Entrepreneurs Circle

SLC Entrepreneurs Meetup

October 18, 2011 · 6:00 PM
Officer's Club

Each meeting will have an expert speaker presenting on strategies for business planning, financial management, marketing, or other topics and tips for entrepreneurs.

October's Speaker is Jordan Kasteler - who is internationally regarded as one of the top thinkers on SEO and Social Media. He will be discussing strategies to use creative content to drive social mentions and links. Given his reputation, we expect this event to be full and we will limit attendees to keep the networking high quality. He will also accept questions and answers from the audience at the end.

Jordan Kasteler, has been avidly involved in Internet marketing and SEO since 2001. He currently is SVP of Content Development and Managing Partner at BlueGlass Interactive, Inc., an industry leading agency in social media marketing and search engine optimization. His prior experience includes co-founding the agency Search & Social and working in-house at Overstock.com.

In addition to consulting, his company hosts Internet marketing events and owns one of the search engine industry leading publishing sites, Search Engine Journal.

While Jordan’s experience lends itself to the technical SEO, his primary focus is developing linkbait content and promoting it with social media.

Jordan received the Social Media Club’s Best Social Media Content Guru award in 2009, is a regular speaker at various Internet marketing conferences, and a regular contributor to SearchEngineLand, SearchEnginePeople, and SearchEngineJournal.

We have 60 minutes for networking from 6:00 to 7:00 PM and leave time after the speaker and Q & A for more networking. Many networking events in the valley require fees or are sales pitches in disguise. This meetup is co-hosted by the University of Utah Technology Commercialization Office. Meetings are facilitated by Richard Swart, PhD, a former faculty member at the Huntsman School of Business and is the founder of Salt Lake City's leading professional networking organization, the Connection Compass.

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Roberto Castro, JD MST MBA AVA

Jordan Kasteler delivered value=able information regarding SEO and Social Media developments! Richard Swart, PhD ... I commend you. To see some pictures of the October 18, 2011 meeting go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/page....

0 · October 23, 2011
Eric Arredondo

Patrick Ritter made a most important point about the frustration and ineffectiveness of a majority of networking events. The size and apparent sophistication of the people in this group is exciting, but wasted if we can't successfully connect with the right people. One networking modality I've been aware of, and have thought of as interesting is "speed-networking" anybody familiar with this?

0 · October 21, 2011
Winston Krauss

Great opportunity for networking and great guest speaker. Will be attending again.

0 · October 19, 2011
A former member

It was great! I liked the professionalism and punctuality. I will definitely attend more events. I found it to be worth my time!

0 · October 19, 2011
Beth Holbrook

I appreciate that it starts and ends on time and I appreciate the length of time to network with others. I look forward to the next meeting.

0 · October 19, 2011
Stephen Grigg

Fantastic, great group. Could use more time for networking after, less before?

0 · October 19, 2011
Christion Sadler

Seems like a great group. I saw alot of influencers in the room, and enjoyed the content provided by the speaker.

0 · October 19, 2011
Dardi

Great upbeat group to network with. Great information from the speaker.

0 · October 19, 2011
Ryan E. Snow

Great information, great environment, great people to meet with.

0 · October 19, 2011
Patrick Ritter

My first meeting. I think the social hour ahead of the presentation should be a little more organized as far how people can be introduced to each other - perhaps a sign on each table which says "Venture capital", or "start-up", or "technology" or something like that. It's hard to find the people to whom you would like to speak by searching for info on name tags. The speaker was good, but never made the money connection - how what he was talking about equals money for businesses.

0 · October 19, 2011
Denny Thurman

What a great forum to meet people with the common goal of creating economic success and learning from a brilliant speaker.

0 · October 19, 2011
A former member

Very well organized and a great key note speaker.

0 · October 19, 2011
Neil Krauss

Informative speaker and a wonderful opportunity to network.

0 · October 19, 2011
Karthik Raman

Extremely well moderated event, amazing speaker, and a great networking opportunity. No wonder this group is growing exponentially!

0 · October 18, 2011
Pat Glover

What a great evening. Event was on time, great networking, relaxed and fun environment.

0 · October 18, 2011
Ken Trionfo

Great event tonight. Nicely done. Good time.

0 · October 18, 2011
Bing

I am holding an open house tour 5-8 pm at federal heights 5-8pm! Next time

0 · October 16, 2011
Richard Swart, PhD

Parking is in the lot directly west of the Officer's Club. We expect a very full house. The officers club can be tricky to find. There is a TRAX stop directly to the west. Take the suspension bridge and you arrive in the Officer's Club parking lot.

0 · October 14, 2011
Richard Swart, PhD

Nicole, there is no fee for the meeting. Please come and network and have a great time.

0 · October 11, 2011
A former member

This sounds amazing! Great introduction to the group for me. Sorry, I was a little confused--is there a fee associated with attending?

0 · October 11, 2011