Summary: This is a rebroadcast of Episode 74, which originally appeared on October 1st, 2008. Synopsis Dr. Misner and BNI member Julien Sharp about how BNI can make a cross-country move easier. There are many ways BNI can help. Your local BNI chapter can help you prepare for the move through referrals to realtors, moving companies, etc. Joining a BNI chapter in your new new location gives you instant connections thereâitâs like having family there. You have a reliable source for referrals to professionals whose help you need, from tech support to plumbing. So if youâre planning to move, make sure you find a BNI chapter in the city youâre moving to and ask the director how BNI can help. BNI can help your friends, family, and colleagues, too. Julien has also created inter-chapter BNI groups for people in her own profession, to encourage âco-opetitionâ and create teams who can do larger jobs. She also âsubsâ regularly for members at other BNI groups. Brought to you by Networking Now. Complete Transcription of BNI Podcast Episode 074 - Priscilla Rice: Hello everyone and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast brought to you by networkingnow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloables. I am Priscilla Rice and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder and Chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello Ivan. How are you? Ivan Misner: I am doing great, Priscilla. Thank you very much. I have a guest with me today, a good friend and member of BNI, Julien Sharp. I have known Julien now for almost five years. Julien was an editor for one of my books, Masters of Sales. She did a tremendous job. She did such a great job that she got another referral for me. She is the editor for the BNI Directorâs Manual. She has done the leadership team manuals that go in them. She has been a member of BNI for a number of years. She can tell you how long. She got another referral. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about that, Julien. I referred you to Entrepreneur Press, and that turned into a reasonably considerable deal, didnât it? Julien Sharp: I would say that âreasonablyâ is the understatement of the year. Hi. It is nice to be on here. Yes, in January, I got an email from Entrepreneur Press that said Ivan Misner recommended you to write a book. We have the title all ready and no author. It was How to Design and Launch an Online Networking Business. That happens to be where I am taking my whole communications consulting company. I said sure. It has since then been completed, as far as the initial writing. It is in production now and it is set for a spring â09 release date. Ivan: Congratulations on that. Everyone listening to the podcast can keep their eyes open for that. Julien is a great writer. I am looking forward to seeing your book. You are going to be talking about a couple of things, one of which is moving cross country. You did a little move from Miami Beach to New York in 2006, didnât you? Julien: I certainly did. As a matter of fact, my spouse was transferred up here for a job. We werenât sure how long we were going to be up here. Being a writer, it is very easy to do from anywhere. When we were up here for some time, we thought we might go into Toronto. I was able to, while I was just new to New York, work all of my referrals that I had built through my relationships from Miami. Over a year and one-third generation referrals kept me floating, just working nonstop for over a year. Then when I realized we were going to be living in New York full time, I immediately joined a BNI up here which was in January of this year. I have completely built an entirely new and growing communications firm here in New York based completely off of relationships in BNI, both here and in Miami. Ivan: You bring up a really good point. I see a lot of people. We live in a very mobile society.
