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BNI (Business Network International) of the Ozarks purpose is to help businesses, large and small, grow their business and make more money. We sell hope through a proven system!

BNI is not only the world's largest business networking and referral organization, but its culture, which is built upon the philosophy of Givers Gain^®, is unique. This is a culture of caring about giving business, professional development and building consistent, proactive and reciprocal business relationships. BNI helps members develop a structured, positive, and professional referral marketing program which provides them opportunities to:

• Gain new business.
• Receive business education.
• Improve business networking skills with positive business people.
• Speak about business before an audience of positive, like-minded business people.
• Develop business relationships and create a group of trusted advisors.
• Network and communicate with more than 279,000 members in more than 74 countries.

BNI of the Ozarks region is actively building business referral and networking groups. Click here for information about our chapters.

More Information. The best way to find out about BNI is to visit a chapter.

First Time Visitors

The best way to find out about BNI is to visit a chapter. Click here to find out more about how to visit. You may also complete the form on this page.

Attend a meeting and see why BNI is the world's largest business networking and referral organization.

Givers Gain

Click here to watch a brief video about how Business Network International (BNI) and Givers Gain^® work.

BNI Works

Worldwide the members of BNI passed over 12.2 million referrals which resulted in more than $16.7 billion in business.

The purpose of networking is not to sell something. It is to build relationships. We shouldn’t confuse direct sales with the time and effort it takes to educate referral partners.

The objective of meeting here every week, and especially during one-to-ones in between meetings, is to form trusting relationships with other people so they feel enthusiastic about referring you. Remember that the vast majority of income generated by our chapter does not come from doing business with each other.

It comes through doing business with people we refer to each other.

So how does it work? Think of the letters VCP.

V stands for visibility. People have to know your name and what you do. That is being visible. And that is where you are when you first join a BNI chapter.

Then comes C, for credibility. Credibility is formed when people feel that you are a good person, they like you, they feel you are good at what you do, and, most important, they feel you have the ability to make their referrals really happy with your product or service. Credibility is the time consuming stage. It takes active participation in the weekly meetings and lots of one-to-ones. How much time? At the MSP training I went to when I started BNI the trainer threw out the number 9 months before this starts to happen. I asked why. He said he didn’t know, it just seems to happen like that.

Bni Purpose And Overview Statements

The last letter is P, for profitability. You have established your visibility. People know who you are and what you do. You have established credibility. They know you are good at what you do. Now they start to refer you to their friends and business contacts. That results in new business for you and, of course, more profit. The funny thing here is that profit is kind of a by-product of the first two stages. If visibility and credibility are well established, the referrals will just start to come.

Bni Meeting Purpose And Overview

So now it becomes pretty clear the difference between selling and networking. Selling is effort to make a sale. Networking is effort in forming relationships with the assumption that referrals will follow. It is important to understand this difference, especially for new members who may want to see immediate results to their bottom line. Profitability will come, but it takes time and effort to create the relationships that will make that happen.