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Social networks can be very beneficial for your business. Social networks allow you to not only connect with other businesses, but they also let you interact with your customers and other business professionals, as well as share tips, discounts and special offers, gain knowledge from other business professionals, and much more. “Where do I find social networks for businesses,” you ask. One way is to search the Internet, but today I will reveal five social networks for businesses to save you a little time.

Apsense

This new social network for businesses offers you the opportunity to build your business while getting paid, and best of all: it’s free. Yes, that’s right: you’ll earn revenue from content you create as well as from content your contacts create! Some of the many benefits Apsense offers its members are as follows:

• Send and receive messages
• Join business groups that share your interests
• Vote on content written by fellow businesses
• Learn from business blogs and create a blog of your own

Ecademy

Ecademy, founded in 1998 by Penny Power, will enable you to connect with over 100,000 businesses. In addition to being able to network with others, you’ll also have the privilege of seeking support and advice, advertising your services, joining up with business networking groups that relate to your business, attend offline networking events and much more.

Ecademy has three memberships to choose from: Basic membership, which is free; a Power Networker membership for $5 a month; or for $100 month, you can enjoy all of Ecademy’s social networking features with a BlackStar membership.

Basic membership allows you to:

• Create a profile
• Search for contacts
• Learn from free networking guide
• Join clubs
• Respond to messages
• Attend networking events

As a Power Networker you can:

• Enjoy the same benefits as a Basic member
• Respond to and send unlimited messages
• Create your own clubs and events
• Post unlimited blogs
• Gain higher visibility on search engines
• Post unlimited adverts on Marketplace
• Save up to 10 searches and alerts

With a BlackStar membership, you’ll get:

• The same benefits as a Power Networker
• Automatic posts in the Marketplace as well as follow-up tools
• Unlimited saved searches and alerts
• Your company’s logo or banner placed on Ecademy’s pages
• Accelerated private networking in clubs, groups and exclusive events

LinkedIn

Join LinkedIn, a popular social network for businesses. As of this post, LinkedIn has over 7 million members! If you become a member of the LinkedIn social network, you’ll be able to connect with over 8 million businesses, ask and/or answer questions, share your expertise, request recommendations, create a profile and much more.

Merchant Circle

Would you like to gain more local customers? Then head to Merchant Circle www.merchantcircle.com. Merchant Circle, founded in 2005, was designed to connect small businesses with local customers. Through Merchant Circle you can create a blog for your business, send out coupon offers to potential customers, create newsletters, add photos and videos, increase your visibility in the search engines, create ads through Merchant Circle’s Ad Wizard, track what’s being said about your business, connect with other businesses to help your business grow, and more. Membership is free.

Xing

Xing, the first Web 2.0 company to go public, gives members the abilities to market their business and interact with other business professionals. They offer a free Basic membership and a Premium membership.

The above are a select few of the many social networks for businesses. If you’d like to discover more, Google “social networks for businesses” and “social network directories.”

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