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Yemen
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Better member visibility
Need to see the value in the seat / Profitability
Monitor referrals
Enjoy the meeting / Great energy
Doing the meeting right
Leadership needs to lead by example
Balanced Chapters
Work on renewals early
Start budgeting early for renewal
Trust Savings Fund
Socialise (all work no play etc)
FUNdamentals
Family feeling / Build familiar
Help members get back to basics
Mentorship / Feel supported
Buddy System
Invest time in members / coaching problem members
Passport Program
Member’s Personal Goal Setting
Personal accountability
Education / Personal development / Business workshops. (not just BNI)
Recognition/Recognition/Recognition
Right venue for business
363 review program
Work on relationships within
Cross 1-2-1 / 1-2-1's / 1-2-1 matrix
The relation of 1-2-1 to revenue given
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Be early - Stay late
Create Contact Spheres
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
OUR chapter not MY chapter relationships
Engage to join leadership team
Set Expectations when joining BNI
Encourage relationships - old and especially new
BNI game
MSP Training
Get the new member’s referral confidence curve in place quickly
Active positive whatsapp group
Chapter culture (culture eats strategy for breakfast)
Appropriate socials
Chapter accountability
Follow policies
Analyse PALMS productively
Great weekly presentations
Write down asks this is a working meeting
Weekly newsletter
Monthly meet the ED's Coffee morning
build relationships first before hunting
They must become stake holders in a business called BNI"......" chapter for referrals
Don ot just 'sign up' members, but 'enroll' them into the BNI program
Retention
Training members for visitors / Inviting Mindset
Recognise Power of One and reward G.R.I.P.
Gamification process (competition)
Recognition badges / incentivize for most visitors
Focus / Visitors’ days
Invite 3 professions
Quality visitors and connections
Invite members from Wanted Professions
Invite possible power teams / contact spheres
Invite for feature presentations
Allocate a buddy
Invite target visitors / break up into contact spheres for lists to invite
Community groups
Get the Connected Industry to phone visitor
Don’t use words like BNI or network
Ask for 3rd party visitors
Emphasize it is exclusive
Visual View of the Balance of Chapter Contact Spheres
Ask for best profession (accountant) in centurion on social media and invite those recommendations
Add into your email stationary "Do you want to grow your business through regular referrals, ask me how
Ask “who do you know that is not represented?”
before i go...I have been chatting to....
We are interviewing for a...
Use the app to invite
Delegate praise
Ask who they want you to invite
Invite the spam
Approach members for extra visitors
Post on Facebook to invite
Look who is being recommended on Facebook and invite them
Keep asking but don’t beg
SMS campaign
F.R.O.G.S (friends, relatives, organisations, geographical neighbours, social networks)
Tadpoles (BNI juniors of the future)
Priority list and canvas members regarding wants
Informing chapter who is visiting to encourage competition
Bring your husband/wife/partner to an evening meeting - they get an idea what BNI is first hand, they can add value in the form of visitors/guests/referrals
Add contact sphere (cc) on invite email
Invite to International Networking Week to get the bigger picture
Visitors
2nd visit it’s now or never
Hidden elements were they emphasized?
Managing the stats / results (stats)
Visitor host strategy (it’s not random)
Great visitor orientation - close the deal / Ask for the sale
President Involvement
Preparation material
BNI video
Chapter energy
Visitor experience
FUNdamentals
Early arrival and leaving late
Visitor follow up call
Professional welcome
Hospitality at meetings
High Calibre Visitors
Good meeting venue
Email details
Connection opportunity to network
Respond email
Connect members
Contact sphere promotion
Receive knowledge
“I get business”
“I keep learning”
If the visitor cannot see the potential relationships they won’t join
Referrals
Welcome pack
Ask them what they’ll bring to the chapter
Dependent on industry, link member during orientation
Visitor hosts intro to industry
Follow up with visitor by member from industry
Do homework about visitor and target specific industries
Follow up by president and get VH to connect visitor to member committee
What impressed you the most?
