BNI Card Display Stand

  I am pleased to tell you that we now added a Card Display Stand to the BNI Shop.  Designed to help promote the members of your chapter and to draw attention to the fact that you business is a member of BNI – these can be placed on your office reception or counter – [...]

No Badge Means Less Money!

  I heard a member complaining the other day about the stupid badges that BNI makes us wear.
So the question is, why do we wear a badge?  Is it that BNI like their little rules, their little symbols of corporate being?  Is it just to make us feel stupid?  Well the answer is no, no [...]

Use Emotion to beat Information Overload

  For anyone who missed my recent article in “Business to Business” - I have added a link to the publication so that you can read it “on line”.  I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic – which basically postulates the idea that we are now in “information overload” – bombarded with up [...]

Networking “On-Line”

If you picked up a copy of this weeks Herald on Sunday you may have noticed an article about a new on line networking site – www.howgood.co.nz  The site is a new venture here in NZ and is being introduce by John Wall, an entrepreneur in Western Australia.
What was particularly pleasing from the point of [...]

When “Who do you know who…” isn’t good enough….

For several years now I have been telling my BNI Chapters that the most important words in their 60” Sales Managers Minute are “Who do you know who…” and indeed they are some of the most powerful words you can use…
Why… because they make the listeners imagination open to people they know outside of their [...]