Alliance Program for Web Design Firms
 

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Are your web customers seeking to create 'community'?
Web design firms are under increasing pressure to add “community” features to their customer’s web sites. Forrester Research Inc. notes that 60 percent of online merchants and brand marketers have or plan to offer community-building features such as chat, message boards and members-only areas within the year

 

Deliver this and more in our Alliance Program
The netVillage Alliance Program is a lead referral and shared development program for web design firms interested in adding our community enabling software applications to their customer’s web sites. NetVillage is an e-community application service provider. We provide a suite of tightly integrated interactive software applications that provide “community” features to a website. We also offer hosting services for these sites.

We do NOT focus on providing initial web site design or ongoing web page maintenance. That is where YOU come in. NetVillage will refer our customers interested in using our community toolset and hosting services to our partners for their web page development and maintenance. In return, web design firms will be able to strengthen their value proposition of web page design by adding community features and hosting services through netVillage.

 

Why partner with netVillage?
  • To add value to your current services
  • To increase your ability to serve your clients
  • To offer your clients fully-integrated interactive web collaboration tools
  • To help your clients:
    • build their brand
    • increase 'stickiness'
    • drive e-commerce
    • increase revenues
    • add community to their web site
Why Community?
By adding interactive community features, a web site can grab surfer’s attention, keep them on the site, and encourage them to return. The ability for interactive sites to keep users on their sites longer (three times the average according to Businessweek) extends the opportunity to interest users in the site’s e-commerce programs.

In addition, by engaging customers with a netVillage interactive community site, businesses can build stronger customer relationships, increase brand loyalty, tap market knowledge, and capitalize on opportunities for highly targeted advertising and sponsorships.

Web Sites are looking to create ‘community’ on their sites to:

  • Increase Traffic
  • Increase Advertising Revenue
  • Increase E-Commerce Revenue
  • Build stronger customer relationships
  • Increase Brand Loyalty
  • Tap Market knowledge
  • Viral Growth
  • Viral Marketing
  • Higher Visitor-to-Customer Conversion Rates
  • Highly Targeted E-marketing
  • Realize Cost savings
  • Cost Effective Content Strategy
  • Engage customers
  • Competitive Protection

 

The netVillage difference
 
  • One Stop Shopping
    We are unmatched in the breadth of plug-and-play integrated services we can incorporate into a community. From auctions to video broadcasting you can offer your customers a wealth of interactive plug-and-play community services
  • Completely Integrated Services
    Probably the most important requirement of an online community. Our community services were designed and developed to work with each other from the ground up.  Rather trying to cobble together software applications from multiple vendors (resulting in a hodgepodge mix of services and a disruptive, inconsistent community experience), you can use our integrated services benefiting from: single login, all services contained under the customer’s site, and integrated e-commerce across all services.
  • Feature Rich
    Our community software has been developed and fine-tuned over many years. We've incorporated feed back from a very large customer base and as a result our software is highly configurable with a vast array of configuration features (5,000 at last count!). This gives you the flexibility to create an ideal online service for your customers.
  • Powerful User Management & Security
    All of the community services are integrated into our User Management System. Its purpose is to identify users, decide internally which activities and resources they can access, and possibly charge users for access to those areas. Our locks & keys approach to managing access rights gives your customers unparalleled power for member access and control.
  • Unique Credits-based E-Commerce Accounting
    We offer a ‘Credits’ based e-commerce system across all community services. Credits are a community’s unit of currency. They are the mechanism by which For-Profit systems can charge for services. A user maintains an electronic wallet (in the form of 'credits' applied to his account) and use this currency across all community services. It is a way a customer can surcharge for premium areas in his online community.
  • Web Hosting and Outsourcing Options
    Most companies are looking to outsource their web site to a hosting company and many web design firms are not in that business. By working with netVillage you will be able to provide an outsourcing solution to your customers.
  • Rapid Time to Market
    Using our tools you can get a customer’s site up and running in days. In an age where being late to the Internet game may spell doom for an Internet company, customers are looking to be able to deploy rapidly and cost-efficiently.
What do I do now?
[Click Here to fill out an Affiliate Application]
and either call us, FAX, E-mail, or Mail it to:

NetVillage.com
PO Box 1241
Laurel, MD 20725

Contact: Nate Hammond
(301) 498-7797

Email: sales@netvillage.com