Community Online for local businesses

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What is Community Online?

 

Community Online, as the name suggests, was originally founded to put our community online. To give the members of Weston Rhyn, Gobowen, St.Martins and Selattyn an online resource about all that our local community has to offer, local events, shops, services, local businesses as well as useful information as bus times, what’s on and taxi hire.

With this addition of a new forum, launched in 2011, our aim is for people to get to know each other better and to collaborate on, well just about anything, from local social groups and sports teams to event organising and local news, it really is up to you.

However, we don’t just want this new community to be online in a virtual community. Our vision is that it will allow people to people to meet, to collaborate, to bring our community closer together and in some way hope that we can make a difference to the community in which we live and make it a better place for everyone.
 

What has happened so far?

 

In just 18 months the forum gained 175 members, with many followers to its Facebook and Twitter pages. Over 400 new topics have been posted and over 2000 total posts have been made, they have also received a quite astonishing 200,000 views.

Members are quite diverse, from organisers of local groups, parish councillors, local newspapers and of course the general public and members of our community.
It has become the ‘go to’ website for all things in the area, many events and groups have been born in the pages of the forum.
 

So what about the local businesses?

 

Businesses have not been allowed to use the Community Online forum as a platform to promote their business.
However, there will now be a dedicated business section that will list businesses that are located in Weston Rhyn, Gobowen, St.Martins and Selattyn or can provide a service to people in that area.

 

 

How do I put my business on Community Online?

 

It’s easy, all you have to do is get in touch by email or by telephone and for a small fee of £50 you will get a business profile on Community Online for a whole year.
 

What do I get for my fee?

 

Your business will be set up with a business profile on the Community Online forum. The profile will contain information about your business and its contact details, and you can have a profile picture.

 

The business section on the forum will be split into categories and your company will be listed with a brief description of your services in the appropriate section.
Your listing will also be tagged so that it can be found in the forum search feature.

 

 

Can my business post in the forum?
 

No, the business profile can read items but not create topics or comment on them. It prevents the main forum being filled with adverts.
 

 

Want to get started?

 

If your business is ready to set up a profile or you would like to know more information please get in touch.

Email – contact@community-online.co.uk
 

 

 

 

 

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