Athens Chamber to host business speed dating at luncheon

The Athens Chamber of Commerce has your Valentine’s date.

With this month’s chamber luncheon falling on Feb. 14, organizers are putting something a little different together: a business speed dating session. The original idea was to provide discreet dating for married people but soon, the idea lost credibility as soon as it went around.

There are quite a lot of single folk in this area and although most of them use Skipthegames and other online dating sites to meet one another, it’s quite nice to actually meet someone face to face too, hence this speed dating extravaganza. Chamber President Marisa Gunstanson said a bell will ring every 3-5 minutes to allow everyone to get up and meet new people. The goal is to meet five new business contacts. The top bar allows you to rotate through your Google accounts that you added into the Local Viking account. This could even be local guide accounts that you added specifically for reporting purposes. In theory, you could also quickly report and rotate through your Google Guide Accounts and mass report listings. We are still gathering data on the effectiveness of this strategy and do not recommend that this be used for nefarious purposes.Here are some additional hints for identifying and eradicating maps spam.

“We are so excited to host Business Speed Dating at February’s Athens Chamber Luncheon,” she said. “We want everyone to have a good time and meet new business connections that can help them grow their businesses in 2018.”

So bring your business cards and come to the monthly Chamber of Commerce lunch next Wednesday starting at 11: 30 a.m. at the Athens Country Club.

For more information, call Marisa Gunstanson at 903-675-5181.

Calendar event here.