The Elegance Times
BNI Elegance North Goa · Fortune Miramar, Panjim

Eighty business owners.
One room. Every Thursday.

One member per category, so nobody in the room competes with anybody else. Since the chapter began its members have passed each other 72,295 referrals worth over ₹458 crore. This term the target is ₹60 crore more.

Come as a visitorBNI Visitor Invite LinkIs my category open?Read the paper
Members78▼ from 80 · target 95
Chapter traffic light90▲ from 75 · target 95
Green or Amber76.9%▲ from 76.3% · target 80%
Visitors this term9▲ from 0 · target 150
Closed business this term₹7.89 Cr▲ from ₹0 Cr · target ₹60 Cr
Seat value₹46.9 L▲ from ₹46.6 L · target ₹1.2 Cr

This week at Elegance

After every Thursday: the business closed, the visitors, the referrals and the league. This Thursday →

The first Thursday of the term is 1 October. The week's figures appear here after every meeting.

Where the chapter stands

Committed, achieved, gap. The base is the six months to September, from BNI Connect; updated week on week from the desks.

The Elegance Times, issue one, October 2026, front pageIssue No. 1
October
The Elegance Times

The chapter's own newspaper, once a month

Twenty pages: the term plan, the Power Team league, the members' roster with their traffic lights, the columns from the region, the strip, the puzzles. Printed for every member on the first Thursday of the month; the ePaper the evening before.

  • Twenty-six Thursdays, meeting by meetingpages 4–5
  • The six Power Teams, a face for every memberpages 6–11
  • Sport: the league, six rounds, one overnight staypage 13
  • Situations vacant, classifieds, puzzlespages 16–17
Read the ePaperThe web editionWall calendar, PDF

Six Power Teams

Built on who refers to whom. Each has a captain, a colour and a Focus Day in the month it needs referrals most.

For visitors

Come on a Thursday. Fifteen seconds is all we ask of you.

Doors open at 7.30 at Fortune Miramar, Panjim. The meeting starts at 8.00 and ends at 9.30, on time, every week. A host meets you at the door and finds you a seat with the member who invited you.

  1. Register for a Thursday here, or on BNI's official invite page; a host calls you the day before.
  2. Come at 7.30 with your cards. Tea, open networking, a seat found for you.
  3. From your seat: who you are, what you do, one thing you need. Fifteen seconds.
  4. After the meeting, the members' roster reaches your phone.
Register for Thursday BNI's official invite What to expect
Situations vacant

Categories the chapter wants to fill

    For members

    Everything the chapter keeps, kept where you can reach it.

    Every member

    Traffic lights and renewals, every month

    Every member's photo, this month's traffic light score, and their renewal date with the 120-, 90- and 30-day marks before it. Open to the whole chapter, no link needed; tap any member for the detail.

    See every member
    The chapter's money

    Every rupee, open to every member

    What came in, what went out and what is left, receipt by receipt, published by the Secretary / Treasurer to your page.

    The books
    On BNI Connect

    The official chapter roster

    The chapter's page and member list on the BNI Goa site: the record of who holds which category, kept by the Regional Office.

    Official roster Follow on Instagram
    Leadership and coordinators

    The desks behind the paper

    The Membership Committee, the Stronghold, the Gateway and the President's Portal. Coordinators sign in with their own name.

    Coordinators' desks

    Advertise in the paper, and here

    One booking, three places: the printed paper in every member's and visitor's hands, the ePaper on WhatsApp, and this page. Why advertise, in full. Every space below is open for the October 2026 issue.

    Booking. Per issue, or the whole term of six issues, October to March, with the position kept every month. Book with Vyankatesh Kushwaha, Secretary / Treasurer; artwork to the editor by the last Thursday of the month before; ads go in whole, never cropped. Every rupee funds the Power Team rewards.