Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Tuesday 25th November 2014. Our guest was Janet Gilbert from Village Emporium making it 13 present in all. Dr Deb was in the chair. Hugo Heij with an admirably succinct Ed Slot (for him) emphasising the importance of producing a consistent product. You have to fulfil your client/customer expectations in order…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 20th November 2014. We were 20 in all. By comparison with the previous 2 weeks we were down on numbers but the meeting had a buzz. The Ed Slot was delivered by Paul Booth who warned against delivering “surprise” bills to our clients and customers. Surprise? That is both in…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Tuesday 18th November 2014. This week I report from the back benches. Ian Nicholson was in charge and ran a very good meeting. The 12 members present were treated to a Hugo Heij special in the Ed Slot. He has us all draw the “ladder of loyalty” which categorised our customers…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 13th November 2014. Another great turnout, 25 members and 1 visitor, Kudzai Sibanda whose business is recruitment of carers; As with all well attended meetings it was vibrant and yet at times slightly bizarre; David Plumley delivered the Ed Slot and produced the saying of the week “…treat your customers/clients…
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Chairmans Business Networking Blog, Tuesday 11th November 2014. 12 present plus Philip Regan from Kelly’s Turkeys. Apologies received from missing members. It was Hugo Heij’s first solo flight as Education and Development Officer and he opened with the memorable line “people buy people”. As to be expected, a well structured presentation which bodes well for…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 6th November 2014. 25 present, which was a truly great turnout; When I say 25, I include the Bard of Hadleigh who arrived at 7.30am. He might be the first but I am sure he will not be the last to realise that the breakfast at 7.45am enables you to…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, 5th November 2014 “Always remember the 5th November, gunpowder treason and plot”… you see, it’s the 5th November that most people remember either because they have an historical sense of the importance of why the Houses of Parliament should not have been destroyed, because you like fireworks or perhaps more importantly,…
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Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 30th October 2014. The shock of a new format for our meeting clearly scared several people away. We were 18 in number present to meet the challenge of a later arrival time and earlier start to the meeting and a later time for breakfast. All very confusing I know! Still,…
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Business Networking Blog – A review of our meeting (23rd Oct 2014) by Kevin Radford I suppose I should start this blog with the old adage “You should be careful what you wonder” , having finished last week’s guest blog with the words I wonder how Aidan is able to produce such a well written…
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Chairman’s Business networking Blog, Tuesday 21st October 2014. 13 present in all. Nige Kirby’s Ed Slot was on EBF etiquette and listed things too numerous to mention but important to remember. The heart of our networking group is to support one another. Dr Deb was awarding the Oscar and found themes which was more than…
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