This is a group for Small Business Owners who are looking for Marketing Tools, Resources, and Knowledge to grow their business.

We are a group looking to hold monthly meet ups to discuss various printing and design strategies with local area small and medium sized business owners, marketing and direct mail marketing professionals. We also welcome any graphic design professionals or graphic design students that want to connect with other area business professionals and pick up any print design tips, and gain a few networking leads along the way. We will discuss varying topics regarding print from month to month. We will d …

Have a book that's ready to publish? Want to learn more about how self-publishing works? Have you discovered great tactics for marketing your books, and want to share with other authors who have done the same? Then this group is for you! We do NOT focus on the writing process; rather, the purpose of this group is to connect with other authors who have finished their books and are now hard at work with the self-publishing process.

An open forum for businesses to network and interact with other local businesses. There is a business or marketing related topic at every meeting. The goal is to have a venue where business people can interact and share experiences and challenges. Our mantra is: Come to Teach and Come to Learn

CLOSED TO NEW MEMBERS. Yes, you read that correctly - this group is CLOSED to new members. We are a group formed in 1994 by savvy, entrepreneurial, educated women friends interested in learning more about about money management, the stock market and investing.  We continue to learn together as we grow our portfolio!

Ever wonder how much money could be made selling Life Insurance or Annuities? The Life Insurance Pro hosts workshops for new and prospective agents! In our meetups, we reveal the secrets of how to make REAL money working only part time and evenings selling the most competitive products our industry has to offer! We REVEAL it ALL! We talk Commissions, We talk Marketing, We talk products. We get real SPECIFIC and lay out a blue print for success for ANY new agent. If you are looking to make extra …

This is a group that gets together to discuss investments and the week's Market activity. It's open to individual investors looking to discuss investments, provide their insights and learn from the insights of others.

This is a networking group for those involved in metaphysical, healing, metaphysical shop, services strictly for the metaphysical community and related businesses. THIS IS NOT FOR NETWORK MARKETING, THOSE TRYING TO SELL TO BUSINESS OWNERS OR THOSE WITH A MORE "MAINSTREAM" BUSINESS. We provide a place to network and a business related workshop each month. Come and join us Tarot Readers, Reiki Healers, Wiccan Wedding Officiants and more. We look forward to meeting you.

Do you want to start your own business but don’t know where to begin or are afraid to take the first step? Do you have a business but want to grow your company and opportunities by networking and being around like-minded professionals? This meetup group is called Small Business Outlet because we will provide you with the "know how" to effectively start, run your small business, and network with other great minds like yours. There are many meetup groups geared towards empowerment and networking …

It's ALL About "Connecting". Each new relationship presents an opportunity for enrichment, growth and significant advancement in life. "Connecting" with the Right People is what defines a GREAT Network and we continually "Attract" the Right People to our group. Our Group here on Meet Up is a GREAT way for you to Expose your Business and Personal Philosophies Join us as we continue to "Connect" with one another and with other entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Northside Wine Collection Club is an established form of alternative investment that can offer impressive returns. The wine market is based upon simple supply and demand economics. Bordeaux has the most stable financial market of all wine producing regions, while in each decade only 3-4 vintages out of every 10 have wines of a high enough quality for investment purposes. A chateau can only produce a unique and finite amount of wine each year. As this is happening the wine is maturing and becomin …

Meet other local Women who work at growing their business. Gather with women who are willing to take on a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome. Decision makers for their business investment. Actively build a team to reach goals, through referrals, marketing tactics, and education. Women who create value by offering a product or service, by carving out a niche in the market that may not exist currently. Entrepreneurs tend to identify a market opportunity and e …

The Northshore Wordpress Group is a fun-loving, community-oriented group dedicated exclusively to WordPress. This group includes both beginners and advanced users. As you may know, Wordpress is perhaps the easiest-to-use CMS ("Content Management System"). The whole point of a CMS (Content Management System) is that virtually anybody -- even a person with absolutely no knowledge of programming or web-design whatsoever -- can virtually immediately start creating his or her own website. Wordpress a …

We are business owners, executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs, gathering to gain knowledge, skills, and strategies to grow our businesses, and increase our circle of colleagues and friends. IBON is  designed to be an affordable, functional and FACE TO FACE way to network with others business owners. This allows you to effectively network, share ideas, and create synergies that will help your business grow and prosper. You will speak in a round table format. .. Not  typical leads group; each mo …

