New business networking site set to help India connect with the rest of the world

Media News

London, September 25, 2008

Europe’s first interactive business networking site, Talkbiznow (www.talkbiznow.com) has been launched in India this week to help empower business professionals that don’t have a budget for advertising. Talkbiznow, a completely free service will enable Indian companies to be able to connect with the rest of the world and help to build India’s vibrant economy.

Online networking sites have become big business; with millions logging on daily to connect with others around the globe. The business networking market is estimated at being five times bigger than the social networking market. This gives India the power to connect with a vast amount of business professionals and become globally recognised. On the first day of the site going live, thousands of Indian people logged on to the site talkbiznow.com site. The founders of Talkbiznow believe India to be their biggest market.

CEO and Co-founder Martin Warner says, “India’s vibrant economy and this technology will make it possible for Indian business professionals to connect with the rest of the world. The free service will be especially empowering to companies and professionals that have no advertising budget that can now advertise for free across the globe, as well as connect with business professionals in India and around the world.”

Currently there are over a billion people using the Internet today for business across the globe, this will rise to three billion by 2012. Talkbiznow is the most user –friendly system available for business professionals. It is expected to become more than a contacts sharing site, a site that makes business professionals more productive with their network. Users will have better ways to communicate, but will also be able host a webinar, post an ad, have access to an online hard drive which allows them to file share and its calendars and blogs completely set it apart from anything currently available on the web. Contacts can be found sector by sector, so people trying access manufacturing or financial services companies can find each other simply and easily.

Talkbiznow will be the most intuitive and effective business-networking site in the global market today. Built to connect business professionals in real time, and help them to be more productive in their daily business lives, it is expected to develop a reputation as the “the first real business networking site that makes the business professional more productive in their network.”

CEO and Co-founder Martin Warner says, "Our vision was to introduce a new generation of business networking site - an intuitive and sophisticated platform with a business data architecture (data is only meaningful in a business environment) which allows for any business professional around the world to communicate with their contacts or their extended network. Our key differentiator is that we provide smart tools to communicate with people, and also provide services that make people more productive in their daily business life. There is a gap in the market for business professionals and companies to be able to come together to communicate and engage with a raft of different stakeholders in order to do business faster and more effectively using the web.”

How it works:

The simple sign-up process assists you to create an online identity within minutes. This includes information relating to your current job, previous positions, and general interests. Additionally, you can publish your own "blog," or create and join specific community discussion groups. Often, the key to using a business network successfully involves the connecting and signing up your business contacts. The registration process is one of the simplest methods of inviting and maintaining your business network. Talkbiznow is a breeze to start with, immediately enabling you to gain access to your contacts, without having to laboriously enter emails to discover if associates are already there.

With your account set up and contacts entered (which can be imported for speed), a small but growing network of individuals can now easily search your personal network for relevant business contacts. This may be as simple as entering a name of an individual you're seeking, or specifying a broad search for contacts within a specific industry. This ease of creating personal contacts and developing online business events makes the service much more efficient than the traditional network mixer.

Once online there are a variety of ways to communicate, including email, instant and group messaging, and even nudge (an ability to remind someone of a specific action i.e. Facebook equivalent of a poke), and many more.

President and Co-founder, Mark Parker says, “Combining business networking and productivity tools is an essential ingredient of our daily working lives affecting every business professional, no matter which profession or industry they are operating in. The success of online social communities has shown that connecting across the web is becoming increasingly popular. However, networking for business reasons is not only the next logical step but in fact more necessary than social networking. Almost everyone has a business life. Talkbiznow has brought a completely new dimension and formalises the business networking space, in the way that social networking did when Facebook arrived on the scene. We are about ‘Making you more productive in your business network and it is completely FREE, even posting your own ads.”

CEO and Co-Founder, Martin Warner says, “We expect several million users to join Talkbiznow in the next six months. There are so many reasons that business professionals need an effective business network online, but we’re particularly excited about empowering users to advertise for free online as we believe this will change the way we think about online advertising forever.”

Talkbiznow is widely being regarded by experts as the next big success story to come from the internet, it taps into the fast moving world of busy executives and helps them to make quality connections with the people they really want to communicate with.

Warner adds, “Talkbiznow is expected to create a significant paradigm shift in the way that business professionals and companies engage with each other in a global market place. Now that both big and small companies can brand and position themselves and have equal reach across the site, small companies will undergo a considerable level of empowerment as they reach out to bigger markets on limited budgets. “

Talkbiznow will serve many purposes starting from the business network itself (peer to peer), serving a variety of uses including, sales, general marketing, partnering, recruitment, job-hunting, knowledge exchange, and of course business development. The site will be free to users and funded through advertising, sponsorship, and venture capital.

For further information, please contact:

Flame PR

Hayley Stallard

Public relations executive

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