Any good business idea begins as a solution to a problem. So when we sat on the board of various professional associations and hobby groups the issue we encountered most often was HOW TO MARKET OUR MEETINGS and events.

And our lives are so busy, how do we find the RIGHT professional meetings, charity events or informational seminars that help us as opposed to bore us horribly.

For instance a local chapter of an association wants to attract new members and decides to conduct a meeting about how GREEN tactics are changing their industry, but does not have a huge budget, is composed of members with professional positions other than the association which take priority and they are not the biggest association in the area. To promote their meetings they post it on their website calendar of events, send out emails to past participants, list a mention in the local paper and tell a few people about it. They tend to get about the same number of people as they did for the last meeting, if not less. If someone is new in town and does not know their association exists, but might be interested in the GREEN topic, how do they really find out that this meeting is happening on Thursday about 14 miles away at 6PM?

EveryMeeting simply tries to connect those interested with their topic of interest to meetings and events that target that interest.

We also want to keep the site simple and easy to use, but we want to incorporate as many technologies as we can. So we have enabled meetings to be linked to social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Digg at the click of a mouse.

Originally we wanted people to be able to post meetings for FREE, but our attorney had some issues with that as we want to be sure all meetings are legitimate. So instead we made the cost very low, an annual membership to post as many meetings as an organization wishes (by a single assigned user) is less than the price of a logo’d golf shirt. We will use the proceeds to keep the technology up to date, and to add new features, but most importantly to help market and promote your meetings and events.

We also wanted to help associations and organizations make their meetings more functional, enjoyable and interesting, so we will provide tips from meeting and event professionals to help liven up those meetings.

But first and foremost this site is about YOU, the user. Thank you for entering our community, feel free to kick the tires and tell us what you think, and we will try to incorporate your comments in order to make the site better and delivering upon your needs.