… From sourcing your products, determining a fulfillment method, maintaining your inventory, designing your store, setting up a payment gateway, building content, social media, online marketing, email marketing, customer retention, shipping problems, and anything else.    I am super excited about this! I think we can all grow and learn a lot from each other build our businesses! Rock on!

The purpose of this group is to share ideas, inspire others, and create a community of people who want to make more than a living doing what they love. You can really have it all, take your passion and turn it into profits. Come to our meetups simply with an idea. We will help you turn your idea into a startup using THE INTERNET! You Will Learn... How to Easily Create a Website in 15 Minutes How to Start, Build, Manage, or Turn Around Any Business Using the Internet Social Media Marketing Be Fo …

425 Digital is an organization that was formed by a group of passionate people in the digital arena who were in full agreement that an association with a focus on the digital advertising and marketing world was long overdue in the SEATAC Metro area. Our team is dedicated to the education and professional development of the Seattle Metro Area's digital talent and therefore encourage participation and volunterrism to help us expand the depth of knowledge and creativity for our cause. Our Mission …

A working meeting for those publishing on-line, whether engaged in some facet of on-line publishing or the 'whole of it'. This meetup comprises 2 hour lunch meetings (buying lunch not required) twice weekly 1 - 3 pm, as in the afternoon for those of us already on a 24/7 internet clock. This internet marketing mastermind group is moderated by a past president of a local Toastmasters Club, which indicates some organized focus. These meeting times of course assume you have already somehow 'adjusted …

This group is dedicated to the pursuit of outside-the-box businesses, marketing and strategies. We don't play by ANYBODY'S rules save for the ones we make ourselves. If you want to become a more advanced business owner, deploy online tactics and strategies you have only seen in MOVIES, make a difference to peninsula youth, the elderly, and the disadvantaged, and you like the idea of contributing in some small way to the HEALTH OF THE PLANET'S OCEANS, come see us. We don't bite!

I e-published my first novel a year ago, uploading it to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Smashwords, etc.. Now I have four books out and am actually making a modest living from my work. I'd like to help others who are interested in e-publishing and online book promotion, and I hope to continue to learn myself. I'm flexible about what this group will be about, so let me know what you're interested in. Ebook formatting and creation? Marketing? Blogging? Twitter? Facebook? Podiobooks? All of the ab …

This is a group for anyone interested in marketing the Performing Arts who wants to get together with like-minded individuals to learn and explore. It is perfect for artistic directors, managing directors, marketing staff, freelance artists and anyone with a passion for audience development in the performing arts. We will be having in-person meetings in the Seattle area.

This group meets on a weekly basis to discuss one social media topic. We use the rest of the time as a work session. Bring your laptop or a pad of paper and spend some time planning your social media strategy or doing the actual work. You get the benefit of new information, group brainstorming and a time set aside to do some focused work on social media for your business. Our goal is to explore new developments in social media. These are some of our recent topics. Twitter: Connecting with peopl …

A community supported space for digital entrepreneurs.

GSUMMITx - Gamification in Seattle is a meetup for anyone involved in and/or interested in the topic of gamification, engagement and/or loyalty. A few times each year, we'll ask the community to come together to hear a speaker from the gamification space, 1-2 demos from companies using gamification in their business model, and our unique workshop-like game called "Play for a Cause." We'll have some grub and beverages for everyone as well. This meetup is run by the Team at Gamification.co and the …

A monthly meeting of WordPress users and devs. We welcome every proficiency level. Our purpose is to offer support and share information, best practices, techniques, tools and resources. Our members are new users, graphic designers with basic HTML and CSS skills, developers new to WordPress, and experienced WordPress developers. Some of our members organized the first WordCamp Seattle in Sept. 2009. We are now organizing the next WordCamp Seattle to be held in Spring 2012. Watch for details.

Meet others in your local area who want to build websites with Joomla. We are just starting up so please join the group and get on the forum so we can discuss how to proceed to build our local community! We plan on having: -Social Meetings -Presentations -Work Parties -Other?   Want more? Check out or website - http://bellevuejoomers.org Or join our email list at: http://groups.google.com/group/bellevuejoomers

Hackers and Founders Seattle provides a casual business forum where tech and less-than-tech entrepreneurs meet and discuss new technologies and/or companies that we’re working on. Whether you’re a serial entrepreneur, a hacker who has always thought of starting a business or completely clueless and want to get connected to the Seattle business community, you’ll fit right in!

We meet up to learn about and discuss new web technologies, network, develop business relationships, and just hang out. If you're interested in web or software technology, whether you're a .NET or PHP dev, entrepreneur or information architect, Silverlight or flex wiz, or anything in between, this is the group for you. We try to meet every other week to discuss the latest trends in web technologies, web applications, software development, standards, graphic and icon design, databases, flex, java …

I'm starting this group because I'm a small business owner and we need all the help we can get! Small business is the backbone of this country’s economy.  ZipBuck supports small business owners and those who aspire to be.  Together our mission will be to promote sustainable business practices by supporting local small business. We will do this by: • Supporting your small business • Creating networking opportunities • Providing a marketing resource for your business • Encouraging customers to sho …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship.   Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning drive to succeed,  to make it big in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.  Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, f …