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Detroit Regional Chamber Hosts 5 Minute Networking
Tim Somers
MichiganBusinessHub.com Thursday, March 20, 2008
As a business owner I know the importance of Networking, I have used various avenues over my 19 years as owner of Bizarre Promotions, Inc. a promotional products distributor. A couple months ago I attended my first 5 Minute Networking® event hosted by the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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Hi-Tech Scotland meets Sonia English, CEO of San Francisco based '5 Minute Networking'
Scots Away - Sonia English
Hi-Tech Scotland Thursday, November 01, 2007
Name: Sonia English
Role: CEO, 5 Minute Networking
Location: San Francisco, USA
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Business Expo is Networking Success
Debra Atlas
Upstate Business Journal Monday, October 29, 2007
“The Sky’s the Limit,” Redding Chamber of Commerce 2007 Business Expo, including a large cross-section of businesses from all over the Upstate.
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MODERN MIXER: Chamber networking event rides People Mover
Jennifer Youssef
The Detroit News Wednesday, October 24, 2007
DETROIT -- Being from Wisconsin, Joahne Penney doesn't have any business contacts here in Detroit, and she doesn't know much about companies or services in the region.
So while in Detroit on a business trip, Penney climbed aboard the People Mover Tuesday to meet other business people and got a mini tour of the city at a networking event held by the Detroit Regional Chamber.
The chamber, which hosts networking events at different locations several times each year, teamed up with the Peopl
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Speed Networking Gets Wheels
Jan Norman
Orange County Register Thursday, October 11, 2007
Newport Beach-based 5 Minute Networking is taking its business version of speed dating to the Motor City.
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The Power of 5: Chamber’s Networking Event Builds Business Connections
Ameerah Cetawayo
The Daily News Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Management Trainee Vashon Broadnax was one of many people Friday who experienced the benefits of meeting people for future referrals in just five minutes.
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Business Networking in Motion Aboard the Detroit People Mover
Jon Kreger
Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Friday, October 05, 2007
Business Networking in Motion Aboard the Detroit People Mover
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LOS ANGELES BUSINESS EVENT COMBINES BUSINESS EXPO WITH NETWORKING MIXER TO CREATE A BUSINESS EVENT UNLIKE ANY OTHER
Largest Mixer
Press Release Wednesday, June 27, 2007
5 Minute Networking, Chambers of Commerce and Businesses from Across Southern California Join
Together to Network Their Business into Success at L.A.’s Largest Mixer
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Getting to know you: Networking program lets members make contacts
Aaron Brand
Texarkana Gazette Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ever wish you had five minutes just to meet someone new?
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GLI's 5 Minute Networking Helps Make Quick, Quality Leads
Greater Louisville Inc.
E-News Letter Monday, April 02, 2007
5 Minute Networking®, a new program launched by GLI in January, is offering GLI members an exciting and fast-paced environment for building strategic business relationships. Formatted similarly to "speed dating," each one-hour 5 Minute Networking session gives attendees the opportunity to meet 10 contacts in timed face-to-face conversations.
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Speed networking works: Chamber sees success in new program
Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce
NEWS RELEASE: Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce Friday, March 30, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, KY – South Central Kentucky business owners and executives joined the speed-networking revolution on Feb. 27, 2007, when 60 participants met at the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce to participate in its first-ever 5 Minute Networking® event.
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Five Minute Networking
Today's Chamber: A Monthly Publication of the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Monday, March 26, 2007
Ready. Set. Network: A new Chamber program has become very popular – the 5 Minute Networking Event. Begun last fall, the event brings participants together to meet up to 20 other individuals, one-on-one, in five minute increments.
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Leader Lowdown: Family Business
Working Mother Magazine Thursday, March 01, 2007
Working with family members is uniquely challenging – and rewarding. Just ask the English sisrs, Sonia 31 and Melissa 29, co-owners of 5MinuteNetworking.com, a California-based business networking company. Their advice: FORMALIZE YOUR ROLE. You need to know who is responsible for what and hold each other accountable.
