Sometimes you have to sell yourself and learn to better understand on how to develop an effective elevator pitch even if you know you’re one of the best. Lyro, a social networking site that launched today is cater to serve the needs of some professionals that want to promote themselves. Lyro, also dubbed as “Your Online Source for Business Cards,” is aimed to provide business professionals with the means to be found, promote themselves, network and learn about new opportunities online. New users are free to join this site and a subdomain, usually user’s name is given by Lyro. On Lyro, you’ll meet more than 20,000 users who knowledgeable in their chosen fields, holding positions such as VP, Director, Financial Advisor and etc.

Browsing through the Lyro card directory, you’ll find some people with impressive work background, but don’t think all those users that created their profiles are the career switchers. They joined Lyro because they see Lyro will help them to create more business opportunities, to be more specifically, Lyro guarantees that their names and profiles are found more often by prospective clients. Lyro provides many tools to their users, the most impressive is the Lyro Card. A Lyro Card, or vCard is a piece of user’s contact that can be exported to Microsoft Outlook, and hence prospective clients can save the contact instead of write it down on a piece of paper. A user can also send messages, pocket cards and join various discussions at Lyro. Moreover, users are allowed to upload photos, logos, business files such as sales brochures, pricing lists, articles, white papers, resumes, presentations, videos, press releases and many more. However, each user is entitled to 5MB of storage space, if users want to get a bigger storage, the $10 per month with 50MB storage space to $50 per month for 1G of storage space with other benefits are imposed.

Lyro launched in beta in June this year, currently had more than 20,000 users that joined their network.