Welcome, Our club is all about becoming better self directed investors and traders. Our main focus is in educating ourselves on how to self manage investment accounts such as 401Ks and IRAs and  how to trade for a living. As our club matures, our original goal of providing support and of sharing our gained knowledge remains our tenet. Our most significant learning to date is that successful investing and trading requires hard work and that Financial Prosperity comes only with the proper unders …

Our goal for the group is to bring eBay & e-commerce sellers and potential sellers together and to learn from each other. We enjoy hearing about your interests and discovering new ways to research and sell products. We all have something to contribute to help us succeed. Come out and bring your ideas. Let's help each other out! This is not a get-rich scheme we are serious eBay and e-commerce business owners. We all strive to be the best and most successful e-commerce sellers. My wife and I are e …

The Chicagoland Event Planners Networking Group is dedicated to helping professionals with career and business development. Our members are provided with tools to grow and promote business relationships, create and develop leads and contacts, and continue on a successful career path. BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP As a member, you have the opportunity to connect with other professionals locally and nationwide to exchange ideas, provide and receive mentoring support or to discuss opportunities. Establis …

Are you a business professional? Do you travel on business? Do you love to socialize and network? Then this is the group for you! Business Traveler Social is designed to be THE social network for business travelers. Look to this group for social networking events called "event socials" once per month at Chicago at hotels and venues downtown, near convention centers and airports. Our attendees are business professionals that travel frequently and are looking to socialize and network with their …

In Chicago, there are millions of Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners ready to network and engage in business with others. A business network like this has been anticipated for some time now and we are now in existance... welcome to the Chicago NEW RICH Professional Networking Club. Mission: To empower Professionals & Entrepreneurs through networking, social and business connections. Who are we?: A networking group of upscale business professionals, entrepreneurs an …

About BuddyPress BuddyPress is a robust WordPress plugin that can transform WordPress into a fully featured social networking platform. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Out of the box, users can create profiles, befriend one another, send private messages, form and join groups, follow activity streams, create blogs, and participate in forum discussions. But the best part about BuddyPress is that i …

Chicagoland Business Networking Group

SYOB - EXPO (Start Your Own Business - Expo) was created for you the Entrepreneur at heart. The purpose of the group is to help you promote, develop and grow your business. No matter how hard you work, you cannot live up to your full potential as an entrepreneur operating in total isolation. Even if you are not a social-preneur by nature attending business events can accomplish four key things to help you both personally and professionally: Educational Benefits in Networking: You will likely lea …

Any Chicago Bloggers are welcome. If you have been blogging and need SEO tips, if you want to blog and need encouragement. If you just need to get out and meet some other bloggers in real life. The meetings feature a big group discussion, a "show and critique" time, and then some networking and one on one time. Currently we are meeting at Columbia College Chicago because we have network availability, computers, and it is a central location. Arvan and I are looking for suggestions for other meeti …

Meet and mingle with local Japanese language and culture lovers! Come to a Japanese Language Meetup to practice speaking Japanese, and talk about Japan and Japanese culture. All ages and levels welcome. Group Members are encouraged to join from areas surrounding Arlington Heights, IL and specifically the Mitsuwa shopping center as a prefered venue. Nihongo to nihon no bunka suki hito wo majimasu. Nihongo Meetup e nihon to nihongo to nihonbunka wo hanashimashou. Minasan irrashaimase.

The Chicago Rebel Craft League is a meetup group organized to inspire women who love arts and crafts of all kinds and have different interests and passions to get together to create, share, talk and learn about art... If you'd like to get together to craft, get inspired, and learn from others with a DIY aesthetic, then this group is for you! We will have open studio time where you can just come, hang out, create and have fun, and more specific classes where we will do projects together. Ideall …

Community Coach Café (CCC) description: Community Coach Cafes are small “Master Mind” groups of People interested in social and business collaboration, learning and development of their mutual group objectives. Vision • Transforming personal and professional potential into accelerated forward action Mission • To build an intimate network of small groups wanting a thought-provoking and creative process to educate, support and challenge each other to become more enabled coaches, entrepre …

If you are a representative/consultant of a home based direct sales/party plan business (i.e. Mary Kay, Tupperware, etc.) in the Chicago area and would like to network with other vendors then the Chicago Vendors Network is the place for you. The goals of Chicago Vendors Network is to 1) connect with vendors of various companies for sharing ideas & 2) Share and hold events in the Chicago area in order to showcase our companies and expand our businesses by reaching new customers and potential recr …