
Meeting Items
Many networking groups share common activities that are conducted as a course of the meeting.
Read More...At Refur, we are committed to helping businesses to network more effectively. We love and embrace the concept of business networking; it really does make the world go around. Despite people wanting to run things ‘freely’ and with no rules, the fact is every group needs rules to make sure it is run effectively and retains the spirit that created it. This doesn’t mean the rules need to stifle the spirit, but they help to protect the group from its members and the members from each other.
Being involved in the management or running of a networking group is a wonderful opportunity and a thankless task at the same time. Most independent networking groups have often grown from a group of like-minded business friends into a formal group that meets regularly. Often this growth has been unplanned, and it can lead to issues.
Listed on this page are some of the areas that we have been consulted about by organisations using our system to control their networking/referral meetings or observations we have made over the last 18 years of being involved in and visiting many networking groups.
This section covers the following broad areas of the running a Business Networking/Referral Group.
Many networking groups share common activities that are conducted as a course of the meeting.
Read More...It is essential that members be kept informed as to the effectiveness of their membership, and that of the group as a whole. of the group, and of the group as a whole. Cloud based applications like refur allow for easy reporting by and for the membership.
Read More...Most networking groups follow an agenda and are covered by a set of rules that cover management and expected behaviour of members.
Read More...Visitors are the lifeblood of Networking / Referral Groups. A visitor represents the chance of a new member, and even if they don't consider joining, they represent potential business for the group’s members.
Read More...Does your group have an awards system? Do you recognise outstanding effort and activity?
Read More...Education items to use in your meetings to stimulate group activity or member development.
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