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SPN is a networking site for everyone with a goal of providing more free value than any other platform.
Business networking on social media opens doors
In today’s world, the power of networking and brand recognition can’t be overstated. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting your career, networking is important. Having a strong network can open doors, provide support, and lead to countless opportunities.
Our goal is to help you with all of that while also providing some entertainment!
SPN was built with the golden rule and creating win-win relationships in mind. We want to build a win-win relationship with as many of our members as possible!
Let us know how we can build a win-win with you!
Ways to promote your local business on SPN:
- Create an account and talk about your business in your profile. The more information you put in your profile the better it should do in major search engines.
- List your business in our local business directory. Use the right category and tags to improve your results.
- Use our social media feed to promote your current events and specials. Include your address and other details in social media posts. Use the feed as often as you would like to promote your local business.
- Get reviews on your business listing and/or professional testimonials on your profile. Business reviews and testimonials tend to improve search engine results and sway buying decisions.
- Share photos and videos about your local business. The major search engines love photos and videos from sites like SPN. Edit your descriptions to include details about your business to improve local marketing results.
- Use business networking oppotunities here to connect with other professionals around the web. Send connection requests and engage with featured members.
Business networking begins with creating good profiles and introducing yourself through posts and engagement. Don’t be afraid to share or engage in social media here. The featured members on SPN take business networking and online visibility seriously, so don’t hestitate to send them friend invites.
SPN helps small business owners with marketing
As a small business owner, you juggle various roles—from handling revenue to operations to staffing—which can feel overwhelming. However, navigating the marketing aspect doesn’t need to be daunting if you grasp the resources, ahem–SPN, at your disposal to promote your business. Whether it’s maintaining consistent branding or embracing advancing technology, understanding these fundamentals can make crafting a marketing strategy that resonates with your target audience a more manageable task. With some research and know-how, you can adeptly tackle these concepts and cultivate a marketing approach that effortlessly engages and communicates with your ideal customers. Our job is to help give you to tools to reach more local customers with your online marketing efforts.
Provide basic information here and establish your brand online
Your social media profiles and business listings serve as a gateway for customers to experience your brand. They also help with your visbility in the major search engines.
Listings should offer a comprehensive array of information, starting with accurate business details such as operating hours, contact information, and pricing, and extending to your company’s history and the reasons behind your chosen line of business. Potential customers are drawn to learning about your journey and why they should choose your business.
Build your brand through social media and reviews
A brand encompasses more than just a website with a logo and the products you offer. It’s the impression you leave on customers when they engage with you and your business, whether it’s in person, online, or through email marketing. Your brand is the narrative you convey about your business—to both your team and your community. Once you’ve established a cohesive brand message, ensure it resonates across all platforms, from your website to your social media channels.
Encourage reviews and testimonials to enhance your online visibility and reputation. A positive online reputation translates to attracting more customers.
Social media
Strategic and frequent engagement with your followers on social media is key to enhancing brand awareness. Craft a business description that is not only informative but also meaningful, establishing a cohesive identity that resonates with consumers seeking your products or services. Utilize visuals effectively by incorporating engaging images paired with descriptive captions to showcase your business.
In developing your social media marketing strategy, prioritize the creation and sharing of authentic, distinctive content on a consistent basis. Providing glimpses behind the scenes of your small business fosters a sense of connection with your audience and illustrates ways they can interact with your brand. Maintaining a cohesive social media approach is instrumental in expanding your community and attracting new clientele.
Ensure that all your social media communications maintain a unified voice that aligns seamlessly with your brand identity, resonating across platforms such as SPN, your website, and other online directories and review platforms.
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search engine optimization, or SEO, can sound like a tough process to figure out, but it doesn’t have to be. Explore these informative blogs on small business SEO serves as an excellent entry point. Here are some essential tips: Verify that your business is accurately listed across relevant platforms, maintain consistent messaging, and dedicate effort to keyword research. As you familiarize yourself with these SEO fundamentals, observe the ascent of your website and other channels in search engine rankings.
