Making Connections

The VilcaVerse

business Club

Our vision is to unite conscious community minded business owners and community focused program facilitators to help each other build and grow their businesses and programs through cooperation, friendship, skill-sharing and collaboration. We also aim to streamline community offerings, minimize business and service redundancy, and to improve awareness of existing businesses and program offerings while also supporting the launching of new startups.
We envision a thriving financially resilient Vilcabamba where collaboration replaces competition. A community of sovereign individuals whose shared efforts attract quality people and resources, strengthen local enterprise, and make this valley a model for what conscious grassroots community-building can achieve. 
what we are about

The Meetings

The VilcaVerse Business Club is a weekly community focused networking and business development meeting and social event. It is hosted at the Vilcabamba business center and attendance is by invitation only extended to eligible local business owners or program facilitators by an existing busines club member. It gives members the opportunity to informally socialize and mingle but also offers some organized, structured time for each member to have an opportunity to speak a little bit about their business, the products or services they offer and the type of client's/customers they are looking for. This educates the other members of the group about what each member can offer the community and keeps their team member's products or services on the top of their mind for when they come across anybody in their daily interactions who require these products or services and are looking for a referral from a trusted source. The meeting is also be used to brainstorm ideas to help each other build more successful businesses or programs by improving business practices, marketing strategies, use of technology etc. It is designed to be a positive, solution focused, forward thinking environment and not a complaint session.

What to expect

Basic structure

10-15 minutes - informal conversation.

30 minutes - Briefly Discuss Each member's business or program

45 minutes - In depth group learning focus on one featured topic.

10-15 minutes - discuss group's future plans, ideas etc.

10-15 minutes - informal conversation, meeting wrap up.

Total - 2 hours

*Bilingual translation provided*

        

Superscript

Your weekly 60 second presentation

Here is a simple, easy to use form that you can use to prepare yourself for your 60 second weekly presentation to educate the group about who you are and what you have to offer the community. It will also be printed out and brought to the meeting to assist the translator.
Name Business/Program Name E-mail Presentation Section 1: Introduction (15 seconds) Presentation Section 2: Tell a Story (20 seconds) Presentation Section 3: Ask for the Business (10 seconds) Presentation Section 4: Call to action (5 seconds) Presentation Section 5: Memory hook (7 seconds) Submit