January 22 08

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER

WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY

AND STING LIKE A BEE!!!!!!!

There were 53 people at our meeting and we had 2 visitors...

** Jane Coppola of Allen & Young Business Brokerage

is our newest member! Her sponsor and

mentor for the year is Eric Timmis of SendOutCards.

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Claudia Chiesa of Tucson Redesign was our first speaker. She showed before & after pictures of her work. It's fascinating what she can do with things you already have. Her door prize was a picture frame, and Michelle Martin from Martin Insurance Consultants was the lucky winner.

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Hello, Susan Fulton of Desert Penguin! Joy Douglas of Mustard Seed Art is the new photographer in our group. She is the one taking pictures during our meeting. I will mark her pictures with a ** so everyone will know what good work she does.

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Chris Litten, BS of Body Basics was our second speaker. We found out that besides being a Personal Trainer he is also a nutritionist. His door prize was a shirt that was won by Christy of the Foothills Chapter. Chris also gave away an hour session at Body Basics and Nancy Jones of Premier Design was the lucky winner.

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By now you all recognize Mary Gibson of Sonoran Bed & Breakfast. She is one of the event coordinators who help plan our monthly mixer. This month we went to Michelangelo Ristorante Italiano! If you missed this one, hope to see you next month! The food was really, really good and the pizza was awesome!!Mr. & Mrs.Rich Flieger of Computer Renaissance visited with Clauda Chiesa of Tucson Redesign and Mike Hoynes of Nikken.

Mike Benzenhoefer of Ribbon Recyclers and Peggy Hyde of Arizona Holistic Hypnosis. I heard that she has some news to announce when she speaks next week.

Mary Gibson of Sonoran Bed & Breakfast talking

with Nancy Jones of Premier Design

Marcus Richter of Hands-On Home Inspection with Sue Zepeda, our other event coordinator, whose business is Within Reach Organizing Solutions and Johnny Wyatt of JJ&J Perpetual Marketing.Com

Mike Hoynes of Nikken and Claudia Chiesa of Tucson Redesign

are deep in conversation.

This week's speakers will be Deb Alter of Alter & Alter, CPA's and Pat Taviss of Pat Taviss Consulting. Next week's speakers will be Robin Cupp of Healing Spring Acupuncture and Peggy Hyde of Arizona Holistic Hypnosis.

That's all folks.

See you tomorrow,

Peggy

2007 Tid Bits

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER
WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY

AND STING LIKE A BEE!!!!!!!

Last terms Leadership team
Please take a look at the 2007 BNI Awards newsletter.

BEST GIVERS GAIN PROJECT

Our Chapter decided to help Mary Gibson of The Sonoran Bed & Breakfast to achieve their 5 year goal in a shorter time frame. We all pitched in with ideas, elbow grease and brain power to help the project grow. We decided that every six months a business from our group would be selected to give them a boost with all our expertise. This has been fun and work as we work together as a team to help one of our members.

BEST MENTORING CHAPTER

When our members heard another Chapter was losing members, we invited them to visit our chapter to see if we could help them. We took potential guest to their chapter and help them get back on track. Our chapter included them in our mixers and have enjoyed getting to know our "relatives."

TOP REVENUE AMOUNTS

Don Wren Southern Arizona Community Bank $1,004,607
Judy Randels Arizona Title Company $603,914

Ron LaFaye American Home Mortgage $276.530

I love this picture of Ron. He looks like the cat who got the Canary

MOST REFERRALS RECEIVED

Sunie Kendall Catalina Roasted Bean 158

Paul Sandoval Paul's Auto Repair 108

Kevin Boerup US Press 92

INVITED THE MOST VISITORS
Michelle Martin Martin Insurance Consultants 21

Sunie Kendal Catalina Roasted Bean 10

Peggy Hyde Arizona Holistic Hypnosis 8

THANKS TO MIKE LISKOW WE HAVE THE MOST COMPUTER LITERATE CHAPTER AROUND! MIKE SET UP OUR BLOG SITE AND GOT US ROLLING I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED IT MIKE, THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US.