Community engagement
For small business owners, active engagement within their community is crucial for establishing a loyal customer base. In today’s landscape, word-of-mouth marketing remains potent, and by actively participating in community affairs, your business can stay at the forefront of your neighbors’ and potential customers’ minds. This is also why online reviews are so important.
Community involvement takes many forms. Businesses often contribute positively, offering pay-what-you-can meals, free educational resources, or other uplifting initiatives. These gestures transcend location, applicable anywhere. Many establishments volunteer time or donate a portion of their profits to local charities, while others extend discounts or promotions to specific groups like first responders, educators, or healthcare professionals. When rolling out special offers, leveraging online channels, like SPN, to inform the community enhances visibility and encourages further engagement.
Participation in local events, information boards, or groups catering to your target audience is key. Whether joining a chamber of commerce, attending business networking events, or getting involved in community gatherings, such interactions foster meaningful connections and boost your business’s visibility within the community.
Build your online community too
Review and engage with other local businesses here to build your online community. Building your online community here will do a few things to help build your business locally.
Anyone can leave your business a review or provide you with a professional testimonial here for free. When you get online reviews and testimonials on sites like SPN, people see them. Search engines also like to supply our reviews and testimonials to people looking for local businesses.
SPN is a free global business directory for local businesses. When business owners list their business in our directory with all their relevant information, major search engines review those listings.
The business listing will also show up in the activity feed, so our members and site visitors will see it.
People can also leave reviews for your business, which will also boost online visibilty and sway buying decisions.
Yes, we want you to write for us!
We have free guest posting and paid guesting posting options.
Post a blog – free guest posting
Anyone can create an SPN account and post a blog for free. Your blog post must follow the standards of distribution completely to get free publication in our guest post category.
SPN Restrictions – that may lead to content deletion or account suspension:
- Tracking code or other malicious embeds. You can not collect user information.
- No hate speech. No content that attacks others will be allowed.
- Conspiracy theories.
- Unsubstantiated accusations of illegal or unethical behavior.
- Nudity – There is no nudity allowed in featured images and any nudity must be appropriate and neccessary for the story. Nudity must be tasteful and done with the purpose of adding value to the reader. No gratuitous nudity.
- Promotion of self-harm, suicide, unhealthy living, or eating disorders.
- Content that intimidates or harrasses others.
- Violent, graphic, or offensive images or videos.
- Pseudoscience or questionable health/medical/diet claims.
- Including personal or private information of other people without permission (includes personal communications – screenshots).
- No drugs, casinos, gambling, or the marketing of anything illegal or grossly enethical.
- Content must be in proper blog format. (No Link Dumping)
Any blog that doesn’t pay attention to the restrictions may be deleted at any time. Any author may also face suspension. This also appiles to the activity feed too.
Networking involves establishing connections and nurturing relationships with people that you don’t already know. These new connections can open a lot of doors or even provide job and career opportunities.
Furthermore, networking in today’s world can also help you build a brand or a business online. Our members can help you build your network in many different ways, so make sure to start sending invites to connect now
Start professional networking now
You don’t need to wait for specific career milestones to kickstart your professional network; you can begin right away. Whether you’re still in education, freshly entering the workforce, or rejoining after a hiatus, networking is crucial for cultivating a fulfilling career or building a business.
Key Points:
- Tailor your professional network-building approach to suit your requirements.
- Cultivate curiosity—people are often eager to share their insights and experiences.
- Respect others’ time when requesting meetings or interactions.
- Remember, networking involves reciprocity—be prepared to offer assistance as well as seek it.
- Reflect on what you aim to achieve through your professional connections.
- Internalize your personal value statement to effectively communicate how your network can support you.
Becoming a featured member on SPN requites having a complete profile and some activity. Follow these 3 easy steps:
There are just a few steps to take to be a featured member here on SPN.
- Join the site by creating an account. Make sure your profile is fairly complete without any restricted content (nudity, gambling, etc.).
