Phoenix-Mesa, AZ (1888PressRelease)
October 09, 2009 - NetworkingPhoenix.com, the local online business resource that is changing the landscape of small business and entrepreneurship in the Valley, is celebrating its first anniversary this October. NetworkingPhoenix.com has become the Valley’s premier one-stop-shop for professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs looking to find networking events, useful business seminars and professional mixers.
The web 2.0 site, which allows members to create a free professional profile, has been referred to as the ‘local LinkedIn’. It has attracted more than 5,000 members in its first year and continues to grow at a rate of 20% per month. NetworkingPhoenix.com members are constantly making new online and offline connections that are helping them advance professionally; a real benefit in a time when the job market and small business climate are highly competitive. In bringing Valley professionals from a wide range of businesses together, NetworkingPhoenix.com is helping to stimulate the local economy by helping people forge new business deals and create job growth.
“While attending my first NetworkingPhoenix.com event, I connected with two incredible new clients and got to know successful, like-minded business people who I continue to call on,” said Heather Dopson, CEO of Global Media Connections. “I cannot express enough how critical NetworkingPhoenix.com is to creating relationships, connecting and increasing your sphere of influence. I am hooked!”
Another aspect of NetworkingPhoenix.com is its informative weekly ‘Featured Events’ email, which not only keeps members abreast of coming events but also offers incredibly valuable opportunities for members and their organizations to be highlighted.
Justin McGill of SEORCHERS.com said his involvement with NetworkingPhoenix.com has been one of the best business decisions he’s made recently. “We were featured in one of NetworkingPhoenix.com’s email announcements and it led us to a very profitable new client,” he said. “We’ve also established key partnerships to which have helped catapult rapid growth for us.”
NetworkingPhoenix.com exploded onto the scene last fall in response to a high demand for consolidation of face-to-face networking events on a single calendar. With more than 1,000 professional functions taking place in the Metropolitan Phoenix area on a monthly basis, a resource like this was very much needed. In addition to providing the consolidated calendar, NetworkingPhoenix.com provides an outlet for local professionals to mix and mingle in an open setting at its quarterly Signature Events. The events have grown to become the largest attended networking function in town bringing in approximately 1,000 professionals per event.
For her contribution to helping elevate Arizona’s business community, founder Gelie Akhenblit was recently named one of Arizona’s top 35 entrepreneurs under age 35 by AZ Magazine. Akhenblit created NetworkingPhoenix.com to provide an interactive calendar for professional and social networking events as well as a social media tool to connect professionals locally.
For more information about NetworkingPhoenix.com events or the company, please visit http://networkingphoenix.com online or contact Gelie Akhenblit at Gelie ( @ ) NetworkingPhoenix dot com or (480) 239-8571.
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