Communication is an essential ingredient for everyone in business and it can take many forms – written word, visual, and spoken word. As we belong to BNI, “the referral organisation”, we will focus on the importance of the spoken work as it applies to our word-of-mouth marketing strategy.
When you speak to another person or group [...]
Have you ever pondered about this question when standing up at your BNI networking session?
What causes your fellow networkers to listen to what you have to say? Do they sit up with rapt attention or do they simply keep eating their breakfast and sipping their now rapidly cooling coffees? The difference between them paying [...]
I have been working a lot with my chapters recently on being visual during their 60” infomercial.
For weeks I have been trying to hammer in that having a prop or something to grab the attention makes a difference. I even ran a test one morning. It was a small chapter – 18 there if you [...]
Instructions: This is a 2-3 minute activity that involves those at the meeting. You will need to read it through beforehand and be prepared.
What you say out loud to the group is in larger type in bold.
Purpose: To highlight members on the benefits of focus.
Requirements: – 0.
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Start by saying…
How many of you use the internet?
Wait [...]
Instructions: This is a 2-3 minute activity that involves those at the meeting. You will need to read it through beforehand and be prepared.
What you say out loud to the group is in larger type in bold.
Purpose: To highlight members on their purpose.
Requirements: – 0.
Start by saying…
Last week we focussed on what your customer looked [...]
