last 7 days.

Good morning, I’d like to welcome visitors and

members to the I71 Buzz Chapter of BNI. I’d like to introduce to my left Leigh

Anne Best, our Vice President, and to my right,

Troy Zavagno our Secretary/ Treasurer. And I’m Tony

Smerk, acting President of the I71 Buzz chapter.

Would everyone please be sure your cell phones

and pagers are on vibrate or completely

off.

Cell phones off

BNI is the most successful organization of it’s type in the

world. There are currently 1000’s of chapters in

operation with 10’s of 1000’s of members. Those members have passed 1,000,000’s of referrals and this translates

into billions of dollars of business being done.

Karin Williams would you please stand and explain

the philosophy behind BNI and the principle on

which its success is built?

Exactly. And well said. If I give business to the

members of my chapter, they, in turn,

will want to give business to me.

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Now, I’d like to introduce our Education Coordinator, Bob Arnold. Bob, do you have some educational information you’d like to share with

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Our Business Card Coordinator, Cathy Kingsborough, is now

going to pass around the business card boxes. Visitors,

these boxes contain cards from all the members of this

chapter. Members this is for you to replace all those cards you have given away during

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Visitors, you may take as many cards from the box as you need, but placing cards into the box is a

privilege reserved for BNI members only. Feel free to pass your cards out to any of the members here

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Also, we are going to pass around the box containing the blank Referral Slips,

Thank you for Closed Business, and 1 to 1 forms.

We have new referral forms!

2 changes

Visitors, this is the time in the meeting where members take

30 seconds to continue the process of educating their

fellow members.They will tell us who they are, what they do, and how we can

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Visitors, we will 1st go around the room and the

members will do their Sales Manager Moment. Also at this

time, subs will stand and be the person they’re subbing for. We will

then come back around and our visitors and Substitutes

representing a different category than the one they are here for will

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At this time, I’d like to introduce our Acting Sargent-at Arms, Mike Kilarsky from

Kilarsky Arts. If anyone exceeds their allotted time of 30 seconds, you’ll hear this sound, which tells you that

your time is finished and it is time to be seated again. I’ll Begin

Good Morning , My name is Christine Smith and I am with the Medina County Gazette –

the only…October is Breast Cancer

Awareness month and once again the Gazette will be

printing our Accent feature on pink paper in recognition of

this cause. A great referral for me this week is business that

supports this cause.

I’d like to welcome the following visitors who are

with us today:

Visitors do commercialSubs do commercial if representing different

company

Visitors, we’re glad you joined us today. Later on we’re going to talk to you about making a decision

about placing an application with us - and

by doing so, lock out your competition from this chapter of successful

professionals.

Leigh Anne, do you have a Vice Presidents Report for us

today?

Thank you

Troy, would you please give us your Secretary’s

Report?Thank you

Leigh Anne, do you have a Membership Committee

Report for us today?

Thank you

Visitors, this is the time in the meeting where 1 or 2 members are provided 8

minutes each to educate the chapter on their services or products and what a good

referral would be.

Troy, would you please fill us in on the upcoming speaker rotation and

introduce our 1st speaker ?

Thank you very much _______ Now that we know

more about what ____________ does and what a good referral would be, how many referrals would

we like to try to get for him/her? OK, let’s have that be our goal for next

week.

( after 1st speaker )

Troy, would you please introduce our

next speaker?

Thank you very much _______ Now that we know more

about what ____________ does and what a good referral

would be, how many referrals would we like to try to get for

him/her? OK, let’s have that be our goal for next

week.

After ( 2nd speaker )

Now comes the most important part of the

meeting. Visitors, this is where each member will stand and say: I have a

referral; I have a testimonial, or I brought a visitor. We will also turn in

our slips for Closed Business and 1 to 1’s we had.

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I’d like to ask our members to help out with something during referral

passing. Please try to limit the conversation with members

during this time so we can all hear the referrals and

testimonials. Also please remember to stand when receiving a testimonial.

I’ll begin

That is always an exciting part of the meeting.

Visitors, you’ve had a chance to see how referrals are passed. Now, I’d like to take a moment to ask a few of our visitors to stand and

tell us what impressed them most about being

here and seeing our chapter at work.

Leigh Anne, let’s do a

reality check on a few of our recent referrals

Troy, will you please give us the Treasurers Report?

Visitors, I’d like to thank you again for being with us today. After the meeting, there will be a brief Visitor

Orientation for you. Here by the sign in table, our Visitor

Hosts, Rob Gillespie, will speak to you about applying

and locking out your competition today.

Leigh Anne, let’s do the drawing for the door

prizes we have today.

With that, are there any Networking announcements anyone has to share with the

group today?

This is now the time in the meeting where we allow members to share any upcoming networking opportunities.

Members, I would remind you, please limit your announcements to Networking

opportunities only.

Cathy Kingsborough, does anybody have to bring cards for the Business Card Boxes?

In that case, I’d like to thank everyone for sharing this morning with us. Here is your inspirational quote

for the week:

 “You are a product of your environment. So choose the

environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze

your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you towards success? Or are they holding you back?” – W. Clement

Stone

last 7 days.