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is the Trusted Business Network and is built on the philosophy that 'Winning by sharing' is key to success. Members join for contacts, knowledge and business opportunities through the website's unique networking tools and face to face at networking events.
adopts an emergent approach to online community, valuing adaptability and flexibility over structure, command and control. Its platform is designed to manage massive numbers of conversations, online and offline and exploits the potential of weak ties for sparking innovation by aggregating conversations and enabling group forming networks.
platform is aimed at any organisation that wants to nurture and cultivate relationships with its members, employees, partners or customers. It is particularly well suited to new economy businesses that have embraced new concepts of value, recognising that value is created by any means appropriate and no longer dictated by organisational relations and boundaries.
An
Club is a self-contained community or sub-group; Clubs provide software tools to create individually styled home pages, email functions for member acquisition, threaded discussion foms and offline event management.
- Clubs can be commercial or not for profit
- Clubs can be individually branded with their own micro web site
- Clubs can be personal, topic based, and regional and managed through the meeting/events function
- Clubs can be private - invite only / request for membership
- Club owners can designate club moderators to help run it
- Anyone can invite a new member to a club - the referring person will receive a referral fee
- Clubs owners can generate direct income through external sponsorship
Membership to
is free - with a free one month trial to Power Networker subscription service:
- Unlimited personal network size
Imagine a network of hundreds of contacts! That's what many PowerNetworkers enjoy. You are otherwise limited to 10!
- Free events & exclusive meetings
All Ecademy meetings are free for PowerNetworkers, and they can attend the smaller PowerNetworker-only events for more targeted networking.
PowerNetworkers can also watch the videos of all events on the Ecademy website.
- Meetings with Thomas Power
As a PowerNetworker you can have 1:1 meetings with Thomas Power, either in person, on the phone or online. Author of a number of books including the recently published 'Networking for Life' Thomas is an authority on networking and can give lots of tips that will prove useful to your business.
- Trusted introductions and referrals
Building on the 'friend of a friend' concept, PowerNetworkers benefit from a unique facility enabling them to check whom their PowerNetwork friends know. They may then ask for an introduction.
- Participation in the PowerNetworker Referral Programme
Over 50% of all Ecademy members come from referrals. Every time you introduce a member who becomes a PowerNetworker you can benefit from the referral payment system. Click here for full details.
- Create your own Clubs
There are over 500 Ecademy Clubs, enabling like-minded members to share specific interests. PowerNetworkers can join an unlimited number of Clubs (only 3 allowed for standard members) and can start their own business or social Clubs, at international, national or regional level. Ecademy Clubs are a great way to gain visibility and increase your pool of contacts.
- Enhanced functionality on the Ecademy website
- PowerSearch: allows you far more powerful search tools when looking for other members or skills
- Page Hits: you can see who has been looking at your profile - a great way to make contact
- People like me: you can find like-minded or similarly skilled people - another way to connect and enlarge your network
- Friend of a friend: you can test the '6 degree of separation' theory at Ecademy and make valuable business contacts
- Invitations: you can track the people in you own private network whom you have invited and keep in touch with them
- Meeting management
- The PowerNetwork system enables you to run your own networking events and grow you own business environment
- PowerNetworkers may initiate 1:1 meetings with any member online to deepen relationships
- Free business cards
Fully signed up PowerNetworkers get 20 free business cards, then can purchase business cards online at a preferential rate.
- Carbon Neutral Networker
Every PowerNetworker has a tree planted in the Ecademy Future Forest, which ensures they have counteracted their personal carbon emissions for 12 months. Ecademy is proud to support this practical environmental initiative.