4 Innovative Ways To Use GroupWithUs
GroupWithUs is Agriya’s GrubWithUs clone script which lets you run a group dining type website but the software has been designed so that group dining isn’t the only thing you can start offering. GrubWithUs works by contacting restaurant owners and securing a good deal on a set menu and then opening the even to people interested in networking – you can even tailor the meals to suit different interests. The first person who signs up gets a discount and the price steadily rises as more people confirm their desire to attend.
What GrubWithUs has done for eating out and meeting people you can do for any other industry thanks to our GroupWithUs software. We take a look at some of the options available to you and hope that it sets off some sparks of inspiration with the potential that this software has.
1. Theatre Excursions
It doesn’t have to be New York’s Broadway or London’s West End, people still love to go to the theatre and take in some live action drama or show. Provincial theatres up and down the land in every country would love to have their venues packed to the rafters every night but sadly this is not always possible. However, the fact remains that there are probably lots of people that would love to go to the theatre more often but don’t have a network of friends that share the same interest that they do.
Building a website that focuses on getting great deals for shows and plays at the local theatre will connect lots of avid theatre goers who might be quite keen to take advantage of the early bird offers by being the first to buy a ticket for a particular show and they don’t have to worry about going alone because after a few outings many people will be well connected and know each other.
2. Adventure Sports
This is an area ripe for the taking. Imagine you and your friend turn up to a paintballing centre and no one else is there to play, it would be a pretty disappointing experience. If you created a website that listed local adventure sports (remember, GroupWithUs is designed to be local to everyone so they can select the city or town where they want to see available events) companies like paintballing, go-karting, quad-biking, rock climbing etc. then visitors to your website will be safe in the knowledge that if they turn up there will be plenty of people to get to know and have a much better experience.
The business wins because even though they are offering a discount you are guaranteeing a certain number of people coming through the door and your website visitors win because they get good discounts on doing things they already love. The early bird participants can even get a bigger discount so you might end up having people checking your site daily to see what bargains they can get.
3. Introductory / Tester Classes
In every town in every city around the world the local community college offers various types of evening classes for people to expand their repertoire of skills or to help them advance their career. Unfortunately some of the classes can be expensive and people have to commit to a long period of time. This barrier to entry can be removed by GroupWithUs by arranging introduction classes for various courses where the teacher can introduce what is going to be taught and how and the student can make a decision about whether it’s going to be right for them without having to shell out a lot of money.
Normally for a college to arrange this type of event would be a logistical nightmare and they certainly don’t want to be doing introductory classes for just a handful of people. This is where GroupWithUs comes in. You arrange a special price on an introductory class and then people who are interested can get a discount and find out who else will be going so they know they won’t be the only one there.
4. Day Trips For Families
This might be particularly relevant in today’s economy. Imagine the scene: it’s summer time, the kids are at home, they are bored, their friends have all left the state on vacation, they’ve got no one to play with. How about creating an group booking day trip website specifically aimed at families? Talk to attractions in the local area such as theme parks, museums, activity centres, aquariums and more and negotiate a discount if you can bring a certain number of families to their attraction.
Next, use the GroupWithUs software to create the day trip excursions and families can sign up to get a discount. You can even offer the first few families to sign up an additional discount. Since you know the exact numbers that will be attending and everyone has to pay up front you can manage the expenses such as insurance and transport.
These are just four innovative ways that we have thought of to use GroupWithUs, hopefully it has given you a few ideas and inspiration on how you can build your own group booking type website. If you’ve got any ideas let us know in the comments below, or if you’d rather discuss your top secret ideas with a sales rep get in touch with us on this page.
Have You Ever Seen A Channel Like This?
Great news ladies and gentleman, Version 2 of Rayzz Video Sharing is undergoing its final iteration of testing and feedback and is due for an immanent release at the end of this month (we reckon on the 27th January – but hold that date in mind, see if we can stick to our deadlines…).
With the new version of Rayzz Video Sharing comes a name change to represent the changing business strategy that Agriya will adopt in 2010. Rayzz Video Sharing is going to be renamed to Channel, it’s just a name change, every customer who owns a copy of Rayzz Video Sharing will be able to upgrade to the new version – which is called Channel.
The main changes in Channel are an improved admin interface as well as a completely redesigned front end. As part of our business strategy we want to make sure that all our products are compatible with one another and therefore Channel can be ‘plugged in’ to Volume and vice versa.
The way the new setup will work is as follows:
- Rayzz 2 (soon to be Rayzz 3) will be the ultimate public community portal with videos, music, games, blogs, photos, groups, forums etc.
- Channel will be just be a video sharing script which allows people to view and share videos
- Volume will just be a music sharing / radio station script for people who want to run music sites
- A new, and as yet unnamed, piece of software will be a photo sharing platform
So let’s say you wanted to run a music sharing site but also wanted to add videos, you don’t want Rayzz because that does more than you want and most features will go unused. So you buy Volume and Channel and simply plug one in to the other and voila! You have a music sharing site with video playing and sharing capabilities!
I hope you begin to see where we are going with our products, maybe we’ll also make an arcade / gamers script as well.
If you can’t wait to see the new version, new look and new name Channel worry not because for your viewing pleasure I have posted some screenshots for you below…
How do Small Businesses Make Facebook Work for Them?
