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Benefits and Features for Businesses

Benefits

1) increase revenues from existing and new customers
  • find new customers by leveraging and expanding your business network
  • promote your business
  • interact with customers
  • get feedback & referrals from existing customers
  • form/join partnerships
  • showcase your business relationships
  • get recognition for your subject matter expertise
2) offer new products and services, and manage cost of supplies
  • find new suppliers by leveraging and expanding business network
  • interact with suppliers
  • view feedback, referrals and business relationships
  • form/join co-operatives
3) get trusted help
  • get feedback and opinions from multiple & diverse sources (experts and peers)
  • find resources and collaborators
  • access shared, accumulated knowledge
  • view experts’ credentials

Features

Business Profile & Networking
  • create and manage Basic or Extendedbusiness profiles; can link business profile to one or more categories on vKoopia’s Business Directory; can post business information, logo & link to website
  • browse the Business Directory on vKoopia to find existing and potential customers, suppliers and partners
  • send request/approve request for business connections and create unlimited business connections on vKoopia (can choose to link to other members on vKoopia with whom they have a business relationship.
  • get referrals & testimonilals from others (appear on Extended Profile)
  • create own blog and discussion areas (on Extended profile)
  • conveniently contact others on vKoopia through internal private messaging system
  • invite contacts to share interesting content on vKoopia, join vKoopia & network
  • monitor status & activities - view a snapshot of public profile, messages, connections/links to other businesses, bookmarks, watches.
Collaboration & Crowdsourcing tools
  • can use the “Match Making” and “Solution Sourcing” tools on vKoopia’s Collaboration Area to crowd-source business needs and help others.
  • can use the organization’s Forum to post and respond to each others’ needs.
 Special Interest Groups
  • create and/or join groups
  • groups can optionally be set to be public or private. In the case of a private group, the initiator/leader can approve or reject group membership requests
  • group membership invitation - group leaders can send invitations to other users to become members of their group.
  • groups can be browsed and searched
Business resources:
  • access business related material on vKoopia’s Knowledge Sharing Centre (discussion forum, articles, books, trade magazines and pre- recorded webinars (with videos and slideshows)
  • contribute to vKoopia wide resources with links to member’s profile (get recognition)
Connect to other Business Assistance Organizations:
  • access information on Business Organizations on vKoopia
  • access services and communities created by Business Organizations on vKoopia
  • link business profile to Business Organizations on vKoopia


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