Hello there! Do you own a small*, LOCAL company based within 50 miles of Philadelphia? If you own a franchise, do you keep more than ~75% of the profits? If you sell/distribute products, do at least ~25% of your supplies come from LOCAL companies? If you sell/offer services, are at least ~25% of your clients also LOCAL?   OR, do you consider yourself to be a LOCAL entrepreneur or independent consultant? If you're a network marketing affiliate, do you keep more than ~50% of all your sales? …

Are your friends and family tired of hearing you go on and on about .NET, Firewalls, Scrum and Oracle? If so, then this is the group for you. Come bore us with your technology chatter....we love it!

This group is a way to network with other consultants, advisors and stylists who have a home-based party plan or direct sales business. Our purpose is to support each other, share ideas and training. Anyone who either already has a home-based business or who is looking to start one should join.

… If you need referrals, have less than perfect marketing systems in place, don't have the budget to hire an expensive marketing consultant, then come join a bunch of do-it-yourselfers who share this common need. We need a steady stream of new referrals coming into our business. We don't want to feel like sales people. We need to build solid relationships with our customers, clients and referral sources. Come and add your brain to the brain storming mix. We need to find the best, least expensive a …

This meet up was created and designed to provide a venue to network with other direct sales consultants. At events we will network with others, learn about other businesses, brainstorm ideas, and help each other grow! We will also learn from leaders in the industry, business coaches and top performers.

… Our members Include: International Business Owners/Professionals Local/Foreign Government Agencies for International Trade and Investment International Marketing Professionals International Business Consultants Foreign Direct Investor & Financial Institutes

Non-profits and activists around Philadelphia are increasingly using the web and social software to foster social change. Join Philly NetSquared as we bring together web innovators and social changemakers to socialize, strategize, learn from and inspire one another. For more info, including past Net Tuesday presentations, check out our site at http://phillynetsquared.org. NetSquared is a national organization (http://www.netsquared.org/) with chapters in many cities. Net Tuesdays are independent …

… FashionBulas also provides events for upcoming and emerging Fashion Designers, Buyers, Independent Consultants, Makeup artists, Models Photographers to network and connect with at our upcoming events and opportunties come join us.   Our soiree''s include traveling to area cities your ideas and suggestions are always welcome here for this group  that's whats makes it the best our group is what you make it. If you know of any upcoming coming events let us know about we will be happy to attend so D …

The Philadelphia Standards Organization is a grass roots collective of designers, developers, and internet consultants promoting the use of Web Standards through education and collaboration in the Philadelphia region.

… She is a self-healing educator trained at the School for Self Healing, a children’s yoga teacher and anusara-inspired adult yoga teacher, nutritional consultant with training from the Open Center for Holistic Health in NYC, and experience in Energy Kinesiology for stress relief with training from the International College of Healing Arts. A dancer by heart with great enthusiasm for living freely, Erika hosts seminars and one-on-one retreats with people around the world, integrating transformatio …

This is where Bookkeepers, Accountants and QuickBooks Consultants and Trainers gather to compare notes, support one another and share a cup of coffee to start the day off right! While we discuss the technical side of untangling snags with QuickBooks and best practices, we also discuss the business development side of running a QuickBooks-focused practice. In short, we assist one another and brainstorm together in a way that just cannot be done online. If you are a QuickBooks ProAdvisor (or want …

… Additionally, positive psychology practitioners, coaches, consultants, therapists and educators have an opportunity to network and exchange best-practices. We meet in various parts of the Philadelphia region and our meetings will always be focused on the science of happiness and the practice of positive psychology. This is a new group and our initial meetup was in August, 2009.

Meet with a wide variety of new media artists, designers, , programmers, social media consultants, writers, audio/video engineers and theorists. Gather and discuss the the latest on the information revolution!

We think you will agree, from job search to career management, the world of work is not what it used to be. The Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group, provides members with the information, support and tools they need to take charge of their careers, find jobs they love and earn what they deserve. Led by two Philadelphia based, nationally recognized career management experts (profiles below), the Philadelphia Area Great Career Group is all about improving the work experience of professionals in …

SoulCollage® is an intuitive, imaginative, creative process that is a lot of fun. If you can use scissors and a glue stick you can do it! No artistic experience necessary. Participants create their own deck of SoulCollage® cards with images they choose from provided supplies. The cards become a form of visual memoir, giving expression to your unique story, in all its complexity and beauty. You will learn to consult your very own cards for guidance, wisdom, and self-discovery! SoulCollage® Sunday …

This group is for people who perform technical knowledge transfer as part of their job. This could be in the form of formal training classes, adhoc training sessions for co-workers, knowledge transfer as part the presales or post-sales process, etc... Let's get together and share ideas around effective technical knowledge transfer.