Goldmine BNI Utah

The leadership team (Craig Smith, Julie Williams and Harold Bowman) took the ten minute presentation to remind us of the purpose of BNI, some of the unique attributes that distinguish BNI from other networking organizations and rules pertaining to absence and substitutes.

RULE CHANGE - Substitues

• People to consider for substitutes include: your customers, clients, patients, friends,
  family and/or employees. (The term "former members" has been deleted -- BNI has had problems with this.)
• The primary purpose for a substitute is to represent a BNI member. BNI recommends
  minimal use of a substitute. However, a member may use substitutes up to three
  times in a six-month period.
• The chapter should be aware that a substitute will be attending the meeting. The
  Visitor Host should be there to greet the substitute and welcome him/her to the
  meeting.

RULE CHANGE - Membership in a Second Chapter

An individual member cannot be in a second BNI chapter nor in any other group that allows only one person per profession and whose primary purpose is to pass referrals to one another, because it substantially reduces their commitment to the chapter members.

Membership Committees must enforce this policy. This policy change combines General Policy #4 and General Policy #16. This change is effective August 1, 2010.

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Mark "Charlie" Fuller and Jim Hawks each had two visitirs, they must be drinking that ICEROK water. 
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We welcome Ron from Mower Medic, Melissa from Surefire Pizza and Jared from Brownie's Lock three fine additions to our group. Make sure to get them on your one to one dance card ASAP, begin the process of Know, Like and Trust. One to One Organizers can be found at www.utahbni.com and more specifically on the download page.

Remember you are always standing the the middle of a referral.