A better day weather-wise than last week and a better turnout, 24 Members.
The Performance League
Kevin Radford is in the lead on 102 points after just one week.
Education Presentation
It was David Plumley himself doing the honours this week. He was on about communicating generally and via email in particular. He pointed out potential problems that require us to keep our respective eyes on the ball. Emails distract. Try checking them at intervals rather than on a minute by minute basis. There are tools for fine tuning your use, in particular spam filters and archiving tools. Once again he tantalises and encourages us to approach him further. Very useful presentation.
The 60 Second Round
Kevin Radford was first up as he was awarding the Oscar. He is in particular looking for commercial clients, whether that be in property or wholesaling.
Saj Sreedharan was also specific in his wishes. He is looking for hotels who have many calls upon florists. He was also the first to mention the “C” word this year. Apparently Christmas is a good time for hotels and their needs, amongst other things, are flowers.
Scott Griffiths picked up on the Ed Slot and the effective use of email. He was championing bulk emails. Hard to imagine…
Toby Acton was all about reverse engineering. The structure and architecture of the business is central, apparently.
Terry Maylin is looking for landlords needing to evict tenants and he warned of the difficulties for a layman to deal with this. I can vouch for this. Every instruction I see him receive from a landlord who has tried to do it himself it appears flawed.
Ben, Ben Golding will probably be converting the Pig to a Lion. He has become a company trainer, give him a chair and a whip and he will be at his most effective.
Marcelle Saad Illustrated ring design using CAD drawings, more accessible and cheaper.
Brian Painter was hypnotic. He brought us up to date with the various clients he has told us about. The lady with high blood pressure has stabilised at an acceptable level and, because her addiction was sweets she has also lost weight.
The man with anxiety who had panic attacks when he made any contact with anyone has now managed to make telephone calls. The thumb sucker however continues to languish. Brian is definitely our window on the world.
Howard Bullock is trying to catch up after being away on holiday as a result of which he got a splinter in his finger. Suggestions as how that could have happened in trying to catch up would be welcome in your comments in this Blog.
Don’t say that accountants don’t have an exciting life. Paul has a lap/pole dancer as a client but even that didn’t win the Oscar.
Ford Astbury sending all his butch builder workers to Yoga classes, an interesting image which probably appealed to all of us as well as Kevin Radford, gave him the Oscar.
This weeks statistics and points of note
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24 members present
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17 new referrals
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£32,000 worth of business recorded
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Ford Astbury won the Oscar.
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Brian Painter has booked the Christmas party, 13th December 2019
10-minute presentation by John Hammond
Hi tech John Hammond perhaps understandably produced a good High Tec presentation. Low Tec was also evident in that he managed to get blinds up to shade the screen from the light, he then demonstrated on the screen the results of well-placed surveillance cameras. Rabbits, a fox and other identifiable moving objects came and went. A car sped by in the background. He demonstrated very effectively how his cameras work for the benefit of the clients. He must have stimulated us all in some way to go and find him a client.
Foot Note
1 visitor today was not included in the numbers. It was a particularly fly that seemed to try and eat everybody’s breakfast and generally showed an interest in the proceedings. If it is here next week we should try and get its name, ask if it wants to join, and whilst it is thinking about it….. we can swat it.
I am looking forward to seeing you all, plus the fly next week.
Excellent meeting and great 10 minute presentation from John Hammond, very insightful . Good buzz in the room – which i think was a wasp rather than a lot of noise!!
Great to be back and thanks for the referrals have a good week all!
The standard of 60 seconds makes it quite difficult to award the Oscar so well done everybody. I did see Howard scratching his head just before he stood up so it could have come from there. Another good blog Aidan . Thank you for your efforts.
Great meeting! John’s presentation was not only very informative but showed what a brilliant standard of service his business offered!
Though watching Vince fight off the uninvited buzzing visitor made me chuckle! 🤣
See you all next week 😀
Very good turn out for the holiday season. Congrats to David for his Ed. Slot, Kevin for being in the lead, John H for his informative 10mts and to all for the quality of their 60 seconds – great meeting.
Well done John on your excellent 10 minutes. Pretty good attendance considering the hols. See you next week.
A very lively meeting and a great blog to accompany the business meeting. Good to see majority of the members. Thank you David for the education slot, I shall try and remember to respond to emails straight away.
Well done to Ford on winning the Oscar and good luck with the yoga class.
Apologies for missing your ten minutes John and I can see from the comments that it was a very good one.
Have a fantastic week and see you all soon.
They say never work with children, animals or technology. John admirably disproved that theory with a very professional presentation which could have gone terribly wrong. At least we now know that Ford is flexible. He can make Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays.
Great turnout this week and an even better 10 minutes from John, a guy who well and truly knows his stuff. Have a great weekend all!
If we all had John’s security in our homes it would probably put burglars out of business.The 60 seconds I could hear were very good. Now if only all members could boom like a Ben Ben or a Howard then I could hear everyone. They would make great parade ground sergeant majors! Thank you, Vincent, for giving me a new excellent tag line, what was it again?
“Don’t leave anything to chance, let Brian put you in a trance”. The invoice is in the post.
Vince, how about “if you require some better health, Brian can relieve you of your wealth”?
Great 10 minutes John. At one point Booth & I thought the rabbits on camera were going to get overly friendly!
Thanks you for the lovely comments about my ten minutes great meeting .
Great 10 minutes John, complete with wildlife cameos! Good meeting and impressive numbers given the time of year
Lovely to see everyone once again.
John Hammond’s 10 mins was excellent – as I said, next time, a staged burglary would have been great to watch – or a real one :o)