Create Your Own Social Community!
Just a few years ago customers had little choice or options available to them when it came to educating themselves on specific topics. They would search for ways to have discussions with industry ‘experts’, pay for subscriptions to ‘leading’ publications and really absorb whatever information they could get their hands on from vendors or associates to form some sort of idea of how to proceed properly in their area of interest. Many times, we all felt this, we had too little to go on, spent hours searching and not satisfied with the results, finding too little specific information to help us.
Well, times have changed! Today we all get educated through the "Social 
Web" by reading blogs, checking our social networks, join forums, participating in groups and virtual communities, and a host of other pipelines to keep us connected with our trusted friends and colleagues, those whose opinions matter to us. In fact, an area Tim and I see exploding, is the creation of vertical SMN’s, specific to a niche or target group.
For example, pictured to the left here is a social community we just finished for Stephanie Moore Photography. She is thrilled with it and has already a growing membership of individuals who share her passion for photography.
“Thank you Tim and Ty for your help with developing eyePod for me. It is already generating a lot of buzz and tripled my traffic to my website. While still in it’s infancy, eyePod already has members from the U.S., but also Canada and France. We anticipate this being a huge success for our friends and colleagues in the photography business. Thank you both again for all your help!” – Stephanie Moore, Owner
Read her whole article as to how and why she wanted this here, it’s a great story.
If you would like to have a social community created, please drop Tim or I an email and we will be happy to talk about ways we can help. We are very excited about seeing social media start to produce real value and channel all this energy into resourceful knowledge and community tools like this.
Ciao!
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