In this post I want to cover the Niche Socializer software itself. In a nutshell, you will be creating someting that looks like Facebook, but that’s too vague of an idea, so here is the detailed breakdown of what your site is going to look like and how you will monetize it.
The authors divide the software into 8 main parts based on the monetization methods:
- Membership module as the main monetization method. This way you can sell membership to your site, and keep charging your members every month. This is the real power behind a community website. In this software, there are also ways to help you market your paid membership, such as free trials. You can also create few levels of membership for different price, including free.
- Viral Marketing capabilites to build a community like a snowball. In essence we copy other networks in this and do not charge for membership, but rather let them join for free and let them bring their friends. Then we market to our members. It’s a similar idea to email marketing with a difference that an active community helps to grow the member base virally.
- Social community modules come as we’d expect, it’s a all about social networking sites after all.
- Built-in email marketing is a nice feature, it also integrates with Aweber if you’re already using that service. It also means that having your own social community website, you will not need an autoresponder to do email marketing anymore. And I can tell you for sure that email marketing is still one of the best marketing techniques, and it’s great to see that Niche Socializer isn’t stripped off of it.
- Video and photo sharing is still hot and so it is included in Niche Socializer as well. That’s another way to draw attention or even monetize your site by letting your members sell their videos and collecting commission.
- Another big side is Ecommerce. This will allow you to set up your shop with your products of someone else’s products, in either case you can make money selling them.
- Some marketers say Craigslist is the second Google, millions of people visit it whether they want to sell or buy something. This is where you can capitalize as well, by creating your own classified ads directory on your own site. You can make it available to you members as a free resource or charge fees to post listings.
- A business directory is another concept with a great potential. That’s a great way to sell affiliate products or allow members to add more content to your site and make your site more attractive.
If you notice, almost every single part involves user generated content, which means your site will grow on autopilot. That’s why social networking websites are so popular, they only need the initial boost. In that way these sites are so different from your classic content sites or long sales pages, giving you more and easier ways to profit from your sites.
Also, I want to note that this package of features gives you the ability to come up with any variation. That means you can not only create a webiste like Facebook, you can create a website like Youtube, like Craigslist, any combination of them and much more. That’s where the real power in this software is.
