Top 4 Business Networking Websites - Increase your network now!

Networking and making connections is always a good way to increase your communication and contacts with other companies and people representing the companies. Business networking, non-similar to social networking is a type of commercial relationship between the different level people of same or the different companies.
Sharing information and being involved in a group can help your business reach levels you couldn’t alone.
So, if you are an Individual and want to increase your network, then here are the 5 best websites which i suggest -

1. LinkedIn - A professional networking website which features large company groups, members of which are networking with each other and get interacted for business deals and talks. The main purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. These are better known as Connections.

2. Ecademy - Ecademy is a Social Network for Business People founded in 1998 now with over 170,000 member profiles worldwide. It works uniquely as business people connect both online on the web site and offline through meets. People with good economical companies which gain trust on each other get connected here. Once you join this website through free membership, you will get a free guide showing tips of increasing your network.

3. XING - This is a social software platform website which helps in enabling small networks for company employees and professionals. Shows the connections of different people of small networking world. The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features. Gaining membership in this platform ranges from free to a minimal payment of $6/month for more and more features. Xing competes LinkedIn for one of the best business networking websites.

4. Ryze - This is another networking site which helps new entrepreneurs to get connected to each other and to other professionals. This company is run from the year 2001 and and offers both free and paid membership to people like Xing. Its a site for people helping each other ‘rise up’ through quality networking. Business professionals can make friendly relationships here!

I am currently in LinkedIn and ecademy, and will be trying out the other 2 soon. Already have nice contacts in LinkedIn :)

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3 comments ↓

#1 Amit on 10.21.07 at 1:00 pm

Chetan, that is a really nice article on Social Networking

#2 pondlife on 11.02.07 at 11:54 am

Nice blog - I’d never heard of Ecademy before so I’m surprised it has so many members. I’d better go and check it out :)

#3 Ashwin on 11.15.07 at 11:27 pm

Thanks..

Its a very nice article on networking…

Have to try it myself!

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