Marketing today versus marketing 10 years ago has dramatically changed. CMOs and VPs of Marketing are now expected to do more than create awareness, analyze competition, and create their go-to-market strategies. They are increasingly expected to drive pipeline and prove it too! This is a huge win for Marketing as it is changing the perception of the department across companies. They are being seen more and more of a revenue generator, rather than a cost center. Because of this, Marketers are bec …

The San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association is the leading organization for professional and student marketers in the Bay Area. Founded in 1937, our chapter reflects the innovation, standards of excellence, and industry and population diversity for which the Bay Area is known and celebrated. Our goal is to advance our members’ professional capabilities and career development opportunities, while connecting with the leading-edge Bay Area marketing professionals.

The Location Based Marketing Association of SF is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media. Our goal is simple; To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. Members of the LBMA include retailers, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless co …

Get together with affiliate marketers, entrepreneurs, and super affiliates in your area! Meetup202 is a casual gathering for affiliates to stay updated with the latest happenings in the industry and network with others. Discuss key strategies and share ideas in the affiliate marketing space, such as PPC, PPV, Media buys and Marketing tactics. These meetings provide food, drinks, internet access, and an opportunity to collaborate and associate with like minded individuals who are looking to meet …

Are you a marketer looking to apply the Agile principles & process your developers rave about? You've come to the right place. The Agile Marketing meetup will serve as a place to learn from and network with other pioneers in the Agile Marketing field.

Come and meet other bright, ambitious internet marketers! Find new business partners, share innovative marketing strategies, find co-working buddies, talk about what worked and what didn't work, talk about your super-secret traffic sources, share victory stories or get help on your current challenges. This meetup is perfect for: Affiliate marketers Infoproduct entrepreneurs SEM / SEO specialists Bloggers Passive income builders Mini site empire owners eCommerce store owners Website flippers & d …

Social Media Marketing, Monitoring and Engagement, San Francisco will bring together leading marketing experts, brands, agencies and journalists for educational and network events in San Francisco. This group is for: PR & Communications Managers Marketing Strategists & Directors Social Media Experts Bloggers & Journalists. Here is a video of our of out events.

We aim to provide an extremely high value networking environment for seasoned bay area performance marketing veterans. We will do this by only allowing certain people who have a good amount of experience in our industry to join. This is not a group for anyone who is new and just looking to learn about our industry. Although we are happy to have industry veterans from other parts of the internet advertising realm join us, our group will be primarily focused on performance based marketing; affilia …

San Francisco Marketing Professionals is a local working group for all interested Search Engine Marketing professionals located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We hold regular events that offer educational and networking opportunities for local SEM professionals. Events are open to all local SEM professionals. Our highly rated events attract Search Engine Marketers from many high profile companies such as Gap, Macy's, Saleforce.com, Google, CNET, Microsoft, Apple, and more.

Calling all Marketers working in startups in San Francisco. Let's get together and share our experiences while drinking a cold beer!

Event Marketing Rockstars is all about bringing together creative minds that love event marketing and event promotion. Join our group to share your own successes (and failures), meet other inspired individuals and learn from each others' experiences. Together, we will all improve our skills and be exactly what you want, an event marketing Rockstar! Each meetup we'll pick a new topic and have event marketers present their ideas and lessons learned. Our meetups will not just be educational, they'l …

Hey folks! I love Marketing- San Francisco is a group of like-minded business owners who.....well, LOVE MARKETING. This group is for folks who listen to the I love Marketing Podcast (www.ILoveMarketing.com) and want to get together and discuss marketing challenges, strategies and opportunities.

This is a group for entrepreneurs interested in marketing their small businesses through social media, social media experts interested in sharing best practices, and social media application developers interested in sharing their tools with the East Bay community. Our goal is to make the East Bay a hub for social media marketing innovation. Small Business Owners + Social Media Experts + Application Developers = Business Success in the East Bay

Join the Online Marketing Institute, the leader in Digital Marketing Education and Rocketspace, San Francisco's top start up destination, for a provocative networking and thought leadership series. We'll start with a 30 - 40 min discussion with a Bay Area digital marketing leader. After a moderated question and answer, we'll mix and mingle over drinks.

This group is for people who own a marketing company or work in marketing for an internet company. Each meeting we will either have a guest speaker or a topic of interest that we share our findings on. The purpose is for us all to reach larger, more targeted audiences through access to a true community of thought leaders in the field of marketing. I'm really excited to meet all of you.

Facebook Outlet is an knowledge community dedicated to learning and exchanging ideas about Facebook marketing. Whether you are a business marketer, non-profit organizer or event planner, we welcome you to join us and learn new ways to organize communities, reach new customers and engage more productively with your customers or members. Our events and discussions focus on how you can gain insight, build advocacy groups and open new revenue streams through Facebook's social network. At our regula …

MLM or Network Marketing is one of the few industries actually growing in the global recession. There are over 16 million MLM Reps in the U.S. and some 50 million worldwide generating over $125 Billion in company revenues. Yet only about 5% of Reps or Distributors are making good to great incomes. Be one of the successful ones! This Group is for veteran MLM Practitioners, "newbies" and those looking for part-time or new income opportunities.

We are a community of Internet Marketing enthusiasts helping each other learn ways to successful money makers online by way of "How To" workshops,  Master Mind Meeting (Novice to Experts) Guest Speakers etc... All are Welcome!

Are you an expert or specialist in marketing ? Have you wanted to participate in an exciting and fun social meetups? You have come to the right place. Stay tuned for more updates and events.

Welcome all Bay Area Massage Therapist in solo or small group practice -- this group is for you! As a small business owner, you might be wondering about the best ways to grow and run your practice. You may want to brainstorm on a new marketing idea, or need a partner to participate in an event. Your host is Irene Diamond, RT inductee in the World Massage Hall of Fame, and founder of the best-known internationally acclaimed online business success resource for massage therapists whose goal is to …

Check out the #leancontent website for videos of our events and more content. The concept of “lean content” is an evolution of content development and content marketing strategies. Lean Content focuses on developing value-adding, modern web media around a central thematic element as defined by a content strategy. What is produced can be translated across media types (ex. A blog can turn into an infographic, into a podcast) and distributed effectively and efficiently with specific focus on the so …

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

We're tired of talking among ourselves about all thinks digital marketing. We need to hear form the outside world. Come and share your thoughts with us on digital marketing - SEM, SEO, PPC, display, mobile, web site development, etc. Bring your strategic game, because that's where we like to start.

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

This is a networking group for advertising account planners, strategists, market researchers and marketing professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the counterpart to the LinkedIn group.

Let's come together and collaborate to build great businesses! Are you looking for a strategic business partner - perhaps someone in a business complementary to yours,  where you provide a different product or service, but you both target the same customer demographic. Why not work together for the benefit of both of you? Or maybe you're ready for growth, but lack the skill set to take you to the next level - are you great at managing operations, but not so great at marketing - and gee, wouldn't …

We are all about going viral.  We discuss viral marketing tools, strategy and techniques on  making a business / video / book / app to gain viral growth. We invite experts to teach us and we share ideas.  Join SF Viral to gain knowledge in promoting your projects online and offline!

The San Francisco SEO Meetup is an SEO and online marketing group for anyone interested in search engine optimization and digital marketing in the bay area. The goal is to connect interesting, like-minded people in the city and the rest of the bay area. You'll have a chance to meet other internet marketing professionals in and around San Francisco, and learn a little more about what they do. We network, meet interesting people, and usually drink. If you're personally or professionally involved i …