5 Ways To Support Your Networking Groups Online

Great meeting at the SOC chamber today!!!  We didn’t have our usual speaker, but we did have a brainstorming session on how we can add value to current and future SOC Chamber members.   We talked about contests, videos, targeted speakers…all great stuff!  Of course, the internet got mentioned, and we had some opinions to share…

5 Secrets to Networking 2.0:

(full post on Cal Coast Web Design’s blog)

1. Display the group’s logo / badge on your website and link back to your organization. This is a 24/7 trust factor for your business (who doesn’t want to see you are with the BBB and the Chamber?!), and, a 24/7 advertisment for your networking group.

2. Use the group’s FREE resources. If they give you a page on their website or a post on their blog, UPDATE IT! If you as members don’t make your networking group’s blog or website resourceful…then who will?

3. Follow your group on Twitter. If they are having an event of value, RT them! @ back your fellow members. Engage and care what the other businesses in your community are doing. Remember to refer them ON-line the way you do OFF-line.

4. Don’t just ‘Like‘ your group on Facebook, CHECK IN while you’re networking. Perception is everything. If lunchtime Facebookers see 80 people check in at the same midday mixer, do you think they might want to see what all the fuss is about???

5. Join your group on LinkedIn. While you’re there, post something valuable from your industry that the other members should know about. If people see your group helping and contributing to eachother online, they will show up to your event(s) offline.

Networking is no longer a weekly or monthly shake-hands-exchange-cards-expect-business thing.  Networking is a daily way of life.

So…..chamber members……how are you doing with the 5 points above?  Cal Coast Web Design would LOVE to support you in any way – do you have any comments, questions, or suggestions?