Many niche social networking sites have arisen in the past months. After LinkedIn was valued at $1 billion, moreover, business professional social networks have become increasingly popular. TalkBizNow.com is one of the sites that boasts being a full service professional site. This includes an array of digital tools such as webinar capabilities, instant messaging, blogging, a calendar function and file storing. LinkedIn’s new competition, TalkBizNow, says it hopes to get 3 million users within the first six months.

What gives TalkBizNow a possible edge against LinkedIn? While TalkBizNow offers similar features as LinkedIn in that it brings business contacts together, TalkBizNow goes one step further. Not only can contacts keep in touch, but users can do business with each other on the site, too (either within one company or within business-to-business). Nevertheless, LinkedIn remains the top business professional social networking site. Will users stay loyal to LinkedIn, or will TalkBizNow take over?

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