What have you been up to?

One of my favorite Education pieces from Bart that I can remember gives us the advice to have a valuable response when someone asks us, “How have you been?” or “What have you been up to?” The response usually sounds something like, “not much,” or “same old, same old.”  Well, that’s probably: A LIE –…

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How to Prep for Your Chapter Meeting

Being prepared will make or break how smoothly your meeting will run. Here are the things I encourage you to do the day before, or the morning of your meeting. This should take no more than 10 minutes and can change the trajectory of your group’s success. 1) Review Pending Referrals – go through each…

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Trouble Sending Referrals & Adding Value to Your Group

Trouble Sending Referrals & Adding Value to Your Group The most common concern I get from members is, “I’m having trouble sending referrals to other members of the group” or “I’m not sure how I can help the other people in my group.” I get this concern – I’ve been in their shoes!  As a…

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Avoid a Summer Slump

Every group has an attendance dip by 10% or so (usually late June/early July) in the summer due to vacations. It is normal. There are a few things you can do to safe guard yourself though from a summer slump. 1- Increase Face-to-Face Volume Nothing drives referrals like face-to-face meetings You don’t have to do…

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Guests invites in the fall=Opportunities next year

Each year we add a lot of new members at the beginning of the year.  In the new member meeting they tell us that the reason they applied to be a member was because they wanted to use The Referrals Group as a new way to grow their business for the upcoming year.  It is…

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Record guest month & Tips on recruitment

We had a record # of guests in the month of October.  That is great!  We had 28 more guests attend a meeting in October 2021 than in any previous month going back to 2015.  However, I still see groups over complicate inviting & recruiting.   So here are a few tips to keep recruitment simple: 1- Invite guests, but NEVER do an open invitation   -Invite…

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Getting Starting on Being Specific

We talk a lot about if you want results from your: -Face-to-Face meetings -60 second -Member presentation -Focused Meeting handout You need to be specific!  However, one thing I’ve found in working with members is that they just don’t know where to start.  Here are a few tips Where to start: Your Target Market Top…

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No speaker…No problem!

It is infuriating and disappointing when a member no calls, no shows when they are the scheduled speaker.  Sometimes it is an emergency which we certainly need to get over our frustration that we have with that member and see if there is anything we can do to help them. What do you do in…

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