- Message or tag @SPNlocal in a post to ask about becoming a featured member.
- Wait for the review process, which takes up to 2-3 business days.
We select members to feature based on a number of criteria including, profile completion, activity, recommendations from other members, and other factors.
Featured members are generally people that we know to be real people that tend to follow the golden rule and form win-win relationships.
If you engage and connect with others in a positive way, expect us to make you a featured member at some point.
Business networking involves nurturing positive connections with clients and fellow professionals within your field. Keeping a comprehensive contact list enables you to exchange crucial insights, remain abreast of industry advancements, and accomplish business objectives. It also facilitates the exchange of valuable career advice and insights into job prospects. Building a fruitful network typically involves actively seeking out opportunities to broaden your circle of professional acquaintances.
Our site helps with business networking in several ways. SPN gives you an opportunity to ask colleagues and customers to leave testimonials and business reviews here. You can also leave testimonials for your colleagues here. These reviews and online testimonials do appear in major search results and will help people make real buying decisions.
Business networking can really help you build any type of business and open doors to many different career paths. Many professionals from around the world boost their business networking here.
Take a look at the featured members, go through their profiles, and connect with them everywhere. This is how you build your network with other SPN members. Many professionals on this platform follow the golden rule and love building win-win relationnships.
This site was built to connect people and businesses both locally and around the world.
Therefore, we made it really easy to connect with other people as possible. We do not limit how many connection requests you can send. If you abuse the site by going too fast, you might have issues.
Easy ways to build your network on SPN:
- Create a solid profile that lets people know about you and your goals.
- Join or create some groups.
- Engage with and share content in the activity feed.
- Leave comments on blogs and reviews for businesses.
- Invite others to join the site.
- Send invites to exisiting members. Featured members are a good place to start.
- Be nice, be helpful, and follow the golden rule.
This site was built by people that know how Google search works and how to be seen online. Our local business directory provides quaility backlinks that will give your website a boost in online visibility. We really help with online rankings by providing “do-follow” backlinks in our business directories.
SPN gets a lot of traffic and shares it
The Service Professionals Network also has a lot of members and gets millions of clicks a month. Displaying business listings and profiles throughout the site the way we do also leads to a lot of outbound traffic. Our goal is to help every business in our directory do better.
We also want to connect consumers with good local businesses, so we promote business reviews and brand building on merit.
This is a large business networking and global directory site that grows constantly. The networking and growth possibilities really are endless. Our goal really is to become known as one of the most helpful websites in the world.
Yes, there are several ways for you to share any Amazon affiliate links or products that you want on this site.
You can share any Amazon link or product that you want in the activity feed, your profile, or in the appropriate networking groups.
Does it cost anything for me to share my Amazon links or products on SPN?
No. It’s free to use the feeds, groups, and your profile as you wish.
We are Amazon affiliates, but we don’t overide links on this site. Our goal is to help people make money and find cool stuff to buy online.
Can I submit blogs about my Amazon products or reviews?
Yes! We are glad to post blogs about Amazon products, but we will reformat them to fit into our cool stuff guides.
We do give extra grace in regards to our rules on posting a blog when it comes to Amazon products. You can look through our shopping blogs to see the different types of formats we use.
Learn more about how we make money through affiliate links on this site.
The Service Professionals Network (SPN) was built to remind people to follow the golden rule more than it was to reap a huge profit. We won’t be invading your privacy or using extortion tactics to remove dishonest or unfair business reviews.
Mike O’Connor built SPN to truly help as many people as possible. This is why SPN strives to offer more free value than any other social media or business directory platform.
Our site provides high authority “do-follow” backlinks to help businesses boost their online visibilty like no other similar platform. We also promote featured members across many different parts of the site to help connect real people together.
This site wasn’t built with a billion dollar budget by a professional super team, but it was built to help people.
The Service Professionals Network was built with everyone and nearly every type of business in mind.
We also want to provide all of our members and anyone viewing this site with as much value as possible.
Some large business networking sites work hard to separate their site from social media platforms by focusing on what they consider professional.
