Proposal / Revenue Opportunities For Businesses, Media, and Organizations
   By Cesar Plata, Founder infoBayArea.com, 10/17/07, Rev 03/10/08

Following is a business proposal for media, organizations, and businesses who are interested in growing their membershps and increasing their revenues and visibility. Quite simply, all of us will benefit by working together and LEVERAGING each others' expertise and resources.

Read this:
• Networking 101 - Networking Tips, Organizing Succesful Business / Networking Events, and
   How infoBayArea mixers are different...

Summary
infoBayArea.com will PAY YOU for your participation!

• The key to our combined success is LEVERAGING. 
• Best business is personal business!   A little courtesy goes a LONG way!
• infoBayArea.com events are YOUR events!
• The best thing you can do for your clients is introduce them to other clients.

We PAY YOU for referrals. 2 Opportunities:

1. Receive 20% for any advertising and exhibitor referrals. Simply tell others about infoBayArea.com and encourage them to contact us. We will discuss various opportunities and offer discounts for advertising and/or their participation in multiple events. We are VERY flexible with our rates! When we get paid, YOU get paid!

2. Receive $4 per ticket sold. Promote our business networking mixers by email and encourage others to purchase advance discount tickets by clicking on a private-labeled link to track advance tickets sales: http://infobayareaYourCompany.eventbrite.com. We will pay you $4 per ticket sold (after the minimum number of 10 advance tickets sold combined for  all events).

• Our events are YOUR events!  We organize and host business networking mixers, you don't.  100s of professionals and business owners usually attend our events - You can now host 'your own' business mixers and introduce your colleagues to many potential clients. We do ALL the work, you simply help promote the event to your database, and get credit for it!  We want you to take ownership of our events (Your company & infoBayArea.com cordially invite you...) infoBayArea.com is strictly the 'event planner' in  the eyes of your clients. Read More: How infoBayArea.com business networking mixers are so different...

• infoBayArea.com is in a serious growth mode. Besides updating our website, we will host bigger and better events throughout 2008 and beyond. We want to work with you and develop long-term relationships with our clients and guests. All of us will benefit.

Contact Us
We look forward to seeing you and your friends and colleagues at our upcoming events.
Please contact us to discuss details and answer any questions. Thank you for your time and consideration.
• Cesar Plata, Founder infoBayArea.com, 408 272-4772, 239-9006 cell, cplata@infobayarea.com

Background
Businesses and Organizations:
• Usually reach out to and draw the same crowd, every month.
• Spend much money to pay for locations, caterers, music, entertainment, media advertising, etc.
• Staff or Volunteers spend much time organizing the events. Such time could sometimes be better utilized dealing with clients, working, etc. Time = money!
• Not all staff or volunteers have the years of experience, knowledge, or contacts to organize successful, effective, and profitable event(s).

Media:
• Account executives usually go out of their way to help their clients improve their marketing and business practices. Note - many small business clients do not know how to network.
• Spend much money to sponsor events.
• Charge subsantial advertising rates compared to infobayarea rates.

infoBayArea.com:
• Hosts monthly business/networking mixers in friendly, fun, upscale, business-casual environments, at major locations throughout the Bay Area such as fine restaurants and museums.
• Since 1998, our weekly newsletter distribution list has grown to over 14,000 (October 2007).
• We are very particular who we reach out to. Our target audience is very diverse, business owners and professionals. We bring together many entrepreneurs, mid-size companies, and major corporations. We often have 30-55% newcomers at each of our events! Our audience is professional, very polite, good-looking, and lively.
• Our regular monthly networking events usually draw 100-250+ business owners and professionals. Our larger, Silicon Valley business expos and mega mixers draw 500-800+.
• Note - we never pay for catering, live music and entertainment. We also pay little to nothing to rent locations.
• How do we do it? We are very well-connected, and we offer Bay Area establishments incredible opportunities to get lots of marketing and visibility (online, flyers, newsapers, magazines, TV, Radio, etc. ), and also earn revenues during the event, which we usually host on Thursdays (often slow evenings for these locations).
• We are not an overnight success. Since 1998, we have slowly but surely grown our weekly newsletter distribution list to over 13,000 (March 2008). We network a lot by attending numerous events, and distributing our flyers. What we feel we are very blessed with - hundreds, possibly thousands, of people, appreciate our services and tell others about our website and events. You can never pay anyone enough for word-of-mouth advertising! Our website has gone through several facelifts (expect web 2.0 soon) which have increased the traffic tremendously: 450+ visitors/day, top 5-10 ranking for many key words on major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.
• We give it that 'personal touch' We greet people with 'Latino / Southern Hospitality'. People want to be treated like they would treat others. They want to feel welcomed and leave an event knowing that it was worth their time and investment. We are truly grateful for their consideration and always look forward to seeing them at our upcoming events AND advertising on our website!
• We have organized hundreds of events - infoBayArea.com monthly business/networking mixers, dinner socials, and the very well-attended Silicon Valley Business Expos.
• We have incredible plans for growth. Stay tuned for more!