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We all know of the huge social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. They’re great for large scale connections and discussion.
But, as entrepreneurs and small business owners sometimes it’s nice to connect with other like minded individuals in a smaller, more focused setting.
If that sounds like what you are looking for in a social network, the below list is for you.
We’ve scoured the Internet looking for social networking sites specifically for small businesses, entrepreneurs and startups, and found 40 we feel are worth a look.
1. LinkedIn
LinkedIn, The grandaddy of business social networks. LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts
2. Meet The Boss
Meet the Boss is a business networking tool for business executives around the world, across all vertical industries. Content is all in English.
3. PartnerUp
PartnerUp is an online networking community that entrepreneurs and small business owners use to find the expertise and resources they need to start and grow a business. Members can connect with potential partners, advisers, and business resources.
4. Qapacity
Qapacity is a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory founded in March 2008 and launched in February 2009. User are given a set of tools to promote their business online, to keep their clients and business partners up-to-date with their work and to reach new clients.
5. Ryze
Ryze.com is a free social networking website designed to link business professionals, particularly new entrepreneurs.
6. Talkbiznow
Talkbiznowis a comprehensive interactive business networking site for business professionals.
7. XING
XING is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals.
8. Yelp, Inc.
Yelp is a local business review and talk networking site, including user reviews and recommendations.
9. FledgeWing
FledgeWing is an online community aimed at entrepreneurial university students launched in February 2009.
10. The Funded
TheFunded allows entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review venture capital sources worldwide
11. Cofoundr
Cofoundr is a private social network for entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, investors, and other individuals deeply involved with starting new ventures.
12. Perfect Business
PerfectBusiness helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. Our resources include easy-to-use tools and resources, plus a network of entrepreneurs
13. Biznik
End your isolation and invisibility with Biznik, the local, independent entrepreneurial community where collaboration beats competition.
14. StartupNation
StartupNation provides real-world business advice to people who want to start a business and who want to grow their small businesses.
15. Entrepreneur Connect
Entrepreneur Connect is the social network where small-business owners can create a profile, explore the community, share ideas and make connections. This site is not intended for mass self-promotion, but rather should be a positive destination where entrepreneurs can exchange real advice and make lasting connections.
16. Young Entrepreneur
Young Entrepreneur Forums – your online discussion forum to share and talk about Entrepreneurship
17. Blogster
Blogsteris a resources for free weblogs. Offers tools, tips, and opportunities to share.
18. Konnects
Konnects is a social media platform that is embedded on the site of an online newspaper or publication to bring engagement to the organization’s site.
19. Upspring
Upspring is a business networking, local Internet marketing, local advertising, product promotion, and online marketing services
20. Fast Pitch
Fast Pitch is a Social Network for Business Networking Professionals to market their business, press, blogs, events and networks.
21. E.Factor
The E.Factor is a vibrant, global community for Entrepreneurs. E.Factorhelps you build your business, find financing, network with like minded entrepreneurs
22. BizToo
BizToois a Global Co-Operation and Social Network of entrepreneurs worldwide. BizToo helps entrepreneurs make the contacts
23. Go Big Network
Go BIG Network helps connect companies with investors.
24. Black Businesswomen Online
A Social Network for Black Business Women and Women Entrepreneurs
25. Networking for Professionals
Networking for Professionals offers online networking and business events. Get Connected today, both online and in the real world.
26. Spoke
Spokeoffers on-demand business to business contact information for sales people, marketers, and recruiters enabling Sales Lead Generation, and Business List building.
27. Ning
Ning is an online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
28. Unstucture.org
Unstructureis an open discussion platform for business professionals, bloggers and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate action ideas that would aid the evolution of business. Unstructure consists of an online discussion forum (where you are currently), an annual physical event and a book of insight and action ideas for businesses of the future.
29. Home Based Business Network
The Home Based Business Network is an online community and resources for starting a home based business, featuring home business profiles, blogs, forums, videos, ideas, and more!
30. Freelance Face
The Freelance Face is the freelance social network. By freelancers, for freelancers.
31. Blellow
Blellow is a community with a focus on productivity. It’s a place for freelancers and professionals to collaborate, find work, and solve problems
32. StartUp
StartUpis a fast growing small business, startup, social network.
33. Ecademy
Ecademy offers online networking for business, offline networking events and global networking groups.
34. Focus
Focus is a business destination where business professionals can help each other with their purchase and other business decisions. Share expertise in functional areas of business. Numerous categories – small business, HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Etc.
35. JASEzone
JASEzone is a professional community where you can find potential clients and business partners.
36. Ziggs
Ziggs is a professional connection portal. They have in one index over 1 million profiles.
37. Black Business Space
Black Business Spaceis a commUNITY of business owners, and entrepreneurs.
38. Jigsaw
Jigsaw offers an online business card networking directory. Easily establish contacts with each other.
39. YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
40. Raise Capital
RaiseCapital is the premiere online destination for entrepreneurs to showcase their business ideas and capital needs directly to investors.
