BNI Phoenix Cairns

16/10/2025

Network education 🤓 - Tim Lyon of Twomey Schriber touched on one of the BNI basics ‘Visitor Experience’ - what to do when visitors arrive and how visitors are valuable to our meeting
Bernie award 🥈- Amanda Stuart of Memories Cafe @ Yorkeys K**b - personalising things with her great memory of what her customers like regarding coffee ☕️ and food 🍲 - your customer service is outstanding, keep being wonderful!
Feature presentation 🗣️ - Karl Dolan of Dolan Plumbing and Gas - ‘flowing’ us into the world of a plumber and the work undertaken - the clean 🧼 🛁 and the not so clean 🪏🚽
Door prize 🏆- Camilo Bradford of FNQBrokers

16/10/2025

BNI Phoenix Meeting 7 October 2025

Bernie award 🥇 - Camilo Bradford of FNQBrokers - looks like David didnt want to give it over!
President 🎩 - first day at the helm for Stacey Dunstan of Rivers Insurance - go Stacey go!
Network education 👨🏻‍🎓- Tim Lyon of Twomey Schriber…wait…what!…David Saloukvadze of Easy Cool Air - thought Tim looked a bit different 🤨
Networking award 🥇 - David Saloukvadze of Easy Cool Air won for his hard work - legend!
Feature presentation - Stacey Dunstan of Rivers Insurance - presented her vision as President of the Chapter
Door prize 🏆 - Ian McFarlane of Shoebox Books

16/10/2025

Network education 🤓- Tim Lyon of Twomey Schriber bought us into the world of Rudyard Kipling with a poem titled ‘If’ which had a strong meaning of resilience behind it - taught us how important that is in business.
Networking award 🥇- David Saloukvadze of Easy Cool Air for TYFCB in August of $5,014 - awesome and congratulations 🥳- motivation for us all!
Bernie award 🥈- Karl Dolan of Dolan Plumbing and Gas - go Karl!
Feature presentation - Paul Davis of Paul J Davis Accountants - touched on Deceased Estates with information on how you still have to do tax returns for the Deceased up to the day of their death and after the Estate is finalised - important information to know, thank you Paul
Door prize 🏆- Nicole/Shane Tibbs of Shane Tibbs Financial Planning - voucher for Memories Cafe @ Yorkeys k**b (mmmmm coffee ☕️🤤)

24/09/2025

Meeting 23/09/2025:
Education Piece - Time Lyon of Twomey Schrieber brought to our attention the Contact Sphere Tool and how we can make and build connections by inviting visitors that fit within our category.
VP Recognition Award (Networking) - John McRoberts of Auto Blue for 10 Referrals Given in August…keep up the great work!
Bernie Award went to Stacey Dunstan of Rivers Insurance for her 45 second spiel on insurance for Restaurants and Cafes, how they can find the right insurance especially if it involves alcohol 🍷.
Feature Presentation by Amanda Stuart of Memories Cafe @ Yorkeys K**b who quizzed us on the world of coffee (thanks goes to Tim Lyon who passed on his knowledge of the code for the answers) - loved the poem Amanda!
Door Prize went to Tim Lyon of Twomey Schrieber - very deserving as you worked out the code for answers to Amanda’s quiz a lot quicker than the rest of us!

24/09/2025

Meeting on 16/09/2025:
Education piece presented by Tim Lyon of Twomey Schrieber - The Stone Soup fable (power of persuasion); very informative and thought provoking as to how persuasion can work in your favour
Networking Award - David Saloukvadze of Easy Cool Air for 9 1 to 1’s…congratulations!
Bernie Award - Amanda Stuart of Memories Cafe @ Yorkeys K**b…you’re amazing with your 45 second spiels!
Feature Presentation - Tim Lyon of Twomey Schrieber - delved into the world of a Real Estate Agent and gave away some great transferable (industry secrets) skills especially in selling property…thank you Tim!
Door Prize - Alan Avice Du Boissen of Avice Pest Control…Tim Lyon is paying!

09/09/2025

09/09/2025

Congratulations goes to Lou Cooper of Health Moves 💪🏻 for 6 Referrals in the first week of September, and to Karl Dolan of Dolan Plumbing and Gas 🚰 for 14 ‘1to1s’ in July for our Notable Networking Awards…and to the lovely Amanda stepping in for Shervin Tambrchi of Absolute Law ⚖️ winning the covered BerNIe Award…and last but not least Camilo Bradford of FNQBrokers winning the door prize (drinks on you then?)…and to the whole team for another great meeting!

01/04/2025

What a meeting we had today!
Leadership Team change over started today!

📚 Network Education was done by Tim Lyon from Twomey Schreiber Property Group.
Tim explained to us what F.R.O.G.S was.

🏆Best referral request (BerNIe) was won by Alan Avice Du Buisson from Avice Pest Control .

📝 Notable Networker was Les John Knapp from Arborcare tree services NQ.

🎫 Lucky Door Prize was won by Vicki from Empire Real Estate Agency.

Would you like to come and join us?

14/01/2025

Another awesome meeting done!

📚 Network Education
Christina Eiserman Inner Peace Life Coaching explained the importance of preparing well for a feature presentation of our business.

🤝 Notable Networker
David from Easy Cool Air
Most Referrals for the month of December

📝 Renewing Members
We had 2 members renew their membership with us for another year.

Paul Davis from Paul Davis Chartered Accountants will be on his 7th year with us.

John McRoberts from Auto Blue will be joining us again, making it his 14th year with us.

Wow!!!!!

🏆 BerNIe Winner
(Best Weekly Presentation)
Judge for the week was Amanda from Memories Cafe Yorkeys K**b.
The winner was Alan from Avice Pest Control

📽️ Feature Presentation
John from Auto Blue

🔔 Lucky Door Prize Winner
Warren from Power On Electrical

Would you like to get to network with local business minded people?

10/01/2025

Just another day supporting each other's business.

Warren Cini from Power On Electrical having a "small" bite to eat with Amanda from Memories Cafe @ Yorkeys K**b.

Why not pop in and grab a bite also?