We are currently involved in a membership drive and are looking for new
members in several categories of business. If you would like to increase
the opportunities to promote your business or profession, to network
with other business owners like yourself, and to increase your client
or customer base, call us. Or join us any Wednesday at noon for lunch
at Central Park Bistro, 181 E 4th St, San Mateo, CA 94401. Contact
Mike Foor, Realtor at (650) 430-6500 or through his website at http://www.mikefoor.com
Click here
for a map to
Central Park Bistro.

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The San Mateo Professional
Alliance is a business leads club. The club provides each member with valuable
opportunities to promote his or her business or profession and to network
with other business owners.
Our Goal:
Our goal is very simple - to expand each member's business! To
do this we meet regularly to have lunch, to learn about each other's
businesses and professions and
to exchange business leads. The meetings run for about an hour. Each
member and each guest provides a short introduction to his or her business
and
explains what kinds of business leads, customers and clients the person
is looking for. Then, two of the members each deliver a separate 10 minute
promotional presentation to the group telling all the members in more
depth about his or her business or profession, the types of products
or services
provided, and what distinguishes that business from its competitors.
Membership:
The club's membership is limited to only one representative from each type
of business or profession. As a result, all tax and accounting referrals
go to the one CPA in the club, all real estate legal matters go to the
one real estate attorney in the club, everyone looking to buy or sell a
home or condo are referred to the one Realtor in the club, everyone searching
for a home loan is referred to the one real estate lender in the club,
and so forth.
Meetings:
At the meetings members may display and distribute business cards, company
brochures and other informational materials. A member will exchange a
business lead when the member believes he has information about someone
who could
benefit from another member's services or products. The leads are exchanged
on a small slip of paper called a "leads slip" and the lead
may be as simple as the name and phone number of a person the member
wants
to refer to another member of the club. This exchange is a very powerful
tool! Wouldn't you like to have 20 other business owners referring you
business from their current and future customers and clients, friends,
relatives and acquaintances?
Future Growth:
Club members are highly motivated to expand the club's membership base
because additional members will produce more business leads and general
networking opportunities for all members of the club.
Dues:
Club dues are very, very low - only those necessary to maintain the club's
website and pay for direct out of pocket expenses of the club's operation.
Membership in the club gets you an automatic listing on the club's website
unless you choose not to be listed. Unlike most other business leads
clubs, our club is run by, and solely for the benefit of, the members.
We do not pay exorbitant dues to some distant central ownership organization
which gives little or nothing in return.
History of Business Leads Groups:
This San Mateo professional alliance is a small business networking group
which provides local businesses the opportunity to participate in networking
with other small businesses and business professionals. We sometimes refer to our group as the SMPA. Our business leads
group has several objectives including providing business to business exchange,
business to business leads, small business opportunities, small business
ideas, small business marketing strategy and small business networking,
among other objectives. One of our objectives is to have a dynamic Internet
web site which will draw businesses to our business development group (SMPA) by
including in the web site a variety of terms which will bring potential
members to our web site, including small business entrepreneurs who wish
to be involved in generating business sales leads, networking, and building
a professional business group that would engage in valuable networking,
disseminate valuable small business information, assist in obtaining free
business leads for all the members and otherwise promote our business networking
club.
Business leads clubs have been around for about 100 years in significant
numbers in the United States. One of the earliest business clubs in the
West began in San Francisco early in the 1900s. These very valuable business
exchange groups are sometimes referred to as business leads groups, business
leads clubs, leads groups, leads clubs, networking groups, business networking
clubs, free business leads groups, small business entrepreneur groups,
small business associations and by numerous other names. They generally
all have a common goal and that is to increase the business opportunities
for all members of the club. Our club is especially unique because it was
locally organized by members of the club, is operated by members of the
club and provides all the club members with an excellent opportunity to
discuss business ideas, marketing strategies, and ways of increasing the
business opportunities of every member of the club. Our goal as a club
is to increase in size until our membership includes approximately 30 to
40 businesses. This is the optimum number of members so that each of the
members can introduce themselves at each meeting and thus allowing time
for one member to present promotional information on such member's business
to all the other members in greater depth. Business leads are passed between
the members on a regular basis. Our membership fees are very low and the
number of leads past are quite significant.
If you would like to increase the number of leads available to you for
new business, if you would like to increase the number of networking opportunities
you now have, if you would like to meet on a regular basis with other members
of the business community in San Mateo County, please consider attending
one of our Wednesday lunch meetings. We would enjoy having you join us
for lunch and we would certainly be very interested in finding out about
your business, what sort of leads we might be able to give you, and what
sort of leads you might be able to bring to our group. We look forward
to seeing you soon at one of our meetings. Please contact Mike Foor at
(650) 430-6500 anytime to find out more about the club. We would be happy
to discuss the club with you and how it can help you in your goal to expand
your business in near future.
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