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Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards
Orange County Business Journal Monday, February 19, 2007
Founded in 2004, 5 Minute Networking combines speed dating and networking meetings into an efficient, effective and fun means for making business contacts. The company stages networking events using a proprietary Event Facilitation Software program that enables participants to meet up to 20 people one on one in five-minute increments.
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Perspective: Business Information & News for the Cranberry County Chamber of Commerce
Cranberry County Chamber of Commerce
Perspective: Business Information & News Thursday, February 01, 2007
5 Minute Networking Scheduled at Bridgewater Savings
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Join the 5-Minute Networking Revolution!
Newsletter of the Ventura Chamber of Commerce
Ventura Business Thursday, February 01, 2007
At 5-Minute Networking events you will have the opportunity to meet up to 20 people, one-on-one, in five minute increments, resulting in a fast-paced, exciting and extremely productive networking experience often referred to as the business equivalent of “speed-dating”.
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5 Minute Networking slated by Chamber
Middleboro Gazette
Middleboro Gazette Thursday, January 25, 2007
Middleboro-The Cranberry County Chamber of Commerce will present its second 5 Minute Networking event at Bridgewater Savings, 756 Orchard St., Raynham, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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5 Minutes to Better Business
Patrick Wright
North County Times Wednesday, January 24, 2007
VISTA --- Talking over a table, the businessmen and women hurried through their presentations. They handed out business cards. They passed out fliers and pamphlets. They told each other why their businesses made a difference. Then, five minutes later, a bell rang, they got up, changed partners and did it all over again.
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New Program Helps to Make Quick, Quality Leads
Dec. 2006 / Jan. 2007 Newsletter
Greater Louisville Inc. Newsletter Monday, January 01, 2007
Networking is an undeniably significant aspect of business. In fact, it is one of the primary reasons many companies become members of GLI. But how to best allocate time and resources in developing that network can present a challenge to many busy professionals.
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Exec says "5 Minute Networking" software rocks!
Richard L. Hakes
The Chamber Executive Network Friday, December 01, 2006
“We thought it sounded simple, too,” says exec Sally Haas of Pittsburgh Airport Area (Pennsylvania) Chamber. “But when we tried it on our own, we found there were a lot of challenges.”
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Sisterhood Proves Powerful for Some Executive Duos
Sheryl Nance-Nash
Women's E News Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Some sisters who are leading businesses together say a spirit of sibling rivalry helps make their partnerships work. Others tout a deep-seated trust and family bond. Many are cautious about recommending the arrangement to others.
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Speed Networking for Conferences: Optimized in Just 5 Minutes!
5 Minute Networking
Corporate Press Release Sunday, November 05, 2006
5 Minute Networking Events Break the Ice at Conferences
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Orange County Business Journal Family Owned Business Nominees 2006
Orange County Business Journal Monday, October 30, 2006
The English sisters turned a new idea for networking into a national craze in just a year. Now they’re taking it to the next level. Their speed-networking event format, developed in 2004, now can be found from Hawaii and Colorado to Florida, Michigan and Massachusetts. The company has become a recognized local brand and a well known name in the business networking community.
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MARKETPLACE: READY, SET, PITCH
Jennifer Robison
Las Vegas Review-Journal Monday, July 24, 2006
5 Minute Networking lets business people say 'Hi, would you like to buy?'
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5 MINUTE NETWORKING® NAMES NEW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Corporate Press Release
5 Minute Networking Thursday, June 08, 2006
Donald Kasle and Steven Mednick Appointed to the 5 Minute Networking® Advisory Board
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Applying Idea of Speed Dating to Networking
Program puts businesspeople together one-on-one for five-minute increments.
Adam Clark
The Signal Thursday, June 08, 2006
The business world may begin taking cues from the dating world if Sonia and Melissa English have anything to do with it.
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Ready, set ... network!
