Where Do Your Investment Clubs Meet?
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Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting.That got me to thinking that new clubs might be looking for ideas for meeting places for their clubs. Perhaps we can compile a list of ideas for them. Laurie Frederiksen
Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to Subscribe to the Club Cafe email list. Click here to Unsubscribe Senior Center, and they do the photocopying for us. Free publicity, too, On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz> wrote:
Our club has met in several locations. One restaurant was too noisy but another had a nice private meeting room. Other places to look are: Public library - ours have large meeting rooms Churches - usually accommodate non-profit groups Up-scale grocery stores with community rooms. Long term care facility - with conference room Banks usually have community rooms Work place of members is usually a possibility Members homes if the group is small Fidelity has great conference rooms and will provide educational programs. The time of day you meet will be a factor as will meal/beverage service, and the convenience of the location. Hope this helps. Jayne On Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:49 PM, Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz> wrote: Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting.That got me to thinking that new clubs might be looking for ideas for meeting places for their clubs. Perhaps we can compile a list of ideas for them. Laurie Frederiksen
Invest with your friends! http://www.bivio.com/ Become our Facebook friend! www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to Subscribe to the Club Cafe email list. Click here to Unsubscribe We have our club meeting at a restaurant. That has worked really well for us. Other places to consider not mentioned below: Real estate offices have conference rooms in most cases. If you have a real estate agent friend they may provide it even if they are not in the club. Law firms Community Colleges may provide for you a room Banks may be a problem if your club meets after hours Small businesses may have rooms too. Think of friends who own a business and they may provide you space. Tim Hoyman Colorado Leprechauns From: club_cafe@bivio.com [mailto:club_cafe@bivio.com] On Behalf Of JAYNE GILBERT Our club has met in several locations. One restaurant was too noisy but another had a nice private meeting room. Other places to look are: Public library - ours have large meeting rooms Churches - usually accommodate non-profit groups Up-scale grocery stores with community rooms. Long term care facility - with conference room Banks usually have community rooms Work place of members is usually a possibility Members homes if the group is small Fidelity has great conference rooms and will provide educational programs. The time of day you meet will be a factor as will meal/beverage service, and the convenience of the location. Hope this helps. Jayne On Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:49 PM, Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz> wrote: Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting. If you're interested in sharing, where do your investment clubs hold your meetings? Laurie Frederiksen We have three clubs associated with a home owners association. Our association is a Del Webb homeowners association and we have been established as clubs for 18 years. We meet in breakout rooms in our lodge and have available all the audio visual technology we need to give presentations using the web with virtual presentations regarding the market and individual equities , all supported by by Wi-Fi. We have a Wall Street Room available where we have have access to Value Line for research and study. We consider ourselves very fortunate as the meeting rooms are locked in to specific days and times each month and the rooms are set up by the maintenance staff. We are extremely fortunate. We do not allow food or refreshments during the business meetings but have a restaurant available for those who want to have dinner before or after the meeting. Jack
Our club meetings are held in the library. We like having wireless internet access while meeting. From: club_cafe@bivio.com [mailto:club_cafe@bivio.com] On Behalf Of Laurie Frederiksen Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting. If you're interested in sharing, where do your investment clubs hold your meetings? Laurie Frederiksen Available WiFi is a strong incentive -- also quiet, good lighting, seating. A former club met in the library, but library rules wouldn't let any money exchange hands, so we had to submit checks in the parking lot before or after meetings. If would be wonderful if Value Lines were available. Our local library discontinued making VL's available online due to cost and underuse.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Judy Simonson <simes2@comcast.net> wrote:
Our Club meets at a Country Club. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Jeanne Tieken <jeannetieken@gmail.com> wrote:
We meet in homes since we have only 7 members. On Thursday, August 21, 2014, Terry Frazee <tfrazee74@gmail.com> wrote:
We sometimes use credit union/bank board rooms. Flo Primrose Moneytalks 52403 Sent from my iPad
Great topic. Our club is currently struggling with this matter. We met for years in a conference room of the employer of one of our partners. It was ideal. We would hook the laptop to the big screen wall mount television and easily review monthly Treasurer Reports, account statements and online educational topics from a large conference table. I would personally prepare a powerpoint educational presentation every-other month as well. The surround sound was also nice bonus. However, our partner recently left for a more lucrative opportunity and we were without a meeting place. We have tried bar-restaurants with Wi-Fi, but it is not easy for all partners to crowd around a laptop and printing paper copies for everyone is a bit wasteful and cumbersome. We are currently considering alternating between partner residences in order to get back to using a big screen for presentations. I am interested in hearing about where other clubs meet. Regards, RJN On Thursday, August 21, 2014 4:48 PM, Harold Primrose via bivio.com <user*30017400001@bivio.com> wrote: We sometimes use credit union/bank board rooms. Flo Primrose Moneytalks 52403 Sent from my iPad
Our club, which is now down to 8 members, meets in our homes most of the
time. We set up a rotation in January for stock selection and meeting location.
