Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs is a professional networking group for (you guessed it) entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area who run or are inspired to start their own businesses.  We all have a goal of building our businesses through referrals and building a solid marketing system. As the organizer, fellow-business owner, and career coach, I am excited to hear stories of your success and give you tips of what worked for me and what did not, especially using social media. I understand personal …

Are you an entreprenuer looking to connect with like-minded people to learn and take your business to the next level? Are you tired of your job that gets you nowhere? Do you want to prepare your job exit to become a Business Champion for yourself. Do you want to be your own boss and take charge of your own financial future? If your answers are yes, read on… Every Entrepreneur has one thing in common – everyone was a beginner at one time. Many of them have gone on to achieve success beyond their …

Lead by David Thiermann, Consultant Services for 20 years: Business, Career & Life Goals. David will talk with members about self-assessment, exploring career options, determining their focus, marketing themselves and ongoing career management. Everyone will leave with new ideas, new expectations, motivation to be proactive and enthusiasm to move forward with their goals. Get inspired & excited. Sign-up today for an enjoyable experience. Jokes are included - bring a joke and let's have fun. …

Internet marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how to utilize these tools to …

Ali Lassen's Aptos Women's Leads Club is for women who want to build a strong network and quality referral base to expand their business. Our mission is to share and expand our sphere of influence to strategically build our business in the community. Guests are welcomed to visit two times free of charge. The group meets every Thursday in Santa Cruz from 12:00 to 1:15pm. No need to RSVP - just show up. Meetings are currently held at the Pacific Cultural Center at 1307 Seabright Avenue  Santa Cruz …

An exciting opportunity exists for people like you who wish to connect and make use of a proven word-of-mouth advertising model. We are looking for success-oriented professionals and business owners (one from each profession) who are committed to building their business, and wish to connect with like-minded people. Our goal is to boost the local economy with referral networking. Our sole purpose for meeting is to share fresh ideas, and find ways to support each other in business. Successful grou …

Welcome to the Small Business Lunch-Time Networking! If you owned a big corporation like Google or GE you would have your own HR department, Marketing and Sales department, Legal department and so forth. As a Small Business, competing with the giants, we are offen stragling with lack of resources. We cannot afford to hire an HR director, Markeing expert, or a Lawyer to work for us. At this luncheon we want to introduce you to a program which will allow you access to all the resources you need fo …

Purpose: This group is open to professionals who help manage other people's money (lawyers, cpa's, financial planners, financial advisers). I don't want this to be just another weekly referral group at some restaurant in town. It's ultimately a professional referral group of wealth management professionals networking on the golf course. We are open to sharing information and helping fellow members grow their practice. Goals: Open to all Bay Area professionals involved in Law (Estate law, P …

The Women's Networking Alliance was formed to bring a group of small business owners together to help each other promote, grow and expand their businesses. Founded in 2007, The Women's Networking Alliance was created to enable a networking of women business owners that can truly and genuinely help one another.  Formed in small groups of no more than 30 businesswomen, each chapter is designed to ensure strong partnerships in an intimate setting. What makes WNA successful?  Several qualities.  …

PATCA is a nonprofit professional association of independent consultants and principals who work in small consulting practices. Since its founding in 1975, PATCA members have been highly respected for their professionalism, integrity, objectivity and competence. They include experts in all aspects of business and technology, and serve clients in many industries, throughout the U.S. and the world. PATCA offers a free "Post a Project" referral service at www.patca.org for clients searching for an …

Welcome to the Santa Cruz Chapter of Leads Club. The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business success. Founded in 1978 by Ali Lassen, and curre …

West Valley College is offering programs and events around promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship.  Programs include classes designed to help first time entrepreneurs start new businesses, advanced courses to help existing businesses grow and succeed, and networking events to help small business owners develop connections and relationships to foster success. The courses are taught by seasoned entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley startup veterans, and specialists in a variety of areas including …

We are a community of B2B professionals that are seriously committed to growing our businesses. We are here to combine our skills and resources to learn from each other and build powerful partnerships within the group. We meet the first Friday of each month from 11:30 to 1PM in Campbell, CA.  If you are interested in joining us, please request joining our meetup and you will will receive more information from us. Only one business area can be filled by one of our members. Businesses categories c …

BNI offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Being a member of BNI is like having sales people working for you every day who market your product or service.  BNI's sole purpose is to provide a structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals.  If referrals are an important part of your business, then BNI is the organization for you.

Direct Sales and Multi-level Business Networking Group, (DSMBG) is a professional networking for those looking for ways to build their small businesses. This forum is open to those looking for home base business, and to those trying to go into business themselves. At DSMBG, You are in business for yourself but not by yourself; group members will share success stories with those striving to build their businesses. Direct sales and Multi- Level Business Networking is design to help business minded …

We are a business support group that brings together individuals from different professions and industries. We are focused on exchanging referrals within the group, generating leads for group members, building professional alliances, developing long lasting friendships, and the growth of our businesses. The members of our group are not only concerned with the growth of their own businesses, but we are also committed to helping our fellow group members become successful. Our group is speci …

Networking is hard. Many of us depend on networking as a large part of our customer acquisition strategy. This is for the networker that would rather go to the networking event with another person. Going with a Buddy can ease the tension, make the event more fun and tandem networkers tend to stay longer and meet more people.

The "mission" of this group is to inspire creative ways to refresh each other’s businesses and to focus on a partnership with members to collaborate and produce superior marketing techniques and drive sales through referrals and meeting regularly. The group performs creative exercises at meetings to enhance and stimulate communication to enhance opportunities for working together to create success for all. The main focus of the group is to strategically structure solutions for a high level of qu …

We are a group of business individuals working and living in Santa Cruz County. We meet the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month at 12 noon for Lunch at El Chino Restaurant at 2525 Soquel Drive in Santa Cruz. We break bread & socialize as we help one another by networking and refferring clients that need services of other members. We ONLY allow one person per business field to join the group, in order to help maximize the potential of referrals received, and this person must not be in any other refe …

EAT lunch, MEET people, TALK business Would you like to... • get better at marketing yourself? • develop business friends for the long-term? • have a productive and meaningful networking experience? "Personable Business® Introductions" are our structured approach to networking. You have 3 minutes to introduce yourself both personally and professionally. It's all about sharing yourself with us so we get to know you and you get to know a bit about us. Deeper connections leader to more business! Th …

Silicon Valley Business Group is a referral organization made up of business owners and service professionals in Campbell and surrounding South Bay area whose partners provide products and services to homeowners, consumers, small businesses and corporations. Combining regular meetups and online resources our members work to get to know and actively refer one another. Each member in our community represents a different profession, but frequently sells to collectively common market. As a result of …