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“BNI did help me being a better net worker and public speaker. I did increase my visibility and credibility. Today potential business partners find me instead of I have to search for them. Judith Coulson, BKK-Health Ltd.”
Judith Coulson / Universal Chapter
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LT Forum
What does Raising the Bar mean for you?
For BNI? What does it mean for you, as a BNI member? What does it mean for your prospects and your customers?
I think that while most of the world is shouting about the sky falling and the difficult times that we’re experiencing, I believe that right now we have an opportunity. And that opportunity is to focus on the fundamentals of what we do best.
For many people, Raising the Bar may mean to do what you do well at higher standard, or to have high expectation about your current performance in order to get high result.
For BNI, it means more growth, although the company will continue to grow as entrepreneurs and professionals around the globe continue to embrace networking and word-of-mouth marketing in order to thrive, especially in the midst of international economic challenges.
As BNI family, we have to thrive to reach out to people around us and share the BNI story with them in compelling new ways that excite them about the possibilities of business growth through word-of-mouth marketing. We have to both be concrete in our examples of how BNI can help them as well as skillful listeners in hearing their concerns, their questions, and their dreams.
Raising the Bar for BNI means celebrating the successes and contributions of every member and every chapter. More simply, it means working to our future with a clear vision, clear minds, and clear dedication to BNI’s methods (systems) and principles.
First, I want to talk about you, the BNI members, the listeners. What does Raising the Bar mean in your life, in your business, in your BNI chapter?
While only you can answer that question, I see you as business leaders, as BNI members who believe in the power of raising your game while others retrench, I see BNI members as action oriented movers and shakers who expect more from themselves than those around you. I see BNI members as being the kind of people who understand how success focused energy available through the BNI chapters boosts their ability to exceed, even in their own high standards of achievement.
That reality, I think in turn, has a huge impact on your prospects and customers, BNI members. How? Some people want to know, how does that affect them. Well, look at yourself through their eyes. You influence your prospects and customers more than you think in the way you conduct business, in the way you attend to their needs, in the way you help them pursue success. By Raising the Bar for yourself, you help them by your example to also Raise the Bar in their lives.
Raising the Bar is a commitment that BNI makes to you, the BNI members, to people reading this article. When you do it for yourself, it’s the gift that you give others in your life and in your work, and it’s what we must all do for the health of the worldwide economy in the coming new year.
The economy is serving us lemons. We choose to make lemonade. My marching orders to directors around the globe for this year is to focus on the fundamentals, to get back to basics, to do what BNI does well, and do it better than we have done ever before. We are committed to making BNI an even better organization in 2009.
Because of that, we are moving forward with the most comprehensive project in the history of the organization. In 2009, we’re investing the most capital we have ever invested in a single project, and we’re doing it now in the middle of a recession.
Ivan R. Misner, Ph.D.
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BNI, has over 100,000 members worldwide.
Last year members passed over 5 million referrals which translated to 1.9 Billion US Dollar worth of business. BNI now meets in various locations throughout Thailand.
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