Bonus Site:
Once all that hard work networking pays off, you’ll want to join:
Affluence.org
Affluence.org is a private social network where wealthy individuals connect, share information and engage in meaningful conversations. Affluence.org also provides exclusive, high quality content and advice from experts on subjects such as art, technology and travel.
Membership in Affluence.org is free but requires a verifiable minimum household net worth of $3 million
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Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below.
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Matt,
A great list. Some I didn’t know about. Thanks for the work that went into this list. iBank dot com is a matchmaking service like go big network. They match lenders with borrowers just in case anyone needs a small business loan.
Rob
Great list ! However 40 sites is alot! I would suggest you find the 3 to 5 most valuable sites for you or your business and work them effectively.
James Todd
Publisher: BuildMySiteforFree.com
@James
Great point…we’d never suggest to anyone they join all 40 of these sites, we just wanted to provide a list to choose 2-3 that work the best for you and as you say “work them effectively”
Matt
Social networking site for busy women. Women can list up to 5 business listings for free. Network with other business women.
Hi! You missed Sprouter.com!
Hey Matt,
You missed Sprouter, a new startup that facilitates real-time conversation and collaboration between entrepreneurs around the world. It uses the Twitter 140-character model to ask entrepreneurs what they’re working on, and also has additional functionality like events, threaded conversations, and the ability to claim a hashtag with a topic or event page. The team is currently working on an iPhone application, integration with Twitter, and a whole bunch of other fun features! Hope you’ll take a look and include it in any future roundups.
Cheers,
Erin
Community Manager
Sprouter
@Erin
That’s a new one to me…looks great!
#41: Sprouter
Sprouter enables collaboration and networking between entrepreneurs globally.
@Donna
Another one we are adding to the list!
#42 Shes Connected
Shes Connected, the brand new destination for today’s busy woman.
Now managing daily activities, planning events and co-ordinating your commitments is easier than ever!
I use Crunchbase a lot and find it very useful.
We have a great resource for entrepreneurs with growth company ambitions that need quick access to a filtered, screened list of web sites that will assist in all aspects of forming, and planning a high growth business, and raising money from angels and VCs.
#43 Crunchbase
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
#44 The Startup 411
The Startup 411 is the Entrepreneur and Angel Investor database of the best information for investments and raising capital in start-up companies.
Check out http://www.makemillionstogether.com a new global business networking community. A multidimensional business networking platform providing corporate executives, entrepreneurs, service providers, professional practitioners, inventors, investors, job seekers, employers and employees with the ultimate vehicle to grow ideas and opportunities into financially profitable realities. I welcome any thoughts about this new site. Thanks
Great list! Hugely helpful for upcoming entrepreneurs.
Does anyone know of any social networking sites that are geared towards local business owners? I know there’s Yelp, but looking for something that better allows me to network more w/local business owners (and not necessarily folks reviewing the businesses). Thanks!
Great list. Looking forward to put my hands across the ones i missed out. Will surely explore those sites.
Small — Great list, thanks!
Ron — check out Merchant Circle — small business networking via locale. Might be just what you are looking for.
Judi
@ohyesshecan
Great post, Matt. It’s nice to have these sites all in one place.
I think Partnerpedia would also fall into your list of networks. It’s a B2B social network and channel enablement solution where professionals can collaborate for free. https://www.partnerpedia.com/
Great aggregation — I have an addition and a question.
For those who haven’t heard, http://www.Gist.com is both a tool and a network (in public beta, I believe).
Can anyone make out whether it’s worth doing anything on Plaxo any more?
pt
#45 Partnerpedia
Partnerpedia is an independent online community that enables partner-to-partner networking.
#46 MerchantCircle
MerchantCircle is the largest social network for local business owners. Services include free online business listings, free marketing tools
@Paul
Gist looks interesting…any thoughts on whether we should add it as a social networking site? Seems to me it’s more of an organizer type of site.
Matt
@Matt, you’re right — it is a type of organizer, along the lines of Plaxo, just smarter.
Excellent! Thanks for the top list of social networking sites. I’m excited to find them. I’m not familiar with most of the sites listed. Thanks again.
these are great sites. I’ll try them all.
What about http://www.makemillionstogether.com ? I’ve heard they are a new interesting business networking site….
Great list. I’d like to submit BidModo http://www.bidmodo.com to the list. We are all about matching small business owners and entrepreneurs with qualified service providers that compete for their business. It’s free to business owners all the time and right now we are in public beta and it’s free to business owners. We’d love your feeback as well. Big fans of SmallBizbee – u guys are rocking it.
LG
Hi Matt,
There is also Silentale, a tool that can really help multi-connected professionals to stay in control of all the information related to their contacts and conversations (i.e. their personal CRM)
Silentale automatically consolidates the different profiles of your contacts across emails, twitter, linkedin, facebook, etc, and indicates how many messages you’ve exchanged with them, whatever the channel you used.
