Meetings and Special Events
- Government Affairs & GMMS Planning Session
- Brockton Historical Society 40th Anniversary
- SBA Workshop
- Advantage Home Health Care Relocation Ceremony
- SBA Workshop
- New Member Orientation
- Referral Marketing System Workshop
- Marketing Strategies Using Social Media
- Using LinkedIn and Facebook for Your Business
- Tweets and Blogs, How this can help with SEO
For events requiring payment, please visit the registration page. For a full calendar of events, visit the calendar page.
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9:00 am
Government Affairs & GMMS Planning Session
Metro South Chamber, 60 School Street, Brockton
The Chamber will be holding a key planning session in order to establish priorities and
brainstorm speakers for 2010-2011 events. Chamber members are encouraged to attend
and help in providing the best possible programming. The Planning Session will take
place on July 8 at 9 am at the Metro South Chamber, 60 School Street, Brockton. RSVP
by calling Lisa Keene at 508.586.0500 x 225, lkeene@metrosouthchamber.com, or Kim
Prosper, 508.586.0500 x 231, kprosper@metrosouthchamber.com.
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Friday, July 16, 2010, 7:00 pm
Brockton Historical Society 40th Anniversary
The Shaw's Center, 1 Lexington Avenue, Brockton
On Friday, July 16 the Brockton Historical
Society will celebrate its 40th anniversary at
the Shaw's Center in Brockton. The
evening will begin at 6 pm with a cash bar
followed by dinner and program at 7 pm.
Highlights of the evening
will include the naming of
the society's Fire Museum
in memory of the late
Brockton firefighter, William
“Billy” Donovan and
the release of the newly
published book by society
president, James Benson,
Images of America, Brockton, which will
be available for the discounted price of
$19.99 (regular retail is $21.99). Net proceeds
from the dinner and from the sale of
books will go to benefit the Brockton
Historical Society.
Tickets are $35.00 and are available by mail
from the Brockton Historical Society at 216
North Pearl St. Brockton or by e-mailing
northernheritage@comcast.net. Tickets
are also available at the offices of the Metro
South Chamber of Commerce at 60 School
Street, Brockton or at the First Lutheran
Church, 900 Main St. For more information
please contact, Jim Benson at 508-586-
9021 or the society at 508-583-1038.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SBA Workshop
Career Works, 34 School Street, Brockton
Attend a FREE SBA workshop designed to highlight the various SBA programs and services that are available to prospective or current entrepreneurs who need assistance in starting or expanding their business. General information will be provided on the following:
Small Business Counseling (SCORE)
Small Business / Development Centers • Business Information Center
SBA 7(a) • Loan Guaranty Program • 8(a) Business Development
HUB/Zones • Small Disadvantaged Business Assistance
Government Contracting Opportunities
For more information, call CareerWorks at 508.513.3400.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Advantage Home Health Care Relocation Ceremony
1178 Washington Street, Suite 7B, Stoughton
Advantage Home Health Care Services invites you to celebrate
our ribbon cutting ceremony as we celebrate our move to 1778
Washington Street, Soughton. Please join us for light refreshments
and a tour of our facility.
Advantage Home Health Care Services provides a professional and
friendly healthcare leadership team
with over 50 years experience. They
provide care to you or your loved
ones at home with quality, caring
licensed nursing, physical therapy
and homehealth aides. In addition,
this fall, Advantage will use their new
class room to offer continuing education,
programs and classes. For more
information, please call Jayne
Kelleher, 508-584-2900.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SBA Workshop
Career Works, 34 School Street, Brockton
Attend a FREE SBA workshop designed to highlight the various SBA programs and services that are available to prospective or current entrepreneurs who need assistance in starting or expanding their business. General information will be provided on the following:
Small Business Counseling (SCORE)
Small Business / Development Centers • Business Information Center
SBA 7(a) • Loan Guaranty Program • 8(a) Business Development
HUB/Zones • Small Disadvantaged Business Assistance
Government Contracting Opportunities
For more information, call CareerWorks at 508.513.3400.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
New Member Orientation (With Business After Hours to Follow)
Irish Cultural Centre, 200 New Boston Drive, Canton
The Member Orientation gives
new members, prospective members,
and new employees of existing
member companies an opportunity
to network and explore the many
programs and services available to
Metro South Chamber Members.