When we had 16-2- members, we sometimes used an office at a local realtor since
6 of our members worked there (the nucleus of our group when starting). We have
also had a breakfast meeting at an old time diner which let us use the back part
of a room so it was not too noisy, a small room at an Asian Fusion restaurant
when one member's house was hit with plumbing problems the day before we were to
meet there, and once we had part of our meeting at a Chico's clothing store. We
were interested in buying the stock and two of our members who were steady
Chico's customers arranged for us to meet there after the store closed. They
modeled clothing and we did buy to stock, rode it up nicely and sold before it
started to fall.
Our hostesses provide food and we now, with the smaller group able to sit
around a dining room table, just snack during the meeting. We used to wait for
snacks and wine but the meetings ran too long and it is a lot more fun to pick
stocks with a good white wine in hand!
I have seen a separate room at a nearby Burger King, but no one wants to go
there for food! Several restaurants that used to provide a quieter room for
10-16 people have succumbed to the downturn in the economy, so that option is
limited in our community. My husband and I are in the process of downsizing and
I thought the over 55 community we will move into would let us meet at the
community building, but just discovered that there is a hefty fee to rent a room
when the majority of attendees are not owners. Rats! Was hoping to recruit a few
new members that way!
Great topic and I am reading your ideas.
Peg Wentworth, Lancaster PA Women's Investment Network
From: Laurie Frederiksen
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:49 PM
To: The Club Cafe
Subject: [club_cafe] Where Do Your Investment Clubs
Meet? Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it
had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't
seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It
looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting.That got me to thinking that new clubs might be looking for ideas for meeting places for their clubs. Perhaps we can compile a list of ideas for them. Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to Subscribe to the Club Cafe email list. Click here to Unsubscribe We meet in the library of our Over 55 community. Wi-Fi is available as well as a couple of computers Len Delmolino Treasurer Oak Point Investment Club Middleboro, MA From: "Laurie Frederiksen" <laurie@bivio.biz> To: "The Club Cafe" <club_cafe@bivio.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:49:24 PM Subject: [club_cafe] Where Do Your Investment Clubs Meet? Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby. I hadn't seen that before, it might have been a former playground space. It looked to me like a great place to hold an investment club meeting.That got me to thinking that new clubs might be looking for ideas for meeting places for their clubs. Perhaps we can compile a list of ideas for them. Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to Subscribe to the Club Cafe email list. Click here to Unsubscribe We meet in our homes-which is very pleasant-thanks On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Len Delmolino <ldelmolino@comcast.net> wrote:
Verna D. Eddy
Cell Phone 496-1396 We are a small club that meets in one member's home. We use her tv as a modem to show bivio reports, ssg's, and other cool stuff for study. When we were larger, we met in a church meeting room of one of our members and gave them a yearly donation. |
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