FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a community of business owners that enjoy gathering and sharing contacts and services to the extended Bucks County and Philadelphia communities in our area. We find that we can become better at creating relationship within this community when we meet as a group. We are also a 501(c) 3 Charity Organization that gives back to the community.

To help business owners achieve their goals.

No, we are not run by Bensalem Township.

Yes, as we are business owners we know the value of having an open dialogue with our elected officials. We also have them as guest speakers when we can.

You are a legally formed business who wants to connect with other businesses in the tristate area. We require attending at least two meetings in our fiscal year.

Nothing.

FREE trial period for all new members from the day they join to the end of the year they joined. 

Then at the end of that year if you like it you can stay on as a member and pay to be a member.

The cost will be $50.00 for annual membership with some additionally paid events throughout the year. 

We do this to make it easy to join us and also only charge $50.00 to everyone no matter the size of your company to treat everyone the same.

Before Covid the answer was YES, We hold an annual holiday dinner & picnic every year at a prim locations to celebrate our members and the business we have created for everyone.

We did the picnic and are looking forward to bring back the holiday dinner.

  • Listing on our web site directory.
  • Monthly Meetings/Business Card Exchanges.
  • Participation in events like our annual Picnic and Dinner.
  • A connection with other businesses and our community.

One third of the businesses in America are nonprofits. We feel opening our organization to them allows us all the benefit of knowing about each other. For example Schools, Churches and Hospitals are just a few that are considered nonprofits.

We try to meet once a month at various members’ businesses. Usually this will be on the second Thursday of the month.

Be a member in good standing and have enough space to hold a meeting with seating and have refreshments for everyone in attendance.

Normally the business who is hosting the meeting will also be the guest speaker. We ask that you give us an idea of what your talking points will be as the guest speaker or sponsor.

If they are at 8:00 am they are typically the second Friday of the month.

If it is 12 noon or 6:30 pm we typically will have it the second Thursday of the month.

We have found when you have meetings at one specific time it makes it hard for all members to attend. By allowing them to be at different times we are able to maximize attendance at each meeting.

ABSOLUTELY! We would love to have you join us. We have businesses of all sizes as members and the more we grow, the more we can help each other. Actually, since we are all business owners ourselves, we encourage you to come to live meetings for free before you join.

Yes, we welcome all businesses and do not hold exclusive categories.

We encourage all public and private schools as well as any religious organization to join our network of business professionals as we can bring needed support to those communities.

Yes, we were the Bensalem Business Directory DBA (Doing Business As) Business Friendly Organization. We started back in 2015 as the Bensalem Business Directory and we rebranded ourselves to the Business Friendly Organization to help people understand we are not a publication we are an organization.

Here is a link to an article that was done about this in the Bensalem Times  https://lowerbuckstimes.com/2022/05/16/bensalem-business-directory-rebrands-with-new-name/ named Bensalem Business Directory Rebrand with New name 5-16-22

Yes, we have had Lower Bucks Times do other ones.

Like the one from when we had PennDot as a guest speaker https://lowerbuckstimes.com/2019/05/21/penndot-announces-several-area-projects/
5/21/16 “PennDOT Announces Several Area Projects

Conversation of Community 1-14-19 and that would be the one with our Mayor.
https://lowerbuckstimes.com/2019/01/14/conversation-of-community/

Driving the Dialogue 8-10-18 was the first one Lower Bucks Times did on our Founder about his version of a business organization that was different https://lowerbuckstimes.com/2018/08/10/driving-the-dialogue-4/