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How can Sift Unity support your business?

Do you need to engage regularly with a niche group of people online?

Whoever you are trying to engage with, in today’s connected world, people expect this to be a two-way conversation. Sift will help you stand in the shoes of your customers to understand their needs from you as an organisation. We have a unique process to help you start by building a business case for engagement right through to sustaining the community once it is live. We will then work with you to design a site that enables your audience to find what they need easily, which talks their language and that creates engagement using the latest online community and social networking techniques.

Do you need a community tool that is easy to use and manage?

You may have a number of people within or external to your organisation that will be tasked with managing your online community. Not everyone is at the same level with using new technology. Sift Unity lets non technical people publish and edit content using simple tools, guided by visual aids and wizards. And what’s more, they only see the functions they need to see, making life simpler for everyone and reducing training overheads.

Do you want to generate more online revenue and income?

Figuring out how to create business value from an online community can be a challenge. Sift has a pedigree of monetising online communities through its own media company SiftMedia and also through working hard with clients on developing a sound business case on which to make decisions. We also offer training for your sales and sponsorship teams. Sift Unity has been developed with monetisation in mind and has many features designed to help generate revenue such as user profiling and directory modules.

Since the Sift Unity platform implementation, Lawyer Job's monthly revenue has grown by an average of 64% per month.

Daniel Brill, Associate Publisher, The Lawyer.com

 

Do you want site visitors to contribute to your website?

In the era of web 2.0, visitors are used to providing their own content to websites, such as forum posts, comments on articles, reviews and suggestions. Sift Unity comes with all the core online community and social media features you will need, including a member profiles, searchable member directory, forums, blogs, RSS feeds and group collaboration areas.

How will you know if your community is delivering?

Not only can Sift help you to develop the business case for your community, we can also help you develop key performance indicators that measure, at the site level, how well the community is meeting its objectives. We can then help you interpret these results sensibly. Do more page impressions mean value? Or simply that your user can't find what they need? With this information we can work to improve the effectiveness of your site to help you gain real value from it.

Do you want to reduce the burden on your IT team?

No software to install. No hardware to buy. No infrastructure to manage. No additional upgrade license fees to worry about. Our operations team will back up your website, and monitor the hosting of it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Combined with a website that anyone in your organisation can manage, we're confident we can take the load off your internal IT resources so they can focus on other critical projects.