Chocolate Blues produced by Shelly Rice is the answer for you if you have you been looking for a way to get in front of a few hundred or even a thousand like-minded professionals who may have an interest in your product or service. Its also great if you are in a place in life that you are looking for a new opportunity to spend your free time developing. Chocolate Blues is also a great place to be around the truly motivated entrepreneurs in your community.

Chocolate Blues focuses on the real business to business networking that propels businesses to the next level. It is not the typical trade show or networking event. Included in the event is live blues music, free chocolate, open networking, vendors, networking games, door prizes, brainstorming circles, breakout sessions and a giant business card exchange. This event is one of the largest, and definitely most productive local networking events in the country.

The environment is energizing, entertaining, and relaxed enough to have solid conversations about your opportunity with like-minded individuals that are motivated to improve their businesses and yours. The participants have a great chance to walk around and discover potential partnerships, explore new opportunities, and understand the hottest trends. The brainstorming from the connections made is worth the visit as a guest or a vendor.

If you are looking to promote your business then you definitely want to take advantage of the vendor opportunity. The costs are very low compared to the benefit of the event. Chocolate Blues attracts the decision makers from many industries. The attendance varies around the country but is typically around 1,000-1,500 professionals.

Shelly Rice does an excellent job putting on this event, as she understands that the vendors are looking for highly qualified participants along with strategic partnership and networking opportunities. Shelly has achieved this goal along with making it a fun and entertaining atmosphere. Her 21 years experience has led to making the Chocolate Blues event one of the best in the country. Recent expansion has led to events in Dallas, Austin, Iowa, Louisville, and others. I am especially excited about the upcoming Indianapolis and Fort Wayne events since I live in Indianapolis.

Be sure to bring plenty of business cards, fliers, educational information, and anything that will leave the participants remembering you once the event ends. The key to these events is to make a solid impression on anyone you meet, give them something valuable to think about, and have a followup topic to discuss in the upcoming days. Set up appointments when you are there! Don’t leave it as “I will call you later” if you can get them scheduled now. Take advantage of these networking events to grow your business!

To learn more about Chocolate Blues click here. Matt Javit, founder of Joebots.com, builds brands! Get your free 3-part training course to jump-start your growth online and build an income out of our passion.

Tags: Job Search, Marketing, network marketing, networking, small business

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 11th, 2010 at 7:08 am and is filed under Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.