Entertainment is big business and drives traffic
The fact is that entertainment is big business and it drives a lot of views and rankings for everyone using this site. Business networking and entertainment really should go together more.
Yes! The Service Professionals Network (SPN) is here to help connect people and provide as much entertainment and value as possible.
Sharing your videos from YouTube or TikTok to SPN will help you get more visibility. If you add a few lines of text and/or some hashtags to your post, then you will help your reach even more.
How I can share my TikTok or YouTube videos here?
You can copy and paste the URL of the videos right into the activity feed, your profile, or the approriate groups. Feel free to create your own group for sharing your YouTube or TikTok videos too.
We also allow people to upload videos to this site. Use hashtags in your activity post to increase your visibility around the web.
Sharing your social media videos here will provide other members entertainment and help you gain followers.
The SPN rules aren’t as strict as some other business networking sites, but we do have some restrictions. Our social media feed restrictions are in listed in the rules.
Social media posts
A social media feed post can be text updates, photos, videos, links, and more, depending on what you want to share.
SPN serves as a channel for users to express their thoughts, share experiences, and showcase media content with their followers.
Our social media feed is here for people to use as they wish. You can use the feed to connect with others or promote your sites and brands freely.
Likes and comments on your social media post will bring it back to the top of the feed. Connect with others to increase your social media following.
professional networking and social media platform
The primary purpose of SPN is to serve as a professional business networking and social media platform that connects individuals and businesses worldwide.
Here are some of the key purposes of SPN:
1. Help people with building professional networks
2. Help people attract more local customers through social media and search engine visibility.
3. Give people a platform for free speech. We really only have issues with gambling, sex trade, and other illegal or unethical stops like internet scams. We want people to have a voice here.
4. SPN allows uses to create profiles and business listings to aid in their professional networking and local marketing.
5. To give people a platform that allows them to showcase anything they want from work experience, skills, and accomplishments, or silly memes and videos.
6. To help entertain, educate, and connect the world.
You can post a job opening in the free job board, relevant groups, or the activity feed.
The connections that you make while business networking can help spread the word. Therefore, you should be sharing your jobs and career opportunities anywhere you that can.
You can submit a resume for the resume board, which is searchable by all of the major search engines.
The social media feed is also there for you to use as you see fit. Share your resume in the feed and relevant groups.
Business networking here can perhaps help you spread your resume around to right people.
It’s also free to post your resumes on SPN.
SPN (Service Professionals Network) is a social media activity sharing and networking website with a free local business directory that helps everyone from content creators to business owners connect better around the web.
SPN helps members share everything from photos to videos to social media content from other platforms to a lot more people. Our site also provides high-quality backlinks that help anyone rank a little better in major search engines like Google and Bing.
The Service Professionals Network social media site and business directory are completely free to use. It always will be free to use SPN.
We do have marketing services and accept sponsors to help provide this free networking site. We also have Google and Amazon ads throughout the site.
Clicking the links and thinking of us when you do your Amazon shopping really helps!
It also doesn’t cost you anything more to click our Amazon link before you clear your cart.
The sponsors each get a blog with their links on it. That blog rotates on the sidebar of every page. We also list our sponsors in the featured business listing sections.
Read our affiliate marketing disclosure.
The SPN social media groups on LinkedIn and Facebook can help you grow on those networks in many different ways. This site is also constantly growing so sharing your content will get you more views.
You will also index your content better in the major search engines by sharing in the SPN activity feed. Write an intro then attach your image, video, or URL to your social media post using the three icons.
The SPN social media groups on LinkedIn and Facebook are why we are here. Like-minded people with similar goals can do great things when they work together.
The groups will have a less crowded activity feed so more people will see your content over time. Our group pages also get organic hits from many different sources.
The best part is that most of the groups are public so the content you share there will also show up in the main activity feed.
Groups will help you find people that also trying to accomplish the same things as you. Feel free to create your own group as long as it’s not a SPAM group.
Yes!! Some people have thousands of backlinks from this site.