MOST REFERRALS GIVEN

Peggy Hyde AZ Holistic Hypnosis 164

Dianne Kelley Sandbrook Business Benefit Group 122

Dr. Darl Shipley The Back Alley 109

MOST VISITORS THAT JOINED











FOUR WAY TIE WITH TWO EACH
Michelle Martin Martin Insurance
Paul Sandoval Paul's Auto Repair
Dianne Kelley Sandbrook Business Benefits Group
Peggy Hyde AZ Holistic Hypnosis

BEST ATTENDANCE

THREE WAY TIE

Mike Benzenhoefer Ribbon Recyclers; Peggy Hyde AZ Holistic Hypnosis; Sunie Kendall Catalina Roasted Bean

Best Kick Off Presentation for the Mardis Gras Membership Contest AKA BEST CAN-CAN DANCERS! To bad we don't have a picture of them in costume

Susan Fulton Desert Penguin Laura Loman ReMax Peggy Hyde AZ Holistic Hypnosis

NOW YOU KNOW HOW OUR CHAPTER HAS SO MUCH FUN AND WORKS TOGETHER TO REACH THE GOAL OF "GIVER'S GAIN"

2007 50/50 Winners

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER

WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY
AND STING LIKE A BEE!!!!!!!

In March, Bob Hollingshead of Pre-Paid Legal came up with the idea of a 50/50 drawing. Members had the option of buying raffle tickets for $1 apiece; 6 for $5 or 15 for $10. The person with the lucky ticket would get to draw a card from a deck of cards. That card would indicate the amount of money they would win. If the person drew the Joker they would win one half of the pot. When a card was drawn it was torn up. As the weeks went buy the pot got very large! During the 40 week period (before the Joker was drawn) $273 was given out and the Jackpot was drawn on 12/12/07 and was worth $1560. The Chapter's share went towards our Christmas Party. The party was catered, had door prizes, gift exchange and dance instruction.

On 3/8, Lindsey Richter of BGR Financial Group was our first winner of $2.

Chuck Fatum of Owner Built Custom Homes won $10 March 15

Annette Rauch of Hair Styles You Can't Refuse won $ 8 on 3/29

May 3 Ann Schnell of Ancient Waters won $7

March Miller of Cox on 5/31 won $3

Michelle Martin of Martin Insurance Consultants 6/21 won $10 and 6/28 won $7

Linda Scott of Auto Glass won $6 on 6/7 and $10 on 7/5

Mike Hoynes of Nikken Wellness Consultant won $10 on 7/12 & $10 on 9/6

Dr. Craig Murad won $3 on7/26

Benita Babeckis of Tranzformations won$9 on 8/02

John Bicknese of Artistic Tile won $10 on 8/09

Mary Gibson of The Sonoran Bed & Breakfast won $7 on 8/23

Paul Sandoval of Paul's Auto Repair won $6 on 9/6

Manny Rodriquez of Xango won 3 times $10 on 4/19, $3 on 4/26, $10 on 9/13

Pat Taviss of Pat Taviss Consulting won $8 on 9/27

Grant Deakin of American Family Insurance won $5 on 10/11

Marcus Richter of Hands On Home Inspection won $5 on 11/1

Steve Korn of Safeguard won $10 on 12/5

Tye Thonvold of Picture Rock was tied with Mike Benzenhoefer with the most wins--6 each. Tye won $10 5/17; $4 on 5/24; $9 on 6/14; $2 on 9/20; 11/15 for $10 and 11/29 for $4. That is a total of $39

Mike Benzenhoefer of Ribbon Recyclers won $6 on 4/5;won $4 on 5/10; $2 on 8/16; $10 on 10/4; $10 on 10/25; and $2 on 11/8 for a total of 34. So looks like Tye was the second runner up for most monies won...........

Peggy Hyde of Arizona Holistic Hypnosis won $9 on 3/22;$8 on 10/18 and the Grand Prize of $1560 on 12/12! For a total of $1577. When she drew the winning ticket she also pulled out three other tickets and payed for their monthly dues. The winners of those tickets were Paul Sandoval of Paul's Auto Repair (he won twice) and Mike Benzenhoefer of Ribbon Recyclers.