As you can see, our visitors day was a roaring success, we had thirty seven local businesses attend and are currently accepting applications for people wanting to get a slice of the business that’s being passed around the room. If you want to come to see what all the fuss is about, please contact visitors@bnipreston.co.uk for an invite
Do You Want To Grow Your Business?
Or do you simply want your business to make more money? Are you based in the Northwest of the UK? Well business networking can allow you to do just that!
What is BNI?
BNI is a 26 year old business and professional organisation that allows only one person from each trade or profession to join a chapter. With over 5,866 active chapters, and 139,971 members, it is the most successful business referral organisation in the world.
How can I benefit from BNI?
Being active in BNI is like having up to 40 sales people working for you, because your fellow members will be carrying your cards and referring your business to people they meet, without you having to pay them any salaries or commission. Successful businesses depend on ‘word-of-mouth’ marketing as the best form of promotion there is.
BNI Endeavour is having a Visitor Day on Friday 29th of January 2013
Who are BNI Endeavour?
We are based in Lancashire between Preston and Chorley, we are part of BNI Lancashire and South Pennines. We work in a professional but fun environment and meet once a week every Tuesday morning at Dantes Restaurant on the A6.
Our meetings begin at 7am and usually end at around 8:30am and comes with a range of beverages and choice of breakfasts from cereal to a breakfast sandwich. Our group gives a lot of business to each other and we are a really friendly bunch and we are always looking to take on new members.
I’d like to see more, what do I need to do?
It’s simple If you feel that you would benefit from visiting our chapter on the Tueday 29th of January 2013 please just leave us a message on our Contact page or email visitors@bnipreston.co.uk and we will reply as soon as we can.
Please bear in mind that we only allow 1 member per category, for example if we already have a plumber we would not allow another plumber to join however, we would attempt to find you another BNI group in the area where that category is available.
At Endeavour BNI we are always looking for good quality, local business people to refer business to.
COULD YOU HANDLE MORE BUSINESS?
You’ve come to the right place!
Belonging to BNI is like having dozens of sales people working for you because all the other members carry copies of your card with them. When they meet someone new that could use your products or services they hand out your card and personally recommend your services.
It’s as simple as that! Last year members of BNI passed 6.2 million referrals, which generated more than £1.8 billion worth of business.
Being active in BNI is like having up to 40 sales people working for you, because your fellow members will be carrying your cards and referring your business to people they meet, without you having to pay them any salaries or commission.
Exciting and Exclusive Mobile Phone and Tablet Cases and CoversHi my name is Joanne Birchall from Biz-E-Bee Ltd.
Biz-E-Bee is a sublimation printing business. We design, print and sell bespoke / customised / novelty mobile phone and tablet cases and covers on-line via our website (www.bizebee.co.uk), on Amazon (Biz-E-Bee store) and eBay (UK_Biz-E-Bee store).
Our products include soft cases, pouches and covers as well as fitted skins for the more popular phones and tablets.
We sell our products to consumers on-line, directly to off-line retailers (e.g. shops and market traders) and branded / bespoke items to commercial customers (e.g. cases with printed business logo).
We own the Biz-E-Bee copyright and therefore all our designs and products are exclusive to us.
We pride ourselves on outstanding customer service and strive to keep our extremely high feedback satisfaction scores. We receive many comments from our customers about continually exceeding their expectations on service in addition to the provision of excellent products at extremely competitive prices (we work hard to source the best quality products at competitive prices to allow us to keep our prices low for our customers).
We are continually expanding our product base to meet the ever changing electronics world and pro-actively research the sector on an on-going basis to allow us to sell the most up-to-date products and designs.
If you love your mobile phone and your tablet, then we are the people to help you protect them with exclusive and exciting designs on top quality cases and covers.
Why should you shop with Biz-E-Bee on-line:
Please follow us on Twitter (Biz_E_Bee_Co) and Facebook (Biz-e-Bee).
We have been attending Endevour BNI meetings in Preston for a few months now and in this short period we have benefitted from the vast business expertise present in the group, the quality referrals given and the friendships made to a level way beyond our expectations. The group is extremely pro-active, professional and friendly and we feel very fortunate to have discovered such a great group of people. Our business would definitely not be developing and expanding at the level it is without the help and support we receive from BNI Endevour.
THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH BIZ-E-BEE IN ADVANCE!
Carol Marsden deals with you the client directly – you are not passed onto anyone different each year. A personal touch that is not just producing figures but getting to know you as an individual and what I can do to make life just a little bit easier with peace of mind.
Usual work like income tax, corporation tax, year end accounts for Limited Companies, Sole-traders and partnerships, Limited liability partnerships, VAT returns, bookkeeping etc.
Tax planning review depending on circumstances, inheritance tax advice, probate work, cashflows and financial planning all being dealt with if and when needed.
Having been in practice and on the other side of the fence I have seen quite a few changes and they are still coming around – this next year real time information being processed to the Inland Revenue.
Call for your free initial meeting or if you need a second opinion on a matter – 0161 359 3322 landline 07879650377 mobile
JF interiors is a family run interior design business run by Jenny Salvin from a shop base in Chorley Lyons Lane, we offer a full interior design and bespoke soft furnishings business and have a wide range of beautiful fabrics and wallpapers to browse through in our studio.
We offer a fully hand craft make up service for soft furnishings and a decorating service as well as on site in house advice for interior room schemes.
Pop in and see Jenny for some friendly advice and help with your interior projects!
It was great to see so many people in the room last week, everyone was so busy networking that they didn’t want to sit down for the meeting and as a result of that, we’ve seen two new applications with hopefully a few more guests waiting to come back.
As anyone who does any business networking knows, having a one off meeting is great, but you get the most mutual benefit from having regular meetings…
How regular you ask? well as regular as you need for your businesses and that can differ from one company and one person to the next.
If you’d like to find out more about business networking in Preston, please contact us and you’re more than welcome to come along on a Tuesday at 6.45am, see how we do business and meet the team.
Whoever said business networking doesn’t work obviously hasn’t been to one of our meetings
£61,000 of invoiced business being passed between 20 local business people in one month, isn’t bad going, lets see if we can beat it next month
Introducing our newest member, Chris Astley of Astley Electrical Systems. Chris is a top electrician who specialises in domestic work and offers 24hr emergency callout.
Why AES?
We’re Part P approved, which means we’re authorised by NICEIC to carry out domestic electrical work in line with government law passed on the 1st January 2005.
Homeowners
Homeowners… safe electrical circuits are essential both to protect you and your family, but also to prevent damage to expensive computers, TVs and other complex electrical appliances found in today’s modern homes
Landlords
To be able to demonstrate due diligence, you must ensure the electrical safety of your property. To be truly diligent, you should be certifying the property on every tenant change.
A photo to mark the group’s 7,000th referral, when Martin Newton of City Investment introduced some new business to Norman Gibson of Legacy Estate Planning.
A referral isn’t just a lead, its a warmed up introduction – someone expecting your call and interested in doing business. We all know word-of-mouth is the best sort of business to get – BNI takes that a step further with a system refined over 25 years to ensure you get repeatable, regular new business.
Come and meet us on 19 October if you’re interested in seeing what its all about.