May 15, 2008 Newsletter

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER
WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY

Michelle Martin telling us all about the membership drive

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

Sunie Kendall of Catalina Roasted Bean always has a smile on her face. She is getting ready for our

OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY MIXER

THIS TUESDAY AT MAMA'S PIZZA!!

By Popular Demand ... let's go back to where it all began .....

MAMA'S PIZZA!!
SW corner of McGee & Oracle!

6-8PM

Families Welcome.....

$5 Charge for adults ....$2.50 charge for each child.
Soda and Ice Tea included

alcoholic beverages on you :)

Kanae Fukuhara from Japan was a visitor this month. She said our BNI group was a lot funnier than the one in Japan. We laughed and had fun as we did business.

Mike Benzenhoefer of Ribbon Recyclers is sitting next to Todd Smith of Alltel. Our chapter started a mentoring program this year. There are about a dozen mentors and mentorees. Mike announced that he is getting married.


Pat Taviss of Pat Taviss Consulting and VP did her " waving the wand" on Brian Flahive of Orkin. Our newest member.

See you tomorrow at the mixer!

Peggy

April 22, 2008 Newsletter

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER

WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY

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

April 9, 2008 was the BNI Open House launching this year's membership drive. Our booth, shown in the photograph above, had a cash register showing all the moneys transferred through our chapter last year: $2,464,754 (in only a 9 month period!).

On March 13, Todd Smith of Alltel joined our chapter.


On March 20, Andrew Pongratz of Hand Andy Maintenance & Repair
stepped into our handyman category


Manny Rodriquez of Xango is thrilled with his breakfast.

That looks like Rich Flieger's Computer Renaissance business card in his hand.

Advanced MSP -

is being taught by Michelle Martin of Martin Insurance Consultants

The topic of this Thursday's interactive workshop is "Dance Cards" (or "One To One's"). The workshop will focus on the importance of Dance Cards in getting to know other BNI Chapter members as well as proven techniques for improving the conversations you have during your Dance Card meetings. The result? Referrals that are both more numerous and of higher quality for you and your "dance partner."

Dinner at the workshop is optional. You can order your own dinner from the snack bar or order pizza to share through Michelle. The pizza to share is $3; to order it, email michelle@martininsuranceconsultants.comand let her know your choice of Pepperoni & Mushroom or Sausage & Black Olive. Alternatively, you can put your order in the "comments" section of the on-line registration. Michelle will collect the $3 at the meeting.

The workshop is this Thursday, April 24, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Varsity Clubs of America, 3855 E. Speedway Blvd., NW corner of Speedway and Alvernon

Joshus T. Martin, D.D.S. of Hiremath Family Dentistry
became another of our new members in March.

Pat Taviss of Pat Taviss Consulting, and our Vice President,
is really getting into the "green." She won $3 in our 50/50 drawing this week, and she gets a one minute commercial.

Claudia Chiesa of Tucson Redesign drew the Joker in our 50/50 drawing March 27th. Her winnings were over $200.

Here is a list of our upcoming speakers...

(Speakers: Don't forget to bring a door prize !)

4/24 Laurence Bonfoey/ Marketing Leadership

5/1 Steve Korn/ M. Craig

5/8 Joy Douglas/ Mike Benzenhoefer

5/15 Becky Page/ Travis Williams

See you Thursday!

Peggy

March 12, 2008 Newsletter

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER
WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY





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

LOOKS LIKE OUR SECRETARY-TREASURER HAD A SUBSTITUTE . PRESIDENT LARRY STINSON OF 520 LIVING MAGAZINE, VICE PRESIDENT PAT TAVISS OF PAT TAVISS CONSULTING AND PAST TREASURER MIKE BENZENHOEFER OF RIBBON RECYCLERSKEPT EVERYONE UNDER CONTROL AND ON TIME THIS WEEK.

ERIC TIMMIS OF SEND OUT CARDS WAS ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS THIS WEEK. "YOU CLICK...WE PRINT AND SEND!!" THE COMPANY DOES THIS WITH YOUR OWN HANDWRITING, REAL ENVELOPE AND A REAL STAMP!

IN ADDITION, ERIC WAS THE WINNER OF OUR 50/50 DRAWING AND WON $10 AND A 60 SECOND SPOT NEXT WEEK.

