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Be social in your networking, meet someone for lunch!
Build your Network, Increase your Business, do it at Lunch.  
We connect professionals for face to face, one on one lunches at local restaurants. All meetings are based on parameters predetermined by you.

Once you have entered your profile and networking preferences, we provide you a list of matching members who have open lunch times at a specific restaurant. You choose the member and attend their lunch.

Or, you enter your own lunch schedule, pick the restaurant, and wait for another matching member to choose your lunch.

The GoGrabLunch basics:

1. This IS NOT a dating site – This site is designed to help professionals network with other professionals for business purposes. If you choose to set your preferences to allow lunches with members of the opposite sex, please conduct yourself in a professional manner.
2. Ditch the pitch – Keep the selling to a minimum. Remember this is a networking opportunity. Make the most of your time and be respectful of your guest’s time. You are both here to make a valuable contact. This is not the time for your 30 minute sales pitch.
3. Rate your restaurant – Rating your lunch helps others see what venues offer the best environment for a quality network lunch. Be honest but be fair. Your ratings help us provide you with the best Preferred Restaurant Partners, discounts and incentives. All ratings are anonymous.
4. Leave honest feedback about your lunch – This is the most important thing you do as a user of GoGrabLunch.com to help ensure everyone has a quality networking lunch. After every completed lunch you will get a chance to give us feedback about the overall quality of that lunch. Feedback affects each user’s NetQuotient™ (see FAQs). The better your NetQuotient™, the more lunches you are likely to have, and the more connections you are likely to make.

Following these basic guidelines will help insure everyone who uses GoGrabLunch.com has a quality experience and makes a valuable new business connection.

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February is new member recruitment month and to help kick thing off in the right direction you will get 1 drawing ticket for every new guest (potential member) you bring to the meeting on Tuesday morning in the month of February and 1 bonus if they join with a payment in February as well.

Here is some information on the Mimi-Vacation

In order to redeem your certificate you must enter the full website including the html extension for the issuer of your certificate. You must also have the correct redemption code from the certificate and enter it in when prompted to do so.

Your Vacation Is On Us!
Enjoy your free vacation on us!

This package entitles two adults to enjoy 3 fun-filled days and 2 exciting nights of complimentary accommodations at their choice of one of the fabulous vacation destinations listed below.

Just take a look at all these wonderful vacation destinations you could visit while staying in high-quality accommodations provided by the hotels listed below.

This offer is offering you and a guest hotel accommodations in your choice of cities listed above. Your cost is a small $10 processing, postage and handling fee as well as hotel taxes, ranging between $7-$12 per night, based upon the city selected.

You will receive a reservation form in the mail to book your room. When you send in the reservation form, hotel taxes will be due at that time. Reservations must be taken within one year and booked 60 days in advance.

Valid for adults, age 21 and older.

Dates near holidays or conventions are usually not available with this special offer. Transportation, meals and room taxes are not included. Holidays, weekends and travel within 60 days require a surcharge.

Not valid for conventions or group travel. Only one brochure may be used per family, per city in any 12-month period.

Destinations 3 day/ 2 night

Or Enjoy 4 Days and 3 Nights at one of these locations:

* Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
* Cancun, Mexico

Hotel Information

All hotel accommodations are at 3-star national chain hotels such as:

* Ramada
* Radisson
* Holiday Inn
* Sheraton
* Best Western

Due to how fast we are growing and the lack of customer service at our current location we will be moving our Tuesday morning breakfast to The Nines Restaurant at the Bakersfield Marriott.

The Nines has a Semi-Private Dinning Room that will accommodate up to 40

Here is a copy of the breakfast menu.
The buffet is $12 + tax

Includes:

• 

  Build your own omelet

• Bacon
• Sausage
• Country Potatoes
• Scrambled Eggs
• Assorted Breads/Bagels (based on availability)
• Cold Cereals (based on availability)
• Oatmeal
• Seasonal Fruit
• Yogurt (based on availability)
• AND YES!!! A drink is included – any drink

We will start meeting their next week (1/31/2012 or 2/7/2012) depending if we decide to go dark on the 5th Tuesday of the month.

P.S.   They are not going to charge us to use this room and haven’t asked us to guarantee  a minimum.  They also said we could order breakfast their from the menu, Starbucks in the bar or order the Breakfast Buffet.  Their is no minimum and you can just order coffee if you like.

I am working on a printed member Directory Tri-Fold and need to know how you would like your Business Listed.
Please fill in the form below with all the information you want in the printed Directory.
Thanks Kyle

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I am working on an official Logo for our Group. Please let me know the one you like.

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Here are the meeting highlights. from Tuesday 1/17/2012

Sky has proposed a badge design for the group.  The cost will be 12per badge.  I will be setting up a page on the website later this week so we can place our orders online.

We had 3 guests today.

1. Johnny of St. Farm brought Brandon of Mobile Oil Change.
2. Sky of Skywriter productions brought John Heath of ALPHIA Tec & Alarm Systems John turned in his Application to join today
3. Kyle of My Bakersfield Printer brought  Valerie of Mary Kay.

We talked a little about having a agenda to follow in the meetings
Here is the proposed agenda:
7am doors open (networking & breakfast)
7:30 meeting starts
Guest Introductions
Members who brought a guest get to introduce them (please keep it under 1 min) Guest    gets to tell us a little about themselves and their business (kept under 2min)
Member introductions / referrals and Thank you’s
(Name and Business Name only) if you have a referral please keep it brief ie:  I have a referral for … (same with Thank you’s) I have a thank you for. . .
Needs
if you have a need that you think the group may be able to help with.  Ie:  I am really looking for a connection with the person who handles ______ at _________.  If any one can help please see me after the meeting.
Member Spotlight / Guest Speaker (keep to 10min)
Announcements: ie: Open House, Blood Drive, other mixers & networking events.
Meeting Wrap-up
NEW LOCATION after today’s little mishap and the way this have gone for the last 3 weeks I think we need to start looking for a new location.  If you have any ideas please email me back and I will check them out.  The location need to meet the following criteria.

1. Have a private room larger enough for our group (I would like to see us grow as large as we can 50 to 75)
2. Open no later than 7am
3. Able to do separate checks

There is a Mixer tonight hosted by the Kern County Bridal Association at the Kern County Museum 5:30pm to 7:30pm.  There is no cost to attend and Martine is catering.

Next Tuesday night is the Social Media Class that Carlin Jones & I teach.  It’s a 2 hr class that will cover Facebook & WordPress.  The cost is $35 to attend.
Click Here for More Info…

If you have not been added to the Website Please follow this link to find out what information I need from you to add your business. Click Here More Info…

password: bbng661

Here is the information on John Heath Jr.
They monitor and service all low voltage systems. Security Alarms, Fire Alarms, CCTV & Access Control Systems  661-319-6382
Please give me your thoughts.