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In business, making the right connections can make the difference in whether a company fails or continues to grow.  Many entrepreneurs, company owners and managers attend business conferences, where networking can be an invaluable step in making these connections.  CrowdJuice is an app from the ConferenceJuice Corporation, which provides mobile event apps focused on allowing attendees of professional events to find each other and network online.  It is the company’s foremost resource, serving as an affordable mobile event guide and networking tool to increase engagement at conferences or trade shows. Read more »

Developing relationships is a vitally important aspect of business, without which a salesperson cannot be successful.  Salespeople have very limited means of knowing when people in their business network are connecting to people with whom they may want to establish a relationship.  OFunnel’s developers created their app to help solve this particular challenge.  The app highlights opportunities for business relationships, making them easier to track by capitalizing on the reach of your connections with any business-oriented social networking service such as LinkedIn.com.  It constantly monitors these sites as your network expands and emails you results each day. Read more »

Networking is an important aspect of running a business, but finding times and places where one has an easy chance to do so without coming off as pushy or awkward isn’t an easy task.  Cool person in technology Nick Martin believes business professionals are making a big mistake by ignoring one particular place that could be a proverbial gold mine for networking: airplanes.  On most flights, professionals sit quietly or sleep. Some might read, but the hours spent on flights between major cities are usually time idly spent.  Martin thinks these hours are a prime opportunity to develop mutually beneficial business relationships with other professionals and build a list of contacts.  That’s why Martin founded Planely, a startup that tries to facilitate professional networking on flights all over the world.  With Planely, professionals can find out what other people they will be traveling with on their next flight.  Martin’s web app allows users to make connections pre-flight so businesspeople can plan to meet up at the airport or on the plane in order to start discussion and conversation.  If someone has trouble connecting to Planely on the web, there is home tech support available at all times.  Read more »