A business marketing program that allows one person from each professional classification or specialty to join a chapter. The sole purpose of the chapter is to increase business through a structured system of giving referrals.

Chapters meet at various locations and times around the area. Visit the Local Chapter Listings page to locate the local chapter's meeting information.

Every week, so that members maintain contact and exchange regular referrals. Take a look at the different times the chapters meet on our Chapters Page.

Because “what goes around comes around”! People who give business referrals GET business referrals! Visit and see BNI in Action.

Increased exposure to many other people and businesses.
o Substantially increased referrals.
o Tools to network more effectively, including an orientation cassette tape giving the “Formula for Success” in BNI, a badge, a vinyl card holder to carry members’ business cards, referral slips, marketing materials for your chapter and much, much more.
o Participation in up to 52 networking meetings per year.
o Quarterly newsletters with educational material on networking, public speaking, and business.
o Participation in business tradeshows (where you’ll have an opportunity to market your chapter and your business).
o Free periodic workshops on networking.
o And much, much more!!!

o By allowing members the opprotunity to present and promote their business to all members in a group exclusively without competing professionals. Each profession has only one representative per chapter.
o By an increased awareness of your profession from other networking members who will use or recommend your services once they know and trust you.
o By substantially increasing referrals.
o By exposing your service and knowledge to business and success oriented people throughout the community.
o By gaining knowledge from information on other networking member’s professions.
o By using a professionally designed forum to promote yourself and your business efficiently, effectively and economically.
o By routinely meeting with other focused, motivated business professionals.

Each chapter takes one person per professional specialty. So if you are a residential real estate person 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 commercial real estate person, you could be eligible to join this chapter.

The application asks for references and we have a membership committee that checks them. It’s word of mouth, 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.

We have an ethics committee and it is imperative that anyone who gives a referral and finds out it was not satisfactorily handled must report that to the membership committee, who will investigate.

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 superceded 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.

BNI understands that many professions are broad and that people often specialize within their profession. BNI does not expect, nor does it encourage, any professional to participate in an area in which the professional does not have expertise. On the contrary, BNI prohibits professionals from acting outside of the scope of their abilities.

BNI’s primary objective is to assist its members in ways to improve their business and to educate them concerning how they can effectively network. Business people get business when their expertise is known and others reach a comfort level with them. BNI provides a forum that allows members to meet other business peers who need to know effective and efficient business people.