It's time to support our Small Businesses Professionals and prepare them to leaders. Our community has lost so many new business, and older ones due to the lack of knowledge and networking. Lets make that change. The goal of this group is to provide possible resources, and educational information to all interested in owning their own business. 9-5 is not for everyone, but is you have an dream, make it happen!!!    

World Class Guerrilla Marketing Coaches Fellowship to Share Their Time-tested Tactics and Strategies for Getting New Customers and Turning Them Into Your Most Enthusiastic Fans! Here is a taste of what you're going to learn from fellow Guerrilla's: * New high impact strategies for reaching and acquiring new customers...even on a shoestring budget, * Cutting edge online tactics designed to cut through the clutter and dramatically increase your visibility and conversion rates, * Keys to develop …

Beach Business Partner BNI meeting is hosted on every Wednesday morning from 9:00am to 10:30am at Landstown Community Church, 3220 Monet Dr., Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23453. For first time visitors, please bring tons of business cards. You will have 60 seconds commercial time to promote your business. Please feel free bring guests with you. Our mission is to pass members quality business referrals and help members to grow their businesses. Word of Mouth is the best advertisement for any busines …

Making new contacts with other Business Owners, sales people and local authorties. Training and Referrals!

The purpose of this group is to learn how to apply tried and true marketing strategies to "now" media tactics, such as social media, mobile media and other new technology. This group is for business owners, marketing and PR directors or anyone interested in learning how to increase their market share through exciting new "what's next" technology. Each session will include a time to introduce yourself and your business and an instructional lesson on a different topic. Bring your business cards, y …

Our group is designed to educate business owners with methods to grow their businesses with the many tools of the internet. Some of the benefits include: • Various methods to drive traffic to your website, social media, video, etc... • How to evaluate and beat your competitions' Google ranking. • More visibility, better credibility and trust with potential clients. • Increased referrals, conversions, and sales.

… We will be doing classes on:  -Real Estate Wholesaling  -Buying house using the "subject to" strategy  -Owner financing/Seller carryback  -Lease Options  -Rehabbing  -Using your IRA to invest in real estate (even if it only has a small amount of $)  -Using private lenders to fund your deals -Working with Virtual Assistants  -Substittution of collateral note(HUGE)  -Marketing -How to locate pre-foreclosure before they hit the newspaper   I hope to bring the most comprehensive real estate educatio …

… BNI (Business Networking International) is the largest business networking organization in the world.  We are the Diligence Chapter in Newport News/York County, Virginia which was founded in 2000. WHAT DO WE DO? Each Chapter has one representative from each business vocation -- no two members are seeking referrals for the same industry!  Our role is to be the sales staff of every other member, probing for referral opportunities and making warm introductions of prospective customers to each other …

This meet up group has been created for those aspiring and current speakers who are looking for more than a toastmaster meeting and learning about speech creation & presentation. The purpose of this group is to empower and educate you on how to create speeches, market your message, create products, and run a successful professional speaking business.

Our group is designed to educate business owners with methods to grow their businesses with the many tools of the internet. Some of the benefits include: • Various methods to drive traffic to your website, social media, video, etc... • How to evaluate and beat your competitions' Google ranking. • More visibility, better credibility and trust with potential clients. • Increased referrals, conversions, and sales.

This is not a Social Marketing group (see http://technology.meetup.com/30/ and http://marketing.meetup.com/286/ for that). This is a Social Fun group. We've had great success at that in our previous meets, and we hope it continues. Talk about whatever you want, but please try to avoid arguments about religion and politics for obvious reasons (it happens anyway). We've had interesting discussions on all sorts of things, including blogging, tumblr, Firefox, and more. You should attend. If yo …

… Investment Management: To actively manage our prudent reserves to ensure long-term financial stability of the Retail Alliance. Marketing: To enhance the brand of the Retail Alliance and promote the interest of the retail community of South Hampton Roads. Operations and Financial Management: To provide leadership to ensure that the Retail Alliance focuses on its mission and strategic goals by managing its people, programs, and financial and capital resources in the most effective manner possible.

The Geekettes Club is an organization founded to provide the training, tools and resources to empower women in marketing, business and technology. We also provide scholarships thru fundraising for women in tech fields.

Hampton Roads has a large and growing Twitter community. The #myhrva Tweetup After Work was created to allow Twitter friends build and strengthen online relationships by connecting and engaging in person. This informal get together is an opportunity for those of us who love Twitter to network and socialize in an exclusive yet casual environment. "What's Your Social Style" is proud to be hosting and organizing these Tweetups and I look forward to fostering the Hampton Roads area Twitter community …

Meet other local fans of personal development coach and author, Anthony Robbins (Tony Robbins). Gather, swap stories, and discuss his motivational techniques. Learn from Local Anthony Robbins Trainer & Results Coach Michael Savage and others, the tools & techniques necessary to get results. Manage your psychology even in this market! What Results are you really looking for? Passion in a relationship? Economic Certainty? A Peer group that supports & stretches you to succeed? Are you looking to …

Nathan M. Richardson Poet / Author / Publisher (Sharing the secrets of his success in the business of publishing and advertisement) A 5 hour Workshop on "The Business of Becoming a Self Published Author" This workshop has excellent applications for the published author trying to boost sales. Marketing Your Book/Business - Writing a Business Plan - Finding Your Market - Building a Network - Events /Conferences / Expos - Free & Paid Advertisement - Partnerships and Sponsors - Other Tools of the Tr …