Whether you are a new member,
new to your company, or a long
time member who wants to know
“what’s new at the Chamber”, you
are invited to attend this session.
The New Member Orientation will
take place at the Irish Cultural prior to the Business After Hours
Networking Event. The orientation
is free to attend. Please bring plenty
of business cards for networking
and some promotional materials
about your business to share. Preregister
for this event by calling Kim
at 508.586.0500 x 231 or email kprosper@
metrosouthchamber.com.
For more information on the Business After Hours, visit the Registration page.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Referral Marketing System Workshop
Metro South Chamber, 60 School Street, Brockton
For most business owners, referrals
happen accidentally as a result of doing
good work or being in the right place at
the right time. But imagine what your
business would be like if those valuable
referrals could happen intentionally,
systematically, as a result of installing a
step-by-step process and by putting
yourself in the right place, with the right
source, always at the right time?
Marketing is the most important system
in any business and generating
quality referrals is simply one component
of the lead generation process and
as such, needs its own documented system
as well.
Attend this FREE workshop and you
will learn how to create your own referral
generation system including how to:
1. Become more referable - learn the 5
ways to get people to refer your business
more often.
2. Target your
sources - learn to
develop a laserbeam
focus when identifying good referral
prospects
3. Educate your sources - discover powerful
methods to educate your referral
sources so that they refer you more with
exactly the right words
4. Motivate your sources - understand
what will motivate your referral sources
so they refer more business to you.
5. Follow-up with all - find out the best
ways to keep your referral sources “in the
know” about the progress you are making.
To register, email Joe Constantino,
joe@businessmarketingsuccess.com.
A seasoned marketing strategist &
Speaker; Joe is also the owner of Business
Marketing Success and a Certified Duct
Tape Marketing Coach. For more information,
visit www.successcoachingu.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 8:30 am - 11:00 am
Marketing Strategies Using Social Media
Crescent Credit Union, 115 Commercial Street, Brockton
Attend this workshop for a basic overview of social media tools including search
engine optimization (SEO), social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
YouTube and Myspace), Blogs and E-newsletters.
The presenter is Tricia White, Senior Business Advisor with he MA Small Business Development Centre Network (MSBDC) - SE Region. The MSBDC provides free and confidential
business advisory services to existing or prospective
small business people. They also offer training seminars
on a variety of topics, including starting a business,
financial planning, government procurement, marketing
and strategic planning.
To register or for more information, call Tammi or Alison
at the MSBDC office at 508.673.9783 or register online at www.msbdc.org/semass.
Additional workshops in the series: Using LinkedIn & Facebook on October 20,
and Tweets and Blogs on November 10.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:30 am - 11:00 am
Using LinkedIn and Facebook for Your Business
Crescent Credit Union, 115 Commercial Street, Brockton
Basic walk through of both networks to include: overview of social networking, setting-up personal profiles, identifying business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) uses, building business profiles on each network, and monitoring results.
The presenter is Tricia White, Senior Business Advisor with he MA Small Business Development Centre Network (MSBDC) - SE Region. The MSBDC provides free and confidential
business advisory services to existing or prospective
small business people. They also offer training seminars
on a variety of topics, including starting a business,
financial planning, government procurement, marketing
and strategic planning.
To register or for more information, call Tammi or Alison
at the MSBDC office at 508.673.9783 or register online at www.msbdc.org/semass.
Additional workshops in the series: Using LinkedIn & Facebook on October 20,
and Tweets and Blogs on November 10.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:30 am - 11:00 am
Tweets and Blogs, How this can help with SEO
Crescent Credit Union, 115 Commercial Street, Brockton
Basic overview of Twitter and blogging, how they work with search engine optimization (SEO), investigating their uses along with three recognized blogging platforms (Wordpress, Typepad and Blogger), widget and conversion mechanisms, structuring of blogs, ideas for writing and case studies of different types of blogs.
The presenter is Tricia White, Senior Business Advisor with he MA Small Business Development Centre Network (MSBDC) - SE Region. The MSBDC provides free and confidential
business advisory services to existing or prospective
small business people. They also offer training seminars
on a variety of topics, including starting a business,
financial planning, government procurement, marketing
and strategic planning.
To register or for more information, call Tammi or Alison
at the MSBDC office at 508.673.9783 or register online at www.msbdc.org/semass.
Additional workshops in the series: Using LinkedIn & Facebook on October 20,
and Tweets and Blogs on November 10.
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