All Events - Columbus and Central Ohio Networking Community Calendar

02/07/2012 - Coffee Talk Networking with Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo, Owners of Watershed Distillery

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0600

Establish new connections and get to know other business professionals in a casual, career-focused setting at the monthly CYP CLUB 'Coffee Talk' Networking Event. Everyone will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and what they do, and also listen to a local guest speaker offer information and advice on business, careers, and other topics.

The event includes breakfast light breakfast and coffee. The cost is $5 (if you pay online) or $10 (at the door) for CYP CLUB members and guests. Premium members get in for FREE! Everyone who attends will receive a free copy of Columbus CEO Magazine AND can sign up for a complimentary one-year subscription. Be sure to attend and bring plenty of business cards.

7:30-8:00am: Attendee registration and open networking (coffee and breakfast provided)
8:00-8:05am: Welcome by CYP CLUB Networking Director, Ryan Conway
8:05-8:30am: Member Introductions
8:30-8:50am: Our guest speaker addresses the group on business/networking/careers
8:50-9:00am: Closing announcements, Networker of the Month selection / business card pull / door prizes

Guest Speakers: Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo, Owners of Watershed Distillery

About Our Speakers: Watershed was founded by Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo in 2010, but the idea to start a distillery was conceived years earlier while Lehman was playing professional volleyball in Switzerland. Inspired by the locally produced spirits that were common in the area, Greg thought about the possibility of creating spirits in his Ohio hometown. He shared his idea with Dave and they began working on making it a reality.

Before prohibition, Ohio was home to dozens of distilleries producing unique flavors specific to the region. However, since prohibition Ohio had become one of the most difficult states to start a distillery.

In 2007, Greg and Dave began working on what would become the newest addition to the very long history of micro-distilling in Ohio - Watershed Distillery - famous for world-class Vodka and Gin, and soon to be Bourbon.

02/07/2012 - Networking&Lunch: Annual Big Game Ad Review - It will be Super!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:00 -0600

On couches and stools across the US, we'll anxiously bite our nails, waiting for each tantalizing element of Super Bowl game strategy. We're not talking the line backers and tight-ends – we're talking the REAL power punchers. The commercials. Now's the chance for an official review...and this year's commercials have sold out before January as record rates!

NBC reported that all commercial times for the 2012 Super Bowl sold out with an average cost per 30-second spot rising to $3.5 Million! At that cost, it has to be good to make its mark on the audience – so will the commercials be spectacular? Or, spectacularly awful?

This year's super-savvy panelists throw the flag to the best of the best, and call out the personal penalties. Bring your game face and join them to cheer and jeer at this year's Big Game Ad Review.

Host:

Johnny DiLoretto is a Reporter on FOX 28 Good Day Columbus. Johnny and photographer Adam Innes hit the road every morning to show off the sights, the people and the places around Central Ohio. Their reports can be seen weekdays from 7-9am.

When he first got the early wake-up call, he put his love of food and his critic's training from The Ohio State University to work as the restaurant critic.

Johnny has also appeared on FOX 28 News at Ten as a movie critic and entertainment reporter.

About the Panelists:

Amy Schmittauer is a social media frenzy! A self-employed Social Relations Consultant, Amy works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to own their social media presence. As a self-proclaimed "entreprenewbie" herself, she wanted to share her passion for digital customer service, marketing, and personal branding with talented individuals and startups. Since 2009, Amy has been advising brands such as magazine publications, graphic designers, non-profits, self-published authors, and bloggers on their social network growth. Aside from her consulting work, Amy also shares tips and strategies onSavvySexySocial.com to encourage likeminded entrepreneurs to take their future into their own hands with the power of word of mouth through social media.

Doug Frazier is the Chief Creative Officers at Frazier Heiby. No caffeine's needed for this spirited guy, who continually goes back and forth between his "right" and "left" brain to develop both practical and big ideas for client programming that has received local and national acclaim.

Doug's 30-year professional experience lends itself to managing FrazierHeiby account teams and leading creative efforts for eye-catching, thought-provoking marketing-communication elements with big results. Connect with Doug on twitter @dougfrazier.

Leigh Householder is the vice president of digital strategy at GSW Worldwide and author at Advergirl.com. Leigh has worked with Fortune 1000 companies to craft their digital strategies for well over a decade. In recent years, almost all of those strategies have included mobile tools and social engagements. Today, she brings that love of technology and endless curiosity about people to developing innovative ideas and approaches for healthcare marketers in her role at iQ, the innovation lab of GSW Worldwide. Prior to this position, Leigh was the strategy director at Ologie and marketing director at Monster Interactive.

