Tweet

Business Building Breakfast 3

Written by: Donald F. Pooley

Article Overview: Today's Business Building Breakfast is create your very own breakfast club!

Business Building Breakfast 3

Today's Business Building Breakfast is create your very own breakfast club!
Mine began when I found a kindred soul in another profession who also wanted more contacts and referrals. We agreed that we'd meet for breakfast at 7:30 every Tuesday morning, and that we'd invite other professionals and businessmen to join us. Its aim was to develop referrals for other club members.
Ours was through by 8:30, so it took zilch out of our work- day, and became a good source of referrals for many of us.
When you start yours, it's a good idea to set up some rules and put them in writing. You don't want two members from the same profession, for example. And you don't want members who drop by occasionally when they feel like it. Also, how do you want to qualify a prospective new member? Should he/she be recommended by more than one other member? And how do you dump one who fails to meet your standards?
You can discuss all of this at your first meeting with your prospective second member. Oh, and pick a meaningful name at that meeting, “The BBB Club” for example.
Discuss also the format of your meetings. Ours started with the introduction of new members, followed by a brief review of the reasons for the club, and its rules, then a speaker- --usually one of the members telling us about his business and the type of referrals he would appreciate.
You'll come up with a lot more ideas at your first meeting with the second member of your BBB club.

Related Articles
  Business Building Breakfast 2
  Make Money from Home with Bed and Breakfast
  The Power Breakfast
  If My Dog Could Talk
  Ten Delicious Daily Habits

Article Tags:



Related Forum Posts
Type of business with building - If you owned a building and Wal-Mart was opening its doors across the street in a previously unoccupied area (along with 12-14 small shops), what type of business would you start? Here are the considerations: 1. Money is a non-factor 2. Building is fairly large (10,000) square feet 3. Building is on the corner of a busy intersection (about to get much busier)
My entry - 1. The Best Business Books Ever: The 100 Most Influential Business Books You'll Never Have Time to Read - this is a fascinating book about the history of Business theory, and I'd recommend it to anybody. 2. The Big Book of Small Business: You Don't Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants, by Tom Gegax. Ditto. 3. PADI: The Business of Diving Book Okay, so this book won't be of use to anyone who doesn't want to start a scuba store, but I did, and this book was of course invaluable to me in reaching that goal.
Exclusive: Interview with Results - Hi Forum Members, I'm helping start up a Business Coaching and Consulting company here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (a Subsidiary of RSC Business in Los Angeles). As a Research and Development Intern I am required to practice my listening and interview skills by surveying Small and Medium Businesses on thier Business. This Survey is designed by RSC Business to also assist the Business being interviewed more insight into their own business. I am looking to interview about 30 businesses across North America over the span of 3 months. At the end of these interviews I will be publishing a report of the results and they will be made available for free to the Interviewees. The Report data will include responses from a minimum of 100 interviews. I would like to extend this opportunity to members of the Forum. If you would like to have this short 20-30 minute interview conducted on your Business and you reside in North America please send me an email or PM. Please contact me at andy[at]jvprosperity[dot]com to arrange our interview and to get free access to the results when they are published.
Re: Seven Marketing Strategies To Attract The Affluent Buyer - Hello, Building confidence with positive communication skill is very helpful and it helps in attracting consumers. Regards, sarah_9
Re: What I'm reading this weekend - Mar 4, 2011 - Hi Evan, Thanks for the latest list. I don't plan to do too much online "reading" this weekend as I'm hoping to keep up the momentum of developing and promoting my upcoming online business podcast service... However, when not online, I always find time to read books. I'm pleased to report that my "three-books-at-a-time" pattern has organically reestablished itself. I have nearly finished reading all three: 1. Breakfast reading: The Story of Philosophy, by Bryan Magee. (One of those Dorling Kindersley illustrated books, so not too heavy going!!) 2. Tram/train/out & about reading: Renaissance Self Fashioning, by Stephen Greenblatt. 3. Bedtime reading: Saint Joan of Arc, by Vita Sackville West.


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Tweet

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

Why We MUST Reinvent The Wheel

BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING TEAM

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.