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You are cordially invited to attend the Consultant Entrepreneur's Forum, an idea exchange intended to increase our value to our clients and firms, and more importantly, provide a forum where we can just shove our hands down our pants, rest our lattes on our bellys, and lament about the state of our chosen profession for a couple of hours.

Our next meeting will be Friday, January 12th, between the hours of 2pm and 4pm at Pane e Cioccolato café on 10 Waverly Place (on the corner of Mercer) in downtown NYC (map). It's BYOF - Buy Your Own Food, and Pane only takes cash.

Participants can arrive any time between 2pm and 4pm, but note that arriving at 2pm permits you to get more out of it. Please RSVP to reserve an optimal number of seats.

For our next meeting, we will be discussing:

1) Exactly how are consultants supposed to network? (Assuming we're not selling insurance or word processors, we network differently. Discussing what works, what doesn't work);

2) The Philippines has one. Chile has one. Will we have one, too, in 2008? Discussing Hillaryland and its audacious fight against the old (establishment) and new (Obamamania);

3) An Inconvenient Fact: all civilizations end. OPEC's power recently increased with the addition of Angola. A more socialist South America is falling behind Venezuela to seriously oppose American dominion in the West. And corporate America is running to Europe + Asia to escape the strangulation of regulation + compensation. Has America's time come to an end?;

4) Alternative fee arrangements. Investing our time for equity instead of cash. Do you do it and how has it worked out for you?

If you have a topic in mind, let me know and it'll get added on. Otherwise, bring it with you...

Remember, this is a casual forum, with no expectations of transactions, unless you're using ideas as currency. The notion continues to be that there are simply a dearth of stimulating experiences in our networking travels, making this a refreshingly innovative concept. For more information, including the forum's participation policies and a history of this endeavor, visit: www.alberrios.com/events/cef/.

See you in 4 weeks!

Al Berrios
Managing Director
al berrios & co.

P.S. Craving more perspective into your profession? Read our About Consulting reports.

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