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To many of us, this is just another Thu that we get to meet all our fellow BNI members and hoping to get lotsa of referrals from them. But to Jack Yu, this was indeed a special day. IZAQ welcomes our new member.

Jack Yu - My Cafe Adventures

This is how well we scored today:

Number of referrals : 27
Number of visitors : 1
Number of member present : 15 (1 new member)

Usual American Breakfast

This week's special. Banana Pancake!!!

Like before, you can see lots of action as early as 7.15am. Folks!! Have you ordered your breakfast? Coffee?? Tea???? or Me???? But first, let me introduce our visitors/proxies.

Rose Chua
Summit International
(Proxy for Agnes)

Eric Lee
Esbicon Business Consultancy

Members Networking with Visitors/Proxies

Come on. Pls stand closer even if this is the first time u guys are meeting

There is something interesting abt this picture.
Please follow this blog for the next 4 weeks to get a conclusion

President in Action!!!

Meeting started as proper and our president welcome our visitors and tell us something abt networking.

A very dedicated President!!!

Not forgetting to welcome our new member. Our president announced that Jack is now officially a member of BNI - IZAQ. Horray!!!!!

A simple welcome ceremony!!!

This week, we have Amelie from D Jeromel Health-Psych Consulting to share with us her trade. Wow, it was an eye opener when Philip introduce her. I definitely remember the part where she want to retire in a resort facing the sea and that she is still single and available. Gentleman, what are you waiting for???

Showcase Presentation

Amelie In Action

Please come back next week to check for update. I am now planning to start new columns to interview our veteran members. More interesting articles will be posted in the month of Dec.

131109 - 4th Anniversary

How come we celebrate twice? Isn't it worth celebrating and we would like to extend our joy to our visitors. Nevertheless, let's first take a look at our report card for the morning. We did well this time as mentioned by our President.

Number of Referrals: 31
Number of Visitors: 3
Number of members present: 15

Anyway, apart from the usual American Breakfast, this is today's special!!!

The day started with cool breeze and light shower at certain part of the town. It is definitely a day I will choose to sleep than to wake up in the morning to attend a breakfast meeting at 7.30pm. Isn't this crazy? But look, all of us did it, including our visitors.

Jack Yu, Business Owner
My Cafe Adventures
(Applied to be our member)

Rajoo, Business Owner
Master Touch

Karen Lee(Right), Search Marketing Consultant
PurpleClick Media

If you ever visit us, you will then understand the energy that bring us back over and over again without fail. Just imagine that kind of activities that is already happening at 7.25am. I believe alot of you maybe still in bed.

Apart from business, friendship are foster.
Mum Kong (Left), Lawrence (Right)

Members with the same mindset.
What else we talk abt once we sit down?
Kids? Maids? Fashion? Cars? Houses? Please ask them.

We have something special today. We are acknowledging members who has stayed with us for long. We have also invited our region director Micheal Tey to help us give out the tags.

Lawrence Lai, Great Eastern
Membership for 2 Years

Hoe Wui Toon, HRS
Membership for 3 Years

Amelie Tee, D Jeromel Health-Psych Consulting
Membership for 3 Years

Alice Ho, FUN'S Florist & Nursery
Membership for 3 Years

Now the "LAO JIAO" local slang for Old Bird!!!
A round of applaud to our veteran members
Membership for more than 3 Years

(From left to right)

Philip Ong, Best World Lifestyle
Micheal Tey, Region Director
Siok Hua, Neways International
Mum Kong, IPP Financial Advisors
Bin Yen, Whatznext
David Loo, Innotech Communications

Our meeting proceed as usual and we started off with our Sales Manager Minutes. Members are given 60 seconds to share with everyone our trade and the referral that we are looking for. Visitors will then be given 30 seconds to tell us more about themselves and the referral they are looking for.