Not only you get a constantly updated 360° view of your network, but you’re able to immediately see if you’ve already communicated with someone and in the latter case, explore your entire communication thread, search for keywords, retrieve attachments, etc.
Silentale is a Saas service and is available via a web interface and a series of extensions (eg. Firefox and soon the iPhone).
It is in private beta and still available for free to testers. If you or one of your readers is interested in trying out Silentale, just send us a tweet @silentale and request an invitation code.
Laurence (@lbret) of Silentale
This again proves the conundrum of the world. Too many choices has created a debacle. The head says: Is there more? Yet time and resources says that we can’t consume everything on the resources buffet. This one is a perfect example of how you can offer something great (which the article is) and potentially ’cause a pause’ for an entrepreneur who is still learning the ropes.
This is definitely BizSuger, syrup, and molasses rolled into one.
If I may be so kind as to repay the favor for your research? Let me know.
In the meantime I am bookmarking and will share in workshops.
Perfect subject, great article and then the icing with everyone chipping in. Bummer that I can’t add one more.
@michaelhartzell
@Michael
You make a great point…we are inundated with information to the point of overload (social networks included), and this excess of information can result in “analysis paralysis” – you get so caught up trying to figure out which one is the best, or what you should be doing, that you end up doing nothing.
Pesonally I would not recomend more than 2-3 social networks for anybody. I’m thinking a “big box” network like Twitter, or Facebook, a “professional networking catch all” like LinkedIn, and then a smaller focused niche network like the ones above.
I blog, Twitter, and use Facebook as a promo/connection tool for my business. That’s it – I couldn’t possibly add another.
Glad you liked the resource, appreciate you coming by!
Matt
@Lynn
I’m on the fence about BidModo…seems like an interesting tool, but more of a brokering of services than a social network. Admitedly I didn’t spend much time with it, but is there a social component?
Thanks,
Matt
#47 Make Millions Together
Today, on Make Millions Together members can collaborate to find, vet and contact corporate executives, entrepreneurs, service providers, professional practitioners, inventors, investors, job seekers, employers and employees and use those contacts to grow ideas into ever more profitable businesses.
Matt – you are spot on. I was so excited about the list I kind of misread it (that was after RT’ing 2-3x LOL). BidModo is not really a fit for the Social Networking spirit of this list – we’re like cousins of them – we are a small business and entrepreneur marketplace / matching service. My bad – my apologies.
Great list. Its good time for me make good plane and use social networking.
Hi Amazing list – I wanted to add one more a Twitter app that allows you to create “groups” of like minded followers http://twibes.com
You can choose to limit your tweets to just the group or bring in others with a #keyword. The lists Twitter provides are good and Twibes lets you build relationships with your Twibe.
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Certainly some new sites for me to consider.I still find Xing odd I have to say. However can you really afford to miss Facebook off now? The second biggest site in the world, if it were a country it would be the 4th biggest in the world. Just a thought. Great list and certainly one for my ‘swipe file’ for reference. Thanks/
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Matt, love this list. I agree with some of the other commenters in that 40 is a heckuva lot of sites to spend time getting to know. That being said I totally appreciate the work you put in to get this list together. Thanks again from your friends at UnderstandingMarketing.
John Sternal
@sternalpr
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Fantastic list. I’m not so sure about Yelp with all of the legal issues the owners of that site if facing lately. If just recently read about Foursquare and that looks like a great way to reach loyal customers. My wife who has a home based business is involved in Twitter Moms and had made some good connections off of that network.
You forgot smallbizbee.com
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I have found one more great social networking site for next generation where you can upload your favourite songs & videoes aprt from photoes , you can leave door post which is similar like tweet,scrap .It is a general social networking site getting popular in Canada, India & Gulf .
http://www.onmybloq.com
This is a great list of sites….Social networking sites are how I have built my business. I seem to do better at marketing my business via the internet, I am a member of all of the major sites like linkedin, peoplestring, etc. I have also joined Social Media Moguls Group, Inc. it doesn’t matter what company you are with, you can go to this site to advertise your product or business FREE! Also, network and find out marketing secrets that most people pay good more for… I love this site!
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I’d like to nominate PledgingforChange.com
Quite new and FREE with lots of things to do and a way to share revenue if you wish to be part of their share program and their vision to make a difference.
Pledging for Change has a unique way for people to start groups or channels that are totally about the group owner and can have quite unlimited rss feeds fed into them.ie your video channels,your blogs, your twitter and so on. This is a really BIG plus as you busy yourself elsewhere on the webs as your channel or group is automatically updated. Granted there is on one-off lifetime nominal charge for a channel but when you see what you can do and what you can make for ROI it’s astounding. And all for a great vision of helping others as well as ourselves. And as an added bonus a channel can be run as a home business too. So as long as your intentions are good you can be part of your very own home business and maybe become one of the great leaders that they are looking for.
I have to mention though, Pledging for Change is not a place to spam or to get spammed. The people on there are lovely and very like minded and there is a certain friendly atmosphere about the whole thing.