ERIC IS ALSO IN CHARGE OF OUR ADVANCED MSP TRAINING. HE WILL BE GIVING THE SECOND OF THE SERIES, ON POWER TEAMS, AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR THE CLASS BY GOING TO THE CALENDAR AT http:www.bninorthwesttucson.com

ADVANCED MSP TRAINING IS HELD AT THE VARSITY CLUBS OF AMERICA 3855 E. SPEEDWAY, THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALVERNON AND SPEEDWAY. THIS MONTH'S CLASS IS THURSDAY, MARCH 27, FROM 4:30 TO 7:30PM.

I HAVE TAKEN THESE CLASSES AND THEY ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD. ERIC IS EXTREMELY KNOWLEDGEABLE AND DONATES HIS TIME AND EXPERTISE, SO THE CLASSES ARE FREE. A BARGAIN ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.

RACHEL GIOANNINI OF CASA SERENA LANDSCAPE DESIGN WAS OUR OTHER SPEAKER. BESIDES EXPLAINING THE PROCESS SHE GOES THROUGH WHEN SHE DOES HER LANDSCAPE DESIGNS, SHE ALSO SHOWED US HOW BEAUTIFULLY HER PART OF THE "GIVERS GAIN" PROJECT--THE GROUNDS AT THE SONORAN BED AND BREAKFAST--IS SHAPING UP.

JAMES CRAIG WAS THE LUCKY WINNER OF A $25 SEND OUT CARD DOOR PRIZE GIVEN BY ERIC TIMMIS.

JAMES IS THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES POWER TEAM LEADER. HE WANTS TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT ON MARCH 27 THERE WILL BE A PRESENTATION ON HOW POWER TEAMS WORK. BE SURE NOT TO MISS IT SO THAT YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THIS IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR BNI MEMBERSHIP.

SUNIE KENDALL OF CATALINA ROASTED BEAN WON THE DOOR PRIZE FROM RACHEL GIOANNINI, A POTTED PLANT THAT I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE. TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT, SUNIE!

MSP TRAINING THIS MONTH IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH FROM 5:30 TO 8:30. PLEASE REGISTER THROUGH THE BNI SOUTHERN ARIZONA EVENTS CALENDAR AT http://www.bninorthwesttucson.com/ . THIS PROGRAM WILL BE HELD AT THE VARSITY CLUBS OF AMERICA, 3855 E SPEEDWAY. NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALVERNON AND SPEEDWAY.

JENNIE CROUCH OF SPEEDWAY SIGNS WAS ANOTHER WINNER. SHE WON A DETOX SESSION WITH BENITA BABECKIS OF TRANZFORMATIONS.

JOY DOUGLAS OF MUSTARD SEED ART, GAVE THE MOST REFERRALS LAST MONTH ...36

DARL SHIPLEY OF THE BACK ALLEY GAVE 37, AND DIANNE KELLEY OF SANDBROOK BUSINESS BENEFITS GROUP GAVE 16.

RON LAFAYE OF AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE BROUGHT 3 VISITORS LAST MONTH.

PAT TAVISS OF PAT TAVISS CONSULTING, WITH 41 DANCE CARDS, WAS THE DANCE QUEEN OF THE MONTH. RUNNER UPS WERE JOY DOUGLAS OF MUSTARD SEED ART WITH 30 AND PEGGY HYDE OF P. HYDE & ASSOCIATES WITH 28.

PAT TAVISS, VICE-PRESIDENT, REPORTED THAT THERE WERE 70 REFERRALS GIVEN AND 60 REFERRALS RECIEVED LAST WEEK. (PAT: YOU MIGHT WANT TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE IN THESE NUMBERS. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING ME...AND YOU'RE IN CHARGE!)

WE HAD 4 VISITORS AND 249 DANCE CARDS WITH A VAULUE OF $18,141.

59 PEOPLE IN ATTENDED THE MEETING.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

(DON'T FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR BIO AND BRING A DOOR PRIZE)

3/13: Eric Shedd/ Marjorie Waterbrook

3/20: Patty Cummins/ Sandy Slone

3/27: Rondie Yancy/ Professional Services Leadership Team

4/03: Becky Page/ Sue Zepeda

4/10: Sunie Kendall/ Paul Sandoval

4/17: Mike Benzenhoefer/ Susan Fulton

IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK WITH THE NEWSLETTER

SEE YOU TOMORROW,

PEGGY

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.

**

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.

**

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.

