BNI provides a positive, supportive, and structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals.
A BNI Membership provides the right environment, training, and support to build trusted relationships that help grow your business. Weekly local business meetings follow a structured agenda that is proven to maximise results.
BNI is a 40 year old business and professional networking organisation that allows only one person from each trade or profession to join a chapter. BNI has over 340K members worldwide, in 76 countries, from over 300 different types of professions, all of whom have benefitted from increased referral business as a result of BNI.
Belonging to BNI is like having your own marketing team working for you! Because of every single company and entrepreneur out there needs more sales. BNI provides a structured referral marketing strategy to help generate referrals by sharing business connections.
The philosophy of BNI is based on Givers Gain®: By giving business to others, you will get business in return. This is predicted on the age old idea of what goes around, comes around.
Benefits of BNI
There are countless benefits to joining BNI.
- Increase Business Prospects: You'll substantially increase your business through referrals.
- Professional Development: You'll have access to our exclusive training programs and opportunities to sharpen your presentation and business skills.
- Great Networking Opportunities: Your participation in up to 50 networking meetings per year will increase your exposure to many other business professionals in your community.
- Exclusive Member Resources: You'll have access to a range of tools and educational materials on networking, public speaking and business best-practices.
What To Expect
To help you get the most out of your first BNI meeting, here are some things to know before you go:
- Be Prepared: Visit a chapter prepared to talk about your business. Members are interested in getting to know how connections with visitors can be mutually beneficial. Also, don't forget to bring your business cards.
- Meetings: As a visitor, you can attend a chapter meeting twice. Remember to use this time to get know the chapter personality, and its members, not to promote your business. Meetings are high energy and run according to a structured agenda. They last around 90 minutes with time for additional networking before and after each meeting. Arrive around 15 minutes early so you don't miss out on any opportunities for networking, and be sure to sign in as a visitor.
- You're the Expert: Only one person from each professional specialty is allowed to join a chapter of BNI, eliminating the possibility of competition among our members. When you join a chapter, you are the sole representative of your field and can develop relationships with others in the chapter as their go-to person for your services.
- Respect Your Craft: The businesses our members represent are their full-time occupations, ensuring they are able to position themselves as resources and experts in their field.
