Do you want more customers or clients? Do you prefer getting qualified referrals? If so, attend BNI “Winner’s Circle” open house. BNI is looking for local small business owners to join the group. Meet new people and learn how to increase your business on Feb. 28 at 6:55 a.m. at the Manalapan Diner, Route 9 north, Manalapan. Free breakfast will be provided. Details: 732-513-8213.
Cigar, Cigars, with six stores, including one at 11 South St., Freehold Borough, is sponsoring project Smoking Jackets, a campaign to distribute coats to those in need. Customers who donate new or gently used coats (in a plastic bag) will receive a 10 percent discount on purchases made at Cigar, Cigar that day. Coats will be collected through Jan. 27 and will go to Your Grandmother’s Cupboard, a nonprofit agency that brings clothing, shoes, blankets and personal care items to where they are needed most. For more information, visit www.CCcigars.com.
Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. has welcomed Andrew Adell to its Kilbride & Cagnina Real Estate Group’s Colts Neck office. Adell will work with home buyers and sellers. Adell successfully completed Long & Foster’s Star Builders program, a training course for newly licensed sales associates. The program’s curriculum covers contracts, agency, prospecting, business planning, finance and working with buyers and sellers. Adell holds membership in the Monmouth County Association of Realtors.