I love it anyway so maybe I’ll see you there.
Sue
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Great Information! It is really helpful for my site.
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Cheers !!
enjoy surfing
I?think xing.com is one good social networking site for us to contact each other easier and efficient
we have recently started using social networking, and it has helped a lot.
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Excellent list of social websites
XtraInvestor is new web community for investors, advisors, companies and investment clubs launched in June 2010.
New members can join XtraInvestor.com only through an invitation from an existing member or may request their membership through the “Sing up” form. There is no charge to create a member profile. The invitation-only membership and the verified real identity of each member enable XtraInvestor.com to avoid spam and disinformation, so common on other investment websites.
40 is a long list…I don’t even know half of it exists. Social networking is really increasing in popularity as a tool for internet marketing and this list probably just tells how far it has gone. This tool is so handy since it just gets the information out to people who need to buy it without much effort.
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Let’s not forget about Facebook and even Myspace. Both are great resources for connecting with target customers or even business professionals.
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Hi smallbeez,
This is a fantastic list for social networking. I’ve never heard of half of those on the list here. i think Ning is a very good social site to find people who are in the same niche as yours. I also recommend another site, Vox for your social networking needs too.
Cheers!
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http://www.onmybloq.com is a great new social community to talk business , meet friends & share music .
This is a new site for small and medium businesses that allows a business to upload photos, video, audio, blog, post, friend and many other activities.
It has the most functionality and its brand new!
Check out Storeboard.com. It is the best social networking site for businesses! Bar none!
Good article. Once you’ve started using social networking you will want to start using a Business collaboration software tool to take you to the next level.
We recently started using the DRE Software BCN collaboration tool a few months ago. http://www.dresoftware.com/
The BCN DRE Software is web-based business collaboration software that can be set up by anyone without the help of IT resources. I just found out they are now planning to add web conferencing in a future release.
We use the BCN to collaborate with our customers, prospects, partners and other colleagues in a secure, personalized work space. It makes me wonder what we did without it. They gave us a free trial we used for all kinds of business scenerios
that have work really well for us. We keep finding more and more ways to use it. We have gotten very positive feedback from our customers and I think it has really improved our response time with the email integration. We have the whole team on the same page. I think we will see big cost savings once the web conferencing is implemented. We have CRM but found there was a big hole that the DRE software filled without having to download any software we can access from anywhere and it has helped us solve issues with our offices in different time zones.There is no limit on the number of work spaces our users can create and we have unlimited storage space for all the imformation we need to share.
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Here’s another networking site for serious entrepreneurs and startups – http://entrepreneurdex.com
It would have been nice to have a few sentences per item to describe the real business value of these different sites, I gues that is for us to find out?
Chris
What about http://www.makemillionstogether.com? They seem like a great new networking site for small businesses.
Great list and StartUp Digest has a list of events – http://thestartupdigest.com/ depending on where you reside.
Great new social site to promote yourself, your band or your business! Check it out!
You have an excellent list here. I am using 25 of these. Will use the others as well
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Excellent list of networking websites, this really is the ultimate list to social networking, there really is not much more that one would need, unless they were going all out. Very cool read, this was well worth the stay, keep on rocking!
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There’s also f3fundit.com which is a social network specifically targeted towards the international entrepreneurship community. Check it out and sign up
Wow – Thanks for the list! Quite a few different networks on here that I haven’t even heard of before. Looks like I’ll be spending some time signing up for a few of these over the next week
Great list
there are lots of social networking sites, but facebook should be on top of the list. And twitter also.
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A really great list. Indeed a great help to boost business. Thanks
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Maxous is another good social networking community.
PortalCodes is a really great social networking website for promoting your business, or band/music abilities. You can create your own profile and start networking with friends, business, and musicians instantly. I like the how easy it is to add friends, send message and post comments. entrepreneurs should be all over this one. Check it out at PortalCodes.com
Wow! This is some great information. Thanks for taking the time to post.
The list just keeps growing doesn’t it!
I think the thing for people to consider here is to make sure that they stay focused on either one or a few of these platforms and maintain good business relationships there rather than spreading themselves too thin.
Nice work finding all of them!
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Hey I think you missed Lettawatch.com. It’s a great new website designed to connect business, schools and friends and family. It a great one stop shop fore web connections.
It would take me a year to try and manage accounts on all these networks lol, i wish i had that time. Im using only 8 out of those plus some that are not on the list but ill check out for other from time to time.
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Try Viewcaster.net also. Great newer social networking site with all of the normal tools including blogs, photo albums, status updates, etc., plus a few fun extras. Cleverly simple privacy controls.
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Yurpage is a new just launched social network it’s young but once people catch on to it it will be a good website to go to go check it out at and join for free
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Nice list
if your web site is new. search engine cant help you. you must use Social Networking Sites to get some visits.
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I recommend that ezweb123.com (http://www.ezweb123.com) is added to the list – great resource for social networking!
