« Women Business Loans UK – Aspire for Building Strong Business | Main | Business Owner & Freedom Fighter in One »
Benefits Of Creating An Internet Marketing Networking Group
By admin | December 26, 2008
The current buzz word in cyberspace is Social Networking. The concept of working together has always levelled the playing field for small business. The net is full of information on all forms of networking from joint ventures to large networking companies. The foundation of these programs is solid. The theories work – to a point.
Most of these programs stop working when small business owners start building large networks of people who are only interested in promoting themselves. The key component of networking is to invest time promoting others. This is especially important if the business owners have no time for promotion.
Networking Groups
The best networking groups are 3 – 12 people. Anything more than this and ‘free loaders’ get in, sap the groups resources, and move on. A group of three to twelve people can become intimate with each other’s products and services, and use their resources to ‘exchange’ promotion.
The theory behind the small network group is simple. Each person would normally spend 3 – 5 hours a week networking for their own business. If they use that same 3 – 5 hours networking for a group of five, and those five people are networking for them, they can expand their promotion x5.
For example: One person can build 10 inbound links to their business in an hour. Now, they create a blog that is just for networking on a topic that covers their group. As this blog grows they embed links in the blog for their company and for their group’s companies. Now, the business owner is building 20 links for their business in an hour, and 20 links for their group’s businesses.
The catch? In that same span of time, each of their group members are spending 1 hour on their site. So, with a group of 5, each person is receiving. One person works 1 hour and builds 10 links, then 5 people working 1 hour will build 50 links.
A Right Way and A Wrong Way
The big mistake that most groups make is by racing around the web looking for places to build links. This is a waste of time. Instead, the group should each build 5 blogs. They don’t need to write for the blogs, in fact, upload free content articles into the blogs.
Each company owner can write 5 articles a month, with two or three links back to their website. They can submit this to their friends, who post each article on all five of their blogs. Do the math, five articles with three links, posted on 25 blogs, equals 150 inbound links a month. Time invested? The time needed to write 5 articles from 200- 350 words.
Five people working together can increase their Page Rank from PR0 to PR2 in less than three months. They can increase from PR2 to PR3 in six months without ever investing a dime.
Tools Needed
A self contained group can easily promote all their businesses rather quickly. There are other ways to run a group like this. Hiring a blog/forum manager might cost $200 – $500 a month, but this person can build many more links in less time. The money invested by each member is well worth the money invested.
How to Build a Networking Group
Building the networking group can be started from a site like http://Myspace.com, http://squidoo.com, or http://blogger.com. An excellent example is http://www.divanetworking.blogspot.com The blog leads people to the forum.
Each month the moderator divides the group into groups of three. Each of those people build 10 links to each group member, hits their pages, and replies to posts. This increases the PR of the blogs, and drives each person’s business.
Each person works to promote the host blog. The host blog in turn increases in PR at a much higher rate. The host blog hits PR5 and pulls all the other business websites listed on that page up with it, at least one-half a PR ranking.
Watch the video related to networking groups
Google Tech Talks August 30, 2006 Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He’s been studying networking since 1969. He still hopes that someday something will start to make sense. ABSTRACT Today’s research community congratulates itself for the success of the internet and …
Help answer the question about networking groups
Are there Business Networking/Professional Groups in the US for people of Middle Eastern background?I'm looking for opportunities to network with business professionals who are either of Middle Eastern decent or have a Middle Eastern background. Particularly, Lebanese business professionals or of Lebanese decent. Do such professional, trade, lobbying organizations exist in the US and how can I join/get involved?
About Author
Mark Walters is a third generation entrepreneur and author. He offers free training and investing videos designed to speed you towards financial independence at http://www.CashFlowInstitute.com
Topics: Networking | 18 Comments »
December 26th, 2008 at 9:14 am
lol if you meet my maths teacher you would believe me
December 26th, 2008 at 10:17 am
ok dude u wasted my time just show us how in 2 min
December 26th, 2008 at 10:27 am
but thanks anyways
December 26th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I would like to tell you about NJEntrepreneur, it is a business building resource for NJ website. I am the owner and also have a NJEntrepreneur Exchange once a month that is only open to entrepreneurs.
The next meeting is September 24 at the Bridgewater Marriott titled Entrepreneur War Stories…if you are interested please email me at jgray@njentrepreneur.com
December 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Contact these places:
~Independent Living Center of Southern California (ILCSC) @ http://www.ilcsc.org
~National Council of Independent Living (NCIL) @ http://www.ncil.org
They should have some up-to-date info to share with you. I left Los Angeles almost 5 years ago & I found that PATH was a helpful place.
December 27th, 2008 at 2:48 am
lol remove yourself from the group and it will be deleted! lol funny group though i would have joined it!!! xD
December 26th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I have tried to do business using the small networking groups. I have been involved with people who are trying to make a living with them.
Ahhhh they don't work. WHY? People come and people go. No one stays long and very little business is done. They all become a hangout spot for an hour and a little tax right off that is not Worth even mentioning unless people are in many of these little groups.
My suggestion is to find something else to sink your teeth into.
December 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
thank you for showing me how to do this, but is it necessary to make a ten minute video to tell us where to click?
December 27th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I made a group, but when I try to post something for everyone to say it say it’s by me not the actual group. And I don’t know how to do it.
December 27th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Yellow pages are the right place to search for.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
December 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Thanks dude
December 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
None that I know of but the guy above seems to have all the answers. Go for him.
December 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hi There,
Would you like to start a yahoo group. I would join and invite a few more to join in. Hopefully with that we can get more people to network and we can benefit each other.
Perhaps you could start the group with a small core team and set the group policy or ground rules with its commitment expected from each other.
Let me know if you are starting the group and want me to contribute.
Good Luck
December 28th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
copy/paste
December 29th, 2008 at 2:55 am
There are generally LEADS groups out there possibly through the chamber of commerce or rotary international. Typically the LEADS groups are limited to one professional from each profession. They do this so if one person has a LEAD, the others can benefit as opposed to compete with one another for the lead.
As with many businesses, the securities business is very cut throat and no one wants to share the potential big whale.
Good luck.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:27 am
December 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am
thnx dude my 100 comment