here are a few thoughts about bni, networking, and growing your business.  

 1) we are your sales force, however tempting it is to sell me your service, what you really want are my clients, not me.

2) don't sub for anyone unless you have done a one-to-one with them first, how can you really do an infomercial for a stranger?

3) get to the meeting at least one hour before it starts and greet everyone that walks thru the door, (by the way, I am not a visitor host, just a power net worker!) for other great bni tips, listen to the podcast.

4) Use a good data base system, add to it every day, (we have almost 3,000 people in our topproducer database) get permission from people before you add them to any email campaign, and make it very easy for them to "opt out".

5) have ongoing contact with everyone in your database at least once a month

6) automate anything that you do more then once, use email templates & merge codes

7) time block, have a fixed time set aside each week for one-to-ones, blogging, social media, phone calls, etc..

8) go paperless!! (not paper-free, just less) leverage the Internet, use web based forms, contracts, and data storage

9) bni is great to fine tune your message, join toastmastersto develop your presentation and delivery (bni and toastmasters are the perfect compliment)

10) make your family and friends a priority, everything else will fall into place!