Hi Friends,

I found the following social networking sites to be very useful for small business owners in terms of marketing and networking.

Small business friendly social networking sites.

www.moli.com - One account, multiple profiles and create your business page and group. More emphasis on privacy.

www.vator.tv - Submit your business video pitch.

www.ryze.com - Ryze lets members organize contacts and friends; upcoming events; and even job, real-estate and roommate classifieds

www.xing.com - An account with networking site Xing can "open doors to thousands of companies."

http://www.ecademy.com/ - Ecademy prides itself on "connecting business people" through its online network, blog and message-board chats


Explore and enjoy.

Hey thanks for the links. I will try one of this days.

Hey thanks for the links. I will try one of this days.

Thanks for your interest and input to the thread, I'm glad you found those links useful :)

Thank you for that information Veronica, it is greatly appreciated.

I'd also add www.biznik.com (http://www.biznik.com) to that list. Besides the typical networking functionality, they also encourage local networking events and article marketing...

I will add one more site www.orkut.com for it. I am getting lots of traffic from the orkut for my image hosting site

Thanks for the collection of sites, have never heard of most of them and will look into networking "abroad" soon.

Thanks!

Please, please PLEASE don't waste your time on Ecademy, people! It is, of course, possible to get work out of it and so on but the signal-to-noise ratio (that's the polite version of pillock-to-real-person ratio) is far too high.

I used to be a paid up member but the managment there is so, well, at best, flakey, that I simply won't pay another penny to them under pretty much any circumstances!

S

Great links, everyone! Along with the sites mentioned, I use Meetup to find networking events in the area. Great way to make new friends/contacts!

Hi I would also like to suggest Konnects.com. Our target audience is specifically for small business owners.

Throw Jippidy in that mix, that's exactly what we're trying to do. Seems like it may be a little of a crowded space.

My personal favorite is Directmatches.com. They have a great search feature to find people of similar interests and business ideas on it.

hi thanks for the links nice sharing.

These social networking sites are really useful for small business. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome post, i really appreciate it!

Hey great post!

I have found Ning to be a very a powerful platform for business networking.

When you join Ning- type in the Ning search keywords relevant to your business and Ning will give you targeted social networks on Ning relevant to you.

Good luck!

Thanks for this link veronica.
keep it up.:wave2:

It's hard to work online because you're time to mingle and interaction with other people is limited. However, social networking with my old friends through internet helps me keep in touch with them always.

Thanks for the links! I actually was just put in charge of our new Social Marketing efforts so I'll definitely check out those links in the near future. Anybody else have any sites they would recommend for small business networking?

Thanks a lot for providing these useful links, I'll make use of them these days.I do appreciate it

thanks for links. biznik is a good one. there's also a newer one called snizzet

I like the feedback sites such as:
http://getsatisfaction.com , http://uservoice.com

You could embed a Javascript widget (Copy/Paste) into your site and people can give feedback about products, vote for features etc.

Yeah that's awesome. Thanks.

Excellent, but what are the best ways to use these?

Thanks for sharing the links. I hope they do work and can help us get some money just by knowing other people and doing some fun activities. Will definitely try them out.

thanks

Is it worth the time spent on these social networks? It seems I tied to the computer as it is.

Wow thank you for sharing these links.

Social media sites are really a big help especially for small to medium entrepreneurs. It lessen the cost on promotion and advertising, thats why as much as possible I try to add all close friends and colleagues in FB, just to help me increase my network.

I like the idea of interacting with you're client or customer so social network is really an advantage if you want to know what your market is telling about your brand.

Yes i will surely visit the links provided here. Hope it will be useful for me.

Thank you for the link guys. I think its about time that someone make a summary of these links and so that we could bookmark it and use it for future reference. Nice info by the way.

Thanks so much for this great list! I am currently blogging and networking and I have been looking for this exact information!

Its a very great list! Nice thread :)