If you’re like me, receiving a third party referral can be a bit of a mixed blessing because following up on the referral can be a bit nerve-racking. It’s not …
Once again BNI were exhibitors at the Auckland Bizzone Business Expo in Auckland – and enjoyed a good degree of interest from the visitors. As part of the Expo …
Do you ask a new prospect for a referral on the first appointment? Do you wait until the second appointment? Do you wait a year into the relationship? The answer …
Many of you will know that BNI NZ enjoys a great relationship with NZ’s leading business magazine for the SME market – NZ Business. Any organisation that promotes “word of mouth” …
Do you not think about referrals until your BNI meeting? At which point you heart rate accelerates and you begin to sweat as referral time comes around? Do you say, …
Article contributed by Fiona Powell. To be in to win – simply add your comment to any BNI blog post by the 12th June 2009! EDWARD DE BONO, the world leader …
I found the following on Geoff Kirkwoods website: The thing that makes many large companies so memorable is their message – it is simple! Two, three or four words at …
How often have you seen queues outside of nightclubs? Nightclub owners do this to make their clubs look popular. Popularity attracts people. If you were to choose between two restaurants …
The following article appeared in Infonews last week: Getting customers and making sales can be the biggest challenge for people moving from redundancy in to their own small business, but …
This week I thought that I would post a poem that I found to be particuarly moving. Written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920’s it is often miscorrectly stated to …