Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Start Online Business Networking - Leverage Your Social Networks

By Jane Kozlinski

With the web, you can start online business friendships and increase your business success simply by leveraging your social networks. Now, this used to be done one at a time in the old days, but now with the development of social networking websites, you can connect with thousands at once, and communicate with them using rich media containing text, voice, pictures and even movies.

These social networking sites are social because many people can interact on a single website. You start off by joining one of these social networking websites and creating a profile containing some information about you or your business. Include the skill sets you have, or the interests you have, and others can find you and get in touch with you by searching for these same things.

Sites like Twitter are really easy to use - you just sign up and post a sentence about yourself, and it is instantly available for the world to see and interact with. Other websites like Facebook are huge, with thousands of things you can do, and with tens of millions of other users, there's no limit to the amount of people you can reach. If you interact with the groups and discussions on these kinds of sites, you can really reach a lot of people quickly.

Another powerful benefit of these social networking sites is the ability to connect with hard to reach people - gurus, millionaires, famous people - and build a connection with these people to really start online business connections that can make a big difference.

These social networking sites will also give you clues about things that others are doing to start a online business, and you can use these ideas and processes for starting online business ideas you have.

You can also meet and interact with people that have problems and unfulfilled wants. These problems and desires are seeds for future online business success - things you can deliver, and make money online.

By being active on these social networking websites, you also get the benefits of more visitors to your main website, improved listings in the search engines, and more links pointing to your website, simply by adding a link to your pages and profile.

Social networking is only one of the many steps you need to start a online business, but it is key. Without other people, a business will not succeed, so get out there, connect with others, and start online business connections today. You'll never regret it.

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