Social networks are popular in the US, but even more popular in many other markets. According to The Nielsen Company, the social network/blog category reached 86% of active internet users in Brazil in April 2010, and 78% of active users in Italy, for example. Reach in the US was 74%.
Chinese social networks are strong performers. According to the Data Center of China Internet, the number of social network users in the country reached 245 million in 2009, up 34% over 2008. Social networks such as Tencent’s QQ, search giant Baidu’s Baidu Space and RenRen (formerly Xiaonei) dominate usage.
Although China has just over 500 million internet users, according to eMarketer estimates, QQ has even more accounts than that—587 million as of March 2010. Tencent, a public company, reported $141 million in online advertising revenue in 2009 and $30 million in Q1 2010.
Facebook is growing rapidly outside the US. In New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada and Singapore (as well as in the US), Facebook was the No. 1 website based on market share of visits in June 2010, according to Experian Hitwise.
Periodically I put up information about online opportunities and affiliate programs because there is a growing population of people that make a good living from various online activities.
As small business owners, it is always good to find alternate sources of income, especially when we can tie it in to our core business.
Inbox Dollars is one of the programs that I came across recently. It is a legitimate company and they even did a piece about the company on Good Morning America….
You be the judge …. click the banner to get more info…. it’s free …. and family friendly!
- Social networks are now actively used by between half and three quarters of companies worldwide for various networking functions
- 40% of businesses globally have found new customers via social networks.
- Over a quarter (27%) devotes marketing dollars to social networking activity to both acquire and retain customers.
- Keeping in contact with business contacts is the main use of social networks (58%) followed by getting together with special interest groups (54%), discovering useful business intelligence (54%) and organizing, managing and connecting with customer groups (51%).
- Surprisingly under a quarter of professionals (22%) have used business social networks to find a new job
“With 55% of online Americans registered on Facebook, any reservations towards using social networking for business purposes seem misplaced. This survey indicates that organizations who have not yet ventured into the world of social networking may be missing out on sizeable business opportunities,” said Sande Golgart, vice president for Regus.
“This is particularly the case in the Netherlands (48%), India (52%), Mexico (50%) and Spain (50%), where the highest level of new customer acquisition via social networking was reported.”
I don’t post much affiliate or marketing things here but I just thought this was an awesome concept. It’s free so any one can give it a try and there is really nothing to lose!
Business owners and entrepreneurs want to participate to get some insight into team building strategies and extend their networking “circle”
This is an interesting spin on things!
You actually build your team prior to choosing a business opportunity!
May seem backward, but it makes sense. If you can get a team together and on ‘one accord’, you can ‘plug-in’ a business opportunity and approach it with force!
Of course, you would not get involved with any business, but the team approach increases your chances of greater success with any business!
Check out the video… Join Free and be a part of something educational and interesting!
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. Daniel Webster
Long-range planning works best in the short term. Doug Evelyn
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. Richard Branson
The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We’re born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies. Michael Gerber
I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it’s important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective. Carlos Slim Helu
I made VBS Insight a do-follow blog because I wanted to provide a place for people to put their links and get their back-link count up. I expected that my spam would increase and it did!
I am just here to give a quick notice
VBS Insight will continue to be ‘do-follow’ but I am starting to be a lot more strict on the comments.
All I ask is that your comment be related to the post in some manner and it make sense! I get comments that you can clearly tell where not written for the post and just don’t make any sense at all. I get comments with nothing but links. I get comments that some one has copied and pasted into multiple posts.
Please continue to post with your links, but if you don’t want to be deleted and want your comment to actually be posted; make it related to the post and make it sensible!
To maintain your independence you must always be needed and wanted. Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear. Never teach them enough so that they can do without you.
For small business owners, this is how you stay in business and thrive. Make your customers feel like they ‘need’ your product or service. If your customers come to depend on your products and services, chances are they will be return customers.
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