ProfessionalsMingle.com is a free social networking website for professionals across the world. It is a place where professionals can train and help each other, post thier cv, date and marry other professionals.
I’m not going to lie, I only knew about a handful of the social networks on this list. This is an incredible resource for finding the best site for connecting to other people in your niche. Thank you for sharing all of them with us!
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Lettawatch.com was mentioned once. It’s going to ba as powerful as facebook in 10 years. It has combined all the things that people are interested in and put it all into 1 website. It’s pretty awesome.
Biznetsocial (http://www.biznetsocial.com) is a social networking website primarily for small businesses.Feature rich content on its website will be helpful to entrepreneurs and small businesses to market their products and services….
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biznetsocial (http://www.biznetsocial.com) is a free networking site for small businesses.
Nice list! I don’t see two sites on your list:
1. http://DealHorizon.com – A social network for venture capital firms and those who need funding.
2. http://Heardable.com – Measure the effectiveness of any online brand.
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This is an amazing list, but how long would it take a person to be a part of this huge list and actually use it. It needs a lot of dedication and the service usage to get any good results out of it. One cannot just create a profile with their link and use it for some time because that won’t work. One needs to interact with other users, get followers and increase their network to get good results, traffic to their website. I am currently trying to create my own small list which would be more than enough to join to get benefits.
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MBEConnect is a newer site devoted exclusively to women- and minority-owned businesses and corporate partners in order to promote supplier diversity initiatives.
I like this list, you could also make a social business networking list for specific branches.
We just launch one for the built environment growing rapidly http://www.archello.com
I’m sure that in each segment strong social business sites pop up.
Very Good information
Here are some other helpful resources that ive made
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Woo nice I like ibibo most
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http://www.uandiworld.com is a new social website which keeps people connected
Would love to have you do a review of social networks that Pay their members monthly income. We do just that at our site, and as far as we know, we pay the highest referral commissions of any social network site on the net. There are not many that pay, and those that do are paying a pittance. We believe our members deserve to be paid for their hard work of bringing more members into our site.
Our site: PnotS – Peopl, not Society
We do not have quantity, but we have quality members! People from over 46 countries in our first weeks of being online, and people that genuinely care about each other, learning about online marketing, and sharing humor and good times with each other.
Each member can create their own private groups where they can promote their businesses and opportunities, or just share laughs with friends.
Online public and private chat rooms, instant messaging, file sharing, video sharing, photo albums etc… plus coming soon, one-on-one audio/video chat with your friends.
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It is really useful for us, I will check and study it in the near future days, I hope there will be benefit. Thank you.
Another site that is just going into pre-launch and looking to marry features from Facebook, Google and Kooday together is http://www.tagVillage.com/denewman
You can also make money with this one.
Antsfriend celebrates diversity among people of the world coming together to enjoy life, create new friendships, share common interests and support each other. If your looking to meet new friends from another country, Antsfriend is the social website site of choice.
The name Antsfriend comes from “ants” (interest, appeal) and “friend” is the name of the main engine that powers this social networking site. Antsfriend gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected with online friends.
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Antsfriend celebrates diversity among people of the world coming together to enjoy life, create new friendships, share common interests and support each other. If your looking to meet new friends from another country, Antsfriend is the social website site of choice…………
If your looking to meet new friends from another country, Antsfriend is the social website site of choice……………………..
good network of sites……………………..
http://HoldingComp.com
Social Network for Entrepreneurs and Professionals for Middle East and North Africa,to link entrepreneurs and professionals in one location and to exchange news and economic knowledge , exchange ideas, learn, make deals, find opportunities or employees, work and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships and groups and develop research and turn it into commercial ventures.
Great list of social networking sites. I would definitely say that LinkedIn is the best of them all.
I have found many great contacts and connections on Black Business Space.
Thanks for the great list. I’m going to try and get some qaulity backlinks now
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I think, it is not worth focusing on every single social marketing site we know. It makes no sense too. Usually i focus on FB, Twitter and Linkedin which are leader in social media and networking. Enough userbase and everything needed is always there!
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you forgot facebook and twitter
We didn’t forget them, they just aren’t specifically for small businesses and entrepreneurs
I never really thought there would be networking site for small businesses. I just focus on Facebook & Twitter since all my friends & contacts are there. Ok, I’ll try Linkedin and work my way down. Many thanks!
Nice list. Here I have come about some new social networking websites with higher ranking.
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Quite comprehensive list here – we’ve got some advice for small businesses and social media in the link below. Check it out.
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Thanks for the Enormous list.
this is quiet nice.Inever know all these before
Would you not consider Plaxo as a business social network? It was one of the first that I joined although I still don’t find it that useful. Originally it did allow me to pull my address books together. Although in doing so it left me with 6400 contacts many of which were duplicates. As you may know they charge for deleting duplicates. Kind of a racket if you ask me.
