Venture Fridays! is a happy hour bringing the micro business culture and investment community together. It introduces small business owners to local investors, lenders, service providers, and other small business owners in their area, while providing an informal atmosphere to discuss their small business financing, development, and other needs and concerns. Creating, funding, and launching a small business today is no easy feat - not to mention trying to grow an existing one! We understand the c …

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 …

A networking group for multi-cultural mature, sophisticated, successful business men, women & entrepreneurs to socialize, meet progressive people & share business ideas & services with like minded individuals while enjoying the sounds of both recorded and live Smooth Jazz at weekly events. We provide a chic, elegant atmosphere, delicious cuisine and great service with a large international and domestic wines selection. Hosted by Jay Lang of Smooth Jazz 88.1 WHOV each Wednesday from 5-8pm various …

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.

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.

Quarterly meetings for small business owners, entreprenuers and individuals going through a career transition. Focus on networking, career development, educational opputunities and information. Goal is for like minded people to come together to share information, get/recieve referrals and build partnership/collaboration within the business/career development community.

We are Hampton Roads Business Builders! We are a chapter of BNI that meets every Thursday morning from 8:30am-10:00am for the purposes of exchanging business referrals. We are committed to the growth each other’s business and we are always looking for new members. How do you benefit? By increasing your business through a structured "Word of Mouth" Networking system! Being in BNI is like having up to 40 or more sales people carrying your cards and referring your business.

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

… 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 …

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.

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.

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 …

We are a group of authors, bloggers, and entrepreneurs who are interested in learning more about using Wordpress to convey our creative ideas! Please join us if you are a beginner, a novice or an expert at Wordpress or any form of blogging! Web developers, designers, codies, and geeks get special seats of honor at the Wordpress roundtable. Bring a laptop with wifi if you have one--and above all, please be willing to share what you know so far!

Vision We will be recognized as the premier organization serving the interests of local retailers in Greater Hampton Roads. Strategic Goals Association Services: To provide dependably, responsive and uncompromising services and products to retailers in South Hampton Roads that will enhance their opportunities for success and contribute to the economic health of the region. Advocacy: To represent and advocate for the interests of locally-owned retailers before local and state legislative and regu …

Why is it so hard, impolite, or intrusive to talk about money? We as women can talk about everything under the sun, from what we watched last nite, to what we did last nite, to who we did it with (hahaha!!), but when it comes to discussing that cashflow, mulah, or chedda, its like hearing crickets in the background! I'm starting this group becuz i'm tired of money being such a taboo subject, especially since, we are surrounded by it, or have some type of dealings with it daily. I'm on a journey …

VIF is a non-profit organization of entrepreneurs, inventors, imagineers, educators and those who help inventors and others showcase new technology. VIF connects members to resources that can guide and inspire the invention process, thereby creating successful commercial ventures. We are a member of the United Inventors Association (UIA), a national organization of many inventor support groups across America. We invite you to join us. www.virginiainventors.org. For more information, please …