Interesting business notes from the Shoreline East BNI meeting at the Madison Beach Hotel on April 30, 2013

Guests
    •    Scott Wilson, Debt Resolution Services
    •    Eric Foster, Lindh Foster, LLC
    •    Garrett Sullivan, Shoreline Cremation (sub for Tim Verrillo)

Education
“The Voice”, an NBC reality TV singing competition is a lot like BNI.  In both, you work with a coach to perform at your best.  The difference between the two is the on “The Voice”, there is only one winner, while at BNI, we all win!

30 Second Commercials
The following is a sample of BNI “30 Second Commercials”, in which members have 30 seconds to talk about their business and what kind of sales lead they are looking for.
    •    Shoreline Internet, Scott Leone is moving to Cape Cod, but will continue hosting and other services remotely.  In particular, he is a good writer and can assist with online content creation. www.shorelineinternet.com
    •    Young’s Printing, Dan Litwin helps people create brand “personality”  www.youngsprinting.com
    •    Design Your Life With Lurrae, Lurrae Lupone can find direction to those floating through life without a paddle www.fengshuiwithlurrae.com
    •    Mike’s Tree Services, Mike Mackey is look for a helper for his business
    •    Maffeo Cleaning Services, Jerryann Maffeo loves what she does after 17 years in the business.  The reason is that she loves each of her 75 customers.
    •    Maler Photography, Mike Maler has all a number of attractive promotional offers online for portraits. www.mmaler.com

Speaker of the Week
Today’s speaker was Paul Halagan, of Halagan Design.  Halagan Design offers strategy, brand identity, print design (ads, brochures, trade shows), and information marketing (books, websites, blogs, email, social media).
Websites are designed in Wordpress, and formatted to work on computers as well as most mobile devices.  Google Analytics is often utilized to identify opportunities to fine-tune sites.
The best referral for Paul would be any growing small business or non-profit agency. Visit Halagan Design Group at www.halagandesign.com.

Performance
S.E.B.N. has passed $1,053,608 in business since October 1, including 99 referrals last week.  59 were “Tier 2”, meaning to customers outside of the group. We have closed 79.4% of leads year-to-date.

Coming Up
Lisa Gresham, owner of Equitable Divorce Solutions, will be speaking on May 7.

About BNI
BNI is the world’s largest referral network.  In 2010, Business Network Int'l passed over 6.5 million referrals in 5500+ chapters with over 135,000 members in 45 countries resulting in more than $2.8 billion in business! BNI membership in CT now stands at 2,027 and growing.

Visitors are welcome!  If you’d like to visit the Shoreline East BNI, just fill out the contact form under “Join Shoreline East” on our website (shorelineeastbni.com) and a representative from our membership team will contact you.