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Author: Dr. Ivan Misner

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The Official BNI Podcast is a weekly discussion with Dr. Ivan Misner, the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. Dr. Misner shares tips on referral marketing, networking, and getting the most out of BNI.
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Tom Etherington explains how to work with the other members of your chapter to develop a strategic visitor invite campaign using LinkedIn.
Define yourself, clarify your role, build trust, connect specialists, and reap the benefits of Givers Gain®.
Building a Diamond Chapter with 100+ BNI members requires strategy, accountability, motivation, and measurable goals.
If you're asked to take a leadership role in your BNI chapter, look at it as an opportunity, not an obligation.
Learn how to apply BNI's Core Values to help yourself move through John Maxwell's Five Levels of Leadership.
If you want to meet a Big Name in your industry, find someone who knows and trusts you both and ask for an introduction.
When you join BNI, you get much more than referrals. Beneath the surface are structure, commitment, education, coaching, and mentoring.
The amount of time that someone stays in a BNI chapter and the size of the chapter make a huge difference in the return on investment.
Kamryn Reynolds explains that the way to get more referrals is to share why you do what you do in a way that makes your listeners feel good.
Holidays are a great time to network, so teach your BNI chapter how to identify referral opportunities at events.
Master Passion, People, and Process to become a leader in your industry and create an enterprise that makes a difference in people's lives.
Using props in your BNI presentations helps you demonstrate the value of your services in a specific and memorable way.
Dr. Misner shares lessons from BNI's past 40 years so your business can experience decades of sustained growth.
Great networkers nurture strategic power teams, are always referable, read the room, tell sticky stories, & show up.
The ability to connect, contribute and cultivate opportunity is what transforms ordinary professionals into networking legends.
Perception is reality. Don't get complacent about your BNI meetings. Show up as a professional so people know you'll show up for clients.
Dealing with imposter syndrome requires a combination of mindset shifts, practical strategies, and ongoing self-awareness.
Would you invite a competitor to visit your BNI chapter? Jessica Korff did, and explains why you should, too.
In the third and final episode in this series, Dr. Misner answers three questions about the future of BNI in the next 40 years.
Part 2 of this series answers questions about the evolution of BNI and shares lessons learned over the past 40 years.
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SJ Chapman

How can we get Dr Meisner to visit our chapter? Chapman@bc-lawyers.com

Sep 13th
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Victor Traylor

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Jul 18th
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msmanacsa

just because you are afraid doesn't mean you are in danger.

Feb 6th
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msmanacsa

Change the mindset of "I can't" to "I don't know how". One mentality promotes giving up and staying stagnant. while the other promotes the desire to learn, improve, and move forward.

Jan 13th
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Aug 16th
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Natchi Agenter

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Oct 22nd
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Kyna Rosen

This was amazing Ivan! I'm sharing this!

May 7th
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Tony Wasicki

Question..... what if you’re a personal trainer and you coach people in a gym all day? My professional attire is gym attire. Definitely not a polo or slacks or anything like that. My uniform is the fact that I’m fit and show up to meetings looking like I’m about to train someone.

Nov 12th
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Keith Besherse

Yes. And, collecting cards to only enter the person into your email drip campaign (i.e not not a personalized message) is not networking; it is a sales funnel. Networking is about connecting.

Sep 26th
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Willian Araújo

Tem podcast em português?

Jul 6th
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Keith Besherse

BNI is “how” to network. Without the BNI model to use at Chamber of Commerce and Rotary, I would burn so many bridges without even knowing why.

Jun 27th
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Keith Besherse

In my (not so humble) opinion, the disconnect between Priscilla’s observation and Dr. Misner’s observation is; Ivan is having a discussion on the BNI podcast about BNI. Priscilla is hosting the BNI podcast from the perspective of a small business owner who happens to be a member of BNI.

Jun 27th
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Cerissa McKinnis

I will be doing this this week! thanks for sharing!

Jun 10th
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Kiki Stensgaard

what's working for me? Self improvment and support group.

Mar 23rd
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Belinda Gannon

Just wanted to leave some feedback about this podcast episode as it was really hard to understand Tiffanie. I just couldn't understand what she was saying because it was so muffled. could you try to improve the quality of the line in future so it's not muffled. thanks!

Feb 27th
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Franz Constancio

The whole time I am listening to this I was thinking that you got this idea from Star Trek and Captain Kirk reprogramming the computer.

Nov 27th
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Clarissa Constantine

I, too, talked too much! And my mother always said that I care too much. She absolutely hated it when I heard that a friend needed assistance, and I would volunteer myself, or - even worse - volunteered her, to help! Today, I coach students on standardized exams, like the SAT and ACT for college admissions, and I recently launched an organization called The ParenTween Connection. The purpose of the organization is to create community and bring education to parents of teens and tweens, with the ultimate goal of supporting teens and tweens more and reducing the number who are inclined to take their own lives. We lose FAR TOO MANY kids to suicide! So I guess what was in the way, my talking and caring, really has become the way for me. I'm connecting people with a goal of saving lives. I can live with that. :-)

Jun 27th
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Daleen Pretorius

Daleen Pretorius South Africa: I learned in hockey to play the game until the last second, regardless of it being tough or a run away winning game. Applying this to BNI and business would mean that we are present during meetings, we truly contribute, we execute the basics and we play by the rules!

Apr 13th
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