Hi Phil

I am writing to say thanks again for your thoroughly inspiring presentation at the recent Referral Institute conference in New Orleans. As a Certified Speaking Professional and the President of the Global Speakers Federation I get to see a lot of conference speakers around the world and I can unashamedly tell you that your presentation presented real value to all participants. Your ability to craft your message within interesting stories and anecdotes is a real skill and a joy to watch, not only that your message contained useful information which I was able to go home and apply straight away. Phil I am looking forward to the day when we can both present on the same conference platform.

Until then I wish you ongoing success.

Kind regards

Lindsay Adams CSP
Teamocracy
President, Global Speakers Federation
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Hi Phil,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the incredible job you’re doing at the Referral Institute and truly transforming the approach business professionals are using to grow their businesses through referrals and word-of-mouth marketing.

BNI Middle East has benefited tremendously through the courses and programmes you offer at the Referral Institute. Our members are better equipped with the tools and skills required to network effectively and generate higher quality referrals leading to higher conversion to closed business. As a result, we’ve seen further growth in our membership, and our member retention is gradually increasing too.

With the introduction of Referrals 202 and your flagship ‘Referrals for Life’ Community in the coming months, I see this making a further huge positive impact on our membership. Our strategic alliance with the Referral Institute is very much aligned and helping us in our strive to help our ‘Members Make More Money’ and BNI’s mission to ‘Change the Way the World Does Business’

Thank you!

Life is Terrific!

Bijay Rajnikantt Shah
National Director
BNI Middle East & East Africa
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Dear Phil,

Thank you for your presentation. I would like to summarise the impact of your session for myself and our members.

Previously networkers would arrive at the event and either stick to who they knew or be intimidated by some groups. This stopped them from gaining the full, huge potential from the BBG events.

Since Phil spoke, I personally have learnt how to approach different groups and people by recognising their personality styles and adjusting my style to suit them. I also learnt a lot about my own character and why sometimes I can feel uncomfortable in certain situations and more at ease in others. Just by transforming my thought process from what can I get from this person to what can I give them has made networking a pleasure.

Now I know how to get the best out of the BBG meetings and events.

I have expanded my network significantly which in time will lead me to more business and leads of a higher quality.

The BBG has seen networking event attendance increase over the last six months.

The feedback from the committee was very positive indeed.

Ben Goodman
Director Membership
British Business Group
PO Box 9333
Dubai, UAE
—————————————————————————————————————————————————— We had an excellent event by Mr. Phil Bedford on the topic of Business Referrals. The audiences were overwhelmed by the interactive session where they were able to practically calculate the difference between selling with and without the referrals. Phil’s style of connecting with people was excellent and it indeed was a delight to see him in action.

Best Regards,
Rekha
Head of Community Service
Dubai Internet City