1. You Can’t Get a Haircut Over the Phone ATTENDANCE PAYS Source: BNI Podcast 490

2. BNI Chapters Held Meetings
WAY back in 1985
BNI Chapters Held Meetings
Twice a Month

3. Attendance Increased AND
Worldwide
Meetings
Every Week
Attendance Increased AND
Referrals wen up 52%

4. have 73% less closed business
Members with fewer absences receive more closed business
Members who have
3 absences in 6 months
(maximum allowed)
have 73% less closed business
As absences double, closed business falls by 50%

5. If a members has
4 absences in 6 months
(shouldn’t have)
get 84.1% less business

6. Attendance is critical to the group.

7. A member is allowed 3 absences in a rolling six-month period.

8. GET A PINCH HITTER.
If you cannot attend, get a substitute. Who is a good pinch hitter?