Well, no, not exactly…
However BNI has a lot of similarity to a team sport.
Confused?
Well look at it this way, your BNI meeting is your team ‘training’, that Wednesday night you used to work away with your rugby or netball team to be better for Saturday. You learn about your team members, see how you all [...]
The BNI Britomart Chapter (ex BNI City Fringe) has experienced remarkable growth in the past 6 months, and energetic President Robert Bruce is now receiving invitations to speak to other chapters to help them grow too!
Roberts’ group was sitting at 11 members, and was not a fully-fledged group, when the new leadership team decided to [...]
You joined BNI to get more referrals, to grow your business. That is the purpose and being of BNI.
Unfortunately, a number of BNI members and even chapters get lazy, get familiar, lose focus… it becomes acceptable to stand up week in and week out and say ‘I don’t have any referrals’.
It was a refreshing moment [...]
A question plaguing anybody who has to do any marketing – not just referral networking at BNI – is “how do I get through to my target market, and how do I get action?”
I was speaking to a friend recently who said he had placed an advertisement in the newspaper and it had returned absolutely [...]
It a social context it’s generally considered rude to talk too much about yourself.
In fact, people who spend more time listening or ‘drawing out the other person’ are considered good conversationalists – so why do we lose the plot when it comes doing this in business?
For example, when you stand up to deliver your [...]
