February 16th, 2011 Networking Event

Save the Date: When: Wednesday February 16th, 7:00-9:30pm Where: The Wine Artist: 21064 Bake Parkway, Lake Forest, CA 92630 Who: You, your friends, colleagues, or bring a date… We welcome new folks and anyone who would like to attend and check out our community. Each guest attending must register. What: Networking & Special Guest Speaker… [...]

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Seth Godin: March 2nd, 2011

Arrival instructions: No Walk-in’s. You must be registered to attend. If you registered and have your ticket, we’ll see you Wednesday, March 2nd! Some of Orange County’s top talent (which includes you) will be in attendance, not to mention the guest of honor Seth Godin. It’s going to be a great night with inspiring words [...]

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How to Find New Customers Using the Lastest Mobile and Location-Based Social Media Tools

What: Networking + Expert Business Instruction You’ll meet some of the top talent and Orange County and learn how to find new customers (or get your business found) using the latest social tools. If you’re not using geo-targeting or location-based systems you’re probably wasting time and advertising dollars…Hear it straight from one of the country’s [...]

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How to Get the Biggest Returns from Caring About Your Customers the Most

What: Networking + Expert Business Instruction You’ll meet some of the top talent in Orange County and learn how to get the biggest returns from caring about your customers the most…Hear it straight from one of the country’s foremost experts on the subject, author Gary Vaynerchuk, who we’re flying in for one night only for [...]

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Bryan’s Local List

Hi everyone, You asked for it and it’s finally ready! More than a year in the making and several hundred hours of blood, sweat and tears later, I’m excited to announce the launch of Bryan’s Local List. It’s not perfect or the snazziest site you’ve ever seen. But I believe that taking action and getting [...]

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Be Involved in Planning 2011…

Want to be involved in planning what we do next year? I’d love to hear from you about the kinds of things you’d like to see and do in 2011. For example: Why are you here? What are you hoping to accomplish by being a member of Linked Orange County? How can I help you? [...]

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UnMarketing

Thanks to our amazing panel [pictured from left to right: Gene Pao, VP Mktg at Fuel TV, Brentt Eads, Sr. Dir. of Mktg at ESPN, Amy Cosper, Editor-in-Chief at Entrepreneur Magazine,  and Sean Scott, Chief Shoe Maker at TOMS Shoes] and author Scott Stratten ! Leave a comment below and let me know what you [...]

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THIS IS WAR

I heard the song “THIS IS WAR” a while ago and it got me thinking about business. We are at war; these are perilous times for many of us. But I think most of the time we don’t fail because we don’t have the ability. We fail more often because we get in our own [...]

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Top 5 Ways a Networking Group Can Boost Your Biz…

I just finished Scott Stratten’s book, “UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging” so this post could  just as easily be named, “A Page From Scott Stratten’s Playbook…” This is a post about how to boost your biz… but also kind of a case study about what’s working and not working in networking groups. Okay, since you’re [...]

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10 Secrets To Successful Career and Life Networking

10 Secrets To Successful Career and Life Networking Guest Post by Tim Tyrell-Smith We’d all like to be brilliant in the practice of career networking.  But many of us aren’t comfortable doing it.  Some were never told it was important. And a few more feel like they can’t afford it.  The price of a coffee, [...]

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