If you own a business you should start building an online business community. There are many reasons why you should build an online business community. Here is a short list of some of the most important reasons:
- Increased Top-of-Mind-Awareness.
- Increased Sales
- Increased Google Page Rank
To build an online business community you need tools. Here are the tools that you get with a NetOffer Account:
- Contact Manager Database – this is similar to software packages such as Salesforce.com and ACT. The difference is that our system is much less expensive (free for limited use) and is fully integrated into your Community.
- Marketplace – this is a business match-making tool. Think Match.com for business. We allow you to search our client list for businesses that Buy what you Sell and Sell what you Buy. Buyers are always anonymous until they decide to reveal themselves. This is a powerful way for you to find and grow your client and supplier list.
- Group Activity Tracking – if you manage a business networking group, such as a Chamber of Commerce, you need tools like this to tell you how much referral and inter-group activity is happening. We track things like 1-1 Meetings, Referrals, and Meeting Attendance.
- Online Directories – we make it easy for you to generate a Member Directory if your organization wants to have an online directory.
- Classified Ads – we have a fully integrated Classified Ad system that allows you to post classified ads and have them show up on your page. Even better, you can give permission to your Community Members to have their Classified Ads show up on your website, if you wish. Of course you have a variety of controls to insure appropriate activity is all that is displayed on your siste.
- Events Calendars – just like Classified Ads, you may want events to show up on a calendar, and you may want to give your Community members the right to post their events on your calendar… we make it easy.
- Discussion Groups – you have the option to enable discussion groups on your website that only your Community Members can participate in.
- Domain Hosting – this is included as an optional service for Platinum Accounts.
You have lots of choices for building a community. NetOffer makes it easy to build a community and to control the brand that you present to your community.
Accounts are free. Get started today.
