BNI in the News


BNI—Old School Tip, New School Results
Metro Brokers' Brian Macmillan uses a BNI referral group to generate extra real estate business.

Brian Macmillan from Metro Brokers is a great young example of a proactive busines generation lifestyle. Are you still waiting around at home for someone to call you about buying or selling a house? You've all heard about "joining a leads group." This story will get a couple things straight.

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Network Like a Professional
Go beyond exchanging business cards to building relationships.

Today's Financial Women prominently featured Dr. Ivan Misner and BNI Executive Director Hazel Walker in this article concerning some of the most valuable fundamentals of business networking.

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Beat the Recession: Refuse to Participate!

Are you sick of the "R" word? Do you skim over recession-laced articles online? Is your industry set for a downturn during the recession? Today I found a really amazing response to the thought of an oncoming recession from Ivan Misner, founder of BNI, a business networking company. In fact the idea is so simple you might even be dismissive of it. But I challenge you to take this advice to heart. Just refuse to participate in the recession. Phew, easy enough to say anyway.

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Chance to Nominate Top Young Employee

Montrose firm offers £1,000 award

An Angus business group is offering a £1,000 award for the county's top young employee.

The Nexus (Angus) branch of Business Network International, based at Montrose, is looking for young people aged between 16 and 25 for its Young Employee of the Year award which will be open to all businesses in the area.

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Face-to-Face Networking is Vital

Even in an age of e-mails and the Internet, it seems that there may still be a place for the traditional business network, with entrepreneurs meeting weekly to swap contacts and help one another to grow their companies.

Business leaders in Dundee think that networking can still pay dividends and are today officially launching a new lunchtime meeting.

The Verdant Chapter of Business Network International (BNI) is the first Scottish group to meet at lunchtime, instead of the organisation's traditional 7 a.m. gathering time.

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Tweede Chapter Launches

"De Ondernemer," a Wegener-owned regional business newspaper, recently featured an article about the launch of the second BNI chapter in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

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Business Networking the BNI Way:
We have breakfast and exchange cards!

BNI Montreal collaborated in a feature article on networking which definitely placed BNI in the forefront of networking and improved our visibility. The article was published on April 26, 2008, in the French-language newspaper La Presse, a major daily paper of Montreal with over half a million papers in circulation. It was featured in the special Career & Opportunities section.

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