Business people are using Social Media and Online Marketing to spread their message, to find new customers and keep in touch with current customers. Things are changing rapidly in Social Media, Online Marketing, and Mobile Marketing. Keeping up with the changes is a challenge. This new group is an opportunity to network, learn and share insights on how to keep up with all the changes.

Anyone in search of the next big thing should come have lunch with us. We will have conversations about web 2.0/web 3.0, social media, twitter in business, iPhone apps, and general tech brainstorming. As long as you bring your ideas, knowledge, and know how, your welcome to come have some lunch with like minded nerds in the San Mateo area.

… Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/glfceo . We are always looking for great speakers and topics - your suggestions are greatly appreciated! Let us know if you are interested in sponsoring this group.   Our partners and sponsors: Attensity Corporation Attensity helps companies better utilize customer conversations in emails, documents, call notes, surveys, web communities, forums and social media as a corporate asset. Attensity listens to, analyzes, relates, and helps you act on …

The Purpose of this Meetup Group is to work with Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners to use Web 2.0 and Social Media to Webify their businesses. In today's world, Entrepreneurs must utilize the tools now available to be successful. We will be using Patrick Schwerdtfeger's book, WEBIFY YOUR BUSINESS, a comprehensive and detailed marketing road map, as our guide to your success in Web 2.0 Marketing. Some of what we will cover is: - Using Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and other social media site …

This group is for founders of start-ups that are looking to raise initial angel, seed or Tier 1 venture funding. This group also welcome Investors and Fundraising consultants. This group is managed by the Startups & Societal Ventures Network (SSVN), headquartered in central Central Silicon Valley (USA) Welcome to the SSV Network! The "Startups & Societal Ventures" Network http://www.ssvnetwork.com Discuss: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=48286 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSVNetwo …

Social Media is not just a fad, It is here to stay!   The group is designed to help small business owners who are unfamiliar with social media and how it can be utilized to increase sales, extend you brand and better communicate with your clients and customers. Most people when they think of Social Media think of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn adn YouTube, but it is also much more than that, It is utilizing the interactive features of what is called "Web 2.0 We will be sharing business ideas, m …

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Mobile China Forum is an open  community in the mobile industry in Silicon Valley. Mobile China Forum provides valuable information exchange for Mobile & App ecosystem cross China to Silicon Valley, from developers, entrepreneurs, leaders, visionaries; from Apps, platforms, devices, platforms, solutions, tools, to startups. Mobile China Forum holds various event activities and opportunities for members to meet with leaders in the China and USA, including mobile internet leaders, app experts, sol …

Internet marketing is an exciting and rewarding field. Powerful new tools and technologies allow even the smallest businesses access to global markets and potentially huge profits. Unfortunately there's also plenty of hype and misinformation around. What really works? How do you separate the solid techniques from the snake oil? And given all the possible things you could do to promote a business online, what should you FOCUS on? We'll explore best practices in email marketing, searc …

The Designers' Education and Resource Forum's mission is to provide a resource for intellectual and practical education and discussion geared to enhancing the businesses of designers of various types. This professional group is ideal for: interior designers fabric designers                     residential and commercial construction designers                                home and garden           designers of windows            designers of doors, flooring, furniture              …

All of us are working hard to make our products/companies successful. Any small help goes long way, but is it really easy to find someone who can help you and your business? Meetup Angels tries to bring those helps in small, but in multiple quantities to you. Meetup Angels help you in getting your product popular on social media, attract more visitors to your website, to spread words about your product, bring together like minded people and build a strong network. In our meetup, we talk less, do …

This is meetup group for Intuit QuickBooks for Mac. We don't get out of our office in Mountain View, CA very often (we're writing all that code!). But when we do, we'd love to meet you, answer any questions, or just say "hi." If you're a small business owner using a Mac, whether you're a current user or not, please join to find out about our Meetups. And we love our Intuit ProAdvisors, too! Even if you're on QuickBooks for Windows, if you have Mac clients, you may have questions for us. You can …

Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

LocalBizNetwork, LLC is an organization for small business owners. We teach small business owners web marketing. Our teachers are good at using everyday analogies to explain concepts in Internet Marketing. In this 2 hour intensive course you will learn: * Learn how to setup your website for your business * What is CPC? * How much should you spend on Internet Marketing? * What are Landing pages? What are Link Exchanges? * What is Social Media marketing? * What is Tw …

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Club A subgroup of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs SVETC is a chartered Toastmasters club. We meet every Thursday from noon to 1:30pm for our standard toastmaster meeting. We provide also monthly open-house meeting with additional networking sessions for entrepreneurs, startup business partners, investors and general public. All guests are welcome to all of our weekly and monthly meetings as well as all other events. We are non-profit educational organizati …

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Happiness comes from deep within, and not from people, situations, or circumstances. According to Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego: “When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends’ friends, and his frien …