SPARC Networking Community
3 Steps to Grow Your Business with Our Las Vegas Networking Community
1 Connect, Diversify & Improve
Diversify and improve your business by creating valuable connections with other Las Vegas entrepreneurs and business owners.
2 Build Meaningful Relationships
Building meaningful relationships with other business owners and entrepreneurs provides better referrals and sustainable growth.
3 Learn & Grow Your Business
Local business networking helps you identify and collaborate with power partners to learn and grow your businesses together.
About Us & Our Mission
A Las Vegas Networking Community that Helps You Grow Your Business
Welcome to SPARC
SPARC stands for Strategic Professional Advancement and Referral Community. Our Las Vegas networking community is comprised of business owners, entrepreneurs and industry professionals who help one another advance in their profession – to generate referrals that help grow and develop one another’s business.
Our mission is to help advance members of our SPARC networking groups through sharing collective expertise and exchanging quality referrals. Members realize this benefit via “SPARC Sessions” of two or more members meeting to share knowledge to identify pain-points and potential solutions to improve local marketing and overall results for one another’s business.
We strive to give as much as possible so that all members receive the support, training, and resources needed to bring their businesses to the next level.
We Meet Mondays & Tuesdays
Visit Our Morning or Evening Networking Groups for Free
PM SPARC After Dark Monday
Our SPARC After Dark Monday group meets Monday evenings at 5:30 pm in the wework offices located in Town Square on the Las Vegas strip at 6543 S Las Vegas Blvd #200.
AM SPARC Sunrise Tuesday
Our SPARC Sunrise group meets Tuesday mornings at 9:30AM in the wework offices located in Town Square on the Las Vegas strip at 6543 S Las Vegas Blvd #200.
PM SPARC After Dark Tuesday
Our SPARC After Dark Tuesday group meets Tuesday evenings at 5:30 pm in the wework offices located in Town Square on the Las Vegas strip at 6543 S Las Vegas Blvd #200.
Stay Updated on Our Events
Event schedules and updates are available at our SPARC Networking Community eventbrite page, as well as our Facebook Group.
Why Join Our Networking Community?
Connect, Learn & Grow through Various Types of Networking
1 Breakfast/Lunch & Dinner Meetings
At breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings, SPARC organizers prepare a meal for the morning or evening networking group to enjoy while they get to know about each others business, product or service offerings. During these meetings, you have the opportunity to learn about other businesses as our members will provide a brief introduction including their name / business name, and what they offer. After the meetings, you have the opportunity to connect with fellow professionals.
2 Happy Hour Meetups (aka, “Mixers”)
Happy hour or “mixers” are a casual type of networking event. We rent out a portion of a bar or restaurant for SPARC. During the event, everyone is welcome to have a few drinks and appetizers while they converse with other professionals. As this is a relaxed environment, members enjoy the low-stakes way to get to know other business owners and entrepreneurs on a personal level, discover their synergies, and to build meaningful relationships.
3 Networking Workshops
Workshops offer you the chance of developing your skills / gaining more knowledge while growing your network – this can positively affect you both personally and professionally.
4 Roundtable Discussions
During holiday times, it is common for SPARC to hold “small roundtable events” as there might be fewer attendees for a specific meeting, and they benefit you by discussing or debating a single subject. Another way to describe them is “focused discovery sessions,” and there is often a portion of time set aside for follow-up questions and closing comments.
5 Speed Networking
Depending on group feedback, we have our meetings as a whole, or split into smaller groups with businesses / professionals that are closely related to one another in their product or service offerings. This is a great way for professionals to rapidly make connections with one another. In speed networking (aka, “Power Partner Meetings”), you meet one-on-one (or in small groups) for a set period of time. During this meeting, you can introduce yourself, ask a few questions and share contact information.
6 Virtual Groups (ie, Facebook Groups)
SPARC may use email newsletters or direct messages (aka, “DMs”) to inform members of its networking events. It is a relaxed way to reach out to other business owners / professionals for scheduling a “virtual meetup” such as through video conferencing (Facebook Messenger, Google Meet, Zoom).
We Look Forward to Meeting You & Learning About Your Business
Whether you’d prefer our SPARC Sunrise group for breakfast / lunch or SPARC After Dark for dinner meetings, we’d love you to join for one of our upcoming networking events!
Networking Benefits & Statistics
Join Our Group & Reap the Many Benefits Professional Networking Offers
20 Benefits of Networking
- Access to new or future clients
- Benchmark your business performance
- Build brand identity and visibility
- Build confidence in your skills
- Build credibility (sphere of influence)
- Create long-lasting relationships
- Follow your dream
- Gain business advocates
- Gain positive health effects
- Get advice, support and valuable insights
- Help and mentor others with their business problems
- Increase business connections
- Increase confidence and self-esteem
- Learn new approaches to solving business problems
- Partnership opportunities
- Raise your business profile
- Receive mentorship from others with more experience
- Refine your elevator pitch
- You can find new inspiration
- You may find personal solutions
14 Networking Statistics
- 1/3 of people discover business or job opportunities through friends and professional networking.
- 7 out of 10 open positions for jobs are not publicly available (not advertised).
- A business’ employees are typically happier with the opportunities and results of they receive through networking versus other sources (ie, cold-calling).
- It is estimated that networking has provided 1/4 professionals around the world with newly established business partnerships.
- Less than 1/2 of people work at maintaining a professional network, and yet more than 3/4 of people believe networking is key to accelerating their business and career growth.
- More than 1/3 of people report that casual conversations (on LinkedIn) resulted in new opportunities for their business / career.
- More than 2/3 of event planners use networking to establish new clientele.
- More than 2/3 of people report that networking led them to finding business opportunities.
- More than 20% of job seekers rely on networking to find work.
- More than 80% of business owners, entrepreneurs and other professionals believe networking is vital to their business and career development.
- More than 90% of professionals think that networking (in-person networking) is a crucial factor when working to maintain long-lasting and successful business relationships.
- Networking can and often leads to business owners or job seekers receiving higher-quality, and higher-paying opportunities.
- Successful networking is responsible for filling more than 80% of open job positions.
- Women and men have an almost 1:1 equal chance of finding business opportunities / jobs.
Ready to Join SPARC?
The above benefits and statistics are excellent reasons to join our professional networking community – join SPARC today!