Posts Tagged ‘community’

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Having an active community behind you can increase sales, build your brand, and serve as your very own volunteer promotional army to help get your word out. But how do you go about creating one? How do you jump start that feeling of community on your site so that you’re able to leverage it?

Your users are what makes your community cool and worth following, so always make sure you are promoting your users rather than promoting yourself on your site. Give them something that they can get behind and be passionate about in their lives. People want something that strikes them and brings out their passion, so always provide a product or service that will enable them to get behind it, as recently suggested on Small Biz Trends.

Create some sort of board that announces the main contributors to your site. They are the people that ultimately help your site and community grow, and they are the ones constantly giving feedback, posting comments and passing on the word about your site. So give back to them by showing off their constant contributions to the site.

In the end, always make sure that you are protecting your site. There should be some sort of order that is held in your community and as the site owner it will be your responsibility to keep that order among the community members.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Red Ferret:

Quirky is a clever new community portal based around the idea of product development. Submit an idea, other members of the community vote on it and the winner product gets made in a factory and everything.

The site promises to deliver a new product every few days, which is a pretty ambitious goal. The catch? You’ve got to hand over $99.00 to get your product idea on the board. Everything else is free.

I particularly like the fact that influencers (people who back a particular product) can earn money if their choice wins and goes to market.

It’s also neat that intellectual property stays with the product team, rather than the service, so you can run off and make your item elsewhere if you want.

There’s even a pre-sales shop where enthusiasts can put their name down for the item in question before it comes off the conveyor.

Photo by Quirky.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

 
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