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6d • 🥳 | Wins
When a Door Slams In Your Face! Turn Around and Find an Open Door
I got rejected by the local BNI chapter. No, they don't give a reason for the rejection and, by BNI company policy, are not allowed to. To say this was a major slap in the face is a huge understatement. As many of you know, I understand how BNI works more than a vast majority of members and I love the rules that were laid out by BNI corporate HQ. Plus... I'm a big referral source and major contributor to the past chapters I was in.
Now that the shock is wearing off, and I start unpacking. what happened, what did I do? I got on the phone with the people I met at a different local networking group earlier this week... the one I exhibited at on Tuesday.
As a result,
- I made a great start with a potential power partner who owns a cloud-based PBX platform, that he developed in-house and is already configured with Voice AI, international call routing and so, so much more. The first thing he said when I called was "You were next on my call list". The synergy is off-the charts.
- I had a web developer email me last night, asking for pricing for one of his clients. I called him as soon as I got the email and this morning sent him a ballpark estimate for a company that wants a Voice AI bot that can handle about 2500 inbound calls per month.
- I had a VA agency, based in Toronto with VAs in India book a meeting with me yesterday. His agency VAs start at $5 CAD ($3.75 USD) per hour. (I'll keep everyone posted on this one).
- A Coworking company with 3 locations in and around Toronto booked a meeting with me for March 16th. She wants to talk bots and Exhibitor Follow Up Pro.
- A government grant consultant wants a demo of a snapshot designed to help him guide his clients through government application processes (I built this 2 years ago... my first GHL project). That's on Monday.
The BNI group has lost out big time and it's a pebble on my road to success. They'll never know what they lost out on. I have IRL friends in this group who are angrier than I am, and I was plenty pissed off... for a few minutes, at least.
(I'll wait until Monday to follow up with the BNI chapter members who I planned on demoing the bots to and follow up with the ones I already connected with).
Will I go back to BNI? Maybe, but not to a local chapter. It appears that there's poisoned water in this small pond region.
What's the saying about rejection? Oh yeah... We all know a bunch of em. We've all experienced a bunch of it. My favorite is SW. SW. SW. N!... Some Will. Some Won't. So What. Next! Or maybe it's F*** U. I'll take my ball, my money and my efforts elsewhere.
Two steps forward. One step back. I call that the Cha Cha
I'm putting this into the major win category!
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When a Door Slams In Your Face! Turn Around and Find an Open Door
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