a Group of your own; Member Pro adds deeper referral and sales workflows.

Everything you build carries forward.

Start here

Guest

$0Free to join

Come in as a Guest and see how the network feels for your business.

A simple way to meet useful businesses.

  • See which local businesses are worth knowing
  • Join a Group and meet people properly
  • Message, introduce and refer
  • Keep every conversation in one place
Start Networking
Take part

Member

$10/mo

Get more from your network and take a more active part in it.

Show up clearly. Get found.

  • A profile people actually find — public and indexed by Google
  • Get matched with businesses looking for what you do
  • Turn up more often in other members' matches, with your intro
  • Open a conversation before you're connected
  • Keep a record of every meeting and introduction
Start Networking
Most popular next step
Take part

Member Plus

$29/mo

Lead a Group and put the network to work for you.

Run the room. Know who to meet.

  • Everything in Member
  • Run your own Group and build a room around your business
  • See who in the network is looking for what you sell
  • Let AI read your network and tell you who to talk to
  • Say more, more often, to more of the network
Start Networking
Organise the network

Member Pro

$79/mo

Capture the enquiry and follow it through.

Your partners. Your pipeline. Your process.

  • Everything in Member Plus
  • Take bookings and enquiries straight from your profile
  • Every lead in one pipeline, first contact through to won
  • Pay partners for the work they send you
  • Follow a referral all the way to the invoice
Start Networking

Need deeper lead, CRM or operations tools? Compare every PlaceLocal plan.

More about Member Pro and referral partnerships
For organisers and referral leaders

Give your referral partnerships a room of their own.

Member Pro is for businesses ready to manage referral partnerships, leads and follow-up in one place.

Your partners. Your portal. Your pipeline.

Each referral partnership has its own private space. Just you, your partner and the opportunities you share.

Bring the right partners together

Bring in trusted referral partners, prospects and businesses you meet outside PlaceLocal.

Capture the right opportunities

Use dedicated referral and lead forms so opportunities arrive with the information you need.

Keep everything moving

Follow referrals, leads, commissions and relationship activity without losing the human relationship behind it.

See networking allowances by plan

All members can join Groups. Member Plus and above can create and manage their own. This detailed table also includes Member Premium; see the full plan comparison for that tier.

FeatureGuestMemberMember PlusMember ProMember Premium
Connection slots (active + outgoing pending)550UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
New connection requests / 7 daysPool bound8152550
Conversation starters / 7 days05122550
Personal connection note——IncludedIncludedIncluded
Groups joined1251020
Groups owned00135
Business updates1 lifetime1 / 7 days2 / 7 days3 / 7 days5 / 7 days
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How PlaceLocal communities work
  • Membership fees, including dues and event costs, are paid directly to the community organiser, not through PlaceLocal.
  • Private groups stay private. Organisers choose whether their community appears in the public directory.
  • Businesses choose whether their membership in a community is shown publicly.
  • Organisers decide whether people join openly, by application or by invitation.
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Your next connection starts here

Ready to meet the right people?

Create a free business account, find a community and start building relationships that can lead somewhere useful.