There is a relatively new social networking and network marketing site that started
in March 2010 and is growing into a very successful operation very quickly. The site is called SWOM and stands for Super Word of Mouth and basic membership is free.
SWOM aims to provide both social networkers and business networkers who want to network and promote their businesses with a new opportunity to communicate with like minded people. SWOM operates in a similar way to Facebook and Twitter but is more oriented towards business networking than the other two sites that tend to have a lot of communication of a more social kind.
One of the main purposes of SWOM is to create a lead generating system for people with existing businesses who are looking for contacts who may be interested in what they have to sell as a product or business opportunity. Essentially, people who wish to make contact to promote a business can meet on SWOM and those looking for further opportunities can gain some useful information.
SWOM also has the potential to offer a readily available community of knowledge easily exchangeable between different SWOM members. All you have to do is a quick search of the site to see who else is out there and make contact with them. You never know what useful exchange of mutually beneficial information may result.
Like Facebook, you can create your own group and start exchanging information on any topic you like. Such a group has benefits for people who may wish to promote their own ideas or business. You can create a significant membership in your group relatively quickly and target the sort of people you are looking for that match that business. These people are likely to stay in touch and follow you for further business opportunities or an ongoing exchange of ideas. Another feature of SWOM is that it operates as a network marketing business in its own right. For a monthly fee of $US25 you can upgrade to what is known as gold membership and turn SWOM into a money making enterprise for yourself. With gold membership, you receive access to training and lead generation. You can then become a distributor of SWOM membership and with every person who you recruit that upgrades you will be paid a commission. Over time these commissions can build up to some useful residual income.