Every summer, BNI Leading Edge holds the BNI Game, a friendly competition within the chapter where teams try to outdo each other in getting referrals and visitors, counting one-to-one meetings between members and thank each other for closed business. But watch out for absences or that will negatively impact your score!

This year the big winner is Team Blue - the team were assigned colour names - with Balbir Pabila, Serge Lanoue, John Mullen and Saverio Di Mondo shown in the photo from left to right. This team exchanged referrals in Mississauga and Brampton mostly, but also referrals in parts of Toronto as well.

Join us in congratulating them!

BNI Leading Edge is welcoming its newest member - Justin Dugal of Secured Life Planning - in the Life Insurance, Critical Disability and Illness category.

Justin brings a wealth of knowledge from the insurance industry which fellow chapter members can tap into to provide him with referrals.

Justin is picture here on the right being inducted by acting President Benoit Mercier.

Please welcome Justin and get to know him to find more about what he does.

There was a special recognition for Balbir Pabila, Independent Consultant with Arbonne, as she had brought the most visitors to our chapter in July. She is seen here on the left accepting the award from current chapter President Dr. Serge Lanoue.

Balbir is an active networker, and she come across many business women and business men who are interested in growing their business through referrals. She then invites these business people to see if word-of-mouth marketing would help them grow their business.

Balbir is easily able to generate referrals in Brampton and Mississauga - where she is most active - but she also covers the rest of the Toronto area and is able to serve customers in many countries across the world.

Talk to Balbir to see what her secret to inviting is - and who know you may end up with a referral too!

It's exciting when a visitor to joins the chapter: it means more networking opportunities, a larger business network, and of course more referrals exchanged between the members.

As part of the annual Summer BNI Game where the members compete based on who brings in the most referrals, the most visitors and a few other metrics, Charlene Souster-Morris (right) is seen accepting a crisp $100 dollar bill from President Dr. Serge Lanoue, because one of the visitors Charlene invited to the chapter has actually joined the chapter! Stay tuned for the new member announcement!

Charlene offers home and auto insurance within the group, and has been getting business referrals from Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville and other areas around the GTA since she joined. She's also very respected at providing referrals to the other members as well.

Join us in congratulating Charlene, and if you want a $100 bonus to round out your summer, invite guests to our meeting!

Saverio DiMondo (left) has just announced he is renewing his membership for the 24th year! He is thanked and congratulated by BNI Leading Edge chapter President Dr. Serge Lanoue, chiropractor.

Saverio is actually one of the founding members of BNI Leading Edge all those years ago, and he said there were only 6 members when the chapter started since the BNI concept was so new.

He has stayed on all those years and is renewing again because a good chunk of his business is directly attributable to referrals he received from fellow BNI members. As a Senior Financial Advisor with Manulife Securities in Mississauga, Saverio meets with a lot of people on a daily basis, and BNI has allowed him to grow his personal network of contacts as well as forge both long term business and personal relationships. Business referrals and friendships, does it get any better than that?

If you want to know how to grow your business through referrals, talk to Saverio!