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Choose Your Best Business Networking WebsiteOne or two carefully chosen networking sites will help you prosper much more efficiently than joining everything and then trying to keep up. Why? Because a networking site doesn't help unless you are able to spend time on it, use its unique capabilities, and get to know some of the people there. That takes times. By joining to many sites, you'll be spread too thin. You want to work your way deep into well-chosen networking websites in order to use it to the max. Here are some sites to consider: Linked In. 24 million users representing over 150 industries make Linked In a truly useful site. It is temporarily off-line while they do upgrades, but have helped many careers - and should be back on line this month (September 2008). (www.linkedin.com) Plaxo is not only a business networking site, it's a global, 21st century Rolodex. People are on the move, and Plaxo keeps track of them for you - or you for them. You'll never be out of reach if that important call comes in. (http://www.plaxo.com/) Cake Financial specializes in investors and day traders. Share your portfolios, share advice, and meet new financial-wizard friends. (www.cakefinancial.com) (continued below) |
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While Facebook started out as a primarily social networking site, it's now so huge that many businesswomen either have a space here, or they use it exclusively for business connections. With 124 million registered users, there are groups to join (or start) in any business category you need. You can work Facebook as your main site, or you can simply establish a static presence here and invest your computer time into a site that is more dedicated to your specific business. (www.facebook.com)Twitter is what's called a "micro-blogging" networking site. If you need to keep up with people quickly, organize events on the spur of the moment, or keep instantly updating business colleagues, Twitter is for you. The site describes them as a "service
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for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" (http://twitter.com) 
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