Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Business After-hours


Last Wednesday night via3pr and Bensonhurst Business Club held an event called the Business After-hours at the Russian Samovar Restaurant in Midtown. People from all kinds of business backgrounds attended: store owners, doctors, dentists, filmmakers, salon owners, along with representatives from Netcost Market, Lucello Jewelry Company, Imperia Vodka and Verizon. It turned out to be a fabulous little soiree at Russian Samovar’s elegant and enchanting V.I.P lounge, with guests mingling, networking, and indulging in drinks.

The point of the Business After-hours event was to help people network, and the evening’s host, Irina Shmeleva made networking fun and painless by inventing games that helped the guests relax and meet each other. In case that it didn’t work, she spent the rest of the evening introducing everyone to everyone else. There was a short speech given by Alec Teyel, HSBC bank’s Small Business Relationship Manager, who co-organized the event. Alex then introduced the guest speaker Robert Levin, the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of New York Enterprise Report Magazine, who is the publisher and the editor-in-chief of a hugely popular magazine “The New York Enterprise Report”. Robert shared some great tips on how to make small businesses grow, emphasizing how crucial networking is in the process of building and maintaining a business. All in all, it was a great night and many guests departed with a smile. We are all looking forward to the next one.

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