It’s not a question about joining a social networking site – but rather the existence and importance of your own social network and how you leverage that network for business value.

And maybe you call this your business network, or business-causal network or social-business network…

In this week’s release of Connectize – we bring forward some very fundamental features that take “social networking” to the next level and apply them to the sales and business world.  If you were to ask me “Why do you network?” – my answer would be “It’s to get the insight and knowledge that’s not available on the street”.  I am looking for “help” and I’ll work that “need” into the conversation (when appropriate). I’ll also offer my opinion or “expertise” on any other topics that are part of the same conversation.

In then end, I network to either get, give and exchange information that can help me do my sales job better/faster.  That’s the importance of having a social network!

So with that in mind – 5 new features/themes this week that enable this are;

• People that need your help
• People that can help you
• My Network activity
• Tag clouds to describe your needs and expertise
• Increased in-line messaging between users

I’d encourage you to take a few minutes and update your tags.  Every sales or business person needs something and has something they can monetize in a sales and business context.

This is the fastest way yet we have seen to enter a tag, a description, a price, an expiry and a relative sense of urgency or expertise based on the type of tag.  Nobody likes typing a lot… try this I think you will be very impressed on how simple and fast it is.

Think of Connectize in this way and you will see how worthwhile and fast it is to get started.

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