Contacts - How to keep a Referral
If during a meeting you see an opportunity to refer a fellow member you need to act quickly. Getting back to them the next day, quite often is not quick enough, they will have found someone else.
So to prevent this occuring, ensure you have your fellow members details easily to hand, here are a few tips.
- Make sure all of your fellow members telephone numbers are in your mobile phone.
- Carry the BNI Card holder with you at all times.
- Look at the J25BNI web site (http://www.j25bni.co.uk) - Show your customer. (If possible, add it to their favorites)
- Copy the members email addresses to your computer’s and laptops email address book.
- Add your member’s website addresses on your Internet browser.
- If you have a diary, make sure you have everyones contact details or a small stack of cards in there too.
Referrals are usually a NOW thing. Customers don’t like to wait, It shows that you are organised & efficient, if you can quickly reference other members details.
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Education, Networking.
Tags: business cards, contacts, emails, referrals, telephone numbers


