Professional networks are rarely seen as business opportunities. Apart from the IT industry where there are millions of online forums, other cadres have no forums where they can take issues that only peers would understand . Creating a professional network could be a lucrative venture. In this article, i give a basic structure of an online professional network, what services it could offer, and how the owner can make money from it.
Validity of the idea
People want to belong; just recently, a group of young Kenyan labtechs created a telegram group and named it the Kenya union of medical laboratory scientific officers. In a day they had enrolled 400 members, a qurater of which were willing to part with 1000 KES, as a registration fee.
Millions of experts in different fields are today suffocating of a burning desire to belong; a desire to be a member of a respectable network that fervently debates the challenges of the contemporary work situations. You can easily create an online community that answers to this need. All you need is to be an authority in your discipline, or have people with this authority. You got to be passionate about what you do? And you need to be able to give advice with confidence.
Validity of the idea
People want to belong; just recently, a group of young Kenyan labtechs created a telegram group and named it the Kenya union of medical laboratory scientific officers. In a day they had enrolled 400 members, a qurater of which were willing to part with 1000 KES, as a registration fee.
Millions of experts in different fields are today suffocating of a burning desire to belong; a desire to be a member of a respectable network that fervently debates the challenges of the contemporary work situations. You can easily create an online community that answers to this need. All you need is to be an authority in your discipline, or have people with this authority. You got to be passionate about what you do? And you need to be able to give advice with confidence.
