BUILD YOUR OWN ONLINE COMMUNITY MARKET PLACE

Online communities give brands an excellent forum for building strong and loyal relationships with their customers and other important stakeholders.In fact, they can be a sales and marketing dream, because if well executed, they enable the development of sustainable relationships that build brand loyalty and drives sales.There is no doubt that by creating a relevant and useful forum it opens up valuable two way communications with customers to enable “word of mouth” marketing that generates increased sales through repeat business and customer recommendation and referral

Chrouch Consulting Can Help You To Build An Online Community To Create A Lucrative Market Place For Your Goods And Services. 

Online communities give brands an excellent forum for building strong and loyal relationships with their customers and other important stakeholders.  In fact, they can be a sales and marketing dream, because if well executed, they enable the development of sustainable relationships that build brand loyalty and drives sales.  There is no doubt that by creating a relevant and useful forum it opens up valuable two way communications with customers to enable “word of mouth” marketing that generates increased sales through repeat business and customer recommendation and referrals.

 

Control Over Data

Your own online community also gives you control over the data and analytics that you find out about your customers.  Other social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn share some useful insights but it will always be limited because their primary concern will always be the value of the data to their platforms. They are businesses too at the end of the day.

Control The User Experience

Another advantage of your own online community is that you are free to control the user experience.  This means that you can design and drive the type of engagement that you want with your customer base.  It also means that you have more freedom to generate content that is relevant and tailored to the needs of your customer base and your business objectives. So for instance, you may want to engage your customers more deeply than external social media platforms like Facebook will allow, with a view to improving your goods and services.  With your own online community, you will be free to adapt it to, for example, conduct real time focus groups, surveys or product reviews.

 

Social Media Can Be Limiting

The ability to design tailored types of activities can be very limited on external social media platforms and detailed follow up and engagement can also be limited.  In fact, studies have shown 90 percent of Facebook fans never return to your page after they click Like, so whilst the impact can be great for something like a one off product launch, it is less effective for building more profitable repeat sales.

 

Cost Effective Customer Service

An additional benefit of online communities is an extension of customer service provision.  Increasingly companies, large and small, use online communities as a way of cost effectively managing customer service and in some cases have ceased using other channels such as telephone or email to do this.

The arguments are now well established that communities can enable substantial cost savings by reducing contact centre load, providing 24 hour virtual online information, Q and As and community support to reduce customer churn and improve customer satisfaction. In fact, communities have been shown to collapse customer feedback time, reduce the organisational overhead compared to offline initiatives and slash research and development costs.

 

We Can Help You To Build An Online Community That Is Right For You.

We will help you build a tailored community to meet the needs of your business, your customers and other stakeholders.  Whatever your objectives we will create a comprehensive platform to enable you to create a completely different type of online community that is no longer dictated by traditional social media organisational relationships and boundaries.

BENEFITS OF YOUR OWN ONLINE COMMUNITY 

Stakeholders – build and manage an online community of your stakeholders – Who are your stakeholders? Are they customers, shareholders, staff, members, alumni or donors?
Stakeholder Engagement – build ongoing two way relationships for word of mouth marketing, collaboration, customer service and income generation opportunities.
Relevant & Compelling – segment and tailor communications – make it relevant & compelling. Multiple Channels – enable Multi channel to suit your stakeholders – tailor communications to suit our business & ‘manage your relationships whether online – by phone, mobile app, or Face to Face. Integrated with Social media – seamless sign up from platforms such as Facebook, twitter or linked in Cost effective – once your community is built your stakeholders are already there and are easily and cheaply accessible Sustainable Marketing Relationships – no more poorly targeted spam or costly scatter gun marketing with low return on investment Build Market Intelligence and improve your offering by listening to and learning from your stakeholders – two way communications Listen to Feedback & Act On It Flexible – ability to deal with changing marketing conditions or crisis as they unfold by being able to communicate quickly and cheaply with existing contacts

If you would like to build an online community for your business please click here to contact Chrouch Consulting

November 10, 2023 | Blogs