Meet other local executives to discuss topics of the day in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovations, Enterprise 2.0 , Social Enterprise , Social CRM , Social Media , Social Networking and Technology spaces. You can become a fan of our Social CRM facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/SocialCRMWorl ...  and join our group on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=25 ...  where we also post job openings, have discussions and read news. Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/glfceo . …

This Meetup is designed to match marketing professionals with individuals interested in participating in Webinars. If you like learning through Webinars or you have a Webinar you want to let folks know about, this is the Meetup for you. If you want to learn through Webinars, please just sign up and we'll send "Approved" webinar notifications to you. If you have a Webinar you want to advertise, please send an e-mail to the orginizer with the details you want to share.

My name is Steve Browne and I wrote the book TRACTION to help early stage entrepreneurs get the whole "sales thing" right. This meetup was requested by people who have read the book and wanted to discuss my sales methodology in more depth. I have 20 years experience in B2B sales at startups (and larger organizations). I've developed a methodology which combines targeted marketing and value-based selling to allow startups to achieve sustained revenue growth. I've also created a blog to suppl …

We will participate in regular business and social networking events in collaboration with other meetup groups.  These events are great opportunities to meet and connect with entrepreneurs, financiers, technologists, tech executives, Internet consultants, and other movers and shakers in Silicon Valley. This meetup is geared towards small business owners, self-employed professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to maximize ROI for their advertising dollars. This is where small business ow …

Welcome Twitter Developers!!! Come join us to share your twitter apps and to collaborate with other twitter app developers to integrate and build upon each other's apps. This will be an open BarCamp style learning environment where we can learn the latest in the twitter app development world. If you are reading this and are interested in organizing a twitter meetup in your local area, please contact @sujamthe Twitter apps are coming out daily from everywhere, so we want to create a way with twit …

Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. 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. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

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 …

If you've always wanted to get a book published and didn't know how, this meetup group will teach you the steps. · Learn how to pitch your book at a conference · Demystify the query letter and get steps on how to write one · Develop your author platform before you are even published We'll explore traditional publishing and self-publishing, and everything in between, and break down the right publishing steps for you into manageable chunks so you can integrate writing and publishing into your dail …

EcoTuesday is a structured networking event for sustainable business leaders that takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in cities across the country. Here's a brief outline of what takes place at each event: * Arrive at the venue, settle in, and meet new people * Learn about the cutting edges of sustainable business from an expert * Quickly introduce yourself & your project to a roomful of people * Network with people you learned about during the Introduction Circle EcoTuesday is o …

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

This is an experimental subset of the Bay Area Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup group. It's QS in the valley - an eclectic exploration of self-tracking - geotracking, life-logging, DNA sequencing, etc. - to gain more knowledge about yourself.  If you have a self-tracking story to share or want to come and learn and be inspired, join us! Topics include, but are not limited to: • Aging in Place Technology • Behavior change and monitoring • Caregiving of digital patients • Chemical Body Load Counts …

SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers. I …

This supportive group will follow the format towards a happier life as laid out by Gretchen Rubin in her book, "The Happiness Project". We will also consult her blog located at http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/. Members may join at any time. All I ask is that you read the book before joining and come prepared to meet at least one goal towards furthering your own happiness!! Meetings will begin on a bi-monthly basis however we can meet more often as needed to support each others …

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

Capital Engineering is a group about how we can use technology to bring order to the chaos of finance. It's a group for mobile, web and back-end developers and designers to learn and share their knowledge of building large, multi-client cloud-based systems. Things like architecting single page apps, advanced charting for mobile and Amazon's simple notification service are par for the course, which will typically be a two part talk complemented by food and drink. At Personal Capital we have devel …

This is a group for start up marketeers to share experiences about Inbound Marketing. I've learned effective Inbound Marketing from others and have learned it is cheaper for us to make it easy for our future customers to find us than it is for us go out and find out future customers. I've personally done this and I know others who have as well. Whether you wish to learn or share, I welcome your participation.

This is a group for anyone involved in marketing activities who is looking to generate quality leads via the Internet. I've learned a lot about this in the past 2 1/2 years. I will share what I know and I in turn wish to learn from your experiences.