Long Island Pet Professionals Heads to Connecticut to offer exclusive event!

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - June 12, 2013 - PRLog -- Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC, (LIPP), is excited to announce the first networking event being held in Connecticut for area pet professionals. The breakfast networking event will take place on Saturday, June 29, 2013 from 9am to 11am at the Homewood Suites Hotel in the Housatonic meeting room (6905 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06614). The event is being held the morning after the sold out Wigglebutt Wedding benefit event. LIPP is offering this breakfast networking event to those area pet professionals who wanted to attend the wedding but didn’t get tickets before it sold out.  A portion of the proceeds from the networking event will be donated to the Wigglebutt Wedding beneficiary Life’s Little Paws.  

The breakfast mix and mingle event will introduce Connecticut pet pros to Long Island/US Pet Professionals, learn what the organization is about, how it can help them make new connections for their business or rescue group and much more!

"Long Island Pet Professionals is beyond thrilled to be coming to Connecticut to celebrate the Wigglebutt Wedding, and we are so excited to start offering our top notch pet industry networking events to the Connecticut area pet professionals!  Carol Bryant of FidoseofReality.com who is organizing the Wigglebutt Wedding has been fantastic to work with to help LIPP bring this networking event to CT!" stated Nancy E. Hassel, President and founder of Long Island Pet Professionals.  "We already have members in Connecticut and other states outside of NY.  We have been expanding nationally over the past year and half to accommodate those pet professionals that want to benefit in being part of our growing organization of awe inspiring pet professionals."  

“I am so excited to network with fellow pet lovers who are involved in the pet industry (or want to be) as part of Long Island Pet Professionals,” Carol Bryant says. “Nancy Hassel is a dynamo in the PR world for the pet industry, and this networking breakfast is the perfect opportunity to kick off day two of the Wigglebutt Wedding weekend.”

For more information about Wigglebutt Wedding and to connect with Carol Bryant, visit FidoseofReality.com.  

The cost for the Breakfast Networking event is $19.95 per person for official Members of Long Island Pet Professionals and $24.95 per person for non-members. To RSVP for the event go to www.LongIslandPetProfessionals.com/events. There is a limit of 50 pet professionals for this event.

For more information about Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC, go to www.LongIslandPetProfessionals.com or for an interview with Nancy E. Hassel email Nancy@LongIslandPetProfessionals.com or call (631) 446-1105.

About Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC:

Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC, (LIPP), is a business networking group for the pet industry with members from Montauk to Manhattan and now nationwide! The organization offers in-person networking events with expert speakers offering their expertise on many different topics to help individuals and businesses grow, work together and unite the pet industry.  In addition to in-person networking events, Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC, also: host webinars for it’s members; is launching a new video series with interviews with top pet industry professionals; sends out a weekly pet events newsletter to 5,000+ pet lovers that covers events in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas; and works with many rescue groups throughout the region. Founder and President of Long Island Pet Professionals, LLC, Nancy E. Hassel, also travels across the country attending pet business conferences and works with many of the organizers of such conferences to bring more expertise, knowledge, ideas and inspiration to its members.  The membership-based organization started in February 2009 and has been growing rapidly since its inception and has been voted Best Networking Group, First Place two years in a row for 2012 and 2013 by Long Island Press readers, and founder Nancy E. Hassel was inducted as a Fortune 52 Honoree for her work in the community and pet industry in May of 2010.  Hassel also publishes an online pet magazine for the area, LIPetPlace.com, writes pet columns in numerous local newspapers and magazines, and offers public relations services for people in the pet industry.