April 1 is the start of the BNI year, which means a new Executive Leadership Team has taken over the duties of managing the chapter and charting a course for business growth. The emphasis will be on increasing the membership, and strenghtening the relationships between team members so that we can all benefit from referrals.

Left to right we have:

Wendy Beatty, Vice-President

Saverio Di Mondo, President

Patricia Ramoutar-Ramsawak, Secretary-Treasurer

The new Executive Leadership can count on all of our support in the coming year.

BNI Leading Edge outgoing Vice-President Mitch Paquette and her husband Jilles met with Dr. Ivan Misner - founder of BNI - at a Send Out Cards event recently. The conversation focused how on to gorw their business through referrals in general, and how busineses can help each other grow their respective businesses by building trust.

As this was the last meeting of the BNI year (April 1 - March 31), we want to thank the outgoing Executive Leadership for their hard work and dedication to the chapter's success over the past 12 months. Under their leadership, both the number of referrals and the volume of business have increased substantially.

In the picture from left to right, we have:

Balbir Pabila, Secretary-Treasurer

John Mullen, President

Mitch Paquette, Vice-President

As we are looking to build our businesses through referrals, networking plays a vital role in establishing and maintaining relationships.

Dr. Ivan Misner explains the three phases of networking in his blog - Visibility, Credibility, Profitability - and how we all must go through those phases to build successful relationships to generate referrals.

Visibility is the first phase, and entails you becoming more visible to and present in the minds of your referral partners, and vice versa.

Credibility is the phase where others see you as trustworthy, reliable and they feel they can refer you to others.

Profitability is the last phase where the relationships with your referral partners has matured and becomes mutually profitable.

To find out more details, please read Dr. Misner's blog The Three Phases of Networking.

Come and promote your business to our members and guests on March 1st - we expect over 30 dedicated business people to attend.

Benefits to you:

• Meet new potential customers/clients
• Meet new potential referral partners
• Promote your business to our members and our network of contacts
• Make new potentially lucrative business connections
• Find out how you can grow your business through referrals
• Hot breakfast included
• Low cost to attend

If you are a serious business owner in Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville or Etobicoke, and you want to find out how you can grow YOUR business through referrals, networking and word-of-mouth advertising, then come and join us for Visitor Day at BNI Leading Edge.

Date: Thursday March 1st

Time: 7 AM sharp but arrive a bit earlier to network. The meeting will end no later than 8:30 AM

Where: Denny's, 40 Courtneypark Dr. E in Mississauga (corner of Hurontario & Courtneypark Dr.)

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