Brief explanation about what BNI is and how it works:
We agree that all business begins with relationships between people, and in order to get new relationships it's necessary that we are always meeting new people. This process is called Networking.
When you go to a church and over there you meet new people you are doing networking, when you go to a club you are doing networking, when you attend a congress you are doing networking, there are even institutions called Networking Clubs that have the only purpose to create an environment to people do networking.
BNI is a more than 30 years-old company focused in create techniques to optmize and encourage the networking process. The format of the meetings, the courses, procedures and internal rules works to enrich the relationships that brings new businesses.
BNI is the World's greatest and wealthier professional networking organization.
One of the rules to a company keeps in BNI is that the members must keep excelence and ethics in it's services. A non-compliant company is banned. Because of this the BNI Member seal is also a quality seal. In order to stay a BNI member the company must keep commited with it's customers always acting inside the principles of the ethics.
BNI is a closed institution, to join us the interested one must apply to be a candidate or be invited by a member, and then pass in a interview process, after passed in all steps the interested one finally can be a member of one the BNI teams. Even a member can be banned by the team if this team notice this member do not follow the BNI principles.
BNI goal is to generate professional relationships in order to get new businesses. The processes are well formed and the rules assures the growing of all the team. Some examples of BNI rules:
- It's not allowed competition inside a BNI team. There is only one company of each industry.
- It's not allowed payment of benefits for referrals. The Givers Gain philosophy is the baseline of BNI.