I've built my social network and people seem to like it, the average time on the site is phenomenal but I don't know the procedure of introducing it to VCs, where should I market this, I've already made a facebook page but it doesn't help my long term vision

I’m a bit confused by your question. Are VC’s your target market or are you looking to raise some capital? The only way to get in front of VC’s to raise money is to go in and pitch them. You will want to be good and ready before you do and ideally you go in with a warm introduction from folks that know them and you. As to how to market a social network – that depends on who your social network is for. Look at your ideal users – where do they hang out, what do they read, where do they go? If you can define that then you can define how to get a message to them.

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I strongly believe in Social Networking and my goal was to have 5,000 twitter followers and 5, 000 subscrubers on youtube how do I get this?

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