I have provided digital marketing and e-commerce advice to clients here in the US as well as Dubai and South Asia. My understanding of your challenge is creating a social network that would rival LinkedIN on a more local level. The solution to a successful network is always an engaged user base, ...
Without some more information on what you're trying to achieve, I'm not sure you'll find many experts who can weigh in. Your question is somewhat vague. Consider booking a meeting with an expert in the open source or social media industry. I'm sure they would love to help. All the best, -Shaun
Play golf, join different sports like horse riding etc
I've loved Reddit.com from a viral / incoming traffic point of view, but you've got to be a broad contributor, ensuring that you post non-business content and interact on other's contributions. If you only self-promote, you'll quickly get banned from the "sub-reedits" you really want to post to. ...
Here's your big challenge. The movers + shakers are busy working, so likely you'll only have people on your site which... aren't working... aren't movers + shakers... have free time to network... The best way I've found to make connections with great people is to contact them about an interview...
We have had good luck with both Survey Monkey and the survey tool built into Constant Contact
Our product stalled for 4 years by getting this wrong and it wasn't until the founding CEO of Netflix showed me how to set proper KPIs that we finally started making gains on optimizing our product. Based on your interest in angel investors, I assume this is an early stage startup and most socia...
It depends on what you're looking to monetize it with. One recommendation is affiliate marketing, because it happens under the table, in a sense. For example, get the plugin provided at the bottom of this answer. Browse amazon for products particular to your audience. If you're running a Faceb...
You have to offer something different, and specialization is a great way to build mass. Friendster and MySpace were open to anyone from the start. It's harder to manage growth of a community in that way. Facebook, by restricting its use to college students first, then to graduates with alumni em...
It's generally not worth supporting additional languages at launch. Why add extra work when you don't even know if the network will take-off in English? Best to minimize the complexity for launch.