Blogspot of IZAQ, Business Network International

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2008-12-26T00:12:00.001+08:00

IZAQ would like to wish you a Happy New Year. We did not host our weekly meeting today. Please check us out on 8 Jan 2009.

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2008-12-26T00:09:00.001+08:00

IZAQ would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. We did not host our weekly meeting today. Please check us out on 8 Jan 2009.

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2008-12-25T23:01:00.009+08:00

Today is our last meeting for the year of 2008. All members are all excited. We also knew that durng this festive season, IZAQ will be taking a 2 weeks break as Christmas and New Year all falls on a Thu.

I am just wondering is this a good news or bad news? The good news is for the next 2 weeks, we can all sleep later but te bad news is that we will not be expecting any referrals for the next 2 weeks.

Nevertheless, lets look at our report card for the day:

Number of referrals : 39
Number of visitors : 4
Number of member present : 15

Ken Tay
Blackbox Photography
(Officially applied to be Member)

Lin Cher
RedWordTree

Jimmy

Morning setting of BNI - IZAQ

Agnes doing her sales manager minutes

Ken doing his sales manager minutes as a visitor
He is going to be a member soon

Visitor doing his sales manager minutes

Our showcase Presenter - David Loo

After David's showcase presentation, we passed referrals to one another and soon our Thu meeting ended.

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2008-12-25T20:27:00.011+08:00

As usual, our meeting started at around 7.30am. First let us look at our scoring for the day:

Number of referrals : 39
Number of visitors : 4
Number of member present : 15

Ken Tay
Blackbox Photography

Rod Low (Left)
Expedite Drop
(Right, IZAQ Member : Wui Toon)

Jacky Lim (Center)
JBJ Training & Consultancy
Siok (Left), Gladys (Right)

Group Photography with our visitors
Siok, Carrin, Jacky, Rod, Gladys, Lawrence

A standard scene you will see every Thu morning
Wui Toon, are you texting your visitor???

We can tell, your visitor is coming!
You are telling us who are we expecting ya?

Our usual Sales Manager Minutes that require our member to tell us abt our trade and what kind of referrals are we looking out for.

Visitors will also be given time to introduce themselves

After the sales manager's minutes, our Philip made some announcement and Amelie introduced our showcase presenter - Siok.

President - Philip Ong
In Action

Vice President - Amelie
In Action

Siok, our vetaran member is presenting her products to our fellow members.

Wow!!! Siok is such a good presenter.
She get everyone's attention to the screen

We moved on to our Referral Passing time and soon we close our meeting on Thu.

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2008-12-04T23:28:00.007+08:00

Today, I arrived at Coffee Club, Clarke Quay at around 730am. David and Gladys has already started to setup the place. In fact, for a long period of time, they have been consistently helping us with this task. I think they really deserve special commendation!!!!

Thank you David and Gladys!!!!!

Let us look at the scoring for the day.

Number of referrals : 43 (outstanding results)
Number of visitors : 2
Number of member present : 15

Today we have Omelette and Banana Pancake

Sorry folk. I only managed to took a pic of this

Our 2 charming visitors
Carrin and Hui Shan
Accede Corporate Services

Once again, someone will feel special today. Our new member Jack Yu has just attended MSP101. This is a session that all members are required to attend before they are do their showcase presentation. MSP101, generally inform new members of the BNI culture and educate them on how we can generate referral and one another.

Jack Yu in preparation for his presentation

As part of succession planning, our president has requested that other members of the LT should be involved in executing the meeting. So, Trevor was asked to conduct the Sales Manager Minutes today.

Members in action during our Sales Manager Minutes
(60 seconds to tell us about your trade and referrals that you are looking for)

Visitors are also given 30 second to introduce yourself

President addressing the team!!!

Jack Yu our showcase presenter today

Social part of the meeting
We are trained to eat, speak and listen at the same time

9 referrals giver in action!!!!!
Siok you are just great. There are lots to learn from you.

Visitor giving us a word or comment
about how they feel at the end of the meeting

Before Philip officially close BNI meeting, Choon Mei requested time to make an announcement.

To my surprise, they are celebrating birthday for David and Myself (Trevor). They took out birthday cakes and sang a few rounds of birthday song. Wow!!! I really did not expect that. Thanks you guys!!!!

Birthday cake for the birthday boys!!!

Philip then officially close our BNI meeting but the crowd did not disperse immediately. In fact, many stayed back to do networking. This is a common sight in BNI meeting. We are all the professional networkers after all!!!

Catching up in process

President in networking mode

That's all for the week. You want more? Come back to check us out or even better join us at our breakfast meeting. Visit us at our web site http://www.bni-izaq.com

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2008-12-04T23:26:00.001+08:00

Blogger is on MC. We will not have posting on this week.

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2008-11-22T02:12:00.009+08:00

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

2008-11-14T10:09:00.029+08:00

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

2008-11-07T00:32:00.032+08:00

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

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.