GARY PALMER . I began my buisness this month. Though I ‘ve been prepared to use any useful material beside the friend pilot to test the waters. I just needed to know if you wouldn’t mind tossing some e-mails my way. u could just send them in an e-mail. in return i will provide u with my generated on. Could that be arranged
Maybe NATASHA could be of service.
Though Facebook dominates the social media scene, there is a small but growing trend of “anti-facebookers”. You may have heard numerous “quit facebook” days. There is also a proliferation of anti-facebook blogs and even an anti-facebook social network website called Koowie.com. Very interesting to see how this all plays out.
I heard a new social networking site http://matching.in/ which is becoming more popular these days.
Currently I only use LinkedIn, I shall try to use some of the list that you provided, thank you
You forgot the best one CTCSocial.com
RedCarpetMonday.com is a National Social Business Network website that hosts LIVE networking events and expanding throughout the United States.
Agreed with Mike. Linkedin is the best one. I hardly and can’t really focus on every single social network but linkedin does all the job i want. FB goes second.
Allow me to introduce you all to GibBook.com – Gibraltar’s own social network site.
GibBook.com is one of the most recents social network sites launched using the SocialGo platform.
It is a social network site created for the people of Gibraltar however anyone can join.
With its video/ audio chat facility, games and great groups, GibBook offers locals a unique social network for all to enjoy!
good web site for investment planing
looking articles good,
great work !
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FB, Twitter, Orkut and other horizontal social networking sites are good for Social and a bit Professional, but they’re not best suited for Business Collaboration, Networking.
http://www.kbnetworked.com
A brand new business social network centered around management innovation. Founded on the back of successful networks in digital business, supply chain procurement and corporate governence, this new business network will feature many leading professionals from major companies to further their discussions on today’s critical business issues
Awesome list. Love it.
So, what are your top 3 favorite networks guys? Why?
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Network for golf community with search engine that includes the database of golf courses, trainers, associations, and related businesses.
nice list social networks for business people thanks for sharing
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Thanks for the wonderful sharing! Some of the sites in the list I have never heard of. Once again thanks for the unique list of sites.
http://www.mybizxchange.com
New b2c and b2b with iPhone app to get your deals to the public.
Great list of sites. We are always looking for new networks to get involved in. I shall take the time to review some of which i am not already a part of.
many thanks
A splendid blog post, I just passed this onto a workfellow who was doing a little analysis on this. And he in fact bought me dinner because I discovered it for him. smile.. So let me rephrase that: Thank you for the treat! But yeah Thnx for taking the time to talk about this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you become expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me. Big thumb up for this blogpost!
Thanks dude. http://voonee.com is also a cool site, I think its a decent one
I have submitted my website in there social networking sites and get back links very soon.
Very nice collection of social networks and I am using most of them and they work really well.
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Thanks for sharing! I have used my website these networking sites and hoping get back links dreadfully shortly.
Hi there, Great list!
How about adding FriendUp.com?
It would be a good addition to this list. It’s a social network designed to connect you who share the greatest number of your interests.
The website is http://www.friendup.com
Amazing and Interesting,extremely useful,may work more for learning about Internet Media History.
Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is great blog. An excellent read. I’ll certainly be back.
Your site is loaded with useful and informative information. Although I’m already using the majority of the sites on this particular list, you did include a few that I’ve overlooked. Thanks for your work on this and the rest of the site.
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Apsence is also best business social networking site, But you forgot that.. Thank you..
Recently launched, Whenthemeetingsover.com is the social network for business professional from around the world.
More business than Facebook and more social than LinkedIn.
WTMO embraces our working and personal lifestyles. It provides members with the opportunity to create a genuine professional profile for themselves as well as an environment to network with friends, colleagues and contacts. It also provides members with interesting content across the realms of business, travel, sport, fashion and more.
For a limited period, join for free, visit:
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Recently launched, Whenthemeetingsover.com embraces working and personal lifestyles. It provides members with the opportunity to create a genuine professional profile for themselves as well as an environment to network with friends, colleagues and contacts. It also provides members with interesting content across the realms of business, travel, sport, fashion and entertainment.
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Invite code – VIP
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I agree with the number 1 ranking for LinkedIn. It’s one of the best out there.
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I think the first one is workable, that is linkedin.
great list of networks am in a few of them, but I do like LinkedIn the best.
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The impact of social network is a subject that is continuously growing – and to some extent, online marketers are at disagreement unto the effect it has on rankings; particularly Twitter and Facebook.
Although they are nofollow, correlative tests have been done by SEOmoz which indicate Facebook shares have an effect – regardless, within my time, Squidoo is certainly an network which is certainly recognised as beneficial from a search engines perspective – Competitor analysis has continuously shown that an authoritative lens helps those sites ranking within the top 3. My squidoo lens on industrial supplies is a prime example of applying an effective social networking strategy that achieves results.
Wow,
Thats a huge list of social networking websites. Linkendin and Yelp has helped me a lot. I feel these are the best.
