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How To Announce You’ve Lined Up A Sub

When you know you can’t attend a BNI Embarcadero meeting and have lined up a sub, we recommend that you send an “everyone” email.
This serves three purposes:

It lets Membership, the Vice President and Visitor Host know that you will have a sub in your place for a certain meeting.
It gives you credit for having a [...]

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When to Hire Life Coach Kenji

From blog.intuit.com, April 27, 2011.
Do you call a life coach to navigate life’s challenges or help with career issues? Does a life coach help you understand your goals, how to reach them, and prioritize them? Do you need a life coach to boost your self-confidence?
We called Kenji Oshima, AKA Coach Kenji, of San Francisco, to [...]

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Scheduling meetings efficiently

If you run a small business, are you your own admin support? I sure am! Even when I was in the corporate world, I did much of this work myself, especially coordinating and scheduling meetings and conference calls.
Once you have more than three people to gather for a call or meeting, email is no longer [...]

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BNI Marketing Makeover Success Story: Book Bank USA Website

AFTER

Book Bank USA is a non-profit organization in San Rafael, CA that has donated over 5.9 million books and more than 2,500 computers to nearly 1,000 schools and libraries in 37 countries over the past 45 years. Its tagline is “A World-Class Bank Where Books Draw Interest For Life” and I’m is proud to [...]

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Why post on this site? Why not just email?

I knew someone would ask … ;-)
Why would I post this question on this website and not just email the question to the relevant people? (our accountant and our bookkeeper) The reasons are multifold.

Referrals
Someone out there might be doing a search for “pay or barter” when they have a question for an accountant or a [...]

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Pay or Barter?

I have a question for the number-types in our group–or anyone else who has experience with this.
Say I’m doing business with someone and we decide that our services will cost about the same, say $999. For tax and accounting and income and expenses reasons, should we barter or pay each other? In other words, should [...]

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Subscriptions

Here’s how we’re going to kill a few birds with one stone.
As you all know, it’s better for the search engines and our own site’s appeal if we post content onto our site and then email that to our members. Using “subscriptions” it even takes one step out of the mix. Just post an entry [...]

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Everyone is now registered at bniembarcadero.com !

Greetings BNIers,
I just registered the last of us into the new website (thanks to all of you who had already registered). For those of you who did not register, you can now log in using your first name (with first letter capital, e.g. Holden) and this high-tech password: ” bni ” (no quotes, just the [...]

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Suggestions for this site?

What would you like to see this do for you? For us? For guests? Subs?
Rather than emailing me, I’d like to use this site (and this post in particular) to gather suggestions for how we can best utilize this website. You’ll see below this post there’s a spot to post comments. Please log in and [...]

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New BNI Embarcadero Website

If you’re just visiting this page and are wondering where the old site went, it’s here. Here’s the email I just sent explaining how to register with the new site.
Greetings BNIers!
I’m moving forward with the new BNI Embarcadero website and I need you all to go and register. If you’re pressed for time, please just [...]

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