Looking forward to International Networking week and visitors day at BNI Casterbridge in Dorchester

It’s International Networking week next week and in addition to our ‘Big Breakfast’ which is taking place in Bournemouth we are having a Visitors Day at BNI Casterbridge Chapter in Dorchester on the 9th February.  As a result our education slot presented by Linda Parkinson-Hardman of Internet Mentor, this week focused on some hints and tips that can help members to ask visitors to come along. Continue reading

Sex Sells at BNI in Dorchester Casterbridge at the beginning of January 2012

Now is that a challenging headline for today’s meeting of BNI Casterbridge in Dorchester? It comes from the fantastic education slot provided by Jon Parvin of Essential Home & Gardens who told us quite clearly that our customers buy benefits and not features.  He started out asking ‘Do we know what our customers buy from us?’ and went on to explain the differences between buying features and buying benefits. Continue reading

5 top tips to improve your BNI 60 second presentation

The second meeting of December at the Dorchester Casterbridge Chapter of BNI saw many of the members sharing their 60 second presentations in poetry and song.  I am including those I have been given within poetry corner and I can also announce that the winner of the challenge was Martin Goodall from Printing.com who gave us his 60 second presentation to the tune of ‘My favourite things’ – a firm Julie Andrews favourite from The Sound of Music. Continue reading