Taste of Apex - Fall Fesitval

Sunday November 22, 2009 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Apex Martial Arts

8715 Sidney CircleCharlotte, North Carolina 28269 Get Directions Our 2nd Annual Fall Festival will feature a sample of foods prepared by professional and amatuers chefs from our families and students. Chef Gene Briggs of Blue Restaurant & Bar and Chef Tim Groody of Market Street Catering will good head to head. Pie eating contest, Santa, games and pony rides are all available. No fee to enter, some food samples involve a small cost others are free.

http://www.Apexkarate.com

A Barter Way To Grow -

Join the Charlotte Business Journal and Tony Holden, founder and CEO of Synergy StreetTRADE, as he presents A Barter Way to Grow. This free 90-minute seminar will show you how to use modern barter to find more customers, get more sales, save your cash and grow your profits.

Tony is a serial entrepreneur and thrives on working with and serving other entrepreneurs. He has been a principal in several highly successful entrepreneurial ventures including real estate development, residential and commercial mortgage brokerage, advertising an media, professional speaking, training and consulting and online commercial barter businesses. His corporate consulting clients have included Bank of America, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, CHASE, Countrywide Home Loans and many others; however he is quick to note that his real passion is working with grass roots entrepreneurial businesses.

Within the last three years he has successfully launched a Charlotte, NC-based marketplace community where entrepreneurs meet, exchange ideas and concepts and work in collaborative effort to build and proposer their businesses. This organization, SynergyStreet Executive Forum (formerly Cre8tive Synergy Group), became the incubator and genesis for the business model of SynergyStreetTRDADE.

TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT: CLICK HERE: Charlotte Business Journal

Seminar : Friday, November 20, 2009 - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Charlotte Business Journal
1100 S. Tryon St, Ste. 100
Charlotte, NC 28203

Charlotte Networking Group Event

You are cordially invited to an evening of Networking...

Exchange information about career or business opportunities and have fun doing it!

Presented By Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network and Gala Affairs By AtUrBest

Host: Amanda Sherman, CEO of Gala Affairs By AtUrBest
Info: wedsaturbest@yahoo.com
Location Sponsor: Weeping Willow Fellowship Hall
Location: 2220 Milton Road, Charlotte, NC 28215
Cost: Free
Date/Time: Thursday, November 19, 2009 , 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

* If you are looking for a position, business opportunities or eager to keep your career alive and well by continually staying abreast of what's happening, this is the meeting for you!

What you will gain from participation at this meeting:

* Increased exposure to other successful professionals
* New and helpful knowledge
* Learn how ETP Network is helping many people land jobs and business opportunities quicker.

You will be most effective at networking if you are prepared with the following:
1) Your "30-second introduction" and how you are a "solution" to someone's problems -
"How Can I help you?"
2) Business Cards

Networking is o your career as breathing is to living: you won't make it without either!

Charlotte Networking Group Has a Long Reach

The Charlotte Networking Group is part of a very large organization called Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network.  Visit www.etpnetwork.com to share our meeting locations with people in your network.  

If you're visiting the New York/ New Jersey area, we have several FREE meetings each month you can attend to expand your sphere of influence.  Click here for the ETP Network meeting calendar.

Some ETP Network locations:

New York, NY *  Princeton, NJ   * Oakland, NJ   * Raleigh, NC  * Jersey Shore, NJ   * Philadelphia, PA   * Scotch Plains, NJ 

ETP Network Hosts Don Gabor April 29, 2009

Click here to Register Now *Free Conference Call

In a job search?
Need new clients?
Keeping your options open?

As part of its successful
*free career management conference call series,
ETP Network hosts world known author & speaker
Don Gabor, discussing his newly released book
"How to Turn Small Talk Into BIG Deals"

April 29, 2009 - Session Starts Promptly at 9:00PM EST

Limited Lines for This *FREE Call - So Dial In Early

Plug In - Charge Up - Get Connected
Click here to Register Now *Free

Limited Space Global Call - So Dial in Early

*Check with your phone carrier. There may be charges based on location time zone.

Review the Awesome ETP Network Benefits

Special Guest: Don Gabor, Author of

"How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends" and "Turn Small Talk into Big Deals"

About Don Gabor
Don trains executives, managers and staff on how to work more effectively with coworkers and clients. He is the author of the bestseller, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends, (Fireside/Simon & Schuster) and ten other books and tapes on interpersonal communication skills.

Don has been writing books and offering communication programs since 1980. His clients include Korin Japanese Trading Corp. Marriott Hotels, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Standard & Poors, Time Inc., Viacom and many others.

Don was a spokesperson for Sprint and Frito-Lay, and is a frequent media guest with over 1000 print, radio and television placements, including "60 Minutes with Andy Rooney." The New Yorker called Don, "a gifted conversationalist." He has been a member of the National Speakers Association since 1991. He founded his company Conversation Arts Media in 1991.

ETP Network Community Connections:

Apologies. We can't always post here as often as we would like.

You can follow us @etpnetwork on Twitter. You can also join our Yahoo!! news group. We're also on Facebook and we have are own global community Social Network. Did I also mention we are on LinkedIn too. LinkedIn is where the big professional boys and girls play to make serious career and business connections.

ETP Network is a very "warm trusted" network to support you in accomplishing your goals. So come out of the cold. Dial in * Charge up * Get connected * free career management coaching every Wednesday at 9:00PM EST.

Get More Job Interviews Quicker

If you really want to get excited about Mondays, this toolbar option will expedite getting more job interviews quicker. The ETP Network "Job Search 7 Steps"© was developed by Rod Colon, CEO & Founder of Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network.

Read more . . .

Expand Your Networking Sphere of Influence

Click here to Register Now for our upcoming
Career Management & Networking
workshop on March 26, 2009 in Charlotte, NC.

Wherever you live, work or play, other parts of the world are closer than you think. The Charlotte Networking Group (CNG) proves it. CNG membership is different than any local group you will join in the Charlotte, NC area. When you join the CNG you immediately become part of a much larger global network called Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network. You don't become part of just the 1,100+ members of the ETP Network, you can potentially be connected to over 9 million people around the world. .

Click here to connect with CNG Leader Amanda Sherman. Your FREE CNG Membership allows you to be a networking leader as the central rainmaker of your network.

Below is a small example of your FREE CNG Membership sphere of influence, which can be leveraged by your family, friends and business associates.

Washington, D. C.

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Los Angeles <------Your Family ---> China
Manila, Philippines <-- YOU ----> New York
Seattle, WA <---- Your Friends ---> New Jersey
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Miami, FL

What is ETP Network?

If you've ever wanted a bird's eye view of the ETP Network, your eagle has landed. Now you can answer the question friends and associates ask; What is ETP Network?

Brand new and hot off the press, the ETP Network introduces its newest publication, "The ETP Network: An Organizational Overview" designed, written, and compiled by Editor-in-Chief Chip Hartman and his creative team.

Quick, grab your copy right now through the ETP Network toolbar > CEO Tools > What is ETP Network?

Think of the Organizational Overview as the ETP Network's elevator speech, condensing all of the most important information about the organization into one easy-to-read online document, designed for ease of use with just one topic per page.

If you're new to the ETP Network, here is your guidebook, your road map, your orientation package, and your pocket reference all rolled into one.

So get to know the ETP Network from the ground up. Download your copy of "The ETP Network: An Organizational Overview" today. It's available at an ETPNetwork.com web site near you.

Share a copy with everyone in your network - Do it Now, before you forget!!