Summary: Synopsis Jeremy Walsh joins Dr. Misner for the seventh podcast in the "Get Connected--Stay Connected" series. The topic today is how to use BNI Connect to invite visitors to BNI meetings. To use the visitor invitation tool in BNI Connect, go to Operation | Chapter | Create Email | Send Visitor Invitation and fill out a simple form with the invitee's contact information. Add your personal message. BNI Connect inserts the information you've provided into an email template and fills in all the pertinent information about your chapter along with a request for an RSVP. Using BNI Connect to invite visitors to BNI provides a process for invitations and ensures that visitors get all the information they need about the meeting time and location. But remember, you still need personal contact with prospective visitors. Have a personal conversation before sending the invitation and make a follow-up phone call afterwards. Listen to other BNI Podcast episodes on the subject of inviting visitors. Brought to you by Networking Now. Complete Transcript of BNI Podcast Episode 350 - Priscilla: Hello everyone and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio, which is in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder and Chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello Ivan. How are you and who do you have with you today? Ivan: I am doing great. I just think it is funny. You are in Berkeley. I am in Texas. Jeremy, you are in Maryland today? Jeremy: I am in Maryland. Ivan: He is in Maryland. It’s truly all over North America, this call. I have Jeremy Walsh with us, Priscilla, for our 350th podcast. 350. You have been doing this with me for a while now, Priscilla. I appreciate everything you do. Priscilla: I love it so I am glad I am here. Ivan: Jeremy is the Director of Support, Training and Documentation for BNI Connect. Together with the BNI Connect team, they help people get connect worldwide through BNI’s online social media platform, BNI Connect. Jeremy has also been a member of the BNI Wakefield chapter in Rhode Island for more than 10 years and serves as the Director of the region. He is also the owner of Right Click. I love that name, Jeremy. I think I have told you that. A computer support and networking company that drives you kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Jeremy, it is great to have you on the podcast again. Jeremy: I am so happy to be here. Thank you, Ivan. Ivan: Listen, I know I have said this before. You are the only technology support guy I have ever met that everybody loves. Nobody ever gets mad at you. They get mad at the software but they say, “We love working with Jeremy.” I have you on today because we are talking about the Get Connected Stay Connected series today. BNI Connect is a game changer for the organization and we are going to talk about parts of it in this series, which is inviting visitors. Now, we can spend a lot of time talking about how and why to invite visitors, but we have done that in the podcast, so I am not going to do that here. So if that is something you want, if you want to do a search in the search engine for “inviting visitors” then you will find those podcasts. But today, I want to talk about inviting a visitor as it relates to the utilization of BNI Connect. So, Jeremy, you are the expert on BNI Connect. There is a tool in BNI Connect that will help individual members, those people listening, to invite visitors. Do you want to talk about that a little bit for me? Jeremy: Absolutely. There is a tool and it is a great little function hidden in BNI Connect. It allows you to supplement or invite a visitor. Usually, we do this after we have already made verbal contact or started the invitation process, but you can use it, really, anytime,