People just can’t stop thinking of it: how do you exploit Facebook to the greatest benefit going viral or something for your business? You’ve seen it done on every business website you’ve been to: each one has a few (or many)social networking tools represented on the sides, and you are supposed to follow them on Twitter or friend them on Facebook. Facebook offers special business memberships, that are not the same as individual ones. In fact, some small businesses completely give the website route a pass and depend on Facebook for a web presence. It looks good, and you can have your Facebook website simply redirect visitors to a proper e-commerce site like eBay or Amazon.Businesses don’t always go down the Facebook route just to have a web presence though; you could be there for customer support, for better word-of-mouth, or to start a forum about something important your product represents, like environmental responsibility, for example. A new bakery that wants to get enough hip young customers in the door would have to do nothing more than to look up on Facebook all the people who live in a 5 mile radius around the bakery, searching by Zip code, age and income group on Facebook, and send out Facebook messages to all of them. Who could have dreamed that a small business would be able to automate mailing lists like this, even a few years ago? Facebook’s advanced search options allow you to narrow it down to almost any kind of defining characteristic: marital status, people interested in specific sports, people who love certain actors or certain streams of public interest subjects, almost anything. Facebook asks us to fill out detailed profiles when we sign up;when we do, anyone can search for us by our listed preferences.
The social networking community really does work like one; advertisements on them usually not people much better results than advertisements put out on general-interest websites. Facebook is like this magic neighborhood,huge and intimate at the same time, where everyone walks around with a name tag – like in that episode of Seinfeld.
Social Media Marketing Strategies
With the rising dominance of Social Media in the lives of consumers marketers are jumping on to the bandwagon and coming up with countless new ideas and strategies to target the supposedly transformed consumer behavior. However, social commerce strategies to drive sales and increase customer loyalty, once implemented have rarely performed as expected or produced measurable results. Unlimited targetability was the premise of both B2B and B2C social media marketing, but consumers turned out to be too unpredictable for such strategies to succeed.
Apparently, consumer behavior can only be best understood and acted upon in scale by grouping similar consumers together. Human behavior is fairly simple and simple models of behavior almost always outperform complex models. One-on-one marketing is good in theory but almost impossible to implement.This is the golden age of data. Nearly any media metric can be measured and data mining produces quantities of data, however, without substantive data knowledge and proper modeling the data is mostly worthless. As, Eric T. Bradlow, co-director of UPenn’s Wharton Interactive Media Initiative, says, “Many social commerce problems have been addressed previously, and massive amounts of data will not change the continuing need for the understanding of basic and primitive customer behavior which provides the correct lens to view social media data.”
Mass marketing has lost favor in the face of social media marketing and viral marketing. However, mass marketing is still the most effective technique available though it is important, considering the proliferation of media channels, to ensure that the right media channels are selected. Social media marketing requires that very huge numbers of social media users share product recommendations for any significant impact and the same goes for viral marketing. These techniques may be effective for B2B marketers who have concentrated markets but rarely have much impact on B2C marketing. Rarely does the buzz created by such strategies translate in to product purchases.
Content is important but it has impact only if it reaches consumers. Traffic driving strategies such as referral programs must be the cornerstone of marketing policy. Many people try using the “Long Tail” (items which individually sell only in small quantities) niche driven marketing as one way to boost sales but such investment should be made only if justified by volumes.
Improve online business through social networking sites
In today’s high speed society, social networking is a hot topic in internet circles. It attracts people who have similar interests and opinions. Social networking sites are not only a place to have a fun or keep in touch with friends and family, but also one of the great places to get the word out about your business. Companies from Coca-Cola to McDonald’s and even major television stations are now using social networking sites to reach people globally and promote their business in new ways.
If you are a small business owner, especially one that operates an online business, you can use social networking sites to promote your business. There are various tools that are available to brand yourself and your products and services, such as videos, discussion groups, forums, blogs, and so on. Many advertising services believe that free advertising is not effective than paid advertising. But this is not true! Social networking sites are the best place to promote your business and products or services without having to spend money. Take advantage of sites to advertise your products and services with clear videos and pictures and get ready to receive tons of traffic to your website.
Creating a network in such sites will not only allow you to share your business information with other business owners, but it will also allow you to develop close relationships with people who have similar interests. This means that you could not only learn or share valuable business information, but you could also walk away with a new business partner or a new friend. If you have clients who are members of the network, ask them to write a recommendation for you, and do the same for them. This can be great way to increase income.
Another thing is connecting with prospects on a personal level, which is sure to builds trust and credibility among them. You can also post events such as workshops and seminars about your services especially designed to meet your customers’ specific needs. These include: SEO services, web design, web development, support services and so on. This will create a very good impression among customers.
Marketing through social networking site
Nowadays promoting online marketing in social networking site is one of the hottest trends. It offers numerous benefits that would help you and your business. It is a cheap, reliable, quick, and highly effective online marketing medium. Where, you can focus on advertising of business entirely on people who are actively engaged in looking for products or services offered by you. Remember the more time and effort you put into each social networking site, the more you’ll get out of it.
Webmasters can create a business profile on social media site to share only information that they want the entire world to see. They can also create a personal profile as well and make contact with other members. It helps to get potential customers, clients, and vendors. They can make changes on their profile, products and company online, and they are reflected almost immediately.
Webmasters can form a network with prospective international buyers and decision makers and showcase new products and services with clear photos, audios and videos, highlight company news, and build brand loyalty. This allows webmasters to make business connections without hard sale. They can learn about latest trends, form business alliances, learn tips and so on within the network.
Webmasters can keep their customers up to date on events, special occasions and other useful information to maintain healthy relationship with customers on social media site. They can form a group with similar interest and gain number of clients and valuable customers within their group of contacts. Also they can make video presentation about their company details, products and services among them.
Social networking site is an extremely valuable resource and if you utilize the resource properly, you can promote products or services effectively. There are countless of social networking scripts out there. So it is difficult to pick a right script to focus your efforts on. Agriya infoway has designed Kootali – open social script available at an affordable cost. It helps you build a social networking site and makes you to sit on your chair and just a mouse click away to make a purchase hastily.
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