Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

Socializing your puppy to new people and new dogs is criticial for the long term happiness of your beloved canine companion. This meetup is lead by Lisa Carlson aka "The Pawsitive Professor". Lisa graduated with Honors from the SFSPCA Academy for Dog Trainers and has 9 years professional dog training experience. All puppies 10 weeks to 6 months of age are welcome. Please bring proof of vaccinations. Vaccinations do NOT need to be completed but must be in process.

Hi Everyone! As you know Professor Daphne Koller (Stanford University) has been kind enough to share & teach very interesting topic - Probabilistic Graphical Model (webpage https://www.coursera.org/pgm). Being actively interested in this area, I am forming this group for the engineering students/graduates/working professionals to discuss about the topics being taught, discuss assignments, form hangout groups(google+) and ask questions.

As if moms and dads didn't do enough work at home. Here is an opportunity for them to learn how to work from home and make some extra income in the process.  Gosh, who doesn't need some extra money from time to time? Okay, all the time here in Silicon Valley where a couple EACH making over $100K still canNOT buy a home in San Francisco. But sometimes that little one needs us to be home. That's when we want to work from home. And that is what this Meetup is about.  How to work from home, how to m …

This meetup is for Meetup organizers in Silicon Valley and for those who want to meet and network with people who have groups of people they bring together. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. In this meetup we will network about how to improve our meetups, cross promote on r …

South Bay WordPress and Web Design is devoted to people who want to get the most from their blogs and websites, so they can have a web presence for their business, book, or organization.   We can help you get with: learning to use the WordPress platform  hosting needs at BM2 Hosting.com a web design to put forth a good first impression content if you find yourself time constrained Our organizers are Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor and Dave Landis (i-wanna-start-a-blog.com). Bill is the au …

This is one of the oldest groups on meetup.com and we still welcome new members! Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We are writers and aspiring writers. We are bloggers and wannabe bloggers. We meet regularly to interact with serious and not-so serious bloggers. Our organize …

Do you feel that you've done everything right in your life to be successful on the outside but feel like you die a little inside every day - because you don't feel like you're living the life you were born to live? If so, this group is for you! I know that feeling because I've been there! I'm a former award-winning Cornell professor turned successful business consultant turned personal empowerment author, speaker and coach. I started this group to gather folks like you. You'd like to believe the …

With growing popularity of iPhone and iPad, this is the best time to get ahead of the curve and learn how to build applications on the iOS platform. iOS design and development houses face a problem that some feel is coming to a head this year: the desperate need for more developers. Everywhere you look, firms are hiring up iOS developers more eagerly than kids looking for Willy Wonka's golden ticket; demand for skilled developers far outstrips supply. On February 11th, we sincerely invite you to …

Internet marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how to utilize these tools to …

Bring together people who are passionate about Ruby and Rails in an environment that fosters learning from and helping each other while building lasting friendships. "And as you get older, you may find that “Enabling the Dreams of Others” thing is even more fun." From the Last Lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) Get 35% off from O’Reilly books and ebooks when you purchase directly from http://www.oreilly.com/store/. Just use discount code DSUG when …

Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

Do you need tools, support and community to help you change your life - and change the world? There is a part of you that deeply wants to evolve. That part of you holds a vision of a life - and a world - filled with more joy, more justice, more connection to each other and to the planet. It yearns to bring that vision into being, to be a part of creating that world. Yet if you're like most of us, you sometimes lose touch with that evolutionary impulse, and with your own wisdom, compassion and pu …