Comments on: Episode 62: “Givers Gain, Chapter 11—20/20 Vision”

By: BILL SHEATHER

BILL SHEATHER — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:43:52 +0000

Belonging to BNI bizunlimited her in Shellharbour,I am the education participant and enjoy what I can give my fellow members in education about BNI.Now down to word of mouth marketing,have a FITCH fitted to your engine and help sustain OUR fuel reserves.

By: Heather Leavitt

Heather Leavitt — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:12:54 +0000

I started my business 5 years ago before ever hearing about BNI. It started with the mother publishing company, Shared Vision Publishing. With similar ideas you discuss in this podcast, I have had the opportunity to grow my community through the magazine I publish by sharing a vision with all that meet: artists, writers, advertisers, readers, supporters, etc. Now we have an amazing support for the arts community and growing.

Keep up the great work and keep make the difference in the world by connecting with one another!

By: Shelli Rice

Shelli Rice — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:01:46 +0000

I am convinced by your pod casts to go globally. My product can be adapted to International growth.
Perhaps you can assist me and bring this to the attention of the BNI world office.
Please advise how is the best way to get an email response(thru the BNI.com site has not brought a response)from the chapter Directors in Madrid, Barcelona, Hungary and Italy. I am developing plans for a visit and would like to know their meeting details and start communication with them.
I have noticed that the Italy site does not have an English link. Does this mean that these chapters are unable to converse in English?
Thank you for any assistance that you can offer in my search for reaping the most from my BNI membership.
Shelli Rice, Rosh Pina, Israel

By: Narendra Damani

Narendra Damani — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:18:37 +0000

Hi Ivan,
The two decades of successful BNI is something which is remarkable.People do take networking easy but its not.BNI process has made it simple. The big businesses are dependent on small businesses. The most innovations happens in this small businesess.In fact an organisation like BNI has created a wonderful platform innovative small businesses which need constant support in all manner.I think BNI is something which has created a plethora of opportunities.These opportunites for small companies and business for which word of mouth does all the work which normally is not possible by any other means. The innovation needs human touch and BNI provides that human touch through its structured program. The Giver’s Gain has really created waves in the BNI community in well defined manner.

By: Urik Sandberg

Urik Sandberg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:16:35 +0000

Hi Ivan

We met to years ago 2006, at the BNI conference in Gothenburg Sweden. At that time BNI and Givers Gain was new for me. During the conference I was introduced to a member from BNI Spar Hotel Göteborg. He became one of my first customers in my company. Since than I have become a member of BNI Draken in Göteborg. Givers Gain has given me many of the customer I have today, it work’s
Regards Ulrik Sandberg BNI Draken Sweden

By: matthew yoong

matthew yoong — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:03:35 +0000

Hi Ivan,
Although i’m new in BNI Mellinnium Chapter, Malaysia & i have been following BNI Podcast diligently apart from viewing the old ones as well. The BNI networking is fantastic and the effort to enhance your referrals must be there for the expected results but at times it can be disappointing even if you spend the time. However i think there is no short-cut to the networking process but at times you can be very blessed with referrals that need little effort for results. The Givers Gain is definitely a very good policy & the deeper you dig into your own personal network the better referrals you can give. So it comes back to time & effort again.
Perhaps i like to make a comment that the 1-minute + 10 minutes presentation is satisfactory within the chapter but the 20/30 seconds for Visitors may not be useful except for a brief introduction. So one way around this inorder to improve the situation is to relax the limitation of visits to other chapters and/or to allow temporary transfers for a 3 or 6 month basis? Also there can be a systematic BNI program of voluntary exchange of members at weekly meetings as well as inter-chapter activities? Probably this comment is more directed to members who represent products & services which are not duplicated in the other chapters. But of course Ethical behaviour must always be the order of the day.
Regards, Matthew Yoong

By: K.C. Padget

K.C. Padget — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:01:35 +0000

Great podcast! I learn so much from these and thank you for all you do!!