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This week’s “Spark an Idea Thursday” is about making “real life” connections with people you know online. I don’t actually have a lot of experience with meeting online friends in real life, but I’d like to do better with that. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to launch a new initiative: the Smart Solopreneurs Meetup Group. Keep reading to learn how you can get involved (even if you don’t live in the Greater Boston area).
I love Meetup.com. I’m the organizer for a local moms’ Meetup group in my town, and I’m amazed at the number of members who have joined our little group. I’ve met people I never would have met otherwise, and they’re such cool people, too!
So when I learned about the topic for this week’s Spark an Idea Thursday, I decided to organize a new Meetup group for all of the awesome freelancers, solopreneurs, and other small business owners out there. I live in the Boston area, so that’s where the in-person events will be (at least at first). But some of the events will be online (teleseminars, interviews, etc.) and if the group takes off, we’ll expand the live events to other cities – so I encourage you to join no matter where you live!
If you’d like to take part, just click here to join the Smart Solopreneurs Meetup Group! Hopefully it will be a great way for us to connect and learn from one another. I can’t wait to get started!
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Christina Lemmey is the mother of two school-aged girls, a wife, and the owner of 
best wishes for your meet up Traci, hope we get to see something neat coming out of it
This is interesting – I haven’t heard of this, but went to the site and discovered a whole bunch of meetups near me. I’m going to look into it further and give it a try. Thanks!
@writeawriting – Thanks! I’ll post updates here from time to time.
@Ginny – Glad to hear you found some interesting meetups! Let us know how it works out for you.