Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
By Ian Hendry at 28 October, 2008, 6:31 pm
Got a social network struggling to make money? How about climbing in to bed with a CRM vendor and charging businesses a fee to keep their data current?
It’s easy to get bored of reading press releases from social networking companies announcing new rounds funding. Okay, there is a little more novelty attached to them post [...]
Social media a valid route to new customers, say UK SMBs
By Ian Hendry at 23 October, 2008, 2:48 pm
WeCanDo.BIZ Business Networking Trends Survey reveals 92% would recommend their contacts network online.
The results of our recent survey on business networking trends reveals UK-based small business are avid supporters of online networking through sites such as BusinessZone.co.uk, UK Business Forums and WeCanDo.BIZ, although some of the best known business-focused social networks aren’t doing enough to [...]
XING proves the social networking party is far from over
By Ian Hendry at 16 October, 2008, 4:08 pm
Amongst all the negative news on the collapse of Web 2.0, the first social network to go public doubles its revenues.
OK, so there is a large number of so-called Web 2.0 companies out there that amount to not much then a kind of neat idea, but certainly not a business. And the turmoil in the [...]
Why most business focused social networks are missing their own market
By Ian Hendry at 7 October, 2008, 10:48 am
LinkedIn, Xing and now IBM’s Bluehouse are hot news. But are they providing any of the services which draw business professionals to network in the first place?
When putting together a business plan for WeCanDo.BIZ I was inspired by a survey on the BNI website — BNI is the Worl’d largest business networking organisation with over [...]
XING proves business people will pay to network online
By Ian Hendry at 11 September, 2008, 12:52 pm
Europe’s answer to LinkedIn has 500,000 paying members; who else can show a 8% premium member base?
XING AG of Germany, widely billed as Europe’s answer to LinkedIn of the US, has announced it has added 140,000 paying members to its base of over 6 million business networking members in the eight months of this year [...]