BNI in the News


New TV Series Launches
Dr. Ivan Misner joins Skype, Google, iStockphoto, and other leading brands for new TV series.

Following the successful release of two online TV shows in 2006, Dr. Ivan Misner has now announced a full series of networking themed TV shows over the next 12 months. The shows will appear monthly on the new online TV channel, yourBusinessChannel, and will provide business people and entrepreneurs with his latest networking and word of mouth tips, fast—in a TV format.

Dr. Misner joins other global experts on the channel including Skype, Google, iStockphoto, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and MRINetwork. Shows are available for free and can be downloaded at any time. A release date for the initial show will be announced within the next couple of weeks at yourBusinessChannel. Registration for the channel is free and ensures you will be notified when Dr. Misner's shows are available.

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Ivan Misner on "Life, Business, & Money with Steven Kay"

On April 2, 2007, Dr. Misner was the featured speaker in the High Achiever's Network lecture series at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Houston, Texas. Earlier in the day, Dr. Misner was featured in several radio interviews on Houston Business Radio, including one hosted by BNI Houston West Region Assistant Director, Steven Kay.

Go here to listen to Steven Kay's intervew with Dr. Misner.


BNI on KNX Radio

Ivan Misner participated in a live radio interview on KNX in Pasadena at the Small Business Success Conference in May. Dr. Misner also spoke to members from several Pasadena area chapters and then attended the conference.



Networking for Success

BNI of North Alabama was recently featured in The Huntsville Times. The article listed Meaghan L. Williams as executive director, included BNI's company history, and profiled the Givers Gain philosophy.

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Networking Group Emphasizes Action Over Talk

Businesses trying to get word of their services to other businesses that could use them often use networking opportunities whenever they can.

All too often, however, these opportunities—which are many times at dinners or other social functions—tend to be heavy on small talk and chit-chat and light on actual networking.

But members of two BNI groups in Tyler say they have found a model that keeps the business aimed at generating new business through a social but agenda-driven function.

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Small Firms Are Looking to Networking Groups

Small and medium-sized enterprises often find it hard to make a name for themselves and to secure new and bigger clients. Business-networking organizations, therefore, aim to help companies win new contracts and boost sales.

"It is all based on reciprocal terms. I help you, then you help me," says Grzegorz Turniak, president of BNI Polska, the Polish subsidiary of American firm BNI, the world's largest business-networking organization.

BNI Polska started operating last April and has already established nine regional groups. There are five groups in Warsaw, while Bydgoszcz and Kraków both have one group each. Two other groups will start in May.