Chicagoland's Sharpest Entrepreneurs Will Help You Discover Smart, Effective Marketing Strategies For Surviving These Trying Times! Chicagoland's Sharpest Entrepreneurs is a group of business owners, sales and marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, and professional practice owners interested in learning more about the direct marketing strategies and techniques taught by marketing guru Steve Sipress, Chicagoland's highest-paid and most-respected small business coach and consultant. Our first mee …

Let's face it, if you make your living on the Internet, most of your friends and family don't have a clue what you do for a living. The purpose of our monthly mastermind group meetings is to improve our businesses, share ideas, discuss strategies, and talk to people whose eyes don't glaze over when we talk about Internet Marketing, SEO and related topics. We will talk, and compares notes about: * Internet Marketing * SEO (Search Engine Optimization) * Ecommerce * Affiliate Marketing * Social Net …

Fox Valley Area Networking Events! Always Open Networking - Bring plenty of business cards! It's been said time and time again from business coaches, mentors and highly regarded speakers, that if your business requires customers in order to survive (which includes most, if not every one of us)... then a great way to build a strong referral relationship is to Never Eat Alone. You were going to eat anyway, right? Maybe your lunch buddy made other plans or had to work through lunch. Have no fear …

BNI is the largest business networking organization in the world. We offer members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. The BNI Referral Magnets meets to pass business referrals on a weekly basis. Our meeting location is now Pallas Restaurant located at 1657 South 108th Street in West Allis, WI.  The meeting starts precisely at 11:30am and runs 90 minutes. Please come early for open networking and bring plenty of business cards. Join us for open-netw …

Online marketing is more than just selling stuff on eBay! In fact, online marketing has finally come to the forefront, as companies big and small discover the value of shifting more of their marketing budgets online. Online marketers have proven that you can generate more leads and deliver more sales than traditional marketing--with higher ROIs and lower CPAs. But online marketing is a rapidly developing arena, with specialties now evolving as fast as new opportunities and technologies emerg …

Crystal Lake/ McHenry/ Lake In The Hills/ Algonquin/ Woodstock Area Networking! Open Networking - Bring plenty of business cards! You were going to eat anyway, right? Maybe your lunch buddy made other plans or had to work through lunch. Have no fear, our Never Eat Alone Networking Luncheon allows you to meet local Entrepreneurs, Small Businesses and Various Professionals enabling you to make new connections and grow your network! It's been said time and time again from business coaches, mentors …

Welcome to Connecters Networking! We are a group of FUN people that incorporate business networking with social networking! Our networking events are not your "run of the mill" sit down and listen to a spiel about someone's business. We put the networkers in a social atmosphere that creates a face to face meeting and everyone gets to know everyone as friends AND networkers! Why not be productive and have fun at the same time! We have a Partner's Page on our main web site that allows you to adver …

This is an invitation-only Meetup group for LKQ Sales and Plant Managers interested in attending the 2nd Annual LKQ Sales Managers Conference hosted by ETE REMAN. It's a great place to connect before and after the event.

Chicago ACT! CRM User Group ACT! by SAGE is the #1 Contact management system. It is used in increase sales and customer service. Join us to exchange ideas, learn shortcuts, and keep abreast of the latest developments. Both novice and experienced ACT! users are welcome. Meetings start with a lecture/demonstration and conclude with an open question and answer session. Meetings in Schaumburg run from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Meetings are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Discu …

Established in 1932, the Port Washington Club meets monthly and hosts two annual events-our Plant Sale in May and a local Garden Walk in July. Members also participate in a variety of community projects, such as planting and maintaining public gardens in our community and buying gardening books each year for the Niederkorn Library. We've established a fund to buy trees for Port Washington parks, and we've worked with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Every year, we honor noteworthy g …

MAGMA Promotes Member-created Events Milwaukee Area Game Maniacs Agency (M.A.G.M.A.) is a community-based group for gamers in the Milwaukee-Metro area interested in tabletop and board games. It is open to all who wish to join. There are two ways that meetup events can be created:  1) Any member can created an event and it becomes active when 3 or more people say they are attending.  2) Events can be created by one of the organizers. Member created events are highly encouraged.  Here are some gui …

Welcome to the Fox Cities Networking, Business and Social Media Group! We invite you and your friends to join this active and enthusiastic networking, business and social media community of business minded professionals! Meetup.com is FREE to join!  The Fox Cities networking - business - social media calendar is shown only to members. On average, there are over 20 30 networking events listed on the calendar each month - with more being added all the time!  Most events are well attended - so don' …

Do you ever wonder about...? How this object connects to that? What lies beyond the obvious, not satisfied with what has been explained? Why tinkering today with Lego blocks, digital games, or a sketch pad and pen might help you create a new design or solution tomorrow? How you can break a code in this case, but not according to that.things on purpose - and then see if you can fix them? What is *behind* the content on this page, and how it got there, and what makes to speak to and through the a …

Are you spending way too much time in front of the TV or computer? Does your dog or cat have more of a social life than you? Well, if you're feeling like we are, let's try and remedy this. We're looking for women who want to develop some good, and hopefully long lasting friendships...women who enjoy dining out, seeing a movie, playing cards and board games, Mah Jongg, traveling, or just sitting around with a pot of coffee and sharing themselves with each other. Men are great, and we love 'em, bu …

