This post is about one of my 45-second pitches at my BNI Chapter, BNI City Business. You can read the introduction to this collection here.

If you are unable to make a BNI chapter meeting, you should try and send a substitute to make your pitch in your place. If that isn’t possible, you are absent and your pitch slot and slide whizzes by without explanation (or pitch). At City Business, we do not allow other members to make the pitch for absent members. You need a sub in the room.

I couldn’t make a chapter meeting, and my substitute was our chapter’s Regional Director, Richard Foulkes. I think I just left the Pussycat Porn slide in the deck, and gave Richard a brief pitch script to make for me.

Richard didn’t keep to the script. Instead he asked Hands up if you think Daryl is a business broker. This is nearly six months after I stopped being a broker. Apparently around ten hands went up (out of around 50 in the room).

So I created the slide above for use when I was not at a meeting.

In my head, this reads like the Fremulon ‘Not a Doctor’ at the end of shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine. There isn’t any real link, and I am sure this isn’t how it plays in the heads of most of the members in the room.

I have used this slide maybe five times. The message appears to have been quite successful – very few people in the room think I am a broker any longer. Thanks Richard!