Comments on: It’s not who you know, it’s who who you know knows

By: Robert Bradley

Robert Bradley — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:05:35 +0000

Plaxo is another one which is used by my own own social networking contacts (and now myself).

Has anyone else used it?

By: Life Coach Vancouver

Life Coach Vancouver — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:41:50 +0000

I have had incredible success on LinkedIn. I think it is mostly because of the scale. None of these other sites even begin to approach it in terms of volumes of users and groups.

Meetup.com is another great place to get together with some like-minded individuals and maybe ease into a target audience group or two as well!

Cheers!

By: Duane Jackson

Duane Jackson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:40:41 +0000

@Aron @Mark Lee,

I’ve tried a few times to get into ecademy, but the sheer amount of random life coaches and the like messaging me out of the blue really put me off and I didn’t stay active on there for long.

But it’s comments like those above that make me try it again every now and then. Perhaps I’ll try again some time soon.

Duane

By: Aron Stevenson

Aron Stevenson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:42:27 +0000

I’m not a life coach or an emotional millionaire and I don’t own a cardigan. But I am an active member of ecademy and your description doesn’t seem a true reflection IMHO.

I’ve been a member since December 2007 and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the journey so far. It’s been an education for me. It’s engaging, we share useful content and collaborate with UK/ worldwide business people. It’s just what I wanted from a business network. The new improvements to the site will no doubt make it even better.

Shame you had such a poor experience Duanne. How long were you active on ecademy?

By: Mark Lee

Mark Lee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:20:34 +0000

Ecademy has been of real benefit to me over the last 3 years. I don’t recognise your description of the majority of members Duanne. Having said that I accept it’s an acquired taste.

Those people who join and expect to get business simply by pushing and promoting themselves will be disappointed. It’s all about online engagement, sharing and collaborating. There are plenty of success stories but also plenty of people who don’t ‘get it’. There’s no point in joining and hoping for a ‘quick win’. It’s about building relationships – both online and offline at events, both locality or interest driven (there are thousands of special interest clubs/groups).

Main target membership are solpreneurs, consultants and home workers. Equally I run a club for accountants on Ecademy and we have approaching 200 members.

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:21:58 +0000

Interesting – I am working out whether this sort of online networking is right for me and my business. My first impressions are that there seems to be much more broadcasting than reading, and this is really done for the benefit of Google.

My other concern relates back to a recent blog of yours regarding the risk of referring someone that you haven’t had first experience of working with.

For me, that is why 4Networking is the network that I am investing my time and energy into, online and offline – really get the chance to interact

By: Matt Chatterley

Matt Chatterley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:32:50 +0000

I must agree that LinkedIn is a “good” networking site for business – and may have to check out WeCanDo, Ian!

Beyond that, one of the problems is that there are so many networking sites, profile, portfolio systems and lord knows what else out there – a near infinite number of directories, too.

Keep the list you visit to a minimum (whichever ones they are) and focus on using them properly. 100 incomplete profiles will do you no good at all!

By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:19:20 +0000

Thanks for the mention Duane.

We’re certainly known for sales leads and referrals, mainly because those things are hard to get elsewhere, but we also help you network.

You can sign straight in using a Twitter ID (others supported) to get:

My Local Group – other business owners near you (https://www.wecando.biz/my_networks.php?tab=3)

My Industry Group – network with your peers

Networking event search (http://www.wecando.biz/search.php?tab=4)

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz