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One of the group’s busiest members is Michael Sewell who is a leading Lancashire wedding photographer.

He will photograph all aspects of your day in an unobtrusive style, capturing the spontaneity, emotion and excitement of your wedding. The aim is to create the perfect story of the day; a mixture of photojournalism, magazine style (posed) images of bride and groom and detail shots are necessary.

In particular he specialises in low light photography, which enables him to capture the colour and emotion during the evening reception. Make sure you look at the low light pictures on his website, www.weddingsbymichael.co.uk to really appreciate what he can achieve when the lights go down.

All albums are bespoke and contain over 200 surface mounted images, narrating the story of your day from start to finish, available in a choice of albums including Coffee Table Books and hand crafted Italian albums.

Michael even runs courses for other photographers – he’s that good!

Time for an update on the white cards we first mentioned last year under Thank You for the Business

We’ve just had a couple of good weeks with new business invoiced by the members of the group. Last week alone there was over £10,000 of new business done from introductions by the group. This week we hit an average of around £500 per attendee – worth getting up early for.

We’ve currently got vacancies for a printer, solicitor, mortgage broker, signwriter and several other professions. Feel free to get in touch and come and see what its all about – you may even walk away with a new dream client.

Introducing our newest member, Sam Mcloughlin from Creative Republic – a top design company based in Accrington.

Creative Republic produces design work for a wide range of companies from Ted Baker to Ted the baker.

No matter what size your company is we can all benefit from good quality design.

None of this “I designed this myself” or “I got my logo and cards free off the internet” it’s not good enough! I’m ranting now but the simple fact to remember is “a little goes a long way” in reality all design is free that’s right free, every penny you spend with CR, you will get back with interest with your new customers!

If your design requirement is hard to categorize please get in touch, we are always looking for new challenges.

We’ve received a number of testimonials about how well BNI has worked for people that have attended the meeting. Here are a few quotes to give you an idea of the sort of feedback we receive …

“having followed the BNI philosophy it has become the single most productive use of my sales time, more than any of the other marketing tools I have ever used. It has lead to many excellent referrals and new clients” – Norman Gibson, Legacy Estate Planning

“most people feel that if they didn’t do BNI, what else would they do that potentially could provide them with the same sort of opportunities for new business as BNI” – Roger Bessent, Gleeson Bessent chartered accountants

“the referrals I have received have generated in excess of £150,000 worth of business. In a lot of cases those are for ongoing business which will continue generating revenue in the future” – Mike Gelder, Redleg IT Support

Janet Green from DOC Electrical Services has taken their idea for solar power micro-generation to Barclays as part of their take one small step competition for £50,000 funding. She needs your support …

purple secret is the trading name of Gary and Jillian Selwood who are both consultants for, and distributors of, the proto-col range of products through proto-col at home, which is authorised by the Direct Selling Authority (DSA).

The proto-col products are manufactured by a British company.  They are salon grade, professional products, which include collagen and natural plant based extracts and botanicals combined with anti ageing technology.

The proto-col ethos is luxury, quality and affordable, using only the finest grade ingredients available.

proto-col is now a globally recognised brand and is used by many athletes and A-list celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Gwen Stafani and Robbie Williams.

purplesecret demonstrate the products at various events and shows in the North West; we can also visit you in your home for a pamper evening with friends or visit companies during the lunchtime periods to demonstrate the full range of products.

The proto-col range includes:

• naturally advanced nutrition including collagen capsules
• innovative slimming aids
• collagen based skincare
• mineral cosmetics
• body scrubs
• tanning solutions
• sports nutrition

these are designed to complement and enhance your health and wellbeing.

For more information please visit our website www.purplesecret.co.uk
or alternatively please contact us by email at info@purplesecret.co.uk
or phone us free on 0808 108 1524.

Every week we have a 10 mins speaker slot and whoever speaks brings a prize. The winner is drawn from the new business opportunities introduced that week. Its just a small token to recognise members and also to serve as a reminder about the speaker.

This week the leadership team organised a speed 1-to-1 to enable members and visitors alike to quickly find out about potential business referrals and build some trust with each other.

The prize was a hardback copy of one of Michael E Gerber’s classic E-Myth books, as recommended by our leading Preston accountant Roger Bessent. There was a quite a bit of interest in the book, click the picture for more details from Amazon.

One of the key elements of the BNI toolkit is the 1-to-1 meeting. A good meeting can drive extra referrals and more business, deepen relationships and trigger those moments of ‘I didn’t know you did that’. In turn leading to more business. We’ve just had a busy March with plenty of this going on and the new leadership team wanted to recognise the busiest members. Top of the table are Louise from Coxhead Cleaning Services and Jane from Winter Bookkeeping but a virtual round of applause to the biggest climbers this month – Jackie Williams of Primary Graphics and Mike Farrell of Utilities Warehouse.

The latest BNI Lancashire video with highlights from the recent members day at DeVere Whites, Bolton Reebok is now online. Its pretty much dominated by members from this BNI group – Russ, Tracy, Dave, Michael, and Jan our former chapter director. Come and meet them live – on a Tuesday morning at Shaw Hill golf club.

What’s with all the TLAs in BNI? Probably the most important is VCP … read on for Ivan’s explanation

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