What a great day to do business!

Trussville BNI members (see the members on right side of page) are smarter than their competition. We meet weekly to exchange business referrals with none of our competitors in sight. As we make our push to 40+ members, ask yourself; do I want my competition presenting their business to over 40 different businesses instead of me?

Zack Archulleta, account executive, with WABM-68 / WTTO-21 television submitted his application for membership. Renee Lilly, interior designer, visited our chapter.

George Barnett, the Cleaning Superhero, from G & G Services, LLC used his 10 minute presentation to educate members on the types of business referrals he is seeking. The members paricipated in “Are You Smarter Than a Cleaning Superhero?” The Cleaning Superhero asked a series of cleaning questions relevant to his services and members were given multiple choice answers. After only 4 questions the members were eliminated from competition. George pointed members to his website, www.CleaningSuperhero.com , for answers to many of their cleaning questions.

Next meeting will be special as it will be the only BNI meeting on February 29th for 4 years. It will be special. See you there!

What a great day to do business!

It was another exciting day to be present at the Trussville chapter of BNI as we continue our push to 40+ members.  The membership committee approved Kerri Gulledge, stylist at Salon 2000 for membership and Steven Newbold, career management coach submitted his application.

Jeff Wilson’s network education gave us a formula to follow for 7 days to getting more referrals. It is titled 1 hour and 1 lunch. We were instructed to spend 10 minutes each day concentrating on our networking efforts.  He explained, spend 10 minutes working on your sales manager’s minute, 10 minutes thinking about the business category best capable of bringing you referrals and invite this business to visit the chapter, 10 minutes thinking about an existing members capable of bringing you more referrals, invite a member to a quiet office lunch for a 1 to 1, speak with a non-member about the chapter and it’s members, and arrive 10 minutes early and stay 10 minutes after your chapter’s meeting.

Since Valentine’s Day was yesterday, during our 60 second commercial, we were encouraged to share something we love about our businesses separating us from our competition. There were several excellent examples of how well the chapter’s members provide the best customer service

Jeff Wilson’s 1o minute presentation reminded us of several of his business referral sources. He designed this website and you can see more of his professional designs in the portfolio section of his website www.sbmsytems.com .  Jeff also explained how he uses search engine optimization to improve the ranks of his customers in the growing internet economy.

Today’s visitors were: Colby Sisson / Landscaper, Zack Archuletta (back for a second visit), and Cheryl Knighten a current BNI member visiting from another chapter.

Don’t miss out on next week’s meeting, see you there!

What a great day to do business!

Our BNI chapter meeting this morning was packed with eager participants ready to do business networking.

In celebration of International Networking Week, we continued our push to 40+ members. Our newest member, Todd Sims with Jett Net Security Systems, was inducted and immediately greeted with business referrals. We also adopted “Send Out Cards” from member Terry Richmond as the Trussville chapter’s visitor invitation and follow up resource. Personalized for our chapter, Send Out Cards will help us to stand out and give potential members a reference guide to our member’s business names, phone numbers, and description of products or services. The members reponded to a questionnaire of the business categories we will be inviting to visit and apply for membership.

Visting with us this morning was Zach Archalleta from WTTO-21 / WABM68. We hope to see Zach back next week for a 2nd visit.

Jeff Wilson delivered the networking education on how important 1 to 1s are to increasing referrals. He announced the 1 to 1 contest for getting monthly dues paid. 

Our sales manager minute concentrated on how each member determined would like to have referrals handled. Many preferred members leave their card and get the referral’s contact information. Some wanted warm leads with only contact information necessary. It is was an excellent exercise in determining how easily a referral can be given.

Snap, crackle, and pop. No, it wasn’t about rice crispies but it was chiropractor, Dr. Stephen Edwards, giving his 10 minute presentation. He educated us on how important seeing a chiropractor can be for all ages. We now have a better knowledge on who will be good referrals to his practice.

Carrie Gulledge, hairstylist, has submitted her application for membership. The membership committee is reviewing her application and I hopefully will be inducting yet another new member to Trussville BNI.

Look forward to seeing you there.

You have to say this design for the Trussville BNI chapter is fitting with our new outlook for members. Jeff Wilson has developed a masterpiece for our group.

Our drive to 40+ members is underway and this website will play an important part to meeting the chapter’s goals.

Welcome to the new Trussville BNI website. Please check back as we are constantly updating this site with new information about BNI in Trussville and in the Birmingham Area.