Dana Waldron discovered a passion for fitness after working in marketing and sales for the Sawmill Athletic Club and is currently studying to be a personal trainer. She grew up in Gahanna and now lives in Powell with her husband and two boys. She met her husband, Kenneth Waldron, at Ron Foth where he was Senior Art Director. Her current interests focus on her family, shopping, spas, wine, fitness, food, traveling, nutrition and cruising the Internet to find the newest & the best in all of those areas! If you want help planning the trip of your life, just ask Dana. If you wanted to know where to go to pick your own peas....she could tell you. If not Ohio, Dana would love to live in Charleston, SC.

Doug McIntyre founded Cult Marketing in 2005, his second entrepreneurial venture. Cult focuses on understanding the relationship between a company and its best (or cult) customers, and enhancing that emotional connection by creating a memorable brand experience. The new age of consumerism is driving companies to explore new marketing models, and Cult Marketing is on the leading edge of that movement – developing holistic solutions that extend far beyond the traditional mass communications model. Cult's clients include Nokia, Bath & Body Works, Rocky Brands, Durango, Carhartt, and FacilitySource.

Formerly, Doug McIntyre founded Zero Base Advertising in 1990. The company grew to billings of $32 million, with 50 associates. He worked on client companies such as American Standard, UPS, Ross Products, Scotts, Time Warner, the Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL), OhioHealth, Comcast and many others. He sold the agency to Ten United (now Engauge) in 2002 and continued there as Chief Ideas Officer, and creator and Managing Director of the Behavioral Insights Group where he worked on brands including Anthem, Huntington Bank, Bruegger's, Zone Perfect, Hoover, Gold Bond, and 3M.

Doug has an MBA from The Ohio State University, and degrees in marketing and music from the University of Texas at Austin.

02/09/2012 - Columbus AMA Job Transition Group East

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:00 -0600

If you're a marketing professional in Central Ohio who's looking for your next opportunity, you've undoubtedly heard that networking is a critical activity for you to do. In 2011, Columbus AMA is going to give you an opportunity to put that axiom to work for you. Come meet other amazing marketing professionals who are in the same boat as you are, and let's get our heads together to:
• discuss opportunities that people have come across which might be of interest to you,
• discuss challenges that you've been facing that others may have figured out how to handle,
• and generally to get to know other people who can help you, and who you can help in return.

Come with your elevator speech, business cards, paper and pen for note taking, and one or two questions that you can toss out to the group. It will be worth your while, guaranteed.

Come see us! The East location meets on the second Thursday of the month from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., at the Bexley Public Library, 2411 East Main Street, Bexley, OH 43209.

Optional after-meeting discussions can continue at the Cup O' Joe coffeehouse across the street.

There is FREE PARKING available at the lot on the corner of Main Street and Euclaire.

Enrollment is limited to the first 20 people who register. Please RSVP on the Columbus AMA Events page: http://columbusama.org/columbus-ama-marketing-events/

02/14/2012 - SRJNG Tuesday Tune-Up

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0600

02/15/2012 - +Upper Arlington UA B2B Networking - The Ohio Referral Network

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:30:00 -0600

UA Business-to-Business (B2B), this chapter meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 10:30am.

This chapter is designed for business professionals who focus on working with other businesses.

Main Library [show map]

2800 Tremont Road
Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221
Main Desk (614) 486-9621

Meeting Room B, which holds up to 40. This is the library across from the Tremont Center (Chef-O-Nette, Old Bag of Nails, Huffman's Market).

(Participation in this meeting is FREE. Membership has its perks with exclusivity, special advertising and branding opportunities. Feel free to join us as a guest for free. Membership in B2B chapters goes fast, so if you decide to officially join the group, annual membership is $60.)

