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BNI 871: Weekly Presentation Coaching 150! - Stephanie Meekhof - Omni Fight Club
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Sam. Welcome back BNI and Power of One back with our weekly presentation coaching episode. Reviewing your submitted weekly presentations. As always, you can go to bnipowerofone.com leave yours there. If you're finding value, let me know, subscribe, leave a review, share it, do all the things. Appreciate all of you. All right, today we are hearing from Stephanie Meekoff from Georgia and I'll open it up. She has 30 seconds. She says, hi, Tim, I'm resubmitting a new presentation and I hope I have improved since my first one. Thanks again for the feedback. It was very helpful and appreciated. We are currently the second largest chapter in the BNI Atlanta region at sea 69 members. Now this was from the summer. This, this one's been buried for a little bit, which I apologize about. So we have 30 seconds. Okay, so I'm gonna pull up my timer, Stephanie, and we will see how we do. Good morning bni. I'm Stephanie with Omni Fight Club. I'm looking to connect with event planners such as our visitor a couple meetings ago, Julia Waynet. They want their clients to feel confident, energized and be stress free before their event. Whether they're, whether it's a gala reunion or corporate retreat, our classes help people get strong, reduce stress and boost confidence. If your event plan or friend mentions their clients are overwhelmed and stressed when planning, tell them you have a colleague that works at a non contact boxing gym that can help relieve that stress and have a lot of fun too. Okay, so that went 34 seconds for me. I stumbled through it a little bit though, so it's probably right on point. If you need to shave a couple seconds, by the way, I would and it's gonna be really hard because I would probably do the same thing. But just places you can shave would be like the good morning bni, that kind of stuff. All right, I'm looking to connect with event planners such as our visitor a couple meetings ago, Julia Waynard. They want their clients to feel confident, energized and be stress free before the event. Whether it's a gallery reunion, a corporate retreat. Our classes help people get strong, reduce stress and boost confidence. Okay, so where you can start cutting there too is that part because again, you're looking for the event planner. That's your target. So what the event they're planning doesn't matter to you obviously because you list all kinds of them out and it doesn't matter to your members and frankly it doesn't really matter to event planner. Does that make sense? Like because you're talking about like it doesn't matter. It could be a gallery, corporate retreat. Our classes can help reduce stress that you don't need to put in here. That will be kind of the conversation you're going to have with the event planner. You only have 30 seconds. So we got to be laser focused on what am I trying to accomplish. I am trying to get introduced to event planners. So I need to talk about what's in it for the event planner. And, but more importantly, how do they bring event planners to me, which again, you're going to have to be laser focused on the what to say part of it. So you're going to need as much time as you can. Okay. So I'm looking to connect with event planners such as our visitor a couple meetings ago. Julie. That's great. I'm trying to work on it in my head as well. One of the ongoing challenges for event planners is how stressed out their clients get before the event. If you hear your friend who's an event planner speaking about how overwhelmed and stressed their client is, ask them XYZ something like, have you ever considered offering. Have you ever mentioned they should do? Have you ever considered conducting something that will help them alleviate stress? Trying to think of this in my mind and I'm not you, so you're going to be better at it. But what my approach would be, I want to get introduced to an event planner. And the value add I give to the event planner is I have a service that can help de stress their clients, which makes their job easier. If their client's less stressed, their job's easier. So my value add is that how do I train my team to articulate that in an effective way? I would go more. I'm looking to connect with event planners such as our visitor, Julie Weinert, or your best friend or your colleague who puts on large events. One of their biggest challenges is how stressed out their clients get around the event, which adds chaos and stress to the event planner. I can help them alleviate both of them through our services at Omnifight Club. Our classes help de stress people. Ask your contact who's an event planner, do they currently offer or do anything to help alleviate the natural stresses their clients face during their events? If the answer is no, ask them if they'd be open to an introduction so I can explain how I might be able to help with our classes. Something this is. That's not great. I'm doing it off my head. Something around that. You got to be a little bit more direct in your approach. In that way. So again, for all of us, it's. What is the end result I'm looking for? I'm in this case, looking to be introduced to event planners because I can partner with them and offer classes, right? So, okay, so I want to be introduced to event planners. What's the value add? What's the reason why the event planner would want to be potentially connected with me? And how do I train my team to have that conversation? And when you're at 30 seconds, got to be more succinct than when we have a minute, we got more time. Obviously, that would be my mindset here and. And the approach I would take. And I think you're on the right path there. I think your mindset's in the right thing. Your approach is pretty close. I would probably just strengthen it a little bit more. And I'm going to do this. Every single one. I've yet to get one where I was like, yeah, that's perfect. Because I don't think anybody wants to hear that. I think they want to hear how do we make it more effective? But I would eliminate that. Whether it's a gallery, reunion or corporate retreat, cut that line out. That gives you a little bit more time. I would cut out. If your event planner mentions they or their client are overwhelmed and stressed when planning to do something, like, hey, ask them a question. So instead of just waiting for it to say, you know, I would love for you to ask your friend who's an event planner how they handle. Or I'm trying to think of, this is me, my brain spinning and talking at the same time. Not great. Ask your friend, the event planner. Do they do anything to help alleviate the natural stresses they and their clients will feel? Do they offer anything? And, you know, if they say no or they just talk about, well, that's my job. Say I work closely with somebody who I think you should consider partnering with as a value add to you and your client. Would you be interested? That's all you really need. Because then if the person's like, well, what do they do? Your members should know. Well, actually, they're with Omni Fight Club and they put on some classes maybe, but I don't. She works well with event planners. She was asking for introductions. I thought of you. Would you want to be introduced? You know, I mean, that's. They can handle it from there. You just got to get them into the conversation. So, yeah, I think that's how. I mean, I would rework it. You know, you're much smarter at this than I'M going to be in terms of your industry and stuff. But that would be my advice. I would, I would strengthen a little bit more there and get rid of the lines that aren't helping you. And that's for all of us. Like, don't fill in stuff or don't fall in the trap of naturally filling in. Like, you know, too much of what we would say in a different type of event. Like that line of all the different events doesn't actually help you in your goal. So when you're reviewing your weekly presentation, all of us review it and go, okay, is all of this helping me accomplish my goal? Which is for the introduction to the event planner and if it doesn't, cut it and put something in that does. So Stephanie, thank you again for submitting again and listening and being brave to do that. I hope this does help as you continue to work on it. Congratulations on your chapter and the success it is having. And for everybody else, Leave your review Leave your weekly presentation@bnipower of1.com leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify however you're finding it, share it all the good things that I say each week. Have a great day. Sam.