Group Members International Enterprise Hosted Social Networking Community Platforms

Group Members provides all of the services needed to make your social networking community a success.

The Platform is ONLY available with our complete management services which include;

• Hosting (shared, dedicated, load balanced)
• Site management
• eCommerce modules and product fulfillment
• Customer service
• Frequent functionality improvements and updates
• Site moderation
• Marketing and advertising
• Public relations
• Complete IT services.

Can You Build a House?
Houses are outsourced to specialists. It takes carpenters, plumbers, masons, electricians and more to build a house. The building of a social network is the same. Group Members has relationships with all of specialized disciplines needed for a scalable and robust enterprise social networking platform.

The Competition provides a do it yourself solution. You...

• Download platform
• Find hosting
• Hire staff to set it up
• Find advertising
• Promote
• Manage
• Moderate

The Group Members Solution

Call us, tell us what you want, we implement, integrate, manage, promote, moderate, customize and upgrade to your specifications. This leaves you free to do what you do best,

MANAGE YOUR CORE BUSINESS!

The Cost of Outsourcing and Platform Development Alliances

Can Your Company Devote All The Resources Necessary To Obtain A Total Solution?
Consider the following creative solution offered by a vendor aligned with a managed operations provider. The company wanted to implement a new software package, but due to high development costs, the software vendor required full payment up front. The client didn’t have the cash flow to pay in full for the software, much less the hardware and additional staff resources required to implement the new software.

The outsource vendor solved this problem by offering a solution that contained the new software, hardware and data center service for a monthly free. In this case, the managed operations provider pays the software vendor for the package and converts the cost of software, hardware, facilities and operational resources into a monthly fee that is less than the client could have paid for up front.

There are many different types of vendor alliances that are being formed, from very loosely structured, informal ones to complex, multi-partner ventures. The key is to assemble alliances that capitalize on each partner's strengths and minimize weaknesses. By combining forces, the end result can be synergism at its best with the ultimate winner being the client who receives a quality solution at a lower cost than could be done internally.