BNI Greater San Diego Chapter

Givers gain: support Visitors Day for chapter growth

Our chapter is preparing with great energy for a vigorous Visitors Day on May 19th.  This week members are encouraged to bring their 20 letters to addressed to professionals we would like to see in our group.  We are actively looking for florists, attorneys, specialty tradesmen, and other business owners who want more business referrals.

The Greater San Diego chapter is ready in every way for more members to share business with.  If you receive a letter from one of our chapter members, we encourage you to take the opportunity to lock out your competition from a vibrant networking group seriously.

Members, please bring your letters, and 20 additional names for next week’s letters, to our Thursday meeting so we can keep on schedule.

The Visitors Day system is a well-oiled machine that works best when everyone participates.  The benefits of that effort are obvious with new members who will share business with us.

We’re trading four times the business each month than an average BNI group. The VP reported today that we gave (and received) 240 referrals in the last four weeks, when a typical group will give out 60 per month.  Is it good members?  Good training?  It’s certainly good business.

Really, it’s all of the above. We take the time to get to know one another through dance cards, we work hard on our 60-second presentations to train our sales force, and we ask our own colleagues and clients how we can help them solve their problems.  Funny how the solutions are often right there in our BNI group.

Join us for breakfast next Thursday.  It’s not about the food.

BNI San Diego trains the world’s best networkers! That’s the tag line from Director Doug Means. Is it true? I believe it is, but you will have to go and see for yourself. Yesterday (Saturday 9/6/8) I was able to attend two of the four advanced training modules. Each module had exciting information that was new to me, and each reminded me of things BNI that perhaps I was getting sloppy with.

We were shown a new format for our 60-second commercial and reminded that the purpose is to “start a fire” or “wake up” our sales team. The one on one, or dance card module shows a very structured way of doing a dance card. It’s the same information we received in MSP2.0, but greatly expanded. The purpose of the first dance card might be just to get to know you, but the second one should be to help each other up the referral tree. For me the training was great, I’ll be repeating the modules. Hope to see you there!

Jerry