Biznik Blog

One thing that sets Biznik apart from a lot of other business networking organizations of its kind is our transparency and openness with regard to membership numbers. I once attended a networking event hosted by another organization, at which a young man who represented an online business social network was pitching his service. “How many members do you have,” I asked him. “That’s private information,” he told me, adding: “But I can tell you we have members in 44 countries.” That sounded vaguely impressive to me at the time – I mean, wow, they must have a TON of members if they’re in 44 countries! But after a couple of years of running Biznik, which now has members in 90 countries, I know better. The question I have is: Why hide that information? Why not be completely transparent about how big you are? There’s nothing to be ashamed of in starting small. Small, as they say, is the new big.

So, on that note, I’m happy to give you a report on the current smallness of Biznik. As of today, Biznik has 3,000 members in the Seattle area. Sort of. That is, if you draw a 50-mile wide circle around the center of Seattle, we have 3,000 members in that area. If you draw the circle 25 miles wide, we have 2,825. If you draw the circle 10 miles wide, we have 2,294. Intriguingly, if you draw the circle much wider, 500 miles, for example, that only adds another 251 members. So Biznik is very much a Seattle-area thing in this part of the country.

If you ever want to know how many members there are in a certain place, just switch your city location, and head to the members page. You’ll see the number of members who have been geolocated to that area right under the search bar, and you can select the radius of your search from there.

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