Categories Taken:

Employee Benefits - Life & Health - Matt Byrne, www.MyHealthQuoter.com

Banking - MaryRuth Stimmel, Huntington National Bank

Incentive Products - Dan Finke, Convenience Enterprises

Insurance - Dan Hoar, Leveraged Partners

Marketing Strategy (Branding,Communication) - Rod Ebright, www.RodEbright.com

Legal - Gil Gradishar, Zaino & Humprhrey

Financial Advisor - Bruce Valade, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Categories Needed:

Commerical Realestate

Investment Advisor
Accountant
Carpet Cleaning
Signs, Banners, Vehicle Lettering
Mortgage Lender
Painting
Photography
IT Services
Engineering/Survey
Commercial Construction
Telecommunications

Payroll

+++ more

02/15/2012 - Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:00 -0600

Professional job networking group for mid career professionals helping you to expand your network of professional business contacts. We connect you to other SRJNG members who are in job transition and can become part of your personal support group. Members are notified of job openings from other members, speakers, recruiters, and HR professionals. SRJNG strives to provide its members with a motivational, inspirational, and devotional influence in their life.

02/16/2012 - +Worthington 3rd Thursdays with The Ohio Referral Network (TORN)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:00:00 -0600

RSVP TODAY Please Join Us!

http://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Referral-Network

Our goal is to help you establish a network of friends, associates and acquaintances with whom you can exchange business referrals.

The Worthington chapter meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 11am

Keller Williams Capital Partners Realty
1st Floor Training Room
100 E. Wilson Bridge Rd. Worthington 43085

What makes us unique?

We use technology to interact (Webinar, Social Networking).

We meet live once a month.

We meet virtually once a month.

We meet later in the day.

We do speed networking at each meeting.

We focus on building friendships.

02/22/2012 - Speed Networking

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600

http://tornplusadnspeednetworking.eventbrite.com/

What?

Speed Networking

When?

02/22/2012 from 8am-10am

Where?

Jason Deli (In Kroger Center on Frantz and Bridge Street)

225 West Bridge Street Dublin, OH 43017-1143
(614) 336-3853

Who?

This event will be co-sponsored by The Ohio Referral Network (TORN) and The American Dream Network. TORN is a proud member of Networking Leaders Alliance (NLA).

The Networking Leaders Alliance (NLA) brings together Central Ohio's top networking organization leaders with the primary goal of facilitating each organization's growth. The NLA achieves this through the sharing of information and resources, as well as through the mutual promotion of each organization's events and initiatives.

Special thanks to our sponsors; Big Fish, NLA and the Creativity Retreat.

Make the most of your networking with this fast paced, high energy one2one speed networking event. Meet tons of people and most importantly CONNECT. All networking groups are welcome to attend; BNI, Goldstar, Amspirit, Big Fish, AWIB, Synergy, GETDOT, etc.

Expand your network, invite your entire chapter to attend.

How Much?

Earlybird (before January 31, 2012) $5.00 per person. We can accept 100 people to the event, get your ticket today as this WILL sell out quickly.

After January 31, 2012 the cost will be $6.50 per person.

Agenda:

8:00-8:30a Open Networking with coffee and light snack

8:30-10:00a Speed Networking

For more information;

Matt Byrne, matt@myhealthquoter.com

To learn more about The Ohio Referral Network (TORN), http://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Referral-Network/#calendar

Rita Brumley, rrbrumley@kw.com

To learn more about The American Dream Network, click here, http://www.theamericandreamnetwork.net/

02/28/2012 - SRJNG Tuesday Tune-Up

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0600

03/01/2012 - Free Networking: Firsty Thursdays...February is At Fleur Cocktail Lounge

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:30:00 -0600

Everyone is welcome to join the Columbus AMA for Firsty Thursday - This February Fleur is opening its doors JUST FOR US!

Join us on Thursday February 2nd from 5:30-8:00pm at Fleur Cocktail Lounge downtown. At Fleur, a recently new addition to the downtown scene you'll be able to enjoy a fun and casual atmosphere while networking with like-minded marketers. Fleur will be offering their happy hour prices of $2 domestic beers, $4 imported beers, $6 vodka martinis, and $7 specialty cocktails.

We provide free food :) please be sure to sign up to help with catering estimate

Join us the first Thursday of everymonth - check the events tab at www.columbusama.org for different monthly locations.

03/07/2012 - +Dublin Networking with The Ohio Referral Network (TORN)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0600

http://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Referral-Network/

RSVP TODAY - Please Join Us!

We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month at 11am at Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC)

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

The Ohio Referral Network is designed to assists sales representatives, entrepreneurs, and professionals succeed by creating both live and online forums where they can exchange referrals.

Members will have the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

What makes us unique?

We use technology to interact (Webinar, Social Networking).

We meet live once a month.

We meet virtually once a month.

We meet later in the day.

We do speed networking at each meeting.

We focus on building friendships.

