BNI provides a positive, supportive, and structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Belonging to BNI is like having dozens of salespeople representing your business, and in return you are representing their businesses. What goes around comes around. If I help you, you'll help me and we will both benefit as a result. Networking requires commitment. The most successful chapters of BNI are comprised of participants who are sincerely committed to helping one another through networking. They are a team. As a participant in BNI, you are responsible for complying with the policies and guidelines of the organization. In 2016, over 211,000 members of BNI worldwide passed over 8.8 million referrals which resulted in more than $11.2 billion in business. Member referrals have injected billions of dollars of business into the US economy! Since 1985 BNI referrals have generated over $63 billion in business worldwide.