Track your referrals for your best year ever in BNI.
By Dr. Ivan Misner

The New Year is a great time to envision what you want your networking efforts to yield over the next 12 months. This generally begins with setting some goals or objectives. However, you can’t really gauge your success at something unless you measure your progress. Hence, you achieve what you measure.
I have collected hard data on this topic that I would like to share with [...]
It takes commitment to developing relationships all year long.
Submitted by Susan M. Goodsell, Executive Director –BNI Riverside & San Bernardino Counties, CA

Most often in business we are acquainted with associates, co-workers, and customers on a purely professional level. We know their views about the job and product, their approach to problem-solving, their temperaments, and a bit about their personalities.
This is all good. But think a moment: With whom do we do business? With people we know, like, and trust. The way to develop trust is through [...]
And that’s what it takes to succeed in the New Year!
By Dawn Converse, Director -- BNI Maryland, Baltimore County & City

Sometimes it takes an offhanded remark by someone to make us realize what we actually have in our hands.
In a recent 1-to-1, a former BNI member asked if the business I am helping my son to expand has any real potential for profitability. Surprised by the question, my first thought was that I would not be devoting so much of my time and effort to [...]