Orangetree Community website design.
What we mean by community website
Sometimes, it may work for your business to have a much bigger website that engages your customer in a variety of ways, for example:
- A blog
- A forum
- Articles
- Live Chat
- Event management
- Meeting management
- A customer portal
- On line galleries
- Integration with your CRM or other system
Benefits for you
This kind of website may benefit you for a number of reasons:
- You are a networking company, and need a forum and meeting management function!
- You can bring your customer into a closer relationship with your business
- You can encourage user generated content
- It can create a sense of community between you and your customers and potential customers
Benefits for your customer
- They can gain lots of additional information about you and your products
- You can offer a range of online services to them
- You can give them additional reasons to use your site, and, hopefully, your services
- If appropriate, you can create a dialogue
In summary
We can build all of the items listed above, or some of them, or others not listed. We invite you to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have been impressed by the business models some of our customers have designed, and it has been a privilege to have a part in helping them to make it happen.
The technology used in such websites is important, and we are willing to discuss this at length.
Some OrangeTree thoughts:
A blog is a great way of adding content, and generating traffic. Make your blog interesting, and informative. You can communicate anything you wish - your views, your products, general information - just anything
A forum can really build up a community, and get people talking, or even helping each other. Remember that to get a successful forum going takes effort, and time.
Articles can be used to gives customers more information about the area in which you are knowledgeable. Written well, like the above items, they can be excellent for SEO. You might wish to post links to them in a range of places, such as social media sites.
A customer portal has a range of uses, such as letting your customer track order progress, interact with your system, download key documentation, or submit information to you.
Integration with other systems - this is a speciality of OrangeTree. We would love to discuss how this might help your business.