DONALD Trump would probably feel just a little bit out of his comfort zone if he were to turn up the Park Inn Hotel in North Street on Saturday next week.

The hotel will be holding a major business expo. No problems for Trump there. But all those exhibiting will be women...

There’s a reason why her networking group York Women Mean Business (YWMB) is female only, says Tracy Burleigh, who set it up a couple of years ago. And it’s not because she doesn’t like men, or doesn’t like doing business with them.

It’s because women, when there are no men around, tend to do business in a different way. At the monthly YWMB meet-ups, members put their business cards in goody bags for other women to take home, rather than spending the evening flashing their cards around and trying to ‘sell’ themselves.

“It is advertising without advertising; selling without selling,” said Tracy.

Trump, who famously sees himself as a master of the hard sell and the hard deal, would hate that.

But building up a network of friends who know and genuinely like each other and are prepared to trade with each other as friends and colleagues sounds like a great - less aggressive and more supportive - way of doing business.

It is clearly working. Tracy only set up YWMB two years ago. But already, it has almost 1,800 members, and has attracted the attention of Facebook, which sees its networking methods as an excellent business model.

Next Saturday’s expo will be the group’s first. But it promises to be a major step forward.

Might there be a lesson here for some business men out there? Mr Trump?