29 Business Networking Sites You'll Need to Grow Your Business

In case you’re growing bored of the “big three” social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), take comfort in knowing that there are plenty of other networking sites that can help you and your business succeed. 

While the big three are indeed important, it’s sometimes more refreshing to enter uncharted territory and find fellow entrepreneurs, and even widen your prospect or audience net.

If you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur hungry for more clients or more knowledge (or both), print this list out and visit these business network sites. They're the success boost you’re looking for.

10 Powerful Quotes that Will Make You a Better Entrepreneur [Slideshow]

You are an entrepreneur. You're not a robot. You’ve rounded off your square edges and freed yourself from that hole forever. 

You’re ten steps ahead of many people because you took the extra step to take your dream seriously and act on it, rather than being content to wish it could happen.

However, you’ve tasted the bitter “famine” bouts that come with the territory, forced yourself to puke up the fear and doubt that constantly try to turn you away from your goal. You’re the type that will crawl, or in the worst case, wiggle on when your strength fails (physically and spiritually).

You are an entrepreneur. That name does not mean you’re unemployed – it means you’re unchained.

If you’re in a famine bout right now, if you’re wiggling on with only a breath of sanity left, I offer you ten powerful, light-the-fire-under-your-butt quotes for your business and life.

Keep going. 

The Pitfalls of a Poorly Planned Book Launch (and 6 Tips to Avoid Them)

It doesn't have to be this way.

So in a jolt of inspiration like never before, you decide you want to express your thoughts or expertise with the world – not just by blogging, but by producing a small book. (High five. Doing well so far.)

Over three to six months, you outline the content, start laying it out in your word processor, then dive into the writing, fueled by the excitement and motivation that you’re really going through with this.

Or, on the other hand, if writing isn’t your strong suit, you slog through it, hating the process (you may even hire a ghostwriter to pass off that task), but still motivated by the idea that the world will greatly benefit from your work.

You kid glove the content, proofread and edit it multiple times, making sure to bring in an outside editor or proofreader to catch the mistakes you don’t. (Still doing well.)

Then you design your own cover, and even pick a launch date. But you don’t stop there – you plan out a whole book tour. (Woo-hoo!)

Then reality sets in. Your launch date’s coming up really soon and you still have yet to print the thing. What’s worse, you don’t have the money to cover the printing costs.

This doesn’t look too promising, does it?

Well, here are six tips to avoid being that guy.

The Benefits of Buffer Entrepreneurs Are Missing Out On [Slideshow]

Have you been seeing these little guys (left and below right) around on people's blogs lately and wondering what in the world they are? 

Well, let the Geek introduce you. Awesome person, this is Buffer. Buffer, meet awesome person.

What you're looking at is the new crown jewel of Twitter's over 1 million apps. 

Buffer (aka BufferApp) is a social sharing scheduling tool that posts the content you want to share with your audience for you at different times throughout the day based on Twitter's peak times. 

You input the times you want the posts to be sent out, and Buffer obediently posts them at those times.  

According to social media blogger Kristi Hines (aka Kikolani)'s analysis, the app includes analytics about each tweet (including number of clicks, potential retweets, retweets, and number of favorites).

Entertainment entrepreneurs can't afford not to use this thing. In my opinion, it's actually a more imperative social media marketing tool for 'treps to jump on than even Pinterest.

Where do I find the temerity to make a statement like that?

The answer is in the slideshow.

Go on, get to know Buffer a little better.