September Bulletin

September 14, 2022

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September Bulletin

Here’s your monthly roundup on everything at Six Circles, from what’s happening behind the scenes to what’s new on our ever-evolving community engagement platform… 

Top tips of the month 

Did you know that your community can do more than just promote user engagement? With the right features in place, you can actually monetise your community – making it an even more valuable business growth tool.

If you want to know more, here are 6 ways you can effectively monetise your online community to build better user engagement while growing an additional revenue stream:

  1. Paid memberships and subscriptions: free membership is the cornerstone of growing your community – but by introducing extra benefits, such as providing access to premium content, event discounts and more, you can effectively utilise paid memberships and subscriptions
  2. Offer product or service promotions: many business members use community platforms to build their own brand awareness, so offer these members the opportunity to purchase a one-off advert to promote their services or products to an engaged audience 
  3. Create a promotion area: this dedicated promotion area allows community owners to push forward their own offerings and services to members without impacting the purpose or functionality of the main community areas
  4. Create sponsored post opportunities: within news and polls areas, offer members the chance to gain additional exposure with a paid-for post that acts like sponsored news or a user poll
  5. Host events: from charging members for tickets to selling exclusive merchandise or event sponsorship, there are numerous ways events can help you generate revenue for your community
  6. Cross-selling: just like in ecommerce, you can use your community behaviour data to create cross-selling opportunities, such as content suggestions or community picks. To access these, members can upgrade their subscription or pay a one-off fee
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Future Roadmap

Throughout August, the team at Six Circles have been working hard to maintain your favourite features and developments – as well as continuing to work on a suite of new features and updates that will go live in the coming months. These include: 

  • Events updates: community owners will have the ability to set different prices for an event, depending on a member’s role or membership plan
  • Events updates: community admins will be able to set ‘early bird’ discount prices
  • Events updates: community admins will be able to upload downloadable files to an event
  • Content posts: community members will be able to use emojis within their content
  • Categorisation: admins will be able to categorise news, events and polls
  • Private groups: users will be able to create private groups within the forum area and resources
  • Events update: users will have a calendar view
  • Subscriptions: community owners will have the ability to add a free trial option
  • Subscriptions: users will also have the ability to offer discount codes to subscription members

Of course, we always welcome any suggestions around what you’d like to see on the Six Circles platform. Send any ideas to support@sixcircles.co.uk – we can’t wait to hear them.

If you’d like to see a short demonstration on how to make most of your platform, contact support@sixcircles.co.uk and your dedicated account manager will be in touch.

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