Doing good is good for business

The vast majority of the more than 2170 SME members throughout New Zealand who participated in the BNI Givers Gain Study — into how socially responsible SME’s are – agree that “doing good, is good for business”.
A definitive finding was that SMEs like doing good, so long as it is within their close sphere of [...]

BNI New Zealand raises $440,000 for Hospice.

The latest edition of the Hospice NZ magazine – The Review – is now available online and it is very gratifying to be able to quote what it says with regard to BNI under their National Partners section:
BNI has been supporting hospice since 2005, officially becoming a national partner in 2007. Over those six years [...]

One of our own, now also published in Switzerland

If you’re looking for practical advice and step-by-step guidance on how to get the most out of your BNI membership, look no further.
BNI member Tony Allwood’s new book, ‘Beyond the Comfort Zone’, has not only been endorsed by Ivan Misner, but was recently also translated into German by BNI Switzerland.
‘Beyond the Comfort Zone’ is a [...]

Bee’s and Things….

I have written on this blog before about our honey bees.  This weekend we went to see ‘Queen of the Sun’ – a movie about the global bee crisis.  That being the case – it was interesting and worrying to receive the following link from Kerry McCurdy the person who looks after our bee’s for [...]

BNI Christchurch – update

Firstly as of tomorrow, all chapters in Christchurch will be put into a Fee Suspended state for the following 3 months. This means that your membership is in effect frozen as it is, and will not age for the next 3 months. This will give members and chapters alike time to reassess where to from [...]