Dawn Rapp
The Tribune Thursday, June 01, 2006
5-Minute Networking software lets 40 business professionals swiftly meet, make connections and promote their companies at an event that was the first of its kind in the area, officials say
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Just Give Me 5 Minutes
Lisa Waschka
Millionaire Blueprints Tuesday, April 11, 2006
How two sisters took the popular “speed dating” concept and made their fortune helping others make career-changing business connections — five minutes at a time.
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5 Minute Networking takes “speed dating” approach to professional relationship building
Lisa McQuerrey
The Business Voice Friday, March 03, 2006
Chamber debuting exclusive program to upper level membership
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Fast or slow? Choose your networking options
Bradley J. Fikes
North County Times Wednesday, March 01, 2006
NORTH COUNTY ----- Sit down and go. It's five minutes (actually four minutes and 30 seconds) to make your pitch, and hear a pitch in return. That's the allure of 5-Minute Networking, a company that promotes rapid business networking. The company demonstrated its technique for the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening.
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The 5 Minute Solution to your New Year’s Resolution!
POWERnews Winter 2006 Monday, February 27, 2006
Tired of the usual “business after hours,” chamber of commerce mixers? Fed up with the traditional open reception, where you mix and mingle with a few folks that you already know? There’s a new concept available, and it’s sweeping the nation.
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NAPA CHAMBER PRESENTS EFFECTIVE NETWORKING TOOL
Kathleen Dreessen
Commerce Wednesday, February 01, 2006
When I first heard the Napa Chamber was going to offer the hottest networking trend in the country, 5 Minute Networking™, I didn’t quite get the concept. The explanation was that it was like speed dating. But what does that mean? Does everybody move around? How do you know when it’s time? What if you only want to meet people in a certain industry?
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Relationships, Networks & PR
Cara Good
Start Wundering Blog Sunday, January 29, 2006
Last week, I spoke at the eWomenNetwork Sales & Marketing Summit about using PR to build a company, grow sales, and create a personal and corporate brand. eWomenNetwork Founder and President Sandra Yancey delivered the keynote, talking candidly about how she grew eWomenNetwork from an idea about five years ago into a multimillion company recognized by The White House. If you’re not familiar with it, eWomenNetwork is the No. 1 resource for connecting and promoting women and their businesses world
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Unique 5 Minute Networking Program Offers New Approach to Connecting
Oceanside Chamber of Commerce
Oceanside Business Journal Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Are you looking for an opportunity to participate in a dynamic new networking event? The Chamber will be offering the incredibly popular 5 Minute Networking™ program beginning in February.
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Networking event offers speed dating for businesses
Article by Erika Engle
Honolulu Star Bulletin Tuesday, January 10, 2006
THE speed-dating comparisons are inevitable, but it really is intended to be a business-to-business event, orchestrated to introduce registrants to new people in specific industries to plant seeds of future business relationships.
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The 5 Minute Solution to your New Year’s Resolution!
5 Minute Networking Corporate Press Release Thursday, December 29, 2005
Business Professionals Short on Time Can Grow their Business through Revolutionary 5 Minute Networking Events.
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Innovation in business networking: Q&A with Sonia and Melissa English
FORTUNE Business Innovation blog Monday, December 05, 2005
In this exclusive Q&A for the FORTUNE Business Innovation blog, the two co-founders of 5 Minute Networking, Melissa and Sonia English explain the inspiration for their innovative approach to business networking and outline various ways how this approach could spur cross-departmental cooperation during the innovation process.
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5 Minute Networking™, September 21, 2005
at Turfway Park, Florence, Kentucky
The Official Newsletter of the Ohio Chapter Of Meeting Planners International
Define Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Ta da, da da da da de da! As the plaintive sounds of the steward’s trumpet rang out over the stands with the “call to post,” the stalwart band of hospitality industry representatives mixed and mingled as they prepared to launch forth in a furtive dash for furlongs of fiendish fun!
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Family Owned Business Nominees
Orange County Business Journal Monday, October 31, 2005
The English Family has turned a new idea for networking into a national craze in just a year. Their speed-networking format, developed last year, is on pace to launch in 10 metropolitan markets, including New York, Chicago and Denver.