Set expectations upfront
Give the visitor a prepared name tag 123 feedback
Car park greet Reserved parking bay
BNI signage
Immediate connection
Super welcome
Network of trusted providers
6 week Activities Timeline for the Feature Presentations
Use trifold brochure
Let visitors go out of meeting for orientation then come back to network with members before everyone rushes out
3rd party members, visiting member
Help make connections quickly
Communication - what do you want, what do you expect, what do we expect, how can we help, how can you help
Don't over 'sell’
Focus on the long term benefits
Secretaries and Vice Presidents need to load visitors promptly for ENGAGE
it is not just about who is in the room but who they know and can introduce
Conversion
Better member visibility
Need to see the value in the seat / Profitability
Enjoy the meeting / Great energy
Doing the meeting right
Leadership needs to lead by example
Recognition/Recognition/Recognition
Right venue for business
Be early - Stay late
BNI game
Great weekly presentations
Write down asks this is a working meeting
OUR chapter not MY chapter relationships
Engage to join leadership team
Chapter culture (culture eats strategy for breakfast)
Chapter accountability
Follow policies
Meeting Experience
Balanced Chapters
Leadership needs to lead by example
Monitor referrals
Personal accountability
The relation of 1-2-1 to revenue given
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
Analyse PALMS productively
Analyse the Metrics
FUNdamentals
Help members get back to basics
Buddy System
Education / Personal development / Business workshops. (not just BNI)
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
MSP Training
Education
Work on renewals early
Start budgeting early for renewal
Trust Savings Fund
Help members get back to basics
Mentorship / Feel supported
Buddy System
Passport Program
Member’s Personal Goal Setting
363 review program
Set Expectations when joining BNI
Get the new member’s referral confidence curve in place quickly
Mentorship
Balanced Chapters
Create Contact Spheres
Socialise (all work no play etc)
Family feeling / Build familiar
Active positive whatsapp group
Appropriate socials
Weekly newsletter
Monthly meet the ED's Coffee morning
Outside the Meeting
Don't just 'sign up' members, but 'enroll' them into the BNI program
They must become stake holders in a business called BNI"......" chapter for referrals
Visitor Experience
Work on relationships within
Cross 1-2-1 / 1-2-1's / 1-2-1 matrix
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Encourage relationships - old and especially new
build relationships first before hunting
Develop Relationships
Better member visibility
Need to see the value in the seat / Profitability
Monitor referrals
Enjoy the meeting / Great energy
Doing the meeting right
Leadership needs to lead by example
Balanced Chapters
Work on renewals early
Start budgeting early for renewal
Trust Savings Fund
Socialise (all work no play etc)
FUNdamentals
Family feeling / Build familiar
Help members get back to basics
Mentorship / Feel supported
Buddy System
Invest time in members / coaching problem members
Passport Program
Member’s Personal Goal Setting
Personal accountability
Education / Personal development / Business workshops. (not just BNI)
Recognition/Recognition/Recognition
Right venue for business
363 review program
Work on relationships within
Cross 1-2-1 / 1-2-1's / 1-2-1 matrix
The relation of 1-2-1 to revenue given
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Be early - Stay late
Create Contact Spheres
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
OUR chapter not MY chapter relationships
Engage to join leadership team
Set Expectations when joining BNI
Encourage relationships - old and especially new
BNI game
MSP Training
Get the new member’s referral confidence curve in place quickly
Active positive whatsapp group
Chapter culture (culture eats strategy for breakfast)
Appropriate socials
Chapter accountability
Follow policies
Analyse PALMS productively
Great weekly presentations
Write down asks this is a working meeting
Weekly newsletter
Monthly meet the ED's Coffee morning
build relationships first before hunting
They must become stake holders in a business called BNI"......" chapter for referrals
Don ot just 'sign up' members, but 'enroll' them into the BNI program
Retention
Training members for visitors / Inviting Mindset
Recognise Power of One and reward G.R.I.P.
Gamification process (competition)
Recognition badges / incentivize for most visitors
Focus / Visitors’ days
Invite 3 professions
Quality visitors and connections
Invite members from Wanted Professions
Invite possible power teams / contact spheres
Invite for feature presentations
Allocate a buddy
Invite target visitors / break up into contact spheres for lists to invite
Community groups
Get the Connected Industry to phone visitor
Don’t use words like BNI or network
Ask for 3rd party visitors
Emphasize it is exclusive
Visual View of the Balance of Chapter Contact Spheres
Ask for best profession (accountant) in centurion on social media and invite those recommendations
Add into your email stationary "Do you want to grow your business through regular referrals, ask me how
Ask “who do you know that is not represented?”
before i go...I have been chatting to....
