Positively Pittsburgh Live!
Special Preview Chocolate
Blues
10-22-12
Guests:
James Boggus, Director of
Pittsburgh Chocolate Blues
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| James Boggus |
James Boggus is a native of Pittsburgh and Worked in
Information Technology for over 26 years before becoming an entrepreneur. He
has been a part of Chocolate Blues for at least five years now and became
Director of Pittsburgh Chocolate Blues in 2011. He has participated in three events, and was the Nominee
for Best Business Connector in Dallas, Texas in 2012.
James attended a Chocolate Blues event in Dallas and loved the environment. He had a lot of fun and ended up meeting Shelly Rice.
Shelly Rice is one of the America's leading authorities
on producing successful business events. In the last 23 years, she
has produced more than 850 successful events including one of the largest,
longest running and most fun networking events in the country, The Chocolate Blues and Business Networking
Festival. "Chocolate Blues" is in more than 40 U.S. cities and
has resulted in hundreds of thousands of business connections and millions of
dollars in closed business for her clients.
Shelly is the founder of Be the Boss Magazine, Women Who
Mean Business and the Chocolate and Shopping Shows. She is a member of
Linkedin's Top Recommended Platinum Group, is the Community Choice Winner of
the Blackberry Small Business Influencer Award in 2012 and was nominated as
America's Most Influential Business Connector three years in a row at the U.S.
Small Business Conference.
He always wanted to find a way to give back to Pittsburgh
and realized Chocolate Blues was the best way. He wanted to bring
this home and share with his community.
"Chocolate Blues" is a giant business to
business networking event that brings together hundreds of business owners and
professionals. This event features a business expo, open networking, door
prizes, ice breakers, networking games, on the spot appointment setting, round
table workshops, a giant business card exchange, business coaching,
brainstorming circles, book signings, media mixers, blues background music and
of course, chocolate treats!
They are one of the largest, most successful and longest
running networking events in the country...hundreds, sometimes thousands attend
their events.
The goal is usually 500-800 participants, but sometimes the
crowds are much larger. For example 2,730 people showed up for a single
networking event.
"Chocolate Blues" is in more than 50 U.S. cities and
has resulted in hundreds of thousands of business connections and millions of
dollars in closed business for their clients.
This was reported as a
reproduction of PositvelyPittsburghLive news done by Joanne Quinn-Smith. (c)
Joanne Quinn-Smith and PositivelyPittsburghLive(TM) 2012 All rights reserved.
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