With over 270,000 businesses around the world, BNI is the world's largest networking organization designed to build relationships and generate sales through mutual referrals.

Our goal is to help you grow your business. BNI is a business-building system predicated on business leaders meeting each week in chapters that help members a) generate qualified client referrals; b) promote on-going professional development; and c) foster lifelong relationships.

We only take one person per professional specialty. So if you are a photographer and we already have one, we can refer you to another chapter, or allow you to open another chapter. Of course, if you are a photographer, you could be eligible to join this chapter.

Our application asks for references and we have a membership committee that checks them. It's referral marketing, so before they even come to a meeting they have to have spoken to someone or been invited by someone in the group. Everyone has to have a sponsor, or one is assigned to them, and they interview them.

A typical BNI chapter will have between fifteen and thirty members though the largest chapters can have eighty or more members!

You're encouraged to bring visitors for those occupations that are open, after the visitor has been prescreened, and if they're a viable candidate. It's pretty much a closed meeting except for potential members.

BNI understands the importance of the ethical concerns governing certain professions and acknowledges that rules can differ by location. As such, BNI therefore requires its members to uphold the rules of its profession so as not to violate the professional’s ethical obligations. In the event that BNI’s general rules could potentially violate a professional’s ethical code, BNI’s rules are superseded by the dictates of the professional’s ethics’ code. Significantly, a primary objective of BNI is to educate its membership in ways to market and grow business. It is BNI’s intent to ensure that this is permitted.

If a member represents the chapter poorly, we have an ethics committee that reviews any complaint. It is imperative that anyone who gives a lead and finds out it was not satisfactorily handled must report that to the membership committee.

To see investment to join, please click on About Us link at the top of the page.