February 2008
Art of Networking
BNI's 2nd Annual International Networking Week™ Video Released in January 2008
UPLAND, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—International Networking Week™, designed to raise the profile of networking and celebrate the key role that it plays in the success of businesses worldwide, is approaching quickly. Being the 2nd Annual International Networking Week, many people may have questions about what exactly this week of events is and why it has come into existence.
A video has now been released in which BNI's Founder & Chairman, Dr. Ivan Misner, gives a message highlighting the importance of International Networking Week™ and emphasizing the reasons for its development. The information contained within Misner's message not only answers a bounty of questions surrounding International Networking Week™, it also provides very useful background and advice about the practice of business networking in general.
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Networking Key to Growing a New Business
Janine Schroeder worked in the legal field for both law firms and corporations for more than 15 years. When she was offered a buyout by Ford Motor Co. last year, she jumped at the chance. It was a way to help fund a startup business she had already been thinking about.
"I just didn't know how to find customers," Schroeder said.
With the help of business networking resources, she learned. As founder and president of Equilibria L.L.C., a Mt. Clemens-based research and information services firm, Schroeder has built her business largely on referrals through a number of groups such as BNI.
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BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation Joins Forces with Red Cross to Help Fire Victims
The BNI-Misner Foundation, a non-profit program created by BNI (the world's largest professional business networking organization) in 1998 to support charitable causes, has made the first of many upcoming contributions to the Red Cross. These donations will go toward California wildfire relief efforts.
During the BNI International Directors' Conference in November of 2007, Dr. Ivan Misner, Founder and Chairman of BNI, presented a check for $15,000 to the San Diego Red Cross on behalf of the BNI-Misner Foundation. The Foundation's wildfire fund is set to make several more donations to the Red Cross for various other areas of California that were hit hard by the devastating fires of last fall.
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Business Networks Gain from Givers
On a recent Thursday morning, 16 people gathered for breakfast at Minerva's in Rapid City. They drank coffee, chatted and traded tips on possible business prospects.
They represented a variety of ages and occupations—including an attorney, an optometrist, a hair salon owner, a financial planner, a decorator, a print shop operator, a car salesman, a dentist, an insurance agent and a chiropractor.
But this group was more than an ordinary coffee klatch. It's the weekly meeting of the Black Hills chapter of Business Network International.
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International Networking Week™ Video Released in January 2008
International Networking Week™, designed to raise the profile of networking and celebrate the key role that it plays in the success of businesses worldwide, is approaching quickly. Since it's only the second annual International Networking Week™, many people may have questions about this week of events and why it has come into existence.
A new video is now available online to explain everything about this celebratory networking week.
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Have you listened to BNI's weekly internet recording, also known as the BNI Podcast?