Local Businessman Wins Membership Drive Trip

Los Angeles, California – November 3, 2006
Jason Knupfer, of Gilbert-Krupin, recently was sent on an all-expenses paid trip to Long Beach, CA and joined over 200 others on a Carnival Cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, courtesy of BNI (Business Network Int'l.) as the result of winning last year's membership drive for the organization. Knupfer is a member of the Referral Syndicate chapter of BNI, a business referral organization which allows one person per profession in each chapter. The focus of each chapter's weekly meetings is to generate more business for each other through referrals that are exchange between the members each week.

"The purpose of the membership extravaganza, as we call our membership drive, is to increase the number of networkers in each chapter in the Greater Los Angeles region," says Cys Bronner, BNI Regional Director. "Each time a member sponsored in a new member, they had an opportunity to win the trip," he/she continues. "Jason Knupfer was the member we sent from the Referral Syndicate chapter He sponsored six new members!"

“It was great to meet Jason and share this exciting cruise with him/her" BNI Founder and Chairman of the Board, Ivan Misner stated. "We had a total of 215 winners and spouses or guests on board Carnival’s Paradise cruise ship.” Misner continued.

BNI is the world's largest referral marketing organization with over 4,400 chapters in 26 countries on every populated continent. 4.4 million referrals were exchanged by member businesses in 2006 resulting in 1.7 billion dollars worth of business. To find out where the nearest chapter meets in your city, contact BNI Regional Director, Cys Bronner at 818 667-8967, or visit BNI on the web at www.bni.com.