Dublin Entrepreneurial Center, 4th Floor Meeting Room
7003 Post Road, Suite 410
(enter off Eiterman Rd)
Dublin, Ohio 43016

DIRECTIONS:

Directions to the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC)
Note: Google Maps, MapQuest, Yahoo, iPhones and your car's GPS will not get you to the DEC. Please use our directions below, there is an error in the map databases.

From I-270
Exit I-270 at US 33 westbound/OH 161 towards Marysville.
Exit onto Post Road, turning left (NOT RIGHT, GO LEFT towards the underpass)
Turn left onto Eiterman Road.
Turn right into parking lot at 7003 Post Road.

From US 33 Eastbound
Exit US 33 Eastbound onto Post Road, turning right.
Turn left onto Eiterman Road.
Turn right into 7003 Post Road.

**Your GPS won't find this building as it's too new. First timers, leave early to sufficient time to locate meeting.

(Participation in this meeting is FREE. Membership has its perks with special advertising and branding opportunity. Feel free to join us as a guest for free. If you decide to officially join the group, annual membership is $60)

03/07/2012 - Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:30:00 -0600

03/08/2012 - Columbus AMA Job Transition Group East

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:30:00 -0600

03/13/2012 - SRJNG Tuesday Tune-Up

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:00:00 -0600

03/15/2012 - +Worthington 3rd Thursdays with The Ohio Referral Network (TORN)

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:00:00 -0600

RSVP TODAY Please Join Us!

http://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Referral-Network

Our goal is to help you establish a network of friends, associates and acquaintances with whom you can exchange business referrals.

The Worthington chapter meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 11am

Keller Williams Capital Partners Realty
1st Floor Training Room
100 E. Wilson Bridge Rd. Worthington 43085

What makes us unique?

We use technology to interact (Webinar, Social Networking).

We meet live once a month.

We meet virtually once a month.

We meet later in the day.

We do speed networking at each meeting.

We focus on building friendships.

03/21/2012 - +Upper Arlington UA B2B Networking - The Ohio Referral Network

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:30:00 -0600

UA Business-to-Business (B2B), this chapter meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 10:30am.

This chapter is designed for business professionals who focus on working with other businesses.

Main Library [show map]

2800 Tremont Road
Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221
Main Desk (614) 486-9621

Meeting Room B, which holds up to 40. This is the library across from the Tremont Center (Chef-O-Nette, Old Bag of Nails, Huffman's Market).

Categories Taken:

Employee Benefits - Life & Health - Matt Byrne, www.MyHealthQuoter.com

Banking - MaryRuth Stimmel, Huntington National Bank

Incentive Products - Dan Finke, Convenience Enterprises

Insurance - Dan Hoar, Leveraged Partners

Marketing Strategy (Branding,Communication) - Rod Ebright, www.RodEbright.com

Legal - Gil Gradishar, Zaino & Humprhrey

Financial Advisor - Bruce Valade, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Categories Needed:

Commerical Realestate

Investment Advisor
Accountant
Carpet Cleaning
Signs, Banners, Vehicle Lettering
Mortgage Lender
Painting
Photography
IT Services
Engineering/Survey
Commercial Construction
Telecommunications

Payroll

+++ more

03/21/2012 - Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:30:00 -0600

03/27/2012 - SRJNG Tuesday Tune-Up

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:00:00 -0600

04/04/2012 - +Dublin Networking with The Ohio Referral Network (TORN)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:00 -0600

http://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Referral-Network/

RSVP TODAY - Please Join Us!

We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month at 11am at Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC)

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

The Ohio Referral Network is designed to assists sales representatives, entrepreneurs, and professionals succeed by creating both live and online forums where they can exchange referrals.

Members will have the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

What makes us unique?

We use technology to interact (Webinar, Social Networking).

We meet live once a month.

We meet virtually once a month.

We meet later in the day.

We do speed networking at each meeting.

We focus on building friendships.

Dublin Entrepreneurial Center, 4th Floor Meeting Room
7003 Post Road, Suite 410
(enter off Eiterman Rd)
Dublin, Ohio 43016

DIRECTIONS:

From US 33 Eastbound
Exit US 33 Eastbound onto Post Road, turning right.
Turn left onto Eiterman Road.
Turn right into 7003 Post Road.

**Your GPS won't find this building as it's too new. First timers, leave early to sufficient time to locate meeting.

04/04/2012 - Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:30:00 -0600