BNI in the News

Press Releases Work!

BNI HQ would like to take a moment to remind all our chapters of the value of press releases. While you may feel press releases come off as sales pitches, you'd be surprised how effective they really are. Your chapter name will be out in the open, published for people who are unaware that you're in their area.

Special events, exciting announcements, and general success are all good reasons to create a press release. Promoting your upcoming events with a press release is a simple and effective way to increase the visibility of your BNI chapter.

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Early Birds Get the Business

A Conference in Cork (Ireland) heard executives opting for 40 extra winks in the morning are losing out on sales orders worth thousands of euro to colleagues who get up early for breakfast briefings.

BNI, a premier business networking organisation, recently hosted a 7am breakfast event in the city where 10 chapters of the organisation joined forces to swap ideas on how to grow more sales.

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Submitted by Sandra Hart, BNI Executive Director - Ireland South & West



Helping Others Grow Business

Local BNI group begins process of referring business to members

On a 70 degree day last week, local businessmen and women—residential and commercial realtors, financial and insurance advisers, a mortgage broker, carpet salesmen, a painter, home security consultants and a chiropractor—all met at Clyde's in Broadlands. They took time off from work to have lunch together. But it wasn't a party; it was a meeting to help each other out in business.

They met under the guise of Willow Creek Connection BNI, a group in the process of becoming a chapter of Business International Networking, a referral organization that brings business people together on a weekly basis to act as each others' sales team.

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An Interview with Dr Ivan Misner, Founder, BNI

Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder and Chairman of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. Started with just one group in 1985, BNI has grown today to 4,975 groups in 37 countries around the world. Called the "Father of Modern Networking" by CNN, Dr. Ivan Misner is a New York Times bestselling author and Senior Partner for the Referral Institute. In addition, he publishes the blog Networking Now.

1. How do you define "business networking?"

I define business networking as the process of connecting people to share ideas, resources, information, and referrals.

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