Our Wisconsin Business Owners Meetup is a “Lunch and Learn” held on the last Friday of the month from January through October and the 1st Friday in December.

Please note our special date, December 4th, and location for this Lunch & Learn at:

Bubs Irish Pub
N116 W16218 Main Street
Germantown, WI 53022
http://BubsIrishPub.com

Click here for directions to Bubs Irish Pub

Twitterific!

Twitter Dynamo Sonny Ahuja, owner of Milwaukee Perfumes shares the following: (written in “twitterease”)

Right now there are 2 main q’s on most biz owners minds – 1) How to make money & 2) how to grow their list.

Sonny will be showing us live on-screen how to do both.  So you can safely say:

How to grow your fans/customers list & Make Money from them using Twitter for FREE!

or Find out how I have increased my online business in a down turn economy?

Sonny will be showing from scratch

- How to set up your profile

- How to get a twitter background that gets you more followers

- How to optimize your landing page

- Where to find content to tweet and make you look like a guru in your field for your followers/fans

- How to make connections and have others help promote your business for Free

- How to do keyword research on twitter and target their audience and eventually sell to them

- How to set up a blog and monetize it by sending traffic to it via twitter etc etc.

Sonny enjoys over 28,000 followers at http://twitter.com/sonnyahuja
His wife enjoys over 29,000 followers at http://twitter.com/amiahuja
One of the places to find his perfumes is at http://www.PerfumesMilwaukee.com

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Fee covers all-you-can-eat buffet lunch with, salad bar, soft beverage and gratuity, as well as our guest speaker and networking. FREE BEER at this meetup!

11:15 NETWORKING – Come early to enjoy great conversation and early networking with other Wisconsin Business Owners.

12 noon – LUNCH – The food is GREAT!

12:35 – Speaker introductions 1:15 End…or stick around….

The host plans to linger on Friday afternoon for earnest conversation with Wisconsin Business Owners who stick around. Again, free beer at this meetup! Please remember we’re at Bubs Irish Pub this month! I’ll definitely be sticking around.

***SPEECHES ARE VIDEOTAPED – Your attendance at Wisconsin Business Owners means you may be shown on tape.

FREE drawing for artworks (a print and a framed piece) at each Lunch and Learn, courtesy of Summer Snow.
http://SummerSnowPrints.com http://SummerSnowArt.com http://SummerSnowExpressions.com

FREE drawing for a Reiki session, courtesy of Milwaukee Reiki Master Denise Gaetz. I’ve been there more than once and she’s wonderful!
http://ReikiHealingMilwaukee.com

FREE drawing for a 24″ x 36″ custom color poster, printed and mounted, courtesy of Great Impressions!, a Milwaukee graphics and printing firm. A specialty of Great Impressions is at http://FuneralProgramsOnline.com
http://GreatImpress.com

FREE drawing for a great business book courtesy of Judi Murphy, Director of Strategic Alliances at ActionCOACH of Elm Grove.

FREE drawing: http://Act4Pros.com is giving away a free copy of the latest ACT! Contact Relationship Management Program (CRM), courtesy of our sponsor (and recent featured speaker) Cheryl Muskus of Muskus Management (http://MuskusMgmt.com).

Blackberry is a national sponsor! http://na.blackberry.com/eng/campaign/business/home.jsp

Please call Keith, Kathy or Christian with suggestions or questions at 262-820-8201 or 800-747-3399

Business Owners and individuals seeking to start their own business and friends only, please.

See the message boards at http://www.meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/messages/boards/ for more resources for Wisconsin Business Owners.

I’ve updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing:
http://www.meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/calendar/11016090/
When: December 4, 2009 11:15 AM

Where:
BuBs Irish Pub
N116 W16218 Main Street
Germantown, WI 53022
262-255-1840

Price: $20.00 per person

RSVP limit: 100 “Yes” RSVPs

If the changes affect your plans to attend, please take a moment to update your RSVP. (You can RSVP “No” or “Yes”.)

You can always get in touch with me through the “Contact Organizer” link on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/suggestion/

August 28, 2009

8:00 – 11:15am

Online networking brings forth a huge opportunity of new connections. In this seminar you’ll learn about social networking sites, how to create the best profile, what sites to consider, how to link them all together, online etiquette, and more.

Walk away from this presentation with tools and tricks you can use!

* The five different types of social networking sites and how to use them
* Where you need to have a profile, for you and your company
* 21 LinkedIn Groups you should join
* Creating your own social community – why, how, and where
* What to use to bring all these sites and profiles together in one place
* What Twitter really is
* BONUS – a list of useful tools and software for different aspects of your business

Expand your network with no limitations – expand it online!

August 28, 2009, 8 am to 11:15 am

$49 Non-members

FREE to PRO members! http://PROalliances.com

Discounted to $29 for Wisconsin Business Owners Members (pay online by visiting www.MeetUp.org/Wisconsin-Business-Owners or with check to PRO Alliances)

Stay for additional networking and the Wisconsin Business Owners Lunch & Learn for only $20 additional.

Please contact PRO Alliances with suggestions or questions.

This program will be videotaped. Your presence means your consent to appear (just in case!).