It was a very cold morning. Saj Sreedharan, who was due to take up his post as Educational Development Office this week, was in fact away in Lapland. I wonder whether it was colder there. A reasonably good turnout of 20 Members.
The Performance League
Matt Barry is nosing ahead and given the referrals he handed out during the referrals round I suspect he will be well in the lead next week.
Education Presentation
Brian Painter delivered a convoluted and complicated metaphor by way of Ed Slot. A tribe of blind men came across an elephant and each tried to discover the nature of said elephant by grabbing various parts of its body. It is fair to say that the elephant was very compliant. Various members of the tribe respectively grabbed the trunk, ear, leg, side, tail and tusk. It is fair to say that they all came up with a different understanding of what they had before them. It was certainly a difficult task and their misunderstandings were understandable. My own experience of trying to describe elephants was that they are difficult to describe…but you know one when you see one!!!!
This of course is a luxury that blind men cannot enjoy.
The moral apparently was largely applied to scholars who hold on to views in the face of other evidence and have closed minds; it has to be hoped that hone of us EBF’s could be accused of this….
The 60 Second Round
Simon Essex was doing the awarding this week and he had dressed up the Oscar. Simon, I think Vince wants his previous dressing items back please.
The “C” word was creeping in and will no doubt continue to be apparent in our 60 second rounds to come. Simon acknowledged that in his business things became quiet at Christmas time.
Marcelle was on the contrary relying on Christmas to induce people to purchase various rings, items of jewellery and diamonds, both affordable and non affordable. One or two of the others were also casting an eye towards Christmas in relation to their future availability. Like Marcelle however Tina Walker revels in the run up to Christmas because of the services that she offers.
Rant of the week must go to Richard Reed. His plea to Members is that any one going on holiday, however they are arranging it could at least run it past him and get a quotation. We all might like to bear that in mind. He was run a close second by Scott Griffiths who offers free audits but doesn’t want clients sent to him who are then going to expect everything else to be done for free. The offerings of Richard and Scott were both symptomatic of a general malaise that was noted by Simon Essex when he came to make the award. A lot of people were telling us what they did not want. In fact it can be described as GNIKROWTEN. In other words reverse networking.
Dean Caldon displayed his recently prepared advertising materials which included an acknowledgement of Vince’s role in producing them. Vincent Goode himself was into PVC Banners. They are durable, they are weather proof and some have even got hemmed pockets. For under a 100.00 quid including vat you can get a huge one.
John Freeman is currently suffering from a bout of vertigo. Three storeys up and he starts to feel his age.
Over recent weeks I have given awards for Rants. I have decided to call the “ranters” existentialists. They seem to be questioning the meaning of life or business under certain circumstances. Watch for next week.
Allan Moller was back after his extended holiday down under.…..that is the New Zealand part of down under. He is now almost fully booked up to Christmas. More negative networking.
The Oscar, in all its glory this week was awarded to Matt Barry who handled his award rather carefully I thought. His was an explanation of a new Charity that he has been involved with and he showed us the design of its presentation which he is working in conjunction with Scott Griffiths, all of which has come about as a referrral from Terry Maylin.
This weeks statistics and points of note
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20 Members present
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18 Referrals
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£4,500.00 worth of business written
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Matt Barry won the Oscar
- Our Christmas meeting will be on the 19th December 2019. Don’t forget your secret Santa Present.
10-minute presentation by Howard Bullock
Kieran Peaty swopped with Howard Bullock and he produced at relatively short notice, a very professional overview of his business using a “Son et Lumiere” type presentation. One of Howards warnings was that lots of his clients wanted to go into Wickford (and shouldn’t have done) As I get older I get deafer, I am sure he said that people wanted to into Wickford, which itself is questionable because they do not have very good shopping facilities.
An entertaining and easy going meeting. Maybe we can increase the numbers for next week.
Very entertaining meeting although a few moans LOL. Great 10 minutes Howard. See you all next week.
a relaxed and proactive meeting – talking all things tusk & trunks, Barbies & Brexit, Charities & Chilblains!
Great meeting . Had a very productive one to one with Ellen before my scrambled egg arrived. Great presentation from Howard always full of humour but still very informative.
Sounds like I missed an entertaining meeting but with no voice I wouldn’t have added much! See you all next week.
Thank you Howard for your dupliticiousicious(?) presentation. It literally had me on my seat. I have a guest visiting next week. Shall we try to get a full complement of members (there are at least 31) there to greet him? Mini rant over. Vin out.
A cold morning warmed up by the cheer of our members. A good round of 60seconds and an informative 10mts by Howard. Well done to Matt on winning the Oscar (has this one been renamed?) and probably the best performance overall this month.
Even though we were low in numbers still a good meeting, especially with the 60 seconds round being entertaining and Howards 10 minutes. Looking forward to seeing you ALL next week 😉 Have a lovely weekend
Lapland was magical and extremely cold.
Sounds like I missed a good meeting as per usual.
Well done to Matt Barry on leading the performance league and also winning the Oscar.
Apologies to the Wolf of Ramsden Heath for missing his presentation.
Have a great week and see everyone next week.
I’ll be there with bells on 🙂
It was a good meeting.
Great meeting and lovely to see the Oscar go to a worthy winner. Now this week I don’t want rain, traffic jams and annoying sales calls. That’s my rant for the week.
Great elephant Scott
Oi Aidan. I know I’ve got a fat belly but to call me an elephant… oh, hang on, You mean well done on finding a good elephant photo for the blog – cheers! I was pleased with that find too.
Sorry I missed the meeting – sounds like it was a good one. Should be back for next one firing on all cylinders!
Sorry I missed your 10 minutes Howard…