About BNI Connections

Since our group's inception in 2006, our members have brought over $2,500,000 in referrals to each other, as well as enjoyed many fun social occasions and events. If you'd like to see how we achieved this goal, we'd love to have you visit our next meeting.

Our chapter is one of the only Vancouver BNI meetings to take place at lunchtime.

To be a visitor at BNI Connections, please see our Guest Info page.

Open Categories

For 2011, we have business waiting to refer, and are looking for professionals in the following categories that are interested in locking out their competition and joining our sales team:

  • Immigration & Wills/Estates Lawyer
  • Notary Public
  • Florist
  • HR Specialist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Web/IT Specialist

About BNI BC

Business Network International (BNI) has been the referral organization in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland of BC since 1996. Today there are over 40 BNI chapters across the province of British Columbia.

Mission: The mission of BNI Canada across the province of British Columbia. is to help members increase their business through a structured, and professional "word-of-mouth" referral program. The BNI program encourages long-term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals.

Who is BNI?: Business Network International (BNI) is a business and professional networking organization whose primary purpose is to exchange word-of-mouth business referrals. BNI Canada has over 200 chapters operating from Halifax to Victoria. Internationally there are thousands of chapters operating on four continents. Members around the globe pass more than one million referrals per year generating hundreds of millions of dollars in new business annually.

BNI is the largest business referral organization in the world with more than 60,000 members in 16 countries. Each week dedicated business people meet in a 90 minute marketing session to exchange qualified business opportunities with each other. In 2003, 2.8 million referrals were passed generating $1.2 billion US for members. The sole purpose of BNI is to generate new business for members through word of mouth marketing.

What Makes BNI Unique: BNI Canada offers exclusivity. Each chapter allows only one person per profession or business category to join. Once you've joined a chapter, none of your competitors can participate in that chapter. BNI members get excellent results for their business through quality referrals and much more.

BNI Philosophy: "Givers Gain"

  • BNI is predicated on the concept of: "What goes around, comes around; if I help you, you'll help me, and we'll both benefit as a result". Members operate as a marketing team.
  • Success in BNI means you need to be a positive and supportive member of your team, committed to your fellow members, and to the philosophy "Givers Gain".
  • If you want to get quality business you have to refer quality business to other business people in your chapter.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

- Henry Ford