Hi BNI friends, Rudy from Rochester here. I am the long term Networking education guy for our BNI Chapter. I love this podcast and do summaries every week with my group. I sent out the podcast via email ahead of our BNI meeting and we discuss key takeaways during the meeting.

The open “u” was what we practiced in the restaurant business in the early 1980s. This is an excellent, well-delivered message.

Thanks a lot for your enlightening 700 podcast

Dr. Misner, I love your podcast. I come from an community that networking is not taught and you give a bunch of meat. I love learning new things and your perspective on situations are very different from mine and I enjoy it very much. Thank you for starting this company!! The meat. I have recently started a chapter with a rock star who is all about relationships!! My motives were to make money and build relationships during the process of making money. This person is awesome. Stared in October 2019 with 4 and July 2020 at 50+ members. We are moving in the right direction. Here is where I think I made my first mistake. I’m in life insurance and I only do life insurance no P&C, supplemental, etc.. Thinking of growth, we decide to add another Insurance person in the group. 1st question while building a business thinking there is enough business for everyone the BNI moto etc, would you add your competition to a growing chapter? 2nd question would you have going a group with a P&C person you didnt have a relationship with? Fast forward, the P&C person did not follow up on referrals and was not doing givers gain. They are gone. The other insurance person in the chapter who is a good BNI member to chapter, good person wants that seat. Back story to this part is, I gave this person the opportunity to win my business and the person who is trying to move into the seat passed me to their assistant (ok I get it) and the assistant attempts to sell me life insurance!!!! (in the back of my mind I'm thinking to myself why would I ever send this person any referrals when her own people are trying to sell me!!) Next thing this person has given me one referral to date and I have given 4 or 5 referrals to this person, would have given more but I was given the referrals to the other person who was in the P & C even after hearing they are not following up on referrals. Keep in mind we are both on the leadership team me VP them Membership committee. Last questions to you are: Would you vote to allow this person to have that seat? This is where I could be considered a jerk and for me its business and I wasn’t getting it so I tried to fix it. We had 5 votes, we had 2 yes and I said No and may had another vote with me. I felt like if I didn’t do everything I could to get a person I know who doesn’t do what I do (a unicorn) in that seat. With that said would you actively campaign to not put that person in that seat for those reasons and do you feel this is being a selfish person? Next does that person moving to that seat make them selfish for changing seats to get more business?

Episodes are less than 15 min and jam-packed with useful information to help educate and motivate successful business leaders.

If you want to grow in your understanding of networking and growing your business, make sure you listen to Ivan Mizser

Those are great informative podcasts for BNI members and those who network. The quickest way to become intentional with your networking strategies that you can listen to on the go. It will take your networking skills to the next level and will help you grow your business. As long as you do the work. I think that the intros can be shorter, when you’re listening to a few of them in a raw it is time wasting.

It’s my opinion that tightening up the substitute criteria might only be detrimental. Creating tight restrictions for initial visitor/membership might prove to be very restrictive initially. The beauty of BNI is it if a true member joins, once in a chapter, they either perform or they don’t and if too many substitutions become obvious, it’s time for the chapter to simply put them out. However, there’s always that positive energy present in a good chapter to potentially propel somebody like myself to become more motivated and therefore make sure I attend every single meeting.… Just something to think about. For myself there is absolutely no reason to ever Substitute or miss a valuable meeting

Our team has been in BNI for over 5 years and have been listening to Ivan Misners podcast for about that long. He does a great job training and educating through this podcast and he's truly a teacher at heart. Make sure you subscribe and leave him a review. We were super pumped recently when he took time from his busy schedule to be on our show The Modern American Dream. Thank you Ivan you're the man!

Great insights for how BNI works (and is SUPPOSED to work!) Great content. LOVE THE SHORT LENGTH!!!

….listen to Dr. Misner. Whether Ask Ivan or one of his interviews, there is always value here. There is always a take away from each podcast. I look forward to listening to them and on occasion have even accidentally re-listened and each time there is a take away that is invaluable. You won’t be disappointed.

Great information delivered in small bite sized pieces. A great way to fill small holes in your busy schedule.

Bite sized advice from Ivan Misner on how to make the most of your networking relationships. Listen, apply, repeat.

This really is dynamite information. Each week offers something creative and a new way to think about how to get referrals for your biz!

Awesome! Great to listen to in my car on my way to the BNI meeting. Short and to the point. Dr Misner gets his point across in a concise manner. I use these Podcasts as my weekly Educational Moments at the BNI Meeting. Forward to a friend. Dr Brandon Lemuel Vienna Business Network Vienna, Va

BNI Podcasts only come in 3 flavors - good, better, great. Every week a message of value and inspiration shows up on my inbox. I have found everyone of them to be well worth the time it takes to listen. And regularly have an ah ha moment pertinent to networking or running my business.

The BNI podcast is the fastest way to gain information on how to grow your business.For those who do not have the time to read like Joe Coyle, you can catch up with the pace and race of marketing you and your business in a New York Minute. I believe this is just the start of what will be one of the most valuable podcast. BNI not only will help your business, it will help you grow in your business.

Full of important info and not overly long... just what the Dr. (Misner) ordered. Well done!

As BNI training changes its education focus to newer things, this podcast is helping BNI members to remember how to 'stick to the basics'. Looking forward to listening to future episodes! Thanks to Frank and Dr. Misner! Brian Springfield Business Forum Member BNI veteran