Emergence Business Coaching offers tips on social networking.

Birds do it. Bees do it. Most of us writing blogs do it.

Social networking as a business development tool now seems as ordinary as sending out press releases used to be. The question is: are the some social networking strategies and tactics that are more effective than others?

Charisse, owner of Emergence Business Coaching believes their are. In a blog post titled Get Social, she offers some of her best thinking about social networking.

Here are some of the tips she gives to her business clients:

• Limit your participation to just a few websites, highly targeted to your market.
• Spend the necessary time with your profile to create the brand you seek (People recognize a rushed profile)
• Decide the type of people you’d like to network with, and seek them out
• Make it personal – get to know people, and ask how you can help them with their business
• It’s not about the quantity of people in your network, it’s about the quality.  One or two powerful connections can make a huge impact on your business.  Focus on finding them.
• Allot yourself a certain amount of time each day for participation on these sites.  Set limits.

As you would expect, Charisse is personally sold on the value of social networks.

These social networking sites are helpful for people who see the value of connecting with people they would otherwise not meet.  They become a valuable platform to showcase your business.  They offer a cost effective (mostly free) way for people to brand their business, and potentially gain client relationships or joint venture partnerships.  Social networking presents powerful opportunities to enhance your business.

A certified business coach, Charrise founded Emergence Business Coaching in 2006. She is a published monthly feature writer for several magazine publications, and has written her first book called “14 Lessons on Power”.  Visit www.emergencebiz.com for a look at her blogging.  She is actively engaged in public speaking and training workshops, sharing her unique message with the world.