Bni Heartland's Regional Podcast

Executive Director Vince Vigneri and Regional Director Brandon Souba sharehow much of your success depends on how active and involved you choose to be in your business and in BNI.

Executive Director Vince Vigneri, Regional Director Brandon Souba, and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse discuss the importance of keeping a clear mind when considering drinking at networking and social events.

Regional Director Brandon Souba and Simone Douglas, Executive Director of BNI Adelaide North in Australia discuss questions that make the GAINS Exchange conversational, and can help you get more out of your next One to One.For Simone's full blog on this topic with all 20 questions, click on this link.

Executive Director Vince Vigneri and guest Peter Higgs, Executive Director of BNI Birmingham in the UK, encourage us to examine what we are focusing our energy on, especially if we aren't quite reaching our expectations of excellence.

It's beneficial to have a sub at a meeting when you cannot attend, but some people have evolved into "professional substitutes" that attend meetings regularly. Regional Director Brandon Souba and Area Director Ray Huse discuss some concerns about choosing them to sub for you.

Bharat Daga, an Executive Director for BNI in India, sits down with BNI Heartland Executive Director Vince Vigneri to share three essential aspects of referral networking.

Regional Director Brandon Souba and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse revisit the topic of CEUs from a previous podcasts with updates on where to find material and how to track your activity.

Executive Director Vince Vigneri and special guest Mark Graber from the BNI Innovation Task Force discuss how using elements of play can lead to creative solutions and make problem solving fun!

Ever have a member tell you they would like to use your services, but they're not ready yet?Regional Director Brandon Souba and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse have some suggestions on how you can help them get ready.

In this podcast, Regional Director Brandon Souba and Executive Director Vince Vigneri discuss how growth in your business and growth for your BNI chapter are linked, and they offer some tips to help with both areas.

Regional Director Brandon Souba and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse update our look at VCP for 2020 with some suggestions on how you can "level up" in the process.

BNI Heartland member Jessica Pierce won a spot on a recent BNI Cruise as part of last year's Membership Extravaganza. She tells Regional Director Brandon Souba about the experience and why everyone should pay attention to those incentives!

Swearing is a part of our language and human habits. But does it belong in BNI? How about outside of your meeting? Regional Director Brandon Souba and Executive Director Vince Vigneri discuss this and more. Thanks to NPR's "Stuff You Should Know" podcast for insight and information used here.Originally presented in BNI Heartland Podcast #36

Regional Director Brandon Souba invited BNI Central Virginia Director Donna Kunde to speak about how the messages and materials of BNI can impact non-members by sharing how it helped her son.

Executive Director Vince Vigneri joins the podcast to talk about 4DX with Regional Director Brandon Souba. Find out how these four discplines and their execution relate to BNI and your business.

At a recent chapter meeting, Regional Director Brandon Souba and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse heard a member describe BNI as a "fast pass" for their business. They develop this idea further in this podcast, and talk about what it takes to make the fast pass work.

BNI Heartland Executive Director Vince Vigneri joins Regional Director Brandon Souba to share what he learned and experienced at the recent 2019 BNI Global Convention in Warsaw, Poland.

There are different types of referral givers. How are you looking out for opportunities for your fellow members? In this podcast, Regional Director Brandon Souba and Omaha Area Director Ray Huse discuss how to change your approach and mindset to find more referrals.

Regional Director Brandon Souba's special guest on this podcast is BNI South Carolina Lowcountry Executive Director Ron Kirby. From Ron's experience launching and growing chapters in his region, he's heard many reasons for not wanting to join BNI. In this podcast, he shares five of those reasons, and his responses to them.

We have heard "specific is terrific" in BNI. In this podcast, Heather Venenga Whipple from Professional Connections in Watertown, SD tells why she switched from a popular classification to something more specific, and how she sees it benefitting her and the chapter.