Avoid the confusion – join Drive Fusion!

The market is screaming out for a social media site which allows and encourages people to talk to each other socially and professionally. We are at the beginning of a social media phenomenon and there will be many changes to come in the future. Some issues are obvious and can be addressed early. Others will be fixed later during shakedowns. Drive Fusion appeals to business and professional people who want to socialise, communicate and collaborate with their peers without the annoyance of spammers and noise.

There are a number of issues with the most popular social media sites. Those issues are either about the site policy, performance or the functionality. People have to communicate in order to build those relationships. But there are too many spammers and too much noise on sites. There is too much emphasis on technology rather than the needs of users. The ability to connect with the right people is restrictive and often requires payment. The allowed number of connections or invitations are restricted on sites. The messages length is often limited by sites too. The most popular sites are so big and growing so quickly, that performance is often slow and frustrating.
Lots of connections are of little value in themselves. So how do we nurture relationships? There are several main ways of developing relationships with your connections, friends and followers.

• Ask them questions. People like to help. Use ‘Answers’ on LinkedIn and ask open questions in groups and fan pages or tweet your question openly or directly.
• Become a ‘thought leader’ and blog your views, ideas and vision. You will get responses.
• Always be personal in your communication. Use your own name, photo and profile.
• Be consistent on social media sites – same name, profile, photo and professionalism on each site.
• Ask connections how you can help them.
• Get to know people ask them for help! People like to help others! Later as the relationship develops you can ask for referrals and business.
• Use bridge strategies to ease your connections ultimately to your website. Send them first to your blog, group or fan pages.

Drive Fusion is a communication and collaboration site for business and professional people who wish to communicate and collaborate socially and professionally. All invitations are sent to recommended people to ensure spammers are excluded always. Users are encouraged to connect easily and get to know each other. Unsolicited pitching or spamming is outlawed. It is designed to encourage momentum in your communications and has the following exciting features:

• Real time communication
• Create & manage groups
• Cross posting to Twitter
• Track topics
• File sharing
• Long posts
• Highly scalable
• Reporting & statistics
• Add external feeds
• Target messages to individuals, groups or everyone
• Invite users
• Shrink url
• Help & Support team
• Updates via email, IM, MMS and SMS
• Applications connections
• Top class present.ly platform by the award winning Intridea team

Drive Fusion is brought to you by the Drive ERP - http://www.driveerp.com/ and Drive Social Media - http://www.drive-social-media.com/ teams and their 20,000+ connections will be invited to Drive Fusion soon.

Business and professional communities and individuals are welcome to join Drive Fusion.
See you soon!
http://drivefusion.presentlyapp.com/