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Network Faster: Speed networking allows your members to mingle one-on-one in five-minute increments, resulting in a fast-paced, exciting networking experience.
The Southeastern Association Executive Magazine Tuesday, October 18, 2005
A new networking tool is the business-equivalent of “speed-dating”, offers a fast-paced and exciting way for association members to meet, mingle, and network.
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USC Alumni Chapter Utilizes 5 Minute Networking™ to Increase Fundraising Abilities and Raise Excitement at Networking Events
5 Minute Networking Corporate Release Thursday, September 15, 2005
(Orange County, Calif.) – The University of Southern California Alumni Club of Newport Irvine is teaming up with 5 Minute Networking™ to offer its members access to the company’s unique business networking system. The club, chartered by the USC Alumni Association, will present its alumni base of nearly 1,000 Orange County residents with the opportunity to experience 5 Minute Networking™ at four functions each year. The premier event will be held at The Clubhouse in South Coast Plaza, October 1
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"Meet Market" (from the August issue of Entrepreneur magazine)
Article by Sarah Pierce, Entrepreneur Monday, August 01, 2005
At a speed-dating event last summer, Melissa English walked away with more business contacts for her sister Sonia’s web design company than she did for phone numbers for herself...
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Need A Good Excuse to Leave Work Early? 5 Minute Networking™ Joins Forces with Professional Sports Teams to Offer Business Networking at Sportings Events
5 Minute Networking Corporate Release, Thursday, July 07, 2005
Combined business networking & sporting events will get you out of work early AND make the boss happy...
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5 Minute Networking™ Releases Much Anticipated Event Facilitation Software
5 Minute Networking Corporate Press Release Thursday, July 07, 2005
From chambers of commerce & corporations to non-profits, organizations can now facilitate their own revenue-generating 5 Minute Networking™ Events
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When was the Last Time you met 20 Good Contacts at a Business Event?
Business 101
Global Talk Radio Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Global Talk Radio spoke with Sonia English of 5 Minute Networking in its June 13th edition of "Business 101", to discuss their new rapid-fire networking program. Much like speed dating but applied to business mixers, they have come up with a program that can land you several qualified business leads within minutes.
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Co-founders of 5 Minute Networking Nominated for the Orange County Business Journal's "Women in Business" Award
Excerpt from the Orange County Business Journal Monday, April 25, 2005
As part of the nomination, Melissa English, COO, and Sonia English, CEO, were recently highlighted in the Orange County Business Journal's "Profiles in Excellence 2005 Women in Business" feature. Read an excerpt here.
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GONE IN 300 SECONDS
Jan Norman
Orange County Register, Business Monday, It's Your Business Monday, February 21, 2005
Busy business professionals adapt speed-dating techniques to networking process. A crystal bell rings persistently, so John Conners pauses for a breath, then moves one chair to his right. "I've never done this before," he says with a smile. Now that's saying something. Conners, a networking pro, is at the Bluewater Grill in Santa Ana for 5 Minute Networking, the business version of speed dating. Instead of looking for love matches, the participants are looking for customers, vendors and strategi
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (Orange County Chapter) and 5 Minute Networking™ Co-sponsor Innovative Business Networking Fundraiser
5 Minute Networking Corporate Press Release Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Orange County, Calif. - The Orange County Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is teaming up with 5 Minute Networking
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FINALLY! FIVE MINUTES THAT LEAVES BOTH PARTIES SATISFIED:
5 Minute Networking™ Offers Business Professionals an Innovative Technique for Expanding Their Client Base
Corporate Press Release
5 Minute Networking Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Newport Beach, California- All over the country, people are looking for love at "quick dating" events. Now, instead of love, busy professionals can gain new clients and expand their networks at unique "rapid business networking" events facilitated by 5 Minute Networking™. Now, business owners and executives in Orange County will have the opportunity to experience the fun and efficiency of 5 Minute Networking™, who is hosting its next Orange County Event at the Clubhouse at South Coast Plaza on J
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