February Mastermind Meetup for Tampa Bay

Last night, we held my third meetup of the Tampa Bay Mastermind group. This is a group I organized on Meetup.com to serve as a social gathering for people engaged in internet business in the Tampa Bay area. We had a good turnout last night and a lot of great conversation. Some of the guys from my smaller, more private mastermind group came as well.

Here is a list of the people who came out.

• JR Griggs. Local conservative blogger at Jrs2cents.com. @JRGriggs on Twitter.
• Ryan Wade. Serial marketer, but he’ll tell you he’s into porn and gambling. @ryanwade on Twitter.
• Kyle Graham. Programmer geek and marketer in the same body. Check him out on KyleGraham.tv.  @kylegraham on Twitter.
• James DeLong. Currently a JV Manager for some big guys. @jamesdelong on Twitter.
• Julia Gorzka. Local social media consultant. @JuliaGorzka on Twitter.
• Tony Teegarden. Personal development guru and former death metal guy (ironic, I know ). @ateegarden on Twitter.
• Shelby Nousain. Connect on LinkedIn.
• Chris Blackerby – a serial web entrepreneur, it seems. Too many sites to list, but he’s got his name as a dot-com.
• Rick Hawkins – A former school teacher, he is now looking to build an online business.
• Gary Burge – a pharmacist looking to go online.
• Barry Nicholson – a local copywriter.

* NOTE: If I missed anybody, just contact me and let me know.

I didn’t have a real camera with me this time, so I just used my Iphone and sent some pictures to my TwitPic gallery. Here they are:

So, great meetup. Here’s what Julia said on Meetup.com about the evening:

Great conversation. After spending the evening with this group my head is swimming with ideas, inspiration and questions. Thanks to all for being so generous sharing about your business, approach, set-backs, learning, recommendations, etc!

That’s awesome.

So, the next meetup will be in March. I will schedule it some time in the next week or two.

If you weren’t able to make it last night, I hope you can come to a future meetup. I’ve been holding the meetup on a Tuesday evening, but feel free to post a comment and let me know if another night would work out better.

And if you’re reading this and aren’t in the Tampa Bay area, I encourage you to either join or organize a meetup in your own area on Meetup.com. I was having a conversation with James last night, in fact, about just how important networking has been for us and our businesses. So, don’t miss out on it. If there isn’t a meetup in your area, take the lead and organize one.

EDIT 11:57PM: Tony just posted a video over on his blog of Chris showing some of his marketing materials that he has used to learn how the game works. Good stuff. Check it out at TonyTeegarden.com.

EDIT 12:43PM: Just edited to include the link to Kyle’s new site. And already, he’s making me look bad with his video quality. Damn!