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Episode 197: “Mobile Phones in BNI Meetings”

March 23rd, 2011

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Synopsis

Today’s topic is controversial: mobile phones in BNI meetings.

If you’re sitting in an important meeting with your biggest client, would you interrupt it for a text message or phone call? Of course not. So why would you do that during a BNI meeting?

There’s no quicker way to undermine your own credibility than to pay attention to the phone and not your fellow BNI members.

“But what if my wife goes into labor?” people ask. Yes, you can make extraordinary exceptions, but in 50 years, Dr. Misner has never been in a room with someone whose wife has gone into labor during a meeting. And nothing less serious is an excuse.

So unless you have a family member about to be born or die, just turn off the phone before you go into a BNI meeting—or any other networking meeting.

Read Dr. Misner’s Business Networking blog post on this topic, and then come back and tell us your ideas for the best way to handle the cell phone plague.

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Episode 108: “Quantum Chapter Growth”

June 10th, 2009

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Synopsis

This week, Dr. Misner wants to talk about the Fast Track program put together by Mark Taylor, Executive Director for the Houston East and South East Texas Area in conjunction with Del Fuego publishing. The program is based around the BNI Networking Secrets CDs that Del Fuego produced for Dr. Misner.

Everyone in the chapter buys the CDs and uses them like the required text for a college course. This ensures that everyone understands the fundamentals and works together. The result is 300% chapter growth.

Part of the program involves a live training session led by Ivan Misner on webcam.

If you’d like to see your chapter do the Fast Track Program, Dr. Misner will be happy to join you by webcam. To get started e-mail bnifastrack [at] delfuego [dot] com. (Just substitute the appropriate symbols for the words in brackets so it looks like a normal e-mail address. It’s written that way to prevent spammers from assaulting them with junk.)

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Published In: BNI Meeting | Special Guests
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Episode 100: “BNI and ‘The Last Millionaire’”

April 15th, 2009

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Synopsis

Congratulations to Dr. Misner and BNI on producing 100 episodes of this podcast!

Imagine being dropped off in the middle of a foreign city with only a handful of cash and being told you have to start a successful business before you can go home. That’s the premise of the BBC series “The Last Millionaire.”

What does this have to do with BNI? A recent winner of this show, Lucy, looked up BNI while in Hong Kong and used a visit to the Hong Kong Attraction Chapter to help her make four times as much money as the other contestant.

The Hong Kong BNI members showed how BNI can really work. BNI isn’t just a great way to get business, it’s an even better way to do business.

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Published In: BNI Meeting | Getting The Most From BNI | International Chapters | Success
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Episode 39: “Making Your Next Presentation Sparkle”

January 30th, 2008

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Synopsis

Ivan Misner and Bob Adelmann discuss ways to make your first 10-minute BNI presentation not just painless, but brilliant by providing an outline.

P: Point of the talk (the purpose, the premise, the promise)
S: Story from your own life experience to prove the point (2 minutes)
S: Story from your own life experience to prove the point (2 minutes)
S: Story from your own life experience to prove the point (2 minutes)
C: Call to action or challenge (“The best referral for me would be…”)
Q: Quotation to act as a memory hook.

Remember: Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance on the Part of the Person Putting on the Presentation.

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Episode 35: “Givers Gain, Chapter 6”

December 19th, 2007

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Dr. Ivan Misner shares tips from Chapter 6 of his book Givers Gain, which covers the years 1990-1994. The one-to-one dance cards started at a conference during this time period. This was also when Dr. Misner developed his vision of an international organization and began working on the business instead of in it.

Some important points about how the BNI franchise works: