Benefits to members and visitors
The BNI philosophy is around the concept of "
Givers Gain". If I give you business you will be more likely to return the favour.
The best way to describe BNI is that it is like having up to 30 salespeople working for you, Rather than selling to other members our business model is about educating other members about you business so they can introduce you to their customers and contacts.
There are currently 5,866 BNI chapters and in 2010, BNI members gave 6.5 million referrals, leading to business worth €1.95 billion.
In the UK and Ireland alone, there are 666 BNI Chapters that in 2010 gave 696,258 referrals, leading to business worth €273 million
A Summary of the main benefits are outlined below:
- BNI promotes your business to and through a network of people that are currently looking to refer you business.
- More cost effective than other advertising medium
- Time efficient – By scheduling our meetings over breakfast it doesn’t impact our busy work schedules
- Grows business through the power of referrals
- Develops a Network of professionals
- Improves business and communications skills, improves our
ability to deliver a succinct, positive message about our companies. We
are learning the SKILL of word-of-mouth advertising
- Create meaningful relationships that will last a lifetime.
- We work hard to make sure that our chapter is also a good
social network. We organise regular Golf outings and other social
events to help members get to know each other better.
If you would like to find out more please complete the brief form on our
contact page and one of our members will contact you.