Talkbiznow Targets Business Networking

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  wecandobiz09/15/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Talkbiznow Targets Business Networking

  This is an insightful interview.
  
  But I am afraid that the statement Martin Warner makes about his being the World's first business networking site is also riddled with holes.
  
  Even if you accept what he says about LinkedIn and XING -- that they are more network for people is business rather than tools for getting business done -- my own company WeCanDo.BIZ had a business networking site live several months before Talkbiznow, having launched our public beta in early April. We ame out of this test phase and went live properly at the end of May, still months ahead of Mr Warner's site, which I note as of 15 September is still in its testing phase.
  
  I have to agree with Eric Sherman's assertion that their PR machine does seem to pump stuff out without checking whether anything they are saying is correct. I hope their prospectus to potential investors has a more credible base behind it.
  
  Ian Hendry
  CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
  http://www.wecando.biz

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  Dan McComb09/15/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Talkbiznow Targets Business Networking

  It always intrigues me when a newcomer to an
  established space such as business networking feels
  the need to call themselves "first." We've been building
  Biznik, a business
  networking community, from Seattle for over three
  years, and we were far from first. A local competitor,
  href="http://www.zoodango.com">Zoodango.com>, said the same thing when they launched a couple of
  years ago, and actually got some press to pay
  attention, briefly. Maybe that's why people continue to
  do it - because it sounds good and some press will
  bite.
  
  Anyone who has been in the business networking
  industry for any length of time knows one thing:
  successful business networking is all about building
  trust. In fact, any business getting started in this social
  media landscape is going to need the trust of their
  customers, and making overly bold claims isn't exactly
  the best way to get it.
  
  The fact is, "business networking" is a massive
  potential market, with plenty of room for healthy
  competition. Adding some project management tools
  to the application sounds like an interesting idea. I
  question whether advertising on a social network of
  any kind will be able to support the model, though. We
  tried advertising on Biznik with abysmal results. The
  membership model is paying off for Biznik, though -
  we doubled in size and in revenue in the first six
  months of this year.
  
  Kudos to you, Erik, for asking the tough questions in
  your article.
  
  Dan McComb
  Biznik cofounder

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  ianhendry11/22/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Talkbiznow Targets Business Networking

  It would be good to get an update from Talkbiznow on how they are doing on that 3 million subscriber number now they are half-way through the 6 month target period.
  
  This Compete chart seems to suggest that did well with the PR around launch, but it's not gone so well since:
  
  http://siteanalytics.compete.com/talkbiznow.com+wecando.biz/?metric=uv
  
  Comment from Mr Warner?
  
  Ian Hendry
  CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
  http://www.wecando.biz