By Larry BlockU.S. Southeast Bureau Chief
(The Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida)
(The Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida)
I recently attended a meeting of the Tip Club, an organization out of the northeast that is trying to make its mark on the South. Tip Club is a business networking and support company that allows members to meet face-to-face, over the phone, or on the Internet to form strategic partnerships, build business alliances, share sales referrals, and exchange business contacts. The Tip Club takes networking a step beyond traditional groups by helping business professionals gather business intelligence, meet business people, and generate new business opportunities. Launched in 1999 in the northeast, the Tip Club started with a couple of groups in Atlanta in November and added the downtown Atlanta group in late December.
The format for the monthly meetings is a little bit different than you would normally find in a networking group. Once a month each group has a traditional networking meeting called a Sales Meeting. In this meeting guests are invited and everyone gets a chance to sell their business and make new contacts. In an effort to more deeply understand the other member’s business a Board Meeting is held once a month. This meeting is open to only members. The format is slightly different in that each member is given a minute to remind the group who and what they do, then the group gets an additional three minutes to ask questions and really get to the nitty gritty of the business in question. This allows both the members and the “speaker” to learn important aspects that will help everyone in the networking process. Also during this Board Meeting, one member will present his/or business in greater depth.
In addition to the two monthly meetings, the Tip Club gives each member many resources that will help them better succeed in their endeavors. Each quarter this is a evening social event and each month country wide teleconferences are held in key industries so that members can gain insightful feedback from other industry professionals. In addition, once a month web training is held covering a variety of subjects.
The Tip Club gives its members the ability to cross-network and have a wide variety of business opportunities while maintaining close knit relationships. They have an extensive tracking system so that members are held accountable and thus, become more valuable resources.
The Tip Club offers different levels of membership from a FREE basic membership that includes the ability to view reports and resumes and profiles, submit a profile, contact other members and read member blogs. Their Premier membership, which is reasonable in cost, gives access to actual leads and sales referrals, find key business contacts, schedule meetings with other members, and post blogs in additional to all the features of the basic membership. For more information go to their website at www.tipclub.com or call 1-800-798-0270 to find a group near you.
Larry Block is a text messaging expert, president of Mobile Marketing Technologies, Inc. he provides text message advertising and marketing services nationwide. Need an advertising solution that actually works and gets directly to your target market – visit www.hippocketads.com, Larry can be reached at larry@RuTxting.com
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