Forums and specific clubs within networking sites also offer you opportunity to post your opinions and advice, along with your website address and an invitation to link or view your recent blog. This is an important source of free advertising which can not be ignored and reaps benefits with more visits to your site and increased business this may bring. These clubs also often provide advice about networking events, meetings if you prefer physical contact or immediate connection with online members via MSN or Skype.

I started with 4 direct connections who were essentially friends and previous work colleagues who, in turn, linked me to some 4000 others. I thought this was impressive and wondered where more intense networking might take me. When opportunity came to get serious about global networking I grabbed chance and started searching for best networking sites on web. Six weeks later I had 52 direct connections who give me access to over 1,700,000 professional people from all over world.

How did I do it? With hard work and persistence. My first few weeks networking were taken up searching out type of people I wanted to connect with and then making first introductory forays to gain their confidence to join me in my network group. I tailored my initial message carefully to ensure that person I was inviting to my network understood clearly what I had to offer them as a valued partner or advisor in business. I added links within my message to make it easier for them to visit my website and my profile and I made it clear that I was ready to contribute to their success. I then encouraged them to take action by joining my network at LinkedIn. (www.linkedin.com/)

As a result I am now networked to people from all walks of professional life with distinct interests and business goals. I now have capability to reach 1,700,000 people (without spamming them) in order to help them where I can, and ask them to assist me in my business goals.

I encourage you to consider networking as a great way to connect with people all over globe and improve your business and personal life.

Ron A. Welsh RAW Power Writing http://www.rawpowerwriting.com/

With so much at stake, indecision, inaction or mistakes born of misplaced self-confidence (“It can’t happen to me”) can be expensive--especially in periods of economic uncertainty. Yet this generation, which has known nothing but prosperity, is not used to doing without. Handed choice of paying health insurance premiums or maintaining their savings and other financial security plans--and forgoing their cell phones or hanging up their social lives, many of these young people make wrong call.

Setting priorities can be critical and shouldn’t be ignored no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, That’s one reason why realistic expectations should be communicated to consumers in this or any other age group. A difficult pill to swallow, but exactly advice young families in that difficult position should hear.

How to Reach The Millennials

Generation Y is generally more comfortable using Internet as a research tool to aid in making saving and investment decisions, rather than as a means for on-line banking or trading. “To effectively reach youngest generation of adult Americans, whose lives are being shaped by digital media, marketers must deliver smarter, more sophisticated messages and build brands with them rather than for them,” a study by advertising firm, Saatchi