Small Business Owners understand the real value of business networking. How many networking events do owners, startups, entrepreneurs and service providers
attend to generate new leads? Many go to at least one networking event a
month to meet and interact with new professionals, and learn what they
do. When they are at the event, owners share what they do, find common
points of interest, exchange business cards, and follow up! At large
networking events or mixers, a master networker can make twenty-five to
fifty new connections. Within a couple of days, a personal email is sent
to the new contacts, and often, followed up with phone calls asking for
a face-to-face meeting. On an average, out of the fifty new prospects
one makes at the networking mixer, five to ten prospects would become
leads, and agree to follow up meetings. After the follow up meetings,
one or two contacts will finally convert and become a new client. It
could take three to four meetings before the client commits. In essence,
from the fifty new contacts made at a networking event, a really good
networker can generate one or two customers after active follow-up
(around 2% conversion). Face-to-face business networking takes a lot of
time, effort and follow-up interactions. There are no short cuts, and
there are no two ways about it!Is there an online platform available wherein small business owners can connect with thousands of new businesses, generate new prospects, and obtain qualified leads quickly? Can this online social and business network help accelerate sales and grow your business faster?
Ogoing Small Business Social Network
Ogoing, nation's leading social network for small business, offers the most innovative platform to small business owners and service providers. Ogoing powers online business networking, social networking and social media marketing. Ogoing is the best platform to market your small business, network and share with thousands of owners, and generate new qualified leads.
Beautiful Profile
How does a business go about connecting online on Ogoing, and generating real leads? Just like face-to-face networking wherein the networker puts on a great smile and shares the best elevator speech, small businesses on Ogoing should first create an attractive business profile. Think of your Ogoing profile as your online business card or your store front! It must look amazing! If you don't have time, Ogoing can help create a great profile for you.
What's going on?
After setting up a beautiful profile, next step involves sharing what's going on at your business across various categories - offers, needs, products, services, news and events! For instance, do you have a timely deal to share with the community? What is your most pressing business need? Are you launching a new product or service that you want to talk about? How about an interesting article or best practice that can benefit your customers? Finally, are you hosting or going to an event to network and connect? More "what's going on" updates an owner shares, better the visibility they get on the Ogoing social network and the Internet, and greater the interest your profile will generate from community members and prospects.
New connections
It's time now to make new connections! After setting up a great profile and sharing frequent updates, Ogoing provides you the best platform to connect with new business contacts. Just go to Find Business after you login, and begin searching for your ideal prospects or future clients. For instance, what industry category would they belong to? Are you looking for local or national contacts? Should you care whether the contacts you find are active or less active on Ogoing? Ogoing gives you all the contacts prioritized by their profile completeness, number of following users, number of followers and updates. So you can be rest assured that the contacts that Ogoing shows you first are in all likelihood the most active Ogoing members.
Connections to Leads
Once you research and find the perfect business contacts, you must begin following them. Connect with as few or as many businesses you want. Ogoing does not restrict as to how many businesses you connect to. Once you connect, go ahead and mention these businesses on Ogoing. Learn more about them, and Promote them to the community and on various social networks! In essence, engage with your potential contacts. The more you engage with them, the more they would be interested in what's going on with you, and connect back with you. When the contacts you follow on Ogoing connect back with you, that's when you have a qualified lead! Now, it's your turn to goad this contact into a face-to-face or an online meeting. Did you know that Ogoing provides a built-in messaging system wherein you can send short emails to your contacts? Not only that, Ogoing provides email address of every member! Just go to the member profile page and click on View email address. Ogoing makes it very easy for you to add real business contacts to your database, and help them convert to qualified leads.
Did you know that many active Ogoing small business profiles get first page ranking on Google, Bing, Yahoo and major search engines?
In summary, Ogoing is the most innovative online platform for:
1. Small business marketing
2. Small business networking and
3. Small business lead generation
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