Lake Houston Business Expo!
Come visit us at the Lake Houston Business Expo
We are so excited to be exhibiting in the upcoming Lake Houston Business Expo! This event is being hosted by the Lake Houston Area Chamber and the Presenting Sponsor is Insperity.
We are in booths #320 and #321 and here are some great reasons to visit us at the show:
Our Door Prize – enter for a chance to win a basketful of goodies valued at more than $500!
Become a Rock Star! We will have a photo booth complete with Rock Star backdrops, crazy hair, tattoo sleeves, sunglasses, guitars, microphones and lots of other cool stuff! A “must do” during your visit!
Our Show Special! Come make a “Video Business Card” right on location! We will have professional backdrops, lights, video camera, wireless mic, and our teleprompter – with complete editing, too! All for a Special Show Price of only $175 (that’s a $75 savings!)
The expo is on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Humble Civic Center, located at 8233 Will Clayton Parkway in Humble, Texas. It will include a Business to Business Expo, a Trade Symposium, and a Business Networking After-Hours all in one day!
The purpose of this event is to provide businesses a way to showcase what they provide, network at an After-Hours, and provide a Trade Symposium where businesses have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with potential governmental departments, large corporations, and various institutions for possible vendor requisitions and available contracts. The Symposium is sponsored by New York Life and the participating interviewers have been arranged by the Lake Houston Area Chamber’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Committee Chairman, J. P. Espinoza.
To complement the Symposium, two free seminars will be offered throughout the day. A Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Certification training class will be at 1:00 p.m. and a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification training class will be at 4:00 p.m.
The Lake Houston Business Expo will conclude with a Business After-Hours sponsored by Silversand Services at 5:00 p.m. This networking event allows professionals to connect with their peers in a relaxed setting. Attendees will enjoy food, drinks, door prizes and a cash bar as they meet and mingle with new prospective clients and share information about their business.
The Lake Houston Business Expo has been made possible by the Expo Committee, headed up by the 2012 Business Expo Chair, Tony Austin with Town Center Park Association, and the event’s Presenting Sponsor: Insperity; Gold Sponsor: The Observer Newspaper; Silver Sponsor: Iconix Marketing and Bronze Sponsors: Artistic Stitches, Houston Heart & Vascular, Lone Star College-Kingwood, Enstep Solutions and Verizon Wireless. The cost to attend any or all events is free for attendees.
For more information about the Expo, the Trade Symposium, or the Business After-Hours, check out the Lake Houston Area Chamber’s Expo website at www.LakeHoustonBusinessExpo.com.
Also – check out this video we produced for the Chamber!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Carmen, “The Publicity Diva”
P.S. I’ll post lots of pictures after the show, announce the winner of our door prize, and post more videos taken during the event!
A Virtual Networking Event!
Check out this Virtual Mingle Networking Event, on Thursday, August 18, 2011 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. (limited to 200 people).
This event is being co-facilitated by Donna Fisher, Author of Power Networking, Power Networking Nuggets, People Power, Professional Networking for Dummies and soon to-be-released Switched-on-Networking!
You dial in (with your access code) and network with lots of people (which are gathered in small groups). Then you mingle and move on to other groups. Sounds like a lot of fun, but you have to register to come!
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About this Virtual Mingle!
Virtual Networking is the latest in ease, comfort and efficiency in networking. In the comfort of your home or office (or wherever you happen to be – as long as you have your phone handy) you simply dial in to attend a network event of diverse professionals. You will be placed in a small group of 3 or 4 and given a chance to meet and connect with one another. And then you will say goodbye to that group and join another group – and on and on throughout the event – a Virtual Mingle!
You must register in advance so that we can send you the phone number and your unique access code! http://www.theminglegroup.com/event-registration/
Because of the instructional nature of the first few minutes of the call, we recommend you arrive on time!
Why Virtual Networking?
Connecting with people at a Virtual Mingle is easy, efficient, economical and fun! You don’t have to “dress up”, stock up on business cards, get out in the heat, spend time driving through traffic, or be concerned about how to approach people. Everything is taken care of.
All you do is dial in with your unique access code and voila – you connect and communicate with more people than you would connect with at a face-to-face event – and all from the comfort of your home or office. Through this leading-edge technology, you will be placed (over the phone) into small groups and given a chance to get to know each other – and then you will “mingle” and move into another small group – throughout the event.
Once you sign up you will be sent an email with the phone number and your unique access code! Sign up now and we’ll “see” you on Thursday, August 18th: http://www.theminglegroup.com/event-registration/
This event is being hosted by The Mingle Group and InHouston. Donna Fisher, author of “Power Networking” will be co-facilitating the event with Jay Kraker, founder of The Mingle Group.
Benefits of Virtual Networking:
- You are guaranteed to mingle efficiently as you are placed in groups through the technology.
- You “move around the room” in a timely manner and thus meet more people than you would likely meet at a face-to-face event.
- You are likely to meet as many people in a one-hour Virtual Mingle as you would meet in a two-hour face-to-face event.
- The time you would normally spend driving to and from the event and finding a parking place, you can now spend with family, friends, pets or on your favorite hobbies!
- You save the money you would normally spend on gas, drinks and parking.
- You get to meet and connect with people while in the comfort of your home or office.
- You save your business cards for other occasions.
- If you choose to be at a computer during the call, you can pull up the websites of the people you are meeting at the mingle.
- You can exchange information and send emails and social media requests immediately – easy follow up!
- You are developing a “Hybrid Networking” lifestyle – a blend of online and face-to-face interactions.
- You have the chance to meet people you might not normally connect with at a face-to-face event – possibility for global connections.
- Oh yeah – and did we mention – You don’t have to get out in the HEAT – Stay cool in the comfort of your home or office!
This particular event is set up for the first 200 people who register. So, if this is something of interest, we encourage you to register now by going to http://www.theminglegroup.com/event-registration/
Networking at the level of “fun!”
What does networking mean to you? I know my definition has always been a way of developing a deeper 
relationship… whether on a personal or business note.
So, why can’t networking also include fun? The guys out there already have this down to a science. Many a business deal has been made on the golf course. And think of all the money that corporations spend on sky boxes for ballgames. They don’t spend this type of money without seeing something in return, right?
Isn’t it funny how men grasp the concept and we women spend more time with the hustle bustle of a networking meeting, shaking hands, introducing ourselves, listening to a speaker and eating the proverbial “chicken lunch box?” Not that we don’t have fun doing so, but don’t you agree… it’s not the only way?
That’s why a few of us started a “fun” networking group called the Red Bag Ladies a few years back. We don’t just shop together, we do other fun activities, too, like cooking classes, movies and lots of other fun to do’s. We do have a lot of fun, but don’t be mistaken, there’s a lot of genuine relationships being built, too.
What’s really puzzling to me, though, is how a lot of people don’t understand the networking part. I hear others say all the time, “sounds like a lot of fun, but I’ve got to stay in today and work on getting business in the door.” And it really makes me wonder why they don’t see that “business coming in the door” could be through building a deeper relationship one-on-one while on one of our fun excursions.
Believe me, business does occur here, but in a much more relaxed (and fun) way. So, why not think up some fun ways to build business relationships with your circle of friends, too?
Cheers all,
Carm
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