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Social & Business Networks/Forums
Networking has always been an important aspect of any professional or business venture. The ability to meet and interact with new people via your initially limited number of contacts allows you to expand and improve your activities. Internet and network marketers have for a long time been using offline and online networks to widen their range of contacts. But in the last year or so, social and business networks as well as forums have taken on additional importance - as a potentially large source of new customers.
There are many networks and forums out there. We have sub-grouped them on the basis of those that embrace a wide audience (Social) and those that aim to attract certain types of people or professions (Business).
Enjoy connecting !
 Product Creators: Mark Lareau and Todd Gross.
Overview: A site that provides information and resources that claims to enhance website promotion by generating viral, targetted traffic with more clicks and conversions. There is also solo emailer to faciliate affiliate downline contact. Membership is currently free .
Price: free
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 Product Creator: Andy Wibbels is an author and professional blogger.
Overview: Andy Wibbels is an expert in social media optimization and has a small business blog on this site where he discusses social media, business marketing and other aspects of running small online businesses.
Price: n/a
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 Product Creator: Workaholics4Hire.com was founded in 1997 by Sylvie Fortin. Her desire is to create a site that put WAHM in touch with WAH opportunities across the net.
Overview: This is an online staffing service specifically for homebased employers and employees. Workaholics4hire link in with web based businesses, both new start ups and those established. The database flags up local WAH opportunites and provides extensive information about how to find and maintain a home based job.
Price: free membership
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 Product Creator: The CEO is Jan Conely.
Overview: This site is all about entrepreurial spirit. It allows users to post, discuss, and find new business ideas and new business opportunities in the threaded and moderated forum, as well as to meet potential business partners. The system has free and paid options and operates a credits system for those giving feedback, posting ideas etc.
Price: free and paid options.
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 Product Creators: Tiffany Dow and Lewis Smiles help set up a squidoo website/lens.
Overview: A site aimed at those who are a little perplexed about how to social network for business purposes or perhaps lack the time to address this important area of online marketing Build My Lens helps businesses develop a social networking presence including setting up a Squidoo lens, writing unique content, bookmarking it at social bookmarking sites, adding tags, blogging about it, posting it to Twitter and generating some backlinks. Once set up there is an afterservice and a maintenance sheet to help business owners maintain their head start. The cost is $249 for one lens or $799 for four.
Price: standard and VIP packages
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