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Thank you for sharing this exhaustive list. I have just been using LinkedIn. I will try my luck with couple of other websites you have mentioned.
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This is an excellent list. Right now all emphasis seem to be on facebook and twitter but quite frankly – I’m not sure it is appropriate for every business.
I’ll be evaluating those you provided to see which might be better suited for us.
Alex´s last blog ..Why Social Media Should Be A Part Of Marketing Strategy
IBO Toolbox should not only be on this list, but ranked highly. You can connect with associates, advertise on the wall, chat, share screens for presentations, get your blog posts published to a variety of sites through IBO, post videos, and more. It’s definitely worthy of this list!
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Thanks for all of these sites mate, I wouldn’t have even known that some of them exist! I’ll certainly be using them to promote Mobile Affiliate Profits!
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This will help me extend my network I have used like 5 of these before
I found you on google search! Thanks for the list great job.
It is great business social networking site. Many Thanks
Very nice blog. I have got best information of business.
There are hundreds small social media networks that most people are unaware of their existence, thanks for sharing some of them
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http://www.rocware.com is a new social business platform. It lets you create online b2b product catalogs and then connect with customers to share the catalog privately. The catalog is then connected to the Purchase Order process, which basically makes it really easy for customers to place orders.
thanks for this list of social networks for start bussines =)
nice informative blog
Great list of social networks
Other than Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, I had no idea that there are so many interesting social media sites. Thanks for sharing this list.
Pretty comprehensive list. But most of them are timewasters, not worth the effort
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Good list, but you’ve forgotten OfficeArrow.com, where there are hundreds of thousands of small business members. http://www.officearrow.com
http://www.ibcontact.com is a new business network for business people and professionals.
If you sign up during beta period you get a one year free premium membership.
am surprised http://www.1plusall.com is left out of the list
Great list and very useful … just missed seeing my website in there, http://www.wanobe.com, which is a free-to-use questions and answers site for small and mid-sized firms. Pop along and let me know what you think of its usefulness
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Marketing plays a very important role in business and these days, one of the most effective ways of spreading information about one’s business is by utilizing social media. With all the available options, would it be wiser to be a part of all or just the best ones?
I could tell how great you are in your field of interest. You could relate in each detail very well. Thank you for spending a time on sharing such informative writings to us. I will bookmark your page and looking forward to read some more of your writings soon.
Hiya, I am really glad I’ve found this info. Today bloggers publish just about gossips and net and this is really annoying. A good website with exciting content, this is what I need. Thank you for keeping this site, I’ll be visiting it. Do you do newsletters? Can’t find it.
It is really a great list.
Internet marketing solution can’t be complete without social bookmarking. Very useful list of Social bookmarking websites to rank any website and improve traffic.
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Wonderful expectations for a successful business while using these mentioned marvelous network. We know that a social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people. Thanks for nice info.
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This is a great list of various networks. I have heard about few of them but most of them are new to me. I looking to start my own business in a small way and this resources will definitely help
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Apart from LinkedIn,never heard of others before.Are you sure that small business can get some benefits from those Social Networking sites.
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I consider Facebook,Stumbleupon and digg best for me.
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People are going to have to get on board with social networking when it comes to their business. We can all learn something from the dinosaurs… Adapt or be blown away by a meteorite
Nice list
Social networking sites are good source for getting some or big traffic. cant be neglected .
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I’m giving a speech on social networking sites and wish to say a high blogging site. When someone could mention one for me, I’d really enjoy it!.
What an amazing list of social media sites! This is so very useful for social media for small business. Especially new business owners looking for a starting point on their social media. Thanks for sharing.
I can’t believe Diaspora and Enukee were left off the list. Both are major players and privacy based social sites. Good Facebook alternatives.
Diaspora https://joindiaspora.com/
Enukee https://enukee.com
Wow! We had no idea there were so many social networks. Think we’ll have to look in to a few more as the ones we use (LinkedIn, twitter) have certainly helped our fulfilment business by driving more enquiries.
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nice resource thanks for sharing it is more helpful for seo executives …great stuff keep it up..i think you miss digg, stumbleupon,delicious,digo etc….http://www.egsindia.com
I want to suggest that you update your list of social sites with http://www.connectture.com
, it’s a site for business professionals – I found it to be a great resource especially with thousands of relevant business articles.
Herman
I didn’t realize there were that many. And it doesn’t surprise me that LinkedIn was at the top.
Cool list of websites like it.
Thank you for sharing It’s really what I have been looking for a great list of social networking sites specifically for small and startup businesses. Great Job!!
This is great list and helpful to me. thanks for sharing it with me.
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I thought I was ontop of social networking…..I had not even heard of the 4 in your top 5! (obviously I had heard of linked in). I’m going to have to step up my game!
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This is so great, thank you! As a solo entrepreneur with very little time to do much of – well – anything, I find lists like this one to be incredibly valuable.
Wow..!! Huge list, I am gonna check them one by one for sure.
