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What's the Best Way to Ask for What I Need When Networking? Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of BNI, on cultivating fruitful networking relationships.

By Ivan Misner

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Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of BNI, on cultivating fruitful networking relationships.

Ivan Misner

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Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI

Ivan Misner is founder and chief visionary officer of BNI, a professional business networking organization headquartered in Upland, Calif. He is co-author, with Hazel Walker and Frank De Raffele, of Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think (Entrepreneur Press, 2012).

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