Comments on: Don’t make this mistake at your next networking event https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/ This is the blog of BNI (Business Network International) New Zealand Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Phil Oster https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:48:01 +0000 http://bniblog.co.nz/?p=2165#comment-3059 I also run an owner/operator type business, but its my personal policy to turn my cellphone to silent or off when I meet with a client. I hate it when I am in a shop and the shop person answers a phone call and puts me (a real live paying customer) to the side – I usually leave.
At our BNI meetings anyone who forgets to turn off their phone is fined $5 if it rings during a meeting!
Time and a place for everything. If you have a phone you should know how to put a temporary greeting on it to cover client/BNI meetings or whatever, it doesn’t take much.

]]> By: Tony Glentworth https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3057 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:16:52 +0000 http://bniblog.co.nz/?p=2165#comment-3057 Sorry John but I am an avid cellphone and email user and the worst feeling is when you have someones undivided attention and they reach for the phone when it beeps that a text is coming in or call. Have you ever been asking a salesman a question that you need an instant answer to, because your time is precious only to have it interrupted by them answering another call? they don’t get my business because they didn’t value the business of the person standing in front of them. I have changed my habits to value the time of the people whom I am meeting with.

]]> By: Graham Southwell https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3050 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:52:08 +0000 http://bniblog.co.nz/?p=2165#comment-3050 Thanks for your feedback John. Interestingly – one of the comments regarding the BNI NZ video is that no photographer would interrupt a shoot to answer the telephone – which is along similar lines to what Ivan is saying here – however I guess that we all have our own interpretation as to what is acceptable, what is necessary and what should not happen.
Kind Regards,
Graham

]]> By: john leade https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3049 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:48:34 +0000 http://bniblog.co.nz/?p=2165#comment-3049 Sory that one is a bit boring written by someone who works office hours and wears a suit. Some of us at our meetings are trades people small business who do not have receptionists and are on call. I am an electrician and some times have to take a call. Another of my friends runs a car recovery service so at 7am in the morning he is the only man on.

]]> By: Paul Meyer https://bniblog.co.nz/relationship-marketing/dont-make-this-mistake-at-your-next-networking-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3018 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:51:00 +0000 http://bniblog.co.nz/?p=2165#comment-3018 Thank you Ivan.

Whole heartedly agree!

Paul

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