Visitor Events

Business Growth Event / Open Days / Showcase /  Contact Specific Day / Visitor Days

These events are organise to have a room full of visitors and business opportunities.

Leadership Teams identify 3 to 5 future days to have a special day that members will use to invite into. It will be a visitor day however please don't call it that especially with visitors.   Generally these days:

• visitors are specifically invited - businesses looking for growth via referrals with the capacity to grow and their category is available for them to join now

• chapter uses social media and many other forms to advertise their event. This is useful for members to use for inviting

• the day may focus around a contact sphere such as Property or Health, and members of this contact sphere do a joint presentation sharing how they work together to help their clients.

• Create accountability by having the chapter

  • work in smaller groups

  • track who has been invited

  • track when they were invited, the visitors confirmation they are attending, the pre meeting follow up call (hello call) to confirm attendance and information closer to the date and the pre meeting email for final information before the meeting

• Visitor orientation team is organised to manage many visitors with application forms and online application links and QR codes

• Membership Committee is prepared for conducting numerous interviews in the next 1 to 2 weeks due to visitors applying

• Prepare the chapter to have their best versions of referral requests and the I Have sections makes an impression (not the week for a member to say I dont't have anything)

• Education Section is very relevant to networking and is BNI content 

• Leadership team are organised to run an on time meeting. Consider what other content is in your usual meeting and how long it takes. Make adjustsments for the number of visitor introductions will occur. 

• You may add a timer to your visitor introduction slide and make sure the member introducing the visitors sets this section up correctly and manages how long the visitors talk for.

• Tradesheets are professional

• Prepared name tags for visitors 

Visitor Day - Mark Graber Format - from the Mark Graber Chapter Growth Program

Visitor Days - Better Together from BNI (for sharing with leaders)

Focused Visitor Days - Podcast 572