Business Network International (BNI) is an American franchised networking organization with around 233,000 members in 8,399 local chapters worldwide. Members meet weekly to discuss business and support each other's businesses by sharing referrals. It claims to be the world's leading 'referral organization'. In 2015, the organization says its members generated referrals resulting in over $9.3 billion in closed business worldwide.
In 2016, this figure increased to $11.2 billion business passed between members and their referrals (worldwide) and in 2017, $13.8 billion was tracked between January and November. BNI was founded in 1985 by Ivan Misner.
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Local BNI chapters arrange weekly meetings for people from various industries and encourage the passing of referrals. It appears most effective for locally based, mainstream businesses, operating mostly off the Internet. however majority of the Executive Directors in all regions claim that any business can join as long as they can grow and are scalable.
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