… 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!

Growth Hackers are those who "engineer virality at the core of their products to build a steady flow of users." Coding capability is now essential to becoming a great marketer, in many industries. Growth hackers have hybrid skillsets, part marketer, part coder. “How do we get customers for our product?” We answers with A/B testing, Landing page optimization, search and social optimization, email deliverability, and Open Graph protocol. At the core of all of this, a growth hacker maintains the di …

  "Harnessing the Fun of Social Media to bring YOU Serious Referral partners!" Check out this Video of one our most recent Events: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTmjYcKEz4k&feature=colike   Are you looking for Networking Opportunities and Referral Partners? Are you a "Solo-Preneur" and wish you had some buddies you can talk business with? Finally there is a group for professionals that is networking several times each week. All you have to do is show up and get yourself some coffee...   Busi …

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 …

… To this end, the Trade Alliance been working for over 20 years to enhance the identity of Greater Seattle in world markets by convening regional stakeholders, executing outbound missions, hosting inbound delegations, producing marketing publications, organizing educational programming, and other activities. The Trade Alliance has established working relationships with export promotion, as well as organizations involved in finance, international tourism and international trade and investment to c …

This group is a "real world" extension of the organization I founded on-line called the Indie Book Collective. We are all about helping authors figure out their publication options then helping them succeed (i.e. actually sell their books) through social media, Amazon optimization, and other promotional events. Each weekly meet-up will be filled with discussion on the latest news from the publishing world and how it effects the market and our sales (or plan to sell). No matter if you are only ev …