Achievements

2008-10-03T00:05:00.000+08:00

Chapter's Achievements
Highest Referrals Award (Eastern Region) 2008
Highest Visitors Award (Eastern Region) 2008
Chapter of the Year (National) Finalist 2007
Chapter of the Year (National) Finalist 2006
Quantum Leap (National) Award 2006

Individuals' Achievements - Philip Ong
- Double Gold Club Member Award 2008
- Most Notable Member (Region) Award 2008
- Notable Networker Award - Top in Visitor (Chapter) 2008
- Outstanding Member of the Year (National) Award 2007
- Gold Club Member Award 2006
- Top in Visitors (Chapter) 2006
- Top in Visitors (Chapter) 2005

Individuals' Achievements - Goh Siok Hua
- Top in Referrals Given (Chapter) 2008
- Top in Referrals Given (Chapter) 2005

100% Attendance Recognition

Year 2008
1. Goh Siok Hua
2. Alice Ho
3. Hoe Wui Toon
4. Lawrence Lai
5. David Loo
6. Mah Mun Kong
7. Philip Ong
8. Chen Bin Yen

Year 2007
1. Goh Siok Hua
2. David Loo
3. Mah Mun Kong
4. Philip Ong

Year 2006
1. Goh Siok Hua
2. David Loo
3. Mah Mun Kong
4. Philip Ong

Year 2005
1. Goh Siok Hua
2. David Loo
3. Mah Mun Kong
4. Philip Ong

Members Award

2008-10-03T00:04:00.002+08:00

October 08
Most Referral Given: Amelie Tee
Most Visitors Invited: Raymond Tan

September 08
Most Referral Given: Amelie Tee
Most Visitors Invited: Amelie Tee

August 08
Most Referral Given: Amelie Tee / Trevor Woo
Most Visitors Invited: Trevor Woo

July 08
Most Referral Given: Trevor Woo
Most Visitors Invited: Trevor Woo

June 08
Most Referral Given: Philip Ong / Goh Siok Hua
Most Visitors Invited: Goh Siok Hua

May 08
Most Referral Given: Goh Siok Hua
Most Visitors Invited: Goh Siok Hua

April 08
Most Referral Given: Goh Siok Hua
Most Visitors Invited: Hoe Wui Toon

March 08
Most Referral Given: Goh Siok Hua
Most Visitors Invited: Hoe Wui Toon

February 08
Most Referral Given: Goh Siok Hua
Most Visitors Invited: N.A.

January 08
Most Referral Given: Mah Mun Kong
Most Visitors Invited: N.A.

Statistics

2008-10-03T00:03:00.000+08:00

2008 (Year To Date)
Total Referrals Given: 941
Total Visitors: 113
Total Done Deals: 188
Total Business Done: $278,627

2007
Total Referrals Given: 1,624
Total Visitors: 189
Total Done Deals: 350
Total Business Done: $854,982

About IZAQ

2008-10-03T00:02:00.000+08:00

BNI IZAQ Chapter is a Chapter under Business Network International (BNI) Singapore, a professional networking organisation which only allow one person per profession/trade to be a part of.

The foundations of BNI IZAQ Chapter can be traced back to the time around May / June 2004 when a few individuals first got together to form a business referral based networking team consisting of business owners and professionals. People of high caliber and talent from various fields were invited to join this group and finally, on 4 November 2004, the IZAQ Chapter of BNI was launched with an initial 12 members
It is based on the concept of "what goes round, comes around" and the "Giver's Gain" philosophy. We focus more on 'farming' rather than the 'hunting' mindset for long term business relationships

Today, after more than four years, IZAQ Chapter has not departed from its original purpose. Members are still benefiting from receiving good quality referrals and working together as a team that promotes mutual respect, understanding and support.

The Chapter culture is fun, relaxed yet vibrant. Visitors will never fail to feel the zest and warmth.

If you’re looking for a dynamic business network group and referrals are an important part of your business, I encourage you to attend one of our weekly meetings. You’ll see for yourself how you and your business can benefit. I look forward to meeting you!

You can always call Philip Ong, the President of IZAQ Chapter @ 98255647 for more information.

Mentoring Director: Michael Tey

Current Leadership Team
President: Philip Ong
Vice President: Amelie Tee
Secretary / Treasurer: Mah Mun Kong
Visitor Chairman: Trevor Woo
Membership Chairman: Linda Kan

Support Team – Visitor Committee
Trevor Woo (Chairman)
Goh Siok Hua (Mentor)
Gladys Lee

Support Team – Membership Committee
Linda Kan (Chairman)
Lawrence Lai (Mentor)
Raymond Tan

About BNI

2008-10-03T00:01:00.001+08:00

In April 1999, businessmen Sim Chow Boon and Mervin Yeo founded BNI Singapore.

Prior to this, in October 1998, Chow Boon stumbled upon a book at a bookshop that suggested some effective ways to help improve business. It was none other than Dr Ivan's World's Best Known Marketing Secret - Word of Mouth Marketing. He was so captivated by the book that he finished reading the book in only 2 days.

Word of mouth, a commonly used terminology and practice in sales and marketing, can actually be implemented in a systematic manner. The system can be applied to their business and Mervin shared his enthusiasm. In fact, the system suggested by Dr Misner can complement and supplement the occasional advertisements in newspapers, the yellow pages and other publications.

It was not difficult to see that this marketing system can work for other business people in Singapore and the enterprising duo was determined to share with others what they had discovered.

Chow Boon and Mervin received formal training in word-of-mouth marketing and networking methods in California, USA by the author and his team. Dr Misner is also the founder of BNI.

Founding National Directors, Chow Boon and Mervin offer their combined experience and training in sales, marketing, advertising, communications, and business, a combination that will see the largest business referral organisation in the world change the way we network right here in Singapore.

It is exciting that BNI has begun operating here, because participants in BNI's programme can look forward to business growth in the future and benefit as many had experienced since 1985.
For more information on BNI Singapore, or if you wish to find out BNI's history, click here : http://www.bni.com.sg/.