This is an extremely simple way to grow your community and demonstrate it’s benefits to your business.
Ask members to submit their best ideas for new products or services they want changed. Then tell them, if any members can get enough people to join the community and show their support for their product/service idea, your company will use the idea.
Encourage this by providing the restraints to what’s feasibly possible and assigning staff mentors to develop the best concepts.
This shows support to your community, nets you a lot of new participating members and hopefully some great market research.
This is another of your unique traffic-building ideas that community administrators can really use. It promotes engagement and content sharing at the same time. Even better, it invites members to participate in shaping the direction of the community. A very practical idea (and tactic).
Posted by: Walter Roark | Wednesday, 01 April 2009 at 16:32
Are you employed?
Posted by: Mike | Thursday, 02 April 2009 at 03:32
Thanks Walter.
Mike: Check my about me page, I have a few clients I work for at any one time.
Posted by: Richard Millington | Thursday, 02 April 2009 at 11:18