Social networking
A few months ago, I was involved in starting a small business group to talk about marketing and other stuff. After we had a core group established, and we had our mission statement defined, we started a meetup.com group to advertise our group. Meetup.com sent an email invitation to 5000 people in our area, and we are flourishing.
In addition to meetup.com, we also started a website and a blog, and Ii encouraged every member to start their own blog to make it seem like we are a thriving group.
Meetup and facebook are one examples of social networking. there are other business networking sites like bni and ryze that specialize in business relationships.
More networking opportunituties are better. use all of them.
