Categories that are not in BNI Connect
Hello. I would like to suggest that there is a way to manually type in what the category is rather than just selecting ‘other’ or selecting the best category. There’s many reasons that this becomes a challenge, a few of which I will mention here. First, if you are looking to join a BNI chapter, it’s hard to see who is really in that chapter when you see some categories that are duplicates or are listed as other. A good example is our chapter has a massage therapist and we have a lymphatic massage therapist. These are two completely different kinds of massages and both are listed under the same category. We cannot differentiate between the two of them in BNI connect. It makes it confusing for current members and new members, and also makes it difficult when searching to see what a chapter has. The other thing is BNI offers a search engine, so you can find services. But if you wanted to find somebody, for example, that does car wraps, that’s not a category in BNI connect. In our chapter, we had to select car detailing for that, because it’s the closest category. But if you called that member for car detailing, they don’t do car detailing, and no one can find them for wraps. There’s no way that BNI is going to be able to list every possible category, but a manual entry that is approved by Corporate office would be so helpful for everyone.
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@jenny - Thank you for this very thoughtful and detailed feedback. I will pass this along to the category managers for consideration. In the meantime, I highly recommend that people also make use of the KEYWORDS on their profile so that it makes them more searchable for things that aren't listed as the actual category.
Have a great weekend!
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