BNI
Apr 14, 2009 in marketing, networking
One of the things we decided to do last year was to get involved in a networking group. A consultant we know up in Cape Cod was a BNI member and he seemed to be getting a lot of business out of it….. so mid-year last year we decided to join the one here in Hillsborough.
Now I find myself the Vice President for the next few months, which seems to be a lot more work than was originally expected!
Times are hard in some places (though we are pretty busy still) and many small businesses really should be looking for ways to extend their virtual sales force through good networking. I can heartily recommend BNI as a way of doing this. I’ve gotten numerous referrals since I joined. Not all of them work out, but a pretty good percentage do because they are ‘qualified’ referrals…. you aren’t cold calling!
So checkout BNI in your area and go be a visitor (you can go to two meetings as a visitor with no commitment).
See our group’s website (yes Blue Larch built it) here at http://www.clientsplusbni.com