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Visitors Day - 6th March 06/02/2008

BNI MidSussex we be holding a visitors day on Thursday 6th March.

Here's an email from Phil outlining how and where to put together our invite/wishlist.

Dear All

When we have a Visitors Day the primary purpose is to generate more business for the chapter.  Not just business on the day from our guests but for the weeks months and years ahead.  To do this we need to turn our guests into members.

Therefore it is crucial that we invite the right kind of guests to the meeting.  Guests that can become members.  In line with this I thought it useful to outline the profile of an ideal guest.

WHAT KIND OF GUESTS SHOULD WE BE LOOKING FOR?

1)  Businesses who could join our chapter.

2)  High quality business who can handle more work.

3)  Businesses locally you write cheques to.

4)  Businesses you know you could pass referrals to.

5)  Businesses you know who could pass referrals to you.

6)  Within 15 miles or 25 minutes drive.

7)  Not existing BNI members.
 
 
As we go forward to the visitor day and begin preparing our invites it can be really useful to have some ideas of where we might find the visitors we wish to invite.

The list below gives just a small idea of where we can find our guests.  Asking friends and colleagues if they know a great ****** (trade or profession) can be really powerful as when we invite them we are able to say they were recommended to us because they run a fantastic business.

Training Courses.
Friends and recommendations form friends.
Clients.
Rotary / Roundtable / Lions.
Relatives.
Networking events.
People you write cheques to.
Business cards collected.
Colleagues’ business card holders.
Local Mailshot.
Local Press.
Church Magazines.
Previous invites who could not make it.
Franchises.
Sign written vans on the local roads
Private suppliers.
Chamber of Commerce.
Newsagent windows.
Synergy Partners.
Clubs and Associations.
Advertising trade boards (Tesco etc).

Regards
 
Phil

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Your Views on Phil's Visitor's Day email

07/02/2008 - An excellent email - I'm looking forward to this visitors day. 80 people squeezed into a room for 50... A health and safetly nightmare... PAUL, what do we do here.... ;) Jim C