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Proven Technology for Online Communities
Building an online community for your industry, hobby, or killer business idea can be a rewarding experience or an expensive failure. Choosing the right technology partner for your venture is essential.
Earnware has experience developing and integrating the best community-building technology for small and large scale websites. Earnware writes code to improve and extend best-of-breed open-source technologies supported by thousands of developers all over the world. Even large scales sites like Wellness.com with 1.5+ million monthly visitors use Earnware-powered communities.
You can now benefit from Earnware's experience with open source community development. Since most of the technology with open source projects is available at a very low cost, you can get the same technology for your website without spending tens-of-thousands of dollars.
Community Features Available:
- Member management
- Custom member profiles
- Discussion forum
- Private messaging
- Branded e-mail integration
- Chat rooms
- Blogging
- Picture gallery
- Video integration
- Comments & guest books
- Classified ads
- Much more...
What does it cost to set up and manage a competitive online community...
If you have Earnware set-up your full-featured online community as a complete service and teach you how to run it, you should plan on budgeting around $10,000. If you have your own in house technology team set it up, you should probably budget around $30,000. In other words, we can most likely set it up in a few weeks and put your team in position to extend and manage it after it is all live and working. You'll have full access to the code and database too, so your team can really do some great things with it.
Ready to learn more? Contact us.