We are interviewing for a...
Use the app to invite
Delegate praise
Ask who they want you to invite
Invite the spam
Approach members for extra visitors
Post on Facebook to invite
Look who is being recommended on Facebook and invite them
Keep asking but don’t beg
SMS campaign
F.R.O.G.S (friends, relatives, organisations, geographical neighbours, social networks)
Tadpoles (BNI juniors of the future)
Priority list and canvas members regarding wants
Informing chapter who is visiting to encourage competition
Bring your husband/wife/partner to an evening meeting - they get an idea what BNI is first hand, they can add value in the form of visitors/guests/referrals
Add contact sphere (cc) on invite email
Invite to International Networking Week to get the bigger picture
Visitors
2nd visit it’s now or never
Hidden elements were they emphasized?
Managing the stats / results (stats)
Visitor host strategy (it’s not random)
Great visitor orientation - close the deal / Ask for the sale
President Involvement
Preparation material
BNI video
Chapter energy
Visitor experience
FUNdamentals
Early arrival and leaving late
Visitor follow up call
Professional welcome
Hospitality at meetings
High Calibre Visitors
Good meeting venue
Email details
Connection opportunity to network
Respond email
Connect members
Contact sphere promotion
Receive knowledge
“I get business”
“I keep learning”
If the visitor cannot see the potential relationships they won’t join
Referrals
Welcome pack
Ask them what they’ll bring to the chapter
Dependent on industry, link member during orientation
Visitor hosts intro to industry
Follow up with visitor by member from industry
Do homework about visitor and target specific industries
Follow up by president and get VH to connect visitor to member committee
What impressed you the most?
Set expectations upfront
Give the visitor a prepared name tag 123 feedback
Car park greet Reserved parking bay
BNI signage
Immediate connection
Super welcome
Network of trusted providers
6 week Activities Timeline for the Feature Presentations
Use trifold brochure
Let visitors go out of meeting for orientation then come back to network with members before everyone rushes out
3rd party members, visiting member
Help make connections quickly
Communication - what do you want, what do you expect, what do we expect, how can we help, how can you help
Don't over 'sell’
Focus on the long term benefits
Secretaries and Vice Presidents need to load visitors promptly for ENGAGE
it is not just about who is in the room but who they know and can introduce
Conversion
Better member visibility
Need to see the value in the seat / Profitability
Enjoy the meeting / Great energy
Doing the meeting right
Leadership needs to lead by example
Recognition/Recognition/Recognition
Right venue for business
Be early - Stay late
BNI game
Great weekly presentations
Write down asks this is a working meeting
OUR chapter not MY chapter relationships
Engage to join leadership team
Chapter culture (culture eats strategy for breakfast)
Chapter accountability
Follow policies
Meeting Experience
Balanced Chapters
Leadership needs to lead by example
Monitor referrals
Personal accountability
The relation of 1-2-1 to revenue given
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
Analyse PALMS productively
Analyse the Metrics
FUNdamentals
Help members get back to basics
Buddy System
Education / Personal development / Business workshops. (not just BNI)
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Understand the value of their P.O.O./ Power of One
MSP Training
Education
Work on renewals early
Start budgeting early for renewal
Trust Savings Fund
Help members get back to basics
Mentorship / Feel supported
Buddy System
Passport Program
Member’s Personal Goal Setting
363 review program
Set Expectations when joining BNI
Get the new member’s referral confidence curve in place quickly
Mentorship
Balanced Chapters
Create Contact Spheres
Socialise (all work no play etc)
Family feeling / Build familiar
Active positive whatsapp group
Appropriate socials
Weekly newsletter
Monthly meet the ED's Coffee morning
Outside the Meeting
Don't just 'sign up' members, but 'enroll' them into the BNI program
They must become stake holders in a business called BNI"......" chapter for referrals
Visitor Experience
Work on relationships within
Cross 1-2-1 / 1-2-1's / 1-2-1 matrix
Encourage new member 1-2-1's
Encourage relationships - old and especially new
build relationships first before hunting
Develop Relationships