The Network Hub

Networking your way to success

To do business you must connect, and the best way to connect is through networking. Just putting up a website or printing business cards is no more effective than putting a sign in the front yard. Networking puts a face on your brand.

Who’s afraid of networking?

Life is about connections. Business doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it happens between people. Networking is a key function in almost every business and career, so what keeps us from doing it? Perhaps it’s our lack of understanding of the networking process. Or maybe it’s our fears, many unfounded, about doing it just right. Here [...]

Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup Pictures

Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup for June 2009 was our last hoorah before we retire for the summer and it was the biggest Meetup of Meetups ever. We joined SEVEN OTHER MEETUPS at Ceilis Irish Pub and wow, it was crowded.

Confessions of an entrepreneur I

At last week’s Meetup of Meetups, I had a chance to kick my feet up early and catch up with some keen entrepreneurs who came earlier to the event. A question was posed to me… what was one of the disadvantages of starting a business when I was so young? I had to think about it… perhaps because my second Budweiser Lime Light got my mind a little hazy but off the top of my head and maybe because of the social event we were about to have, I exclaimed, “You lose friends and you lose them fast!”

Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup Pictures

With 159 people who RSVPed for Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup May 09 to hear Tyler Wright from MegaWatt PR speak, we are bound to have some good times and some great pictures.

Here they are, enjoy!

Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup – May 09

Over 160 Vancouver entrepreneurs gathered with over 60 on the waiting list to hear Tyler Wright of Megawatt PR talk about how to find “The Story Behind the Story” and what companies NEED to do to break away from the pack.
In 2002, Tyler Wright was re-hired by 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s Founder, Brian Scudamore ‘to do something.’ Tyler’s [...]

Networking 101

After two years or so of hosting the Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup, I have a few simple suggestions for people when it comes to networking.