Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 22nd September 2016.
Great turnout; 23 Members and 2 visitors, Ryan Donahue Insurance Broker and Neil Garrett Plasterer, here for the second time. The meeting was already buzzing when David Plumley rose to deliver the Ed Slot. His theme was “priorities”; these should be conscious decisions with reference to lifestyle and fixing the importance of work or even EBF within our life style. It was a good introduction to get the meeting under way.
The Performance League, Scott Griffiths confirmed Paul Booth as currently in the lead. Everything seems to be getting back to normal.
What of the 60 second round.
It would appear this working week has raised various issues for various of our members.
Mike Rogers was practicing being retired and has decided that although he is seven years away he doesn’t want too much work so he can reach retirement intact and remain his usual cheery self. Jo Jones has been busy with massages and Michael Adelizzi is having to consider commission for his staff who operate from the shop.
Nick Cooke felt that he had been away for a such a long period of time he needed to effectively reintroduce himself…. and so he did speaking constructively about structural design. Some whimsy from him Alan Shaw who drifted quite a bit. A client from 3 years ago had built a house on a 3 acre site. He wanted him to do something… but I am sure I am not alone in not quite understanding what.
Carmel Jane has been involved in a school project; she produced examples of photographs she has taken. Her skill is obvious and apparent. I have been inspired to positively go looking to recommend her whenever I can. I do not think anyone could fail to appreciate the quality of her work.
Steve Roach was sipping water but this I understand is because he has just received an invitation to the races at Newbury with Champagne and all the trimmings. He was good enough to offer 2 further tickets for anyone who was willing to take him up and accompany him but you had to get to Shenfield Station shortly after the meeting. I would be interested whether anyone else joined him or at least how much Steve managed to drink during the course of the day. That’s what the comments section of this blog is for!!!
Brian Painter is about to depart to Tenerife but he seemed already there. He is however still looking out for smokers. By contrast Howard Bullock is looking for recovering alcoholics to assist with trying to get insurance cover and he is going nowhere. Great shirt Howard.
There was also an ablutorial theme, Scott Griffiths has a client who hires portable toilets. Alan Shaw was fascinated by a slowly descending toilet seat, all of which was a good advertisement for Michael Adelizzi. Kevin Brooks talked of a ball park price for an extension. He did not seem to know what a ball park would cost but because he prepares careful bills of quantity at the least the client would know in the end.
The Oscar went to Jill Willis for pointing out that if you use software packages for producing or helping produce your product, check out the extras on it.
Scott Griffiths had the enviable task of announcing in the Meeting Secretary’s Report the good numbers that we produced today. There were 36 or did I see a final 37 referrals and there was in excess of £30,000.00 worth of business written.
This led us in to the 10 minute presentation. Kevin Brooks was the man of the day and he appeared before us looking less like a builder than anyone else in the room. He also manfully toyed with technology that included a video presentation that had as its principal boy Nick Cooke. All in all however it was an excellent presentation showing Kevin’s work to best effect and the video was also a lesson in how quickly you can demolish an internal wall.
There then followed the referrals and testimonials round which, with the amount of referrals and monitory acknowledgements,showed what a vibrant and successful group we are. With that thought in mind I look forward to next week.
Great meeting this morning and very productive.
LIVELY MEETING AS ALWAYS GOOD TURNOUT AND 2 GUESTS , IF I HAD KNOWN I WOULD HAVE DRESSED UP AND GONE WITH STEVE TO NEWMARKET FOR THE DAY, JOE CAME TO MY RESCUE WITH THE BOTTLE OF WINE FOR MY SPEAKERS PRIZE.
Great presentation Kevin. The video was a nice touch (well done Jill).
Sounds like i missed a good meeting! See you all next week x
Star delivery from Kevin today … and an example of excellent website built by Scott with input from the other “creatives”
A well constructive presentation from Kevin, he clearly has a business built on strong foundations. Very impressive website. I’ll raise a toast to all of you at 7am on a Thursday morning and may be on a few other mornings also. It’s known as pre lunch drinks.
Great meeting, although I think my favourite part is the Chairman’s delightful and amusing blog. I can almost hear your dulcet tones reading it aloud….
good meeting all, sorry I missed your presentation Kevin, your high standard of work speaks for itself and I’d have no hesitation recommending you for any building work/extensions/renovations that need doing. I’ve looked at your website too and it tells the story perfectly (well done Scott and co). see you all next week folks !
No ear catching offers from me today (they had been e-mailed prior) so not even a mention 🙁
Great meeting though guys & gals.
Sounds like the picnic was a great afternoon – I’m sorry I missed it. Hopefully will be able to go to the next soirée
I forgot to thank everyone who was at the picnic. Hugo absolutely loved it and he has been banging on about getting a Frisbee ever since. A special thank you goes to Mrs Reed & Mrs Painter for looking after Obi whilst the boys went off to play!
Excellent meeting as always. Good to see some visitors. Plenty of business passed as always. See you next week.