Showing posts with label online community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online community. Show all posts

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Building an Online Community for Aspiring Photographers

If you’re an established photographer or aspiring to be one, building an online community with other photographers is important for you to get your work noticed and build your name in the photo world.
 A photo community, simply put,  isa big social network of photographers online as well as offline, where photographers  from different fields of photography come together on a same platform, share their masterpieces, inspire each other, and give insights on the technicalities of photography and other aspects of it.

Before starting a photo community for aspiring photogs, it is important to understand the fundamentals of building a community and making connect with people in that space especially some renowned names.

For starting an online community and making your presence felt, Viburnix, an online community portal will help you to get there. You can learn more about Viburnix at www.viburnix.com But before building a successful community with Viburnix, one should take care of following few things before taking the leap.

Do some research and make good contacts- The first important step to start a community is to research of what kind of photo community you want to build and with what kinds of photographers . Search for some good names in this space and try to connect with them.

Get your inspiration-Get your inspiration from other websites and folks who create work and have made a strong online presence for their websites.

Focus on quality not quantity- Try to connect with some successful personalities who have really made big in photo world rather than just connecting anyone. Focus should be on the right people with high caliber.
Support members and focus on your community- Give a helping hand to promote the work of aspiring photogs through blogs, discussion boards, forums etc.  Leave genuine, attentive, supportive comments. Help people spread the word about their projects and exhibitions. If you’re a supportive towards the members of the community it will build a great community as a whole.

Friday 10 January 2014

Community Software Vendors providing value to business

A software vendor is a company that makes and sells software products designed for a specific or niche market. Such markets may be diverse, including software for real estate brokers, healthcare personnel and so on. Similarly, the vendors that make and sell software for building online community are called community software vendor. These software vendors provide community software to the organizations that want to build an online community, be it for corporate alumni, consumers, vendors, etc. to deliver value to their business, keep the members engaged and integrate with membership management database, events system, and website.

How can community software help organizations to increase revenue?
Community software is one of the most active sectors in the tech industry. Large companies are depending on these community vendors to provide them with robust community software that best suit the requirements of the business, the culture of their organization and can generate significant revenue through various functions:

  1. Physical Product Sales : Selling books, education class, industry-related material, magazines, and items branded with company’s logo by associations and user groups which are then shipped from the organization to the members.
  2. Virtual Products Sales : Boost profits with high margins by selling recorded webinars, audio training, electronic documents or online tools. With virtual products, members and customers will use the familiar shopping cart process while enjoying immediate access to what they purchased. 
  3. Membership Dues : Online community software can handle all the membership management dues allowing staff to use a single system to handle member engagement tasks and back-end membership procedures.


Wednesday 13 November 2013

How Viburnix helps companies grow !

Viburnix, as a community building software acts as a critical link where an organization can build an online community to serve basic needs of the organization to Communicate, Collaborate, Connect, Control, Contribute and Create. Viburnix provides a unified communication and a collaborative platform to create multiple points of adhesion throughout an institution.

Business Exchange Strategies
Business owners are always on the lookout for great resources to help them grow, but they don’t always have time to research, read, and sort the wheat from the chaff. Viburnix, an online community portal enables collaboration amongst its members at a much more professional level. This platform allows the alumni to work and exchange ideas and thoughts with their peers at a professional level. The alumni are able to exchange business details and also offer several business prospects. Thus, it enables the alumni to expand their business & professional network and even initiate new business ventures.

An organization can leverage its image & improve its brand equity using Viburnix in the following manner:
  • Identify your reasons- to-believe
  • Identify customer touch points
  • Determine the most influential factors touch points
  • Design an optimal experience 
  • Align the organization to deliver basis the collective vision