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I think it’s a disservice to not mention Meetup.com on this list. It’s REAL social networking, since you’ll often actually meet the people in real life and make stronger connections.
It’s technically not just for small business, but the fact that almost every city in America has a small business-specific meetup group on there makes it a must for small business owners to look into.
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This is so great. I always find such interesting stuff when I stumble onto this site again and again!
I’m going to be sharing this. Facebook here we come!
Real HCG
Yep – you missed GibBook.com
GibBook.com – Gibraltar’s won Social Network site – http://www.gibbook.com.
thanks for providing social networking website long list..i also start online business so these are helpful for me…
Hey,
Your headline is an eye-catching one, that is why I am so eager to read your article’s whole body. As a firm owner, it is a great information for sharing this stuffs for network marketing. Wanted to try them all out. Thanks.
This is really tremondous list to see with nice features. I just want to share one more here.
Classmates
This is a huge list of social network. I also include google plus as a social network site. This sites are great for back linking. Thanks
Nice list of useful sites. I’ve tried recently linkedin and hope to get results soon. Great work you have here.
Thanks for sharing this post I really like this post.
Thank you so much for sharing. This is a very good help for me – sadly I only know LinkedIn.
Thanks for the valuable list! Social signals have become an important factor in SEO recently, so not only is this list a nice resource of social networking sites, but also a great source of Google-friendly backlinks.
How about ibotoolbox? I have had great success there!
This is amazing list and thanks for sharing consolidated list.
Wow that is a huge list. I know a handful of the ones up there, i didn’t realize there were so many though.
Wow that list is huge. I didn’t know that were so many social networking sites. I am on a handful of them but seriously, WOW.
There’s social, and then there’s focused and social, looks like that about covers it.
Now you’ve gone an done it!
You have effectively gotten me off my behind with a couple day project of research.
Hope you feel good about getting me going after the holidays!
Thanks, really.
http://www.bizeso.com
A social networking website with job, Ideas Academy, Press release, Loans, Insurance, Detective, Lawyer, C.A Community
You can add to this list http://www.abizworld.com/
ABIZWORLD is the Company Network that connect retailers, enterprises, manufacturers and suppliers, and help you to share your company’s life and expand your business.
That’ s a huge list. I’ll add one more – TravBuddy.com
A great way of finding and meeting travelers.
Adding Envy Social Club, a new online networking group for small business owners. This business networking group mixes business with pleasure by incorporating the social side of small business. Also has annual national events in places like Vegas. See http://www.EnvySocialClub.com.
I would like to include http://www.McKenson-Invest.com, an online platform that connects investors looking for new investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking funding.
Here is the link that provides further information:
http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/190682-1323630714-entrepreneurs-can-now-approach-angel-investors-easily-with-new-networking-tool.html
One more to the list: http://www.promosquare.com
PromoSquare is a platform helping people to get connected with each other based on matching score between published alerts.
PromoSquare is a platform helping people to get connected with each other based on matching score between published alerts.
I never doubt LinkedIn, it’s trusted. This is good for the business men whose is about to start.
Does anyone else think that social media is losing its effectiveness? I think many businesses have focused way too much energy and money on social marketing and have neglected some basic marketing techniques. Diversity is key.
Social networking is very much important now-a-days.
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I’m not sure where you are getting your info, but good topic. I needs to spend some time learning more or understanding more. Thanks for fantastic information I was looking for this information for my mission.
Would they even remember this even after it becomes overshadowed by something more controversial? Come on, it’s like the law of nature already.. springhill group
That is a long list!
You should add this one as well!
http://www.Pondrin.com
Promote your creativity while connecting with your friends!
Check it out.
We are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your website offered us with valuable info to work on. You have done a formidable job and our whole community will be grateful to you.
thanks for this huge list
i really appreciate it so much
Hi there, just became alert to your blog through Google, and found that it is really informative. I am going to watch out for brussels. I will be grateful if you continue this in future. Lots of people will be benefited from your writing. Cheers!
Linked in has personally put me in touch with a wealth of contacts. Although I had never heard about meet the boss, that will be my next membership!
great list thanks for sharing it
Thank you for that great list. I had no idea there were so many social networking sites. I have bookmarked the page and will be checking out all the sites over the next few days. This will be a great benefit to my small by growing business.
Maryann
Touristlink.com is a social network for travel business (hotels, resort- spa, adventure sports, travel agents, tour operators) to create a free business profile, engage travelers, answer their queries, market tours, group packages.
Travel Social Network
Thank you for that great list. I am a regular user of http://www.surfsocial.com . We can stay updated with feeds from all our services, and all actions at our fingertips. Search all your feeds with one touch.
Biznessmeet.com, the business social networking site for the career minded, professional, and business owner, to network and connect with each other.
I think there is onether missed social networking site.It is small and new,but its best upcomming.
its http://www.laknaa.com
it is a social network for buying and selling around the world.Its connect people to buy and sell
I really love this this list. I knew about some of them, but the others I did not know about have proved to be helpful.
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