M Club put its spreadsheets away
A business dinner club that brings business owners around a table every month. Here is what it moved into Cénacle, and what it reads there today.
- Format
- One business dinner a month
- Membership
- Yearly, one dinner a month
- Members
- More than 50
- Reporting
- By cycle, 15th to 14th
The club
- 01
Dinners by application
Every month, business owners meet over dinner. People join by application, either as yearly members or as guests for a single dinner.
- 02
A sales team
Salespeople call every applicant, sell dinner seats and memberships, and follow up on renewals.
- 03
A founder who steers
Costs, revenue, cash, cost per cover: the club is run cycle by cycle, from the 15th to the 14th.
Before: a workbook and scattered tools
One spreadsheet for everything
Costs, sales and key figures lived in a hand-kept workbook, tab by tab, month after month.
A seating plan rebuilt every dinner
Seating guests meant cross-checking several lists by hand, with no memory of who had already sat together.
What runs in Cénacle today
Qualified applications
A questionnaire routes each applicant and files the answer in the pipeline, with the bracket they declared.
Learn moreThe closers' pipeline
Every lead has a salesperson, scheduled activities and a stage, all the way to the dinner seat sold.
Learn moreMemberships with a dinner quota
Each member has their plan, end date and remaining dinners, carried over from the club's history.
Learn moreAssisted seating plan
Tables balance themselves and avoid seating together people who have already dined together.
Learn moreBusiness plan and club KPIs
The Excel history was imported; Cénacle takes over from there and checks its own numbers against the file.
Learn moreWhat the club reads today
50+
members tracked in Cénacle
~40
dinner seats sold in one cycle, matching the old file to within one seat
250+
leads for less than €6,000 of advertising, about twenty euros a lead
> 1/2
of a recent period's memberships were renewals, seen coming in advance
Rounded figures, published with the club's consent.
Your circle deserves better than a spreadsheet
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