WHERE ARE YOUR RESULTS?

“I didn’t get any results, so I don’t want to renew.”

We hear this one.

And it raises a fair question:

What did you actually do with the year you had?

Awepra offers more than 200 events a year. How many did you attend?

Did you come to one of our monthly Open House events?

Did you join Cocktails with the CEOs, our weekly gathering where business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals come together?

Did you take part in one of our experiences — Monterey Car Week, a Winery Rally, or one of the other opportunities to spend time with the community outside of a traditional networking event?

Because we're seeing something very clearly:

The people who participate are getting results.

They're meeting people. Building relationships. Finding opportunities. Doing business together. And, in many cases, becoming friends along the way.

But there is another part of Awepra that is incredibly easy to overlook.

THE DIRECTORY

We currently have more than 60 members.

That's more than 60 people who have already chosen to be part of this community.

Have you actually gone through the directory?

Have you looked at who they are, what they do and who you might want to know?

Have you reached out to anyone?

Have you scheduled a one-on-one?

Consider this:

If you sat down with one different member every working day, you would have roughly three months of conversations ahead of you.

Three months.

One person at a time.

No stage. No sales pitch. No room full of strangers.

Just two people sitting down and getting to know each other.

That can change your life.

Maybe that person becomes a client.

Maybe they introduce you to one.

Maybe you discover a business opportunity together.

Maybe you refer business to each other.

Or maybe you simply discover that you should have known each other ten years ago.

You don't know until you start the conversation.

MEMBERSHIP ISN'T A MAGIC BUTTON

Awepra can create the opportunities.

We can produce the events. Bring people together. Provide the directory. Publish the magazine. Produce the radio. Create the Masterclasses and experiences.

But we can't participate for you.

That's the part that's up to you.

If you attended events, met members, took part in Masterclasses, came to Open Houses, listened to the radio, read the magazine and actively participated in the community — and then told us you weren't getting anything from it, that's a very different conversation.

But if you spent the year waiting for something to happen simply because you had a membership, you never really gave the membership a chance.