The Location Based Marketing Association of SF is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media. Our goal is simple; To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. Members of the LBMA include retailers, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless co …

iOS and Android Developers for iPhone Android iPad smart TV Apple TV Google TV. iOS and Android. We discuss mobile app and game development issues and strategies. The group shares among ourselves and brings in outside experts to help educate and advance our knowledge. Cross platform HTML5 and hybrid HTML5/Native solutions are encouraged We offer the opportunity for developers to share their projects and get feedback from group members and have live demonstrations of new apps that our members …

Let's build tomorrow's Smart Cities  and Networked Society together    A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core C …

Mobility in Enterprises is a meetup for people to exchange ideas on how today's enterprises should embrace Mobility on the consumer and enterprise front to increase revenues, achieve higher productivity and create newer business models to transform business. The meetups would be speaker sessions, panel discussions and happy hours to mingle with like minded individuals.

Business people are using Social Media and Online Marketing to spread their message, to find new customers and keep in touch with current customers. Things are changing rapidly in Social Media, Online Marketing, and Mobile Marketing. Keeping up with the changes is a challenge. This new group is an opportunity to network, learn and share insights on how to keep up with all the changes.

If you are a marketer with 1+ year of experience and have specific marketing issues that you'd like help with AND can help others, this group is for YOU. Inbound Marketing Roundtable is a group of marketing professionals in search engine marketing (SEM), paid per click (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO), media buying, link building, direct response, mobile marketing, socia media marketing, conversation optimization, and anything related to converting visitors into customers. Come help other …

The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

Solar Marketerers is for solar business owners and solar marketing professionals to come and share ideas about how to market their businesses/clients.

… Every event brings a speaker from the industry who presents new iPhone or iPad technology, latest innovation, monetization models, market trends, marketing opportunities, design tips, facts on mobile user behavior, and other topics related to iPhone and iPad apps. These events are open to developers as well as non-techies like designers, web/Flash developers, mobile project managers, VCs, research labs, journalists, etc. The iPhone Network Lounge is hosted and run by Marine Leroux, founder and C …

Join our group to learn more about how to create and use QR codes for your business, school or nonprofit. We'll meet regularly to discuss cutting-edge uses and best practices for QR codes, including sharing landing pages from QR codes we've scanned. We'll also review samples of marketing materials where QR codes are being used (print ads, mailers, posters, shopping walls, etc.), and will discuss how to measure the success of QR code deployments. Some sessions will be devoted to evaluating the di …

… ard of Advisors and what they should do for you Recruitment and retention of good employees Attracting funding, angel investors and venture capital Perfecting your pitch  Using trade shows and events to generate sales leads  Executing a social media marketing campaign Developing a mobile apps plan and strategy Using web video to promote your brand  Starting a social enterprise around social entrepreneurship Making money from web video Using viral marketing for promotion and advertising  

This mastermind group is open to B2B marketers and salespeople of all experience levels. Our goal is to have an open forum to: Get advice about marketing / sales challenges Share best practices Network Topics include: Salesforce CRM Microsoft Dynamics Sales strategy Cold calling & leaving voicemails Marketing strategy Business to business email Social media Mobile marketing Copywriting Infusionsoft CRM   We will meet most first Thursday's of the month.  There will always be f …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SDForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Ideas, Design, Development, DEMOs, Product Marketing, Business Development, Success or Failure Tips, Entrepreneurship, Opportunities among the whole bay area (including south to north, east to west :-))'s mobile game professional community, here is the place we can hold discussion, seminars, talks, and conference for the next big wave ! We hope to have monthly DEMOs, yeh, DEMOs, and quarterly bigger event to cheer up our own mobile game professionals for bigger success together !!!

  NetSquared - Silicon Valley: NetSquared-SV is part of Netsquared International Technology group. You can find a local N2 group in most major cities around the world from this page: http://www.netsquared.org Here at Silicon Valley chapter, We focus on  Mobile, Social Media technologies, Innovation and Start-ups. For mobile developers and start-ups, mobile innovations should not be limited to any one technology or to one shop when there is a great potential to reach out all other customers a …