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3 February 2010

By Paul White

This week saw the Chapter pass around twenty-two Referrals - a healthy result.
The paperwork for Sarah Lloyd-Hughes of Ginger Training and Coaching is still to be finalised, therefore Sarah maintains her "Member-Elect" status. Do be careful when explaining that term with Japanese people. Talking to Lisa Kent of LK Personal Training, the difference between them is that Sarah turbo-charges your mind and Lisa tunes up your body. I'm all clear on that now.
Sarah had the masterly idea of providing all with a sealed envelope, which had "No Peeking!" on a label over the window. Of course, this got everyone's mind boggling. This reminds me a spoof on "Deal Or No Deal", called "What's In The Box?" At the appointed moment, Sarah said that we could open the envelope, where one Chapter Member has won a prize. Of course, it was clever-clogs Mel Kenny of Radcliffe & Newlands Financial Planners who won the free Presentation Enhancing Course, which he does not need, but could benefit from, all the same.
Last week saw the end of a BNI-sponsored competition for the greatest number of hits on the winner's website. Mads of MacMillion Ltd was pleased to report that the Chapter's video had 660 views to date and under the search term of "bni video", ours is consistently in the top ten with Google and Bing. An excellent effort from all concerned! For those coming directly to this Blog, here is the link to YouTube (YousTube for our Northern Ireland readers) http://bit.ly/4snf2C
Elizabeth Hicks of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors (nice pens!) invoked a temporarily chastening moment, by reminding us that her glorious reign as Chapter Director would end one day. Personally, I don't see why she should not be re-elected and go on and on and on.....
The aforementioned Mel Kenny provided the ten minute presentation of his business this morning, where he pointed out the difference between "Financial Planning", not product-driven and fee charging, versus "Financial Advice", product-focussed and usually paid for out of commission.
Having attended another Chapter's meeting yesterday morning, I established that the Architect there was operating in a Power Circle of One - himself. BNI has lots of evidence to show that a group of complementary [Correct spelling - Ed.] trades, such as Plumbers, Electricians and Builders can work closely together to everyone's benefit. Therefore, I was pleased to refer to their Architect; Sean Daly of Access International Security Systems; Daniel J Fealy, Plasterer (not to be confused with that other Daniel Fealy; who's rubbish, and Benedict Pippet of Arbor Contracts, Master Builder. [Nice use of semi-colons, Ed] Thank you.
Daniel was in charge of awarding the gongs this morning, having won the Silver Tongue trophy last week for his amusing 60 second speech. After conferring with man-of-the-match Mel Kenny, this week's "Langue d'Argent" went to Sarah.
Let me see now. Err....22 divided by my five referrals is (tap, tap,tap,tap,tap) Answer: 4.4. Mmmmm. So converting that to a Probability gives a 22.7% chance of me winning the Door Prize. If I can't win it on those odds, I never will. YES! A Referral Slip of mine was drawn and I won the Door Prize, a magnificent morocco-leather bound copy of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki, not to be confused with that Robert Kiyosaki, who's rubbish, assisted by Sharon L Lechter CPA, as distinct from that Sharon Lechter, who's awful.
That leads me neatly to Richard T O'Brien [We get the idea! Ed.], who was looking exceptionally dapper this morning, but then he would win the Best Dressed Person Award, every week, if we had one.
Vivat, Crescat, Floreat!

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Comments (8)

At 12:37 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Barry Neil

Wrote: Paul you should write comedy scripts on the side - always amusing to read your account of whats going on. I hope we can keep up these referral levels it is a really healthy sign for the chapter. Baz
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At 12:39 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Barry Neil

Wrote: one quick comment on the video - mads I wish you hadnt got the picture of the cooked breakfast at the front - it keeps making me hungry every time I see it. :-)
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At 12:51 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Sue Terpilowski

Wrote: Practising what I preach - here is my comment. Great meeting, loads of energy and we were even made to get back to basics for the silver tongue award. Mads big thank you for the video and all the hard work you and Robin have put into it.
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At 01:05 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Richard T O'Brien

Wrote: Paul, You are quite correct I did look immaculate as ever this morning. Might I suggest we have a photo of me prominently positioned on the web-site to help attract visitors.
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At 02:07 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Mads

Wrote: Just to be clear, those delicious breakfast shots was made by Adrian - who I suspect has made an under the table sponsorship agreement with Park-Inn for an extra sausage every Wednesday.
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At 02:10 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Paul White

Wrote: Is Adrian providing an extra sausage every Wednesday or eating an extra sausage?
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At 03:17 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Mads

Wrote: Hey Paul, you do not want to know why Adrian always passes left around the buffet table... Also, I've just realized what www stands for: "Witty Will Writer" :-D
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At 04:10 PM on 03 Feb 2010 by Author: Paul White

Wrote: Adrian always passes the Dutchie on the left hand side, because he has an orginal mind, thinking outside of the cylinder.
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