Does Your Picture Tell a 1000 Words?

We have just completed a five week campaign/competition to encourage our BNI South/East Auckland  members to upload their photos on the BNI website.

Does your picture tell a thousand words?  Perhaps for some, but at least we somehow associate people with the image we have of them in our minds. 

As Directors who regularly visit our chapters it is always great to take a list of names and the respective photographs to make meeting up and sharing in BNI success stories much more interesting.

Have you been to a social networking site recently and clicked on a profile to find there is no photograph to identify with?  I read the other day you have 20 seconds to capture the attention and form an impression of someone when you walk into a shop.

On the internet they say you have only 3 seconds to capture the attention of the visitor before they click somewhere else.

Imagine if someone clicked on your BNI profile to find out whether or not they wanted to do business with you and found no photo.  What would be your impression?

All members of BNI are encouraged to upload a photo/logo to help with the image they portray, as someone keen to do business with. 

The results of our campaign/competition was that we now have 86% more members photos loaded and 65% of members now have their photographs loaded. 

Congratulations to Manukau BNI who have 100% photographs loaded and win the prize of a set of personalised engraved BNI name tags.

Remember your photo could also tell a thousand words about you, so exhibit it to your advantage.

Lets have all BNI members with a photograph up on the BNI website.

Rosemary & Paul Meyer

Assistant Directors South/East Auckland

Paul is also author of the successful careers advice book The Naked Career at http://www.thenakedcareer.net