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Small group networking among entrepreneurial peers

In 1996, seven years after founding a small junk-removal business in Vancouver, I set a goal to rapidly grow my business. As a young entrepreneur, my biggest challenge was learning how to achieve this.

I began looking at peer networking as a way to learn and grow from the advice and experience of other business owners. The Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (YEO) is one of the highest rated peer-to-peer networks with chapters across the nation. YEO brings together local business owners whose companies individually generate more than $1 million in annual revenue.

Convinced that peer-to-peer networking was just what I needed, I joined YEO in 1996. In doing so, I was assigned to a forum group of eight other members. We met monthly and exchanged ideas, goals, and challenges in powerful brainstorming sessions. Each person brought important insight into managing and growing a small business and gave their unbiased opinion to other forum members. Candor was possible because members weren’t competitors, partners, or in any other relationship that would preclude the free exchange of ideas.

By Brian Scudamore

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/2005-04-18-entre-2-apr_x.htm

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