After our sales managers minutes, we move on to the showcase presentation. Our members will each take turns to do a 10min presentation on their products and services. This will allow the rest of the members to have more information to get referrals for the presenter. BNI also encourage members to do DanceCard, meeting out of the BNI schedule to get to know one another better.

This week, our showcase presenter is Angeline, Abundance Global.

After the showcase presentation, we proceed with our referral passing and before we close the meeting officially, we did a small ceremony to celebrate our 4th anniversary.

IZAQ Birthday Cake!!!

Our President was given the honour to light the candles

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to IZAQ, Happy Birthday to you

The meeting was closed officially but just look. What are these people still doing here. What else?? "NETWORKING LAR" (Sorry for the singlish slang)

After a buzy morning, let's not forget the friendly and hardworking staff from Coffee Club who has diligently served us the entire morning. Without them, there will be emptiness in our meeting, STOMACH EMPTINESS!!!!

Thank You for the hard work!!! Cheers

See you next week!!!

061108 - 4th Anniversary

Wow!!! We celebrated our 4th year anniversary and we as IZAQers has done extremely well. In conjunction with our 4th anniversary, this blog is published and we will be updating our infromation on this blog starting from today. As such, I will cover our breakfast more extensive this time.

Below are our statistics for this morning.

Number of Referrals: 24

Number of Visitors: 8

Number of members present: 13

All that is present for today's meeting will definitely agree with me that the energy level was at it peak and personally, I could sense a sudden surge of energy within myself when I presented my Sales Manager Minutes!!!

Before we start our meeting, all members and visitors were asked to order our breakfast. Please choose one of the following:

American Breakfast (This is offered on a weekly basis)

Banana Pancake (This week's special)

Apart from the breakfast, of course coffee and tea will be served with all these white and green slip of paper on the table. If you are interested to find out how we use them, join us for a breakfast meeting. We will show you how these little pieces of paper make a bunch of working adults wake up early in the morning to attend our weekly breakfast meeting.

Our Secretary / Treasurer was so buzy.

He did not even took a sip of his tea before the meeting commence.

Magical paper that charmed many people to

gather for a crazy hour breakfast meeting

Members and visitors communicating and

waiting for the meeting to start

Soon, our president ringed the bill and we commence our meeting as proper. We followed our structure agenda closely and began with our president will make a welcoming speech and a thought of the day. After his round is done, we will proceed to our Sales Manager Minutes. Every member will be given 60 seconds to tell the audience what they do and what kind of referrals or customer they are looking for.

Our Vice President conducting the Sales Manager Minutes

Members presenting they Sales Manager Minutes

We are all expert after practicing this every week



Took a shot of our proxy and members. Smile!!!!
(Members send proxy when they cannot make it for a meeting)

"I am Asha and I am a Smile Maker
If you smile is dull, I will polish it up for you
If your smile is crooked, I will straighten it
If you have no teeth, I will give you teeth to smile with. "

What trade do you think she is in?

Not only members get the fun.
Our ex-member who came back as a visitors also get to present

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Visitors will be given 30 seconds to present their trade and

tell us their desired referrals

Proxy will also be given 30 seconds! Everyone get involved

Linda was last to present as she has to attend to her business commitment

60 seconds for members and 30 seconds for non-members are not sufficient to know one another. Every week, members will take turns to do a 10 minutes presentation of their trade that followed by Question and Answer session. This week, we have Lawrence Lai, representing the gift of love in our chapter (Insurance).

Lawrence Lai in action !!!

We provide projector when it is required

A skill that we all mastered attending BNI meeting

We eat, we think and we talk at the same time

We believe that generally, after this 10 minutes presentation, it may still be insufficient for members to know one another's trade. BNI encourage networking beyond our breakfast meeting where member/non-members meet up to do a more detailed conversation with one another. We call this DANCECARD.

Thereafter, we go into out more exciting moment - Referral Passing Time. After which, announcements were made and we officially close the meeting at 9.00am.