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 …
Better Business
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 …
The Bizzone Small Business Expo is almost upon us and, reflecting back on previous years, a common sight is the plastic bags that visitors carry and the business cards, flyers …
Make your presentation sizzle
Let’s start with an example… Do you suffer from warts? Apparently, I was told as a kid, warts are caused when a toad or a frog pees on your skin. If that …
Making an effort is all up to you
When I first joined BNI I didn’t get one single referral for months – I won’t tell you how long because it’s embarrassing. If I hadn’t been employed at the …
Article contributed by Hazel Walker. Leads and referrals, every business person wants them, but how do they go about getting them? You find business people going from networking event to …
Meet the customer of today, and tomorrow. “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know your company. I don’t know your company’s product. I don’t know what your company …
The advertising debate!
I was contacted by someone this week who felt that BNI needs to advertise in order to attract members. “No successful business has ever been built without advertising” he assured …