Happy 2019!

If you made the resolution to get more business this year, ask yourself:

Would getting more business referrals help your business this year?

If you answer yes, then consider visiting us over breakfast. We are business owners in Mississauga and Brampton helping one another to grow our respective businesses by exchnaging business referrals.

Generating referrals is the simplest and most cost-effective way to grow your business.

If you're curious to see word-of-mouth marketing in action and it could beneift your business, please join us for breakfast and discover for yourself. We meet every Thursday morning, details on how to prepare and what to expect can be found here.

Satinder Dhinsa - the Life, Critical Illness and Disability Insurance member of the BNI LEading Edge chapter - on the right has renewed her membership for the coming year ahead of time. She is seen receiving heartfelt thanks from Dr. Serge Lanoue, Chirporactor, and suubstitute President for the meeting this week.

Satinder has seen the excellent value provided by BNI in terms of referrals to her business from the other chapter members in Mississauga and Brampton, and has decided to renew her membership ahead of the renewal date in order to keep the flow of referrals coming into her business. Feel free to ask her why it works so well for her!

BNI Leading Edge held a special Grow Your Business event that attracted 12 visiotrs in addition to the regular chapter members. Visitors were business men and women who wanted to know how to generate referrals for their businesses in Brampton, and referrals for their businesses in Mississauga. Some even were looking for business referrals for Torotno and the GTA at large.

In the top photo, Education Coordinator John Mullen is explaining how word of mouth marketing can help grow any business - your business - while the audience listened attentively.

Below, we have the top 3 members who generated the most business through referrals for their fellow members in Mississauga and Brampton:

• Indranil Ghosh, real estate broker with RoyalLepage
• Balbir Pabila, beauty consultant with Arbonne
• Saverio DiMondo, indepenedent senior financial advisor with ManuLife

So if you're looking to grow your business through referrals in Mississauga or Brampton, then BNI Leading Edge is your ideal business networking partner to help you achieve your sales goals.

The Notable Networker for October is Ed Medeiros of CertaPro Painters in Brampton, being the most active in engaging with his fellow members and generating referrals for them in Mississauga and Brampton.

Ed is receiving the award from chapter President Saverio DiMondo.

Michael Treiber of One Stop General Contracting Inc. on the left, is receiving the Notable Networker Award from current President Saverio Di Mondo for his perfect attendance record.

Attendance you say? There's an award for that? Attendance to the weekly meetings is crucial in develop ping healthy and profitable relationships with your referral partners since it allows your partners to get to know you better and to build trust over time which leads to business referrals being exchanged. As the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it!

Sit down with Michael and find out why he's successful with his referrals for business in Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville and anywhere in the GTA.