Another excellent, but very occasionally used as social networking tool, is LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries. You can find, be introduced to, and collaborate with qualified professionals that you need to work with to accomplish your goals.

Some use it for finding friends who share their common interest, while some professionals use it as a podium to recruit people. Small and medium business ventures use it for searching others who are in the same practice. But again, used properly it has fantabulous prospects of promoting your venture.

LinkedIn has over 34 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world. A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members.

LinkedIn mission is to connect the world’s professionals to accelerate their success. LinkedIn believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.

LinkedIn is an amazing platform to discover loads of people who may share an interest of yours that you thought was strange. You can find groups of almost anything at LinkedIn; they can as varied as bird watchers, knitting and crocheting addicts, food critics, travel maniacs, book worm, PTA groups, almost anything under the sun.

Socializing with a group that you are in the same intellectual parallel with has immense benefits when it comes to promoting your product with all the new people. All that you do, is to go to the upper left corner of your home page and click on the section ‘group’ and then you can happily browse through the list of ‘fraternities’ who share very strange interests and decide what suits you most.

Initially simply reply to their enquiries about your whereabouts or hobbies or whatever question they pose for you; you can also simply complement an aspect you found interesting in them. Slowly as confidence builds up, you can get down interacting more freely.

LinkedIn is free to join: Join through here! Watch the video for help with jouning!

Fred Lotgering
LotCon Biz Solutions