The BNI Experience at Kingswood

Being active in BNI is like having up to 40 sales people working for you, because your fellow members will be carrying your cards and referring your business to people they meet, without you having to pay them any salaries or commission. Successful businesses depend on 'word-of-mouth' marketing as the best form of promotion there is.

BNI provides a structured, supportive, business environment in which local business people can get together to network, learn valuable new marketing skills and develop the strong personal relationships that lead to trust and the consequent generation of significant business for each other.

The Most Important 'Meal' of the Day

'It's not net-sit or net-eat it's net-work' - Ivan Misner PhD, Founder and CEO of BNI

The essence of BNI is that although the meeting takes place at breakfast the sole reason for coming is to net-work! Efficiency and timings are maintained because every BNI meeting follows a structured 20 point agenda.

If you attend a BNI meeting in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the United States or anywhere else, you will find all meetings follow exactly the same format, using exactly the same agenda.

They are focussed on generating business for the participants and there are no secondary agendas. To see The Meeting Agenda, Click Here.

The 60 Second Speech

At the heart of the BNI meeting is the "60 Second Speech" slot. This is each member's opportunity to tell everyone at the meeting all about their business, the kind of leads they are looking for, and anything at all that will help the other members generate business for them.

60 seconds may seem to be the briefest of speeches, but BNI have developed a system to harness the power of this format, and regularly organise free training workshops to allow the members to develop their presentations, introducing techniques such as the memory hook, and effective ways to ensure that the message is remembered.

This system has immense practical benefits outside BNI, where in in real-life networking situations, the BNI member is trained to be able to give an instant and concise account of what they do.

Real Life Success Stories

......"The Royal Bank of Scotland has supported BNI over the past 3 years and found it to be a lucrative source of new referral business for us"
Jason Oakley - Royal Bank of Scotland

....."In 6 years, we have received £1,600,000 of business as a result of BNI membership. The great thing about BNI is that your chapter members become your unpaid sales force"
Sobell Rhodes - Chartered Accountants

....."Between October 1999 and October 2003 we have received over EUR346,000 in fee income from BNI referrals"
Colin Whelan - Guardian Management Accounting

....."In my 2 years as a member of BNI, I've learnt new skills, taken my startup business from 6 to 56 clients and doubled my turnover - I couldn't have done this without BNI"
Dave Ogden - Jameson Lomax IT Support

These are some of the comments that BNI members have been making in BNI groups all over the United Kingdom and Ireland in the last 2 years!

You can read about these and many more success stories by clicking on SuccessNet, our quarterly BNI news magazine, which is full of information about BNI Chapters, stories of members successes, and tips on networking and growing your business. SuccessNet is provided free of charge to all BNI members.