**

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.

**

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.

December 31, 2007 Wrap Up

TUCSON'S PLATINUM CHAPTER

WE DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY

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

2007 Wrap Up

We had 83 different members in our group....In that number 26 are new members and 24 members left. December there were 64 active members! To see a list of our active members go to our members on the blog! http://www.bninorthwesttucson.com/

New members this year are

January Steve Torres of Reliable Cleaning Services

February Mark Miller of Cox

March Dr. Jennifer Caywood, Optometrist

March Dennis M Garrett of Matrix Pest & Termite Elimination

March Rondie Yancey of Massage Envy


April Eric Robbins of Free Trade Auction


April Tye Thonvold who represents Ron Arenas of
Picture Rocks Cooling & Heating

April Patty Cummins of Arbonne International

May Pat Taviss of Pat Taviss Consulting

May Sue Zepeda of Within Reach Organizing Solutions

May Nancy Jones of Premier Designs

May Mary Gibson of The Sonoran Bed & Breakfast

May James Craig of SuccessNow

June Rachel Gioannini of Casa Serena Landscape Designs

June Marjorie Waterbrook of Clear Content

June George E. represents Terry Fredrick of Progressive Plumbing Systems

July Craig Murad D.P.M

August Zachery Jacobs of New Century Coffee Break

August Christopher Litten of Body Basics

August Christopher Caine of Puro Clean

August Jennie Crouch of Speedway Signs

September Katie Shaub of Arizona Title Agency

September Brian Gallup of National Bank of Arizona

September Claudia Chiesa of Tucson Redesign

October Wayne Williams of Central Alarm

November Ted Forsberg of AT&T

November Sandy Slone of Gadabout


Here is a list of the people who left home for greater adventures

Carie Baumann - Redesigner

John Bicknese - Tile

Janeen Casper - Independent distributor

Grant Deakin - Insurance

David Friel - Dirt mover

James Gransie-Bugweiser

Chris Harvey-Coyote Painting

Vicki Hauth - Massage

Susan Kavula - Plumbing

Bob Meredith - Phones

Mark Miller - Cox

Craig Murad - Feet

Judy Randels - Title Insurance

Annette Rauch - Hair dresser

Ann Schnell - Colonics

Joyce Schulte - "The Cookie Lady"

Richard Shapiro - coach

Patrick Teske

Richard Tolton

Alan Tuuri - Handyman

Robert Valenzuela - Electrician

Harold Weatherly - Credit Cards

Joanne Zich - Jeweler

Below is a number of items our Chapter has integrated into our meetings.

Members 5+ years are provided with a personalized recognition award.

Power Team Presentations...Our power team did a presentation to show how they work together and support one another.

Power Team Reports...Once a month each Power Team gives a report on what they have accomplished or is trying to do.

Individual sign plaques are displayed in front of each member so visitor are better able to recognize and remember members.

Cordless Microphone... It is easier for the back of the room to hear what is being said

Meeting Description...each visitor is handed a sheet explaining what happens during the meeting

Mentoring Members...new member are mentored by their sponsoring members.

Send Out Cards...Each visitor receives a card thanking them for coming.

Sign...we have a nice sign printed by Speedway Signs that is placed by the door to show people where we meet.

Brochure...Every 6 months we have a printed brochure for everyone to use and hand out. They are free to the members.

Name Tags..We have nice big easy to read name tags..

Business Card Packets...Each visitor gets a complete set of business cards of all our members

Gift Bags...Members can better advertise their business to visitors by giving away promotional items.

Speed Dancing...allows members to meet more members than the usual dance cards. This we do during our monthly mixer.

Raffle...has increased our slush fund several times over to afford our brochures, Christmas Party and many extras.

Timing Lights...used to time commercials and speakers.

Blog...Newsletter, longer testimonials and allows leadership to post informative articles to our members and the world!!

Photographer....hoots pictures during meeting to be used in the blog and newsletter

Large Business Card Holder...We give them away as incentive to new members to attend MSP within their first 30 days.

Christmas Party Entertainment...provided by talented members of our chapter..

Membership Sign in Sheet...identical to whats on the web site. Saves VP lots of time.

PI Accounting...member donated accounting software to chapter so leadership team could obtain financial information more easily.

The Wave...Encourages member to merely stand and say what they need to say without fidgeting with their chairs to save time.

Positive Quote...provided by member not leadership team.