Our sponsors and active members that share content in the contributor’s corner, activity feed, and groups can get a lot of quality backlinks and traffic in a hurry.
Your about me summary on your social media profile and business listings can have links and YouTube videos too. The more you write about yourself and your business in the summaries the better.
Let the world and search engines know all about you.
Make sure to also read:
How Google Search Works & How To Be Seen
How To Use Social Media Content Marketing For SEO
We delete many things that don’t fit our terms and conditions.
We also delete things that don’t add value to the other users or site from time to time. Blogs that have all CAPS, #, or emojis in the title will automatically be deleted.
People that create a social media profile to write about their blog about their business without listing their business in the directory will be deleted. We don’t want a bunch of crappy blogs about business or whatever you’re selling.
We want quality social media activity and guest posts. If it is repetitive or SPAMMY, then we will delete it. We may also delete your account or mark you as a SPAMMER or suspend your account. SPN will not tolerate SPAM in any way.
Add value in some way with the things you share on SPN, please.
Log in daily and engage on something is by far the easiest way to become one of the most viewed users. The more active you are on the site the more people will see you.
The sidebar and activity feed generate the most profile views. There is a favorite bump on all the social media activity. So any time someone hits favorite on a post that post will move up to the top of the social media feed. This also works the same in the group feeds.
You can also leave comments on posts and blog articles. The blogs get a lot of views so engage with people there in the comment sections.
Use the @ symbol to tag your friends. Advertise your usersname on other platforms. The more people see your @___name in the feed the more they will remember it and tag you.
This site has a lot of pros and cons when it comes to getting profile views. If you’re active and share good content then it becomes really easy.
We tend to comment on YouTube videos and like them, which automatically tweets that video out on the SPN Twitter page. We also share a lot of the images that you share on our SPN Pinterest page. There are ton of ways to been seen on SPN. These backlinks will drive more traffic to your post and profile.
SPN originally got going on social media so we could help a nonprofit fundraising mission. We love to help good causes do better.
Create an account. Add your nonprofit in the business directory. Share information about your cause and events in the feeds. We always try our best to help unite like-minded professionals.
Make sure to also check out the Nonprofit fundraising blog below:
Nonprofit Fundraising – Let Us Know About Your Nonprofits Here
Anyone can submit products including books for review. We don’t publish negative reviews.
The most it will cost you is a product sample and mailing cost.
We take the book reviews seriously
You can also create an account and share the information on your book in the activity feed. This will help other members know about your book.
Any of the SPN members can submit content for publishing consideration.
Just create an account and post a blog from your social media profile for free.
We review every blog that people post and highlight the best blogs in the contributors’ corner.
Yes! Create an account and join the YouTube group so you can share your videos there.
You can also embed your YouTube videos into your social media profile or business listings. The backlinks that SPN provides YouTubers are awesome for SEO value and extra views.
SPN members will watch your videos and seek to build a win-win with you. Make friends and engage with others.
Subscribe to the SPN YouTube channel. We will subscribe back and engage with your videos. Every video that we like on YouTube gets a share on the SPN Twitter page.
Posting your Instagram URL and posts in the Instagram images and connections group will help for sure. SPN has a lot of members that believe in win-win marketing and networking.
We also share a lot of content on other social media platforms and search engines. Our team likes to share pictures on our SPN Pinterest page for example. If you share good images here then people will see them and follow you.
Let’s grow together!
Yes! Sharing your YouTube videos on SPN will help you get more views. SPN will provide your video with backlinks which will help it in the search engines. The other SPN members will also see your video in the activity feed.
Join the YouTube Subscribers & Awesome Videos group and share your videos there to get more YouTube views.
Short answer: Yes!
The SPN social media activity feed gets more eyeballs on it every day. There are also a lot of serious social media networking professionals on SPN. Sharing content here will help you been seen by serious social media marketing professionals.
They will be able to provide great feedback and perhaps help you get your message across better. We also tend to share most of the social media marketing content that hits our site.
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