Business Networking Dubai
Business Networking Dubai | What If You Could Do All Your Business Only Through People You Know?
Business networking Dubai. Relationship marketing is the best way to meet people who refuse to join the recession. Here are some videos from my Business Networking Dubai playlist
“…I’m so much sold out to this idea that I would not give up my category seat even if someone offered me USD 100,000 in exchange. Our chapter is booming in exchanging business…” Ravindr Deshpande, Varal LLC, BNI Kaizen
Imagine if you received new clients just by deepening your relationship with a few key people who are in different businesses with the same target market? Rather than continuously making cold calls and spending time and getting rejected by new potential prospects?
I am a member of 2 bodies that facilitate my being able to do just that. Not that I have reached my goal of working intensively with 8 referral partners. Not yet. But I am on the right path. Before I joined these institutions, I had no idea that this was even possible.
The first one is Business Network International. I am a member of BNI Aurora Dubai, and we have 14 to 18 members from different professions. BNI ensures accountability of referral activity and records it. We meet weekly at 6:45 am and that ensures seriousness.
The second one is the Referral Institute. Here, I am developing and implementing strategies to reach my goal of working with the 8 referral partners from different contact spheres and similar target markets. They have absolutely converted the idea of building relationships into a systematic way to get and give business.
And for me, a person who finds the idea of going to social events very boring, and my least favorite activity, this is ideal! With every person I meet, I can have an objective that will fit into my relationship marketing plan! So I don’t have to think of the meeting as a ‘social’ chit chat session.
Does this appeal to you? If yes, click here now and request a BNI Aurora Meeting Visitor Invitation!
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 Middle East has 10 chapters in Dubai and 2 in Abu Dhabi.
BNI provides a platform of people running diverse businesses eager to help each other to grow their businesses by providing business leads. These are the people who personally know your potential suppliers, customers so their words carry a weight.
In 2009 when the recession just hit Dubai, we were looking to find a way to increase sales without spending thousands of dirhams on advertising. A friend introduced me to Business Network International (BNI). I attended a Visitors Day breakfast meeting and was astonished to see the banquet hall of a large hotel filled with 180 entrepreneurs who were also refusing to join the recession!
I was very curious to know more. The joining fee was only AED 4,425 and I felt that I could recover it in one business deal. The prospect of getting to know people from 20 diferrent businesses, and their strategies to cope with Dubai’s business environment was enticing.
So I went ahead and joined. Subsequently, two other people from our company have also joined BNI.
Some features of BNI worldwide and BNI Aurora are:
Meet weekly at 6:45 am – We start before the business day and end in time to get to work. The focus is on exchanging business rather than just a cocktail party. The agenda of the meeting covers 20 odd items and ensures that everyone including visitors has an opportunity to educate the members about their own business in 60 seconds and give and ask for referrals.
Only One Person Per Business Category – We ensure that there is no competition among the members for business within a chapter. This is done by admitting only one member from a business category. Thus, all the referrals for that category go only to him.
30 Business Cards – Visitors get an opportunity to meet and give their business cards to all members and other visitors.
“…Before BNI, I always felt lonely when I faced business challenges. Now after 6 months of joining I have 15 reliable advisors to talk to. I feel so relieved!!
Mohana Kelkar, MonAcademix, BNI Aurora
1-2-1 Meetings To Know Each Other – Members have the opportunity to spend at least one hour at each others place of business. This helps us to understand exactly the right kind of clients other members of the group need. We also understand each other’s contact spheres which helps in building power teams.
10 Minutes Presentation – Every member of the group by rotation gets a chance to present in detail about himself and his business to the whole group during a meeting. This helps a group members go into details of the persons product to enable them to give more relevant referrals.
Training – BNI trains us to clarify our message, choose the right kind of referral partners, and trains us to form power teams to increase business continously.
Jacob
Periodic Socials – Members get a chance to socialize with each other to build a bond that is more personal. This helps in building rapport among the team members making them more comfortable about referring their businesses. After all one wants to give business to a friend one likes!
Recording Of Performance – Each chapter tracks the performace of its members through referrals given, business closed from these referrals, attendance, the no. of 1-2-1′s done, testimonials given to each other and any visitors invited.
Visitors – All members get an opportunity to invite their non member friends and business associates to the meeting. This creates an atmosphere of freshness as well as the visitor often feels oblige when he receives a qualified lead referral. He may even be invited to join the group if his category is open
Business Networking Dubai BNI Aurora Style: Benefits
- Increase qualified leads
- A relevant contact whom you have been introduced to inside your prospects organization
- Opportunity to have a contact with like minded people
- 15-20 close business associates who can informally guide you in your business challenges
- You know who to go to when you need help
- Diversity of 15-20 businesses to talk to
- A positive bias towards you in the prospects mind because your referral partner has recommended you highly and built up your credibility
- You start your sales call with an advantage because it is no longer a cold call
- Increase your confidence in talking to people
- You will never be lonely when you face business challenges
- Not only business networking but also socializing
- Gain more friends in business
- Business grows without investing in additional sales staff
- Other alternatives like advertising cost more than the money invested in networking
- Widen the reach of your profile and products
- Network does not remain limited to the chapter size of about 15-20 but can extend to other chapters also because of inter chapter gatherings
- Free consultancy or advice
Does this appeal to you? If yes, click here now and request a BNI Aurora Meeting Visitor Invitation!
Ibrahim
Fatih
Ula
Business Networking BNI Aurora Style: What Problems Does It Solve?
Stalled businesses.
Lack of big budget for expansion
Rejection in sales calls
Difficult to sell products
Don’t know what to do about selling
Not being able to leverage and stay in touch with your existing contacts productively
Learning to present your product effectively in 60 seconds
Hone your skills of interaction, presentation and organization
Not having access to a service that you need
Access to contacts of your referral partners
BNI
1. Access to weekly meetings
2. Access to inexpensive advance skill workshop
3. Referrals for your product and services from the chapter members and occasionally from other members in BNI
4. Opportunity to present about your business to the whole group once in six months
5. Opportunity to meet at their place of work with and explain to your fellow members about your business and learn about theirs without the pressure of selling to them
If you dont act now your seat will be taken by your competitor
With each passing day your referrals are going to someone else
BNI is an international networking body with chapters in 55 countries. Their prices are the same worldwide. However, the cost of being a BNI member, approximately AED 10,000 per year can generally be recovered in two referrals that have been converted into sales.
The referrals for life membership of AED 2,500 per month brings you huge skills in building referral partner relationships and putting into place systems that bring you continuos business from the referral partners contacts.
So what is that worth to you?
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Are you tired of making cold calls?
Are you tired of converting only 8% of the people you call?
All your life you have wondered how to take that big lead in your sales nos. now is the time to act. The answer is just a click away. This action has a potential to change your life and your business forever.
No other option can give you so much for so little.
Best of Success,
P.S.-
If you would like to attend a BNI meeting, please click on the link, fill in your details in the form and we will send you an invitation. In this meeting you will have an opportunity to present your business and interact with other members.
If you would like to know more about the referral institute and its programs, please click on this link.
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