Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

Location

1st (or 2nd depending) meetup of the Brevard East Coast Creatives.

Please bring a canned food donation, $20 registration fee, and a list of your favorite websites.

KIDDING! Bring nothing but yourself. Come as you are or... well, you know the drill. Come late, come early. Leave late, leave early.

It's fully casual. No agenda. Discuss any or all of the following with some good chow to boot.

* The Web Business
* Marketing to Businesses
* Good business / Bad business around town
* What's shakin', What's movin.
* Horrible clients and how to avoid them
* Why the web/marketing/creative world will end because "your guy" lost in November.

Hey, we really don't care - as you can plainly see. Got 5 tips on saving money on a used car? We're all ears. Got ideas for future meetings? Bring it! Got a list of the Top 500 movies ever made? Well.... okay, maybe that's going too far. But Wikipedia is all over that so type away!

Bring a friend - or a foe.

The only rule is that all are welcome.

Here's a few of the peeps I'd like to meet or have a chance to discuss things with if I can make it this time. I'd like to know if anyone is using a CMS (content management system) for their clients, how they like it, what they use, what they don't like. I'd like to find out what systems folks are using to manage leads and client workflow (I have my own that I'll share, but I'd like to hear other's ideas as well). I'd like to see how folks are faring with this recent economy. Are businesses holding back more? Are they jumping in too late (i.e. "save my business with your advertising or web campaign, even though I should have done this three years ago").. what's your take? I'd like to see if folks are starting to wear thin on social networks and media. Is it killing your productivity? Are you getting business from it? Is LinkedIn the new Facebook? Or vice-versa? And of course, I'd like a ton of feedback, ideas, and hopefully some "leaders" to come forth on all things Florida Creatives, esp. as it pertains to our little Space Coast chapter here.

BTW, according to their "website" (i.e. MySpace page, cough, cough), Grill 192 now has free wifi. So if you want to get there a bit early or stay late and do some work, sounds like that could work out now. Save us a table. There's some big tables in back and one 8 or 10-top right to the left when you walk in. It's about 3.2 feet from 40mph traffic whizzing by, so that could add a bit of exhilaration to our meetup.

P.S. We'll normally meet the last Thursday of each month, but the last Thursday of November is Thanksgiving and although F/C is clearly more important than Thanksgiving, we're going to capitulate to the weaker members who apparently "need" that family time and move this one to the first Thursday in December - sort of a combo Nov/Dec meetup. Our next meetup won't be until the last Thursday of January, so try and make it. Should be fun.