Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 10th March 2016. 20 Members present with 2 visitors; Health and Safety man David Everett and Printer Derrick Buckle. They both left the meeting clutching membership application forms and promising to return next week. The Education presentation came from our educationalist Mr Plumley who majored on the 60 second round…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 3rd March 2016. A good turnout of 22 members with a visitor Simon who is a Painter and Decorator. David Plumley is a resident of Great Baddow now and it was his first meeting back after his removals He celebrated this fact by delivering the Ed Slot. His theme was…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 25th February 2016. It was our 5th anniversary and in keeping with our anniversary I presented the annual review to the meeting before we got under way. This review will be published separately on the Website. Headline Information related to an increase in business passed and recorded showing an increase…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 19th February 2016. Only 16 members this week. Howard Bullock only stayed long enough to show off his legs on what was another cold morning. His individual bare legathon is drawing to a close. Final donations need about £100.00 or so to get to his target. Let’s make sure he…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 11th February 2016. It was a morning for metallic monkeys to speak with high pitched voices. We all, no doubt, had to scrape the ice of the windscreens of our cars. 19 hardy souls braved the elements for a visit to Mary Green Manor. The bravest of them all was…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, 4th February 2016. Once again a really good turnout with 22 members. David Plumley delivered the Ed Slot and made very good use of the flip chart. The topic was the divergence between a lead and a referral. The presentation on the flip chart comprised two circles joined by a line…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 28th January 2016. 21 Members present and one visitor John Flaherty. Of the members Stuart Smallcombe was subbed by James White one of his company’s employees who gave a good account of himself. The guts had been knocked out of the Naughty Corner in that Howard Bullock and Stuart Smallcombe…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 21st January 2016 20 members present and one visitor Sam, a local Florist. The Ed Slot was delivered by David Plumley himself and he made the all important point that we should always look after our existing clients, however necessary it might be to seek new clients. Scott Griffiths reported…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 14 January 2016. A turnout of 19 members found themselves in a much smaller room at the end of the restaurant at Mary Green Manor. Initial networking was very difficult but the seating area for our meeting proved very conformable and intimate and helped with what was a training meeting with the revised…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 7th January 2016 It was like a scene from Tom Brown’s School Days; the beginning of a new term. 22 Members piled into Mary Green Manor throwing their satchels and books onto the places set out at the meeting breakfast table. Excitedly they drank coffee and orange juice and exchanged…