Networking why it's important for your on-line business

Networking is crucial for many reasons and can help your business survive on-line. There are so many websites that are created by web developers or novices each and every day. 10 years ago, it was an average of 5,000 new websites per day. Can you imagine how many are coming up every day now? Especially in this day an age where the need to be a stay home parent is more of a priority than to increase one's financial gain. Life has made many of use want to provide a better foundation for our children, spend more time with our better halves and create the family scenario that once we saw on television years ago.

Okay, I'm getting a bit nostalgic, lol . .so the point I'm getting at is that we now use our computers not just to surf for information, but as a means to generate income. So, the website is built, but their aren't many visitors and guess what that means no generation of income.

This is the reason why networking and belonging to internet groups is a crucial ingredient when doing business on-line. When we use to hear the old cliche "the world is your oyster", well, it really is if you're on-line. You can make an impact as well as make contact with people you may never meet from all over this globe. Someone in Canada might be looking for something you provide or you might find someone who is at the other end of the United States that can produce your products or provide you with products that you may not have known about if you didn't network or join internet groups.

I must warn you however, that within these groups still lies the human trecherous minds of those that will do anything to get ahead and some forget that their is someone with feelings using the keyboard. Yes, I'm sure there are many of these types of people you may have come across, but if you can ignore most of them and brush them off like a grain of sand, you will find many jewels in these types of forums.

I belong to several wonderful forums on-line that have netted me with some great networking partners and friends.

Network with other small business owner's and get your business promoted with AdlandPro's Traffic Exchange free advertisement program. You are allowed to build your own personal webpage and post your classfieds and meet some really great small business owners in this forum. It doesn't hurt that you can get your advertisement posted once a month to their network of members for free either, lol . .

List Dot.com will allow you to Network and send your business ads to your Opt-In List. This is free and you can send out messages to those that opt-in to your list that will be advertised for free.

Join one of the fastest growing networks on-line. Create your own advertising area, join hundreds of topic specific groups to fit your specific business needs. I belong to several groups at Ryze. I must warn you though, you'll receive a ton of messages once you sign up for groups. Make sure that you change your profile where you only receive messages from messages you've posted or you will be bombarded with hundreds of emails. A bit of a nuisance, but not bad since you will meet many new faces and it is a great way to advertise your business for free.

Well, there is quite a bit more places that I can write about, but for now this will have to do. Network and meet people on-line by joining networking forums, bulletin boards and internet groups. You'll be surprised at how fast your website will get viewed and the worst that can happen? You may actually start getting more sales!

Almost forgot, I should mention my WAH Business Ad Promotion Group. Okay, not exactly a networking group, but you can save discounts on advertising on my network of sites. But, this is not why I'm mentioning this group. I am going to create an e-coupon book to be given away for free in the beginning of October just in time for the biggest shopping days of the year, Christmas! This group will be provided with details on this project so if you want to get your business noticed, you may want to join this free group.

Until I think of something else to write! Enjoy your day!