Building your own customer community is not as expensive as you would think. There are many tools and services available to help companies large and small to help you get started.
Check out these solutions:
BlueKiwi
: Build community around your partners, prospects and customers.
BuddyPress
: Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company.
Jive SBS
: Software solutions, customized for your business needs where you determine what is important.
KickApps
: Provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable them to create and manage next generation web experiences that are social, interactive, dynamic, distributed, and data-informed.
Leverage Software
: Share and capture critical knowledge throughout your company to improve productivity and drive your bottom line.
Lithium
: Social CRM is a strategy and applications approach to harness the power of online branded customer communities, broader social networks, and traditional CRM systems. By bringing customers into your processes, your business can effectively multiply resources and reach by 100 times, 1000 times, and more.
Liveworld
: Social media marketing agency and technology provider for everything Fortune 1000 companies need to leverage the power of social networking to build their brands and their business.
Ning
: Social platform for the world's interests and passions online. Millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions, and meet new people around shared pursuits.
Pluck
: Powers the social media experience on the world’s leading digital destinations. Combines a comprehensive technology platform; a curated, professionally produced content library; and full lifecycle services.