Synopsis

In business, if you really sit down and think about what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it, you tend to be much more successful. Dr Misner came up with 9 different things to think about when preparing to listen to The Official BNI podcast, and Priscilla adds a suggestion.

BNI Members

* Listen in your office and take notes (or print the transcripts and highlight them).

* Listen to the podcasts in your car. Anything you can listen to and learn when you’re in traffic is awesome.

* Download the podcasts from iTunes and listen to them on your mobile device.

* Listen to podcasts when you’re doing the dishes, walking the dog, or exercising.

Education Coordinators

* Education coordinators can provide short summaries of an episode or play a clip from one.

* Hand out a transcript at a meeting and talk about it.

* Assign specific podcasts based on what the group needs and discuss them at the next meeting.

* Use the search function on the BNI Podcast website to find the episodes most relevant to you.

* Assign podcasts to new members or those who are struggling with part of the BNI program.

BNI Directors

* BNI Directors should be assigning podcasts to people who are working on developing networking skills.

Some Podcast Stats as of January 2nd, 2018

There are 538 published episodes, minus 78 rebroadcasts = 460 unique episodes.

Each episode is approximately 10 minutes long. 460 x 10 = 4600 minutes, or 76 hours and 40 minutes of listening time–and that’s a conservative estimate.

Listening to every single episode is a marathon task, but you can sort podcasts by category, tag, or series to find the ones that interest you most.

If you have more ideas about how to listen to the BNI Podcast, let us know in the comments. And thank you for listening!

Brought to you by the Networking for Success Channel on YouTube.

Complete Transcript of Episode 543 –

Priscilla:

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast, brought to you by the Networking for Success Channel on YouTube, which features Dr. Ivan Miser and many other networking experts. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, California. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder and the Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello, Ivan, how are you today?

Ivan:

I am doing fantastic, Priscilla, thank you. We have an interesting topic, I think, today, how to use a BNI Podcast, how to listen to BNI Podcast. I started thinking about it. Sallie Goetch, the person who manages the BNI Podcast website, answered somebody’s question. She started throwing out some stats. I thought this is interesting. I started thinking about ways people could listen and how you could use the podcast as a result of it. I am going to share those stats with you at the end of this podcast.

I came up with a list of eight different things to think about as you listen to the podcast and what you can do with the podcast. Priscilla, we haven’t talked about this much, but if you have something to add to it, I would love to hear that. I think this is a great podcast to kind of – I have found that in business if you really sit down and think about what you are going to do and how you are going to do it, you will be more successful at doing it. This is kind of contemplating how to effectively use this amazing content.

We have hundreds and hundreds of podcasts, Priscilla, that you and I put together over the years. So here is my list. I have eight. Feel free to add any at the end here.

First, personally, if I were listening to the content, I would listen in my office and take notes.