The BNI Big Breakfast is now just over a month away on 26th February.
This event, held at Lord’s Cricket Ground, promises to be a networking fest with over 500 business people and entrepreneurs from all over London and the Home Counties attending.
So what have you got to lose? Arm yourself with business cards and a pad of paper, pull on some comfy shoes and get yourself down to the home of cricket. You never know, it might just be the event which could transform your year or your business!
Very upbeat meeting last week. Last year we passed over £148,000 worth of business, there were 830 referrals and a total of 97 visitors. Interesting little snapshot of what a group of people meeting for breakfast once a week can do. And in a year of recession.
But, this year we will be aiming far higher, using our networks to their full advantage and trying to win as much new business as possible. But we want to see more faces around the table as more Chapter members mean more referrals and more business passed.
So, are you one of those people who is worried about where new business is going to come from in 2010 or do you know someone in the same position. If this is the case, get them to come along. We meet on Thursdays at the Old Sessions House, just a couple of minutes walk from Farringdon station.
“Easily the best ‘10 minutes’ this year” Successnet
John (Mr Wonderful) Magee of Cutpriceofficesupplies demonstrated several groundbreaking new office products ranging from dry highlighters to digital flipcharts in a breathtaking 10 minute presentation at the chapter meeting this week. He has promised to introduce more innovations in forthcoming 60 seconds.
Penny Stockham and Sion Whellens, from our BNI designers and creative printers Calverts, are en route for Manchester as this is posted. Calverts has won a pitch to brand and design collateral for a new annual event, Co-operatives Fortnight, which launches on 19 June 2010. Today’s meeting with their client, Co-operatives UK, is to take the final brief, after which the Calverts teams will be working their socks off to deliver what’s needed on a very tight schedule. That’s everything from an online diary and promotional website to posters, t-shirts, button badges and leaflets.
This ‘C14′ event is designed to give all kinds of co-operatives – from co-op trust schools to worker and housing co-ops, credit unions, football supporters trusts and of course the high street retailer (all member-owned and controlled businesses) the chance to work together to promote the co-operative business model.
It rounds of an good start to the business year for Calverts, which as well as being London’s greenest printing company also has some of the capital’s sexiest and most talented creatives. In the first week of January, new business from new clients included a staff publication for the Zizzi restaurant chain, an annual report for Tate London, and a high-end brochure for advertising agency Cutting Edge, to promote a luxury chalet development in Andermatt.
If you’d like to know more about Calverts environmental printing or communicatiions design, call Sion Whellens on 020 7739 1474 or email sion@calverts.coop – and see if the co-operative approach could work for you!
Update 14.19pm: now on our way back from Manchester. The client gave us a pretty open creative brief – as long as whatever we do ‘works brilliantly’!
It may well be snowing again but that won’t stop us from holding our weekly networking event at Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell.
Our members, many of whom are drawn from businesses within a one mile radius, will be champing at the bit to blow off the cobwebs of Christmas and get down to some serious (and not so serious!) networking.
So, why don’t you join us? If nothing else, you’ll get a tasty breakfast which’ll help to ward off the sub-zero temperatures.
A short 7 hours in the cold to get the best spot to get these shots of the fireworks at (and on!) the London Eye. Click on a photo to see a large version (and see the full gallery).
Happy New Year everybody!
Charles
So, you’ve got back in the office this morning, you’re cradling a cup of coffee and wondering how on earth you are going to generate new business in 2010.
Well, make a New Year’s resolution to start networking more. BNI is the longest established networking organisation in the world with hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom may want to do business with YOU!
Our Chapter, BNI Clerkenwell, meets every Thursday just round the corner from Farringdon and we’ve members from all sorts of backgrounds.
Come along, you never know, it may just make your year!