Meetup with Your Colleagues at the University of Wisconsin We are academic staff, classified employees, faculty, graduate students, and post doctoral students working at University of Wisconsin campuses, who get together to share our work experiences, current research, and institutional knowledge -- and relax, too! UW-Madison alone is large and expansive, spanning 935 acres along the southern shore of Lake Mendota, with over 200 departments, programs, and centers, and it's difficult to connect …

Not just for sales professionals, were here for leaders, founders, professionals and others who aren't necessarily sales managers but find yourself having to manage the "art". Selling for C's is a forum for instruction and discussion of effective, repeatable practices and measurements to help you grow your business using the award winning Path Sales Operating Environment.

This meetup was formed to create a community of people who struggle with organization and are looking for NONJUDGMENTAL support, encouragement and new ideas. We meet once monthly and the meetings are lead by a professional organizer. You will discover you are not the only one who feels overwhelmed and disorganized. After each meeting you may feel energized and ready to tackle an organizing project you have been avoiding. The cost of each meeting is $10.00. This is not a therapy or counseling gro …

Inbound Marketing Milwaukee is the official Hubspot Milwaukee Inbound Marketing user group dedicated to educating and helping fellow Inbound Marketers and business owners. You DO NOT need to be a Hubspot user to be a part of our group, we welcome anyone who is eager and ready to learn how to drive traffic to your website, skyrocket business leads and convert leads into sales. Our group focuses on teaching, discussing and brainstorming Inbound Marketing strategies, campaigns and tools to set our …

ETC is a network and support center for professional programmers, software developers, web developers, e-commerce professionals, software sales and marketing experts, graphic designers, consultants and tech businesses. Our non-profit organization strives to help IT-professionals, new start-ups, and smaller tech firms network, find consulting, contract work, and projects. We are a strong supporter of "local-sourcing" instead of outsourcing.

We are a Group of New & Active Real Estate Investors who meet regularly to Discuss, Educate and Empower People to Take Action in Today's "Perfect Storm" of Real Estate Investing. We host monthly meetings on the 1st Wednesday night of every month in the Crystal Lake Area. Go to www.re123.info to find out more

This group is for anyone with a fear of public speaking, is an independant sales rep, has a home based, MLM business or would like to start their own business. I retired after 33 years in direct sales. I'm a Speaker, Author and Sales Trainer. I started this group because I have so much information to share. I will present a topic; motivaion, elevator speech, overcoming fear, prospecting, cold calling, how to answer objections, sales close etc, etc. Don't forget to bring business cards to each of …

Do you have one or twelve craft projects that are collecting dust while you wait for motivation and inspiration to strike? I know I do, and that's what this group is all about. Dig out an unfinished project, or maybe an idea for a new one, and your new crafty friends will help motivate you to finish it. We'll pick a night and all get together to craft--with music and munchies of course! You should bring your own supplies, but don't freak out if you forgot something--I have extras of almost every …

Are you someone who doesn't care about keeping up with the Joneses? Do you get a "bargain high" when you find a great deal? Do you enjoy simple and cheap entertainment like pot lucks and board games? Do you regularly tell people how much you paid for something because you're proud of how little you spent on it? I'm hoping to get together a group of "thrifties" who love to find a good deal on something they need and are proud of their frugality. We can share thrifty tips and tricks, have pot luck …

I am looking to share my 5 years of real estate, and 18 years of customer Service experience to provide advice and guidance in our every changing real estate market. I plan to have a monthly meet up group at the local libraries to share information on selling your home, preparing for a home sale, staging a home, buying a house/ condo/ townhouse, learning about short sales/ foreclosures, what improvements to make and not make to your house, preparing for an estate home sale, how to have the best …

This is a group for people who want to learn about how to protect themselves from computer security threats and identity theft. We will meet monthly to show you how to identify scams, what to do if you suspect your computer may be infected, what to do if your identity gets stolen and more. Our meetings are free and open to everyone. They will last approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour. Beverages will be served. We believe that everyone has a right and need to learn practical advice about internet s …

Any IT, Sales or Marketing Professional who wants to transition from traditional career to Salesforce.com Cloud Computing Platform, this is the group you should join. We will discuss the trends, career opportunities including new business ventures and etc. We will bring a subject mater expert every month to discuss a topic. This is more of hands-on group. We will meet in Schaumburg Library every month 1st Tuesday.

There are NO initial fees to join this group!!!! Join us and refer us to everyone you know!  We are a network of consumers to professionals in the photography industry to help each other connect, share, teach, grow and HAVE FUN doing it! Whether you are looking for a photographer, you want to learn about photography, you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, we WELCOME YOU TO "THE PHOTOGRAPHY NETWORK" The purpose of this group is all about networking, teaching, improving, inspiring, meeti …

Bringing together men and women in small businesses to share ideas, brainstorm, develop personal and business relationships while having fun! This is going to be so much more than a business card exchange. This group will mastermind together, refer customers and share sales in addition to being a sounding board for ideas and offer support when needed.