What’s your category?

By The Catalyst
All BNI members know that they are only allowed to represent one category in their chapter. However, although a clash with another member, or potential member, is one of the most common problems in BNI, it even goes further than that. Many members, even if sticking to their category, try and include everything [...]

BNI East Auckland celebrates ten years

BNI East Auckland (chartered 16th August 2001 and originally named BNI East Tamaki) recently celebrated their 10th Anniversary at the Pakuranga Country Club, where they have met for the majority of their 10 years.
BNI South / East Auckland directors Paul and Rosemary Meyer presented four members with their 10 year member pins, certificates and plaques.
Rosemary [...]

On photographers, friendly dogs and grapefruit

Around the time Samantha Key (a member of BNI Pontefract in England) was planning a parachute jump to raise funds for Dogs for the Disabled in the UK, she read about Mobility Dogs here in New Zealand on the BNI Blog – and it wasn’t long before she was winging her way to our shores.
“My [...]

Pukekohe’s Harry Janssen is Auckland Photographer of the Year!

Pukekohe based Commercial Photographer and Graphic Designer, Harry Janssen of Redzebra Studio, was named NZIPP Auckland Photographer of the Year at the September meeting last week.
Janssen was the winner of 9 awards at this year’s prestigious Epson / NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards and a finalist in the Landscape Category.
NZIPP’s Honours Chair Kaye Davis said [...]

Beyond referrals, raps and recaps: 10 ways BNI members can grow business through cooperation

According to research just released on Science Daily, ‘the brain was built for cooperative activity, whether it be dancing on a reality television show, constructing a skyscraper or working in an office, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins behavioral neuroscientist Eric Fortune and published in the November 4 issue of the journal Science.
‘”What [...]