Inviter and Promotion Extension for Groups / Communities Plugin enables group owners to invite their contacts, friends, fans and customers to their Group and increase its popularity. It provides effective tools to group owners to expand visitor base to their group. Users can securely import their contact lists / address books from popular email services and applications to invite their contacts to their Group.
Inviter and Promotion Extension for Groups / Communities Plugin enables group owners to invite their contacts, friends, fans and customers to their Group and increase its popularity. It provides effective tools to group owners to expand visitor base to their group. Users can securely import their contact lists / address books from popular email services and applications to invite their contacts to their Group.
This can also increase popularity of your site and sign-ups as invited people who would not be members of your site will also get a link in the email to signup.
- Import & Invite functionality: Users can import their contact lists / address books from the below mentioned services and invite their contacts to visit their Group.
- Popular Webmail services supported: Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live(Hotmail), AOL.
- Popular Social Networking services supported: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
- Contact Lists in CSV & TXT formats can be uploaded and imported. Some services supported are: LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Address Book, Mac OS X Address Book, Palm Desktop, Windows Mail.
- Invited people may or may not be members of your site. Hence, this also increases the popularity of your site.
- Group invitation emails go out to invited people to visit and explore the group. If an invited person is not a member of the site, they also get a link in the email to signup on the site.
- Seamless integration with SocialEngine Notification updates: If an invited person is a member of the site, he also gets a notification update to visit the Group.
- Integration with "Suggestions / Recommendations / People you may know & Inviter": If this plugin is installed on your site, then an invited member also receives a suggestion for the Group.
- Email queuing mechanism for sending out invite emails.
- Ajax based features for good user experience.
- Link for "Invite & Promote" is available in both the "Marketing" and "Apps" sections of Group Dashboard.
- Configure settings for the contact importer.
The following are the requirements for this plugin:
- This plugin is an extension of the Groups / Communities Plugin and thus that plugin must be installed.