Thursday, October 16, 2008

Start Online Business Networking - Increase Your Social Networks

By Jane Kozlinski

Did you know you can start online business relationships and succeed faster just by using your social network? You can do it the slow way - talk one on one with people in person, or do it fast by going online and using the new web 2.0 social sites to build relationships with thousands of others, connect with new prospects, and reach people that you may never meet any other way.

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.

Most of these social sites are simple to use. For instance, Twitter lets you sign up in a few seconds, and then you put a couple words about what you are doing, and you are up and running. Other sites, such as Facebook are much more feature rich, letting you do thousands of things with millions of other users, so you could easily spend days on these kinds of sites, and connect with a huge amount of people. Simply by interacting with people, groups and discussions, you can become well known and respected in those circles.

Something else you can do on sites like Facebook is connect with well known people - famous people, rich people, and so on - and interact with them online. There simply is no better way to start online business relations that can make a huge impact on your success.

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.

On these sites, you may also connect with members with problems and desires that can make you money. You can take these problems and desires and deliver something to fulfill them, and make a profit from it.

Another benefit of these social networking sites is the ability for them to create traffic to your money sites, creating better search engine results, and more links pointing to your web site.

Networking on these social websites is an important step if you start a online business, and if you get active and start online business relationships, you can leverage them for years to come. This relationship equity in your business can become more valuable than everything else in your business.

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