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Free February Networking & Education Meeting: Denver Entrepreneurs

Optimize Your Bottom Line Through Search Engine Optimization

Please join the Denver Entrepreneurs for our February meeting including power networking and education. Mike Belasco, a local Search Engine Optimization expert, will be sharing some great information that can help all of us optimize our websites, blogs, social media platforms, press releases, etc., to get even more traffic, prospects and customers. Meeting is Thursday, February 25 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Google and other search engines work on algorithms to rank your site that are often secret. Mike Belasco has obviously broken the code helping scores of companies be ranked on the first page of Google. Founder of SEO Overflow, Mike will be talking to us about search engine optimization and why it is so important. Make sure you have the right keywords in the right places on your website, blog, social media profile, etc, Want to find out where to do keyword research? Are the meta tags still important? Your web designer may say they do SEO, but in reality do they? 

Mike will answer these questions and more to make sure you know the basics of SEO and what it takes have a successful website that is truly optimized for search engines. The next time someone says they know SEO and wants to optimize your website, you'll be able to ask them the right questions. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Denver-Entrepreneurs/calendar/12484995. Admisstion $0.00 - yes free!

Denver Entrepreneurs Unite for a Great Cause

On November 18, a dynamic group of Denver Entrepreneurs met at Slattery's Irish Pub for a great cause. Our benefactor: Food Bank of the Rockies. We raised $750 or the equivalent of 3,000 meals for folks and we had so much fun. I am honored to be the organizer for this group of business owners and friends.

Our big job for the night was a fun networking event - a people scavenger hunt - where everyone had to talk to each other to find out who had done what on the list of questions. It inspired everyone to network, talk and enjoy the company. An hour later, no one had claimed the prizes because all were busy getting to know each other. I made sure the winners got their prizes. Such a successful event - fun, networking and for a great cause.

Please visit the Denver Entrepreneurs. Our meetings are "sales free", fun and educational. We have monthly experts speaking to us on a variety of helpful topics to help us grow our business. So please join us. 

Networking for a Great Cause Happy Hour Fundraiser for Food Bank Rockies

Did you know that $1 buys four meals for people through Food Bank of the Rockies? Join the Denver Entrepreneurs at Slattery's Irish Pub, located at the Landmark Center for some hobnobbing and networking for a great cause on Wednesday, November 18th from 5pm to 8pm. Enjoy yummy appetizers (get there early) kindly  donated by Slattery's, 2 for 1 premium well drinks, house wines and selected beers (5 to 7) for our charity, Food Bank of the Rockies.

You can buy 40 meals for others through Food Bank Rockies at this networking meeting with your $10 donation. Bring plenty of cards, a smile and your entrepreneurial or friendly spirit. Please help make this a real success. All are welcome - you do not have to be a member of the Denver Entrepreneurs to attend. I'll track your name through your donation at the fund set up specifically for this event. 

Our goal: We can raise enough money to provide one meal for 3,000 people - now that's a lot of meals. Bring friends and please RSVP by November 11. Slattery's would like a head count to provide their usual excellent service.

To make this event even more fun than the usual happy hour share your business cards, pick up more business cards, shake more hands, we'll be holding a low-keyed, short, fun networking event with prizes.

Want to donate a prize? Please let me know. Here' our Denver Entrepreneur Meetup page if you'd like more info about this dynamic group of folks.

Visit our donation page at Food Bank Rockies to make your $10 (or more) donation. Can't make it but would still like to donate?  Please visit  http://bit.ly/FoodBankRockies and thank you for your generosity - no donation is too small. If you have any questions, please contact me, Jo Guerra at 303.632.2928 or socialjo1@gmail.com.

Slattery's Irish Pub, 5364 Greenwood Village Blvd, Englewood, CO 80111, 303.741.2115. 

See my previous post on how $1 buys $10 worth of food at Food Bank of the Rockies.

Thank you so much!

Social Media Computer Workshop: How Does LinkedIn Work?

From beginner basics to advanced, this is an intensive LinkedIn hands-on workshop designed to make you comfortable in both creating your profile and learning techniques for marketing yourself. Designed for job seekers, you can still learn all about marketing yourself through this social network.

According to the recent "Social Media Revolution" video, up to 80% of employers are now looking for employees through LinkedIn. And in another article this is where the influencers are. Ready to create your profile and be found online?  Whether you have an existing business or are a job seeker, LinkedIn is the premier business social network - be seen and heard, get yourself noticed! Increase your online footprint and use new inbound marketing techniques.

In this two-part interactive computer workshop, you will learn to create a successful LinkedIn profile and join the right LinkedIn groups to shorten your job search and be found online. Learn how to market yourself or your business and find power partners and prospects. Learn to grow your network the easy way and join the right LinkedIn groups. Update your status to look like the expert you are in your field and network the right way and much more. 

Join me two Saturdays, October 31 and November 7, 9am to 11:30am at Colorado Free University, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, CO 80230 for this two part hands-on computer workshop. Call Colorado Free University at 303.399.0093 to register for Class #3349AL or register online at CFU.

Google 10 Pack - Get Prime Real Estate on Local Search - Denver Entrepreneur Meetup

If you've never visited the Denver Entrepreneur Meetup and you're a local Colorado company, this is the month. Or if you haven't attended recently our next meeting is Thursday, October 22 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Englewood Public Library, Englewood, CO. Please join the group to RSVP. Information is below.

Here's a description of our meeting: According to Mary Bowling in a ClickZ article, "Even newcomers to local search recognize the Google 10 pack. When a searcher types in a query that Google interprets as a quest for something nearby, Google returns 10 very obvious Local Business Listings (listed as A through J) in the results. These appear adjacent to an eye-catching map and are usually just beneath the sponsored ads at the top of the page and above the organic Universal Search results." The Google Ten Pack is considered “prime real estate." But what is it that those ten sites have that yours might not have?

Our speaker, Liz Hamilton with Maia Internet Consulting, an expert in internet marketing, will explain what the Google 10 Pack is, how to claim and enhance your listing to give you a jump start on your competition. You’ll want to RSVP early. But please remember, even though this meeting is free and you don't lose anything if you don't show up (except not being able to RSVP for future meetings until the day of), please be considerate of others if your plans change. Free does not mean "no value". This speaker is incredible and she normally charges a lot for her services - yet loves teaching others like us.

If you're not a member, please visit the Denver Entrepreneur Meetup to join and for more information on this meeting and our members. Our meetings take place in a "Sale Free Zone", so you won't be hustled. It's all about support, networking (relationship building),education and fun.