J25 BNI Derby Business Networking

A short list of questions and suggestions leading to how best to use props in a BNI meeting
 

Will the prop add to the presentation?

Will the prop complement the presentation?

Will you still be able to perform without using the prop?

Make sure the prop is visible.

Do not over do it, do not let the prop interfere.

Must be appropriate, needs to [...]

The first and only BNI I ever visited was absolutely amazing, meaning the members of the chapter, so amazing were they that I didn’t visit any other chapters in the area and I immediately joined. It wasn’t until about 6 months later that I visited and substituted at other chapters, and what I saw was [...]

After Featuring at the BNI Derbyshire Big Breakfast. Here is the link to the BNI song that made Cornucopia Famous..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZetC8jPhY

Every 6 months your BNI’s leadership team changes.
Every 6 months the Chapter Director will ask for members to help being visitor hosts
Every 6 months the membership coordinatior will ask for comittee members
Every 6 months a new Education Cordinator and Events cordinator will be picked.
Why should you want to do these posts ? I seams like [...]

Wish that when someone needed a service that you were the one that came to mind?
A memory hook helps people to remember who you are and what you do. Here are some tips that make it easy to make a clever memory hook?
Networking expert Ivan Misner of BNI offers these tips for creating a great [...]

A Customer of mine was moving premises recently.
He decided that rather than send the money on getting external people involved he would use all of his staff to move the Computer network, Telephones, Internet Connection, IT equipment Install the signs and update his web site.
On the day he moved all of his staff were very busy moving [...]

Make more and better connections when you get your mind and skills in gear for networking.

Dr Ivan Misner - networkingnow.com
Download PDF - Get the Right Networking Mindset and Skill Set (267)

Imagine you go into a restaurant and order a meal. It is time to order your meal and you ask your server for “food and a drink”. The server looks confused and doesn’t know what you want or what to bring you. So then say, “I’m looking for something. Bring me anything. I eat everything.”
This [...]

After a while in BNI members tend to form groups around the table and in open networking.
Shake up the meeting a little by moving half the members around the table in the education slot.
This can be achieved in many ways, but I used a set of two different post-it notes randomly positioned around the table. Be [...]