Social Business Networks are targeted and customizable environments built on our proprietary social networking technology that allows for businesses, as well as individuals, to take advantage of social communities, marketing and advertising opportunities that focus on targeted interests, industries and marketplaces. The goal behind SBN is to highlight specific markets and create a network by building a targeted community that offers products and services that are of interest and relevance to its content and its users.
Gateserver Social Business Network package allows you to create your own marketplace and social community quickly and easily. The SBN is built with an integrated advertisement, business marketing and shopping cart system.
The best feature of Social Business Network is that it's customizable.
This means that each version of the SBN can be customized for any demographic or industry to create a unique experience across the board.
Interested in this Package?
For more information regarding all of our products and services, please contact us by calling our toll free number 1- 800-571-7065 or emailing us at info@gateserverdesign.com
You can also reach us by filling out our quote form for other specific needs and someone will get back to you shortly!
Benefits:
In an ideal community, users and businesses are exchanging goods and services that benefits each other. This means that customers are happy with the products and services offered by your business and in turn businesses are financially stable and producing value within that community. With SBN we allow you to offer specific benefits to your community. THE COMMUNITY
The key behind the SBN is the community. The community is comprised of individuals that are interested in a particular topic or multiple subjects that are related to the main focus of the social network. As the community grows, their requirements for information, products and services also expand. The community supports your business by supplying information, content, products and services for other members. CONNECTIVITY
Within a community it is important for individuals share ideas, thoughts on particular subjects or topics. This allows for each member to become knowledgeable about the requirements or concerns of individuals for any particular issue. CUSTOMIZED
SBN is designed on a central core technology by Gateserver. It allows us to create customized experience of any particular social network community in a relatively short period of time. Added with our modular and expandable user-friendly user-interfaces, the potential for fine-tune customization is virtually unlimited. TARGETED
SBN's design allows for you to create specifically targeted communities around a single product, service, geography, time and more. This allows for you to maximize the awareness within the internet from automated systems such as search engines to individuals wishing to focus on key items within an industry. INTEGRATION
Integration allows for information to flow more easily to and from systems. Using our knowledge with web APIs, desktop and/or server applications. We can integrate your SBN with other social network or with your current system web, business or manual system to create a more streamlined integrated network. BUSINESS SENCE
Many other social networks today lack business sense. They focus on only the community and advertising from other service providers. A unique feature of SBN is that it focuses on the business side of the network, as well as the social community side. This allows a SBN to reap the benefits of both communities.
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Advertising Built-in advertisement engine allows for the SBN to maximize the revenue from advertisers by providing support for 3rd parties, as well as offering powerful in-house advertisement engines. Advertisements such as pre-roll videos, overlay video ads, post roll ads, pay-per-click ads, cpm ads, as well as banner management and reporting, are all available within the SBN.
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Marketing Engine Built-in marketing engine allows SBN to market to the community directly. This includes company profiles, product listings, showcase, special offers, product promotion pages, business directories and more.
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E-Commerce The SBN has an integrated multi-store shopping cart and order system that allows for multiple stores to have multiple products selling within your community. A member can manage multiple stores as well as orders for each store.
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Statistics The SBN has reverent statistics on your products, business and services that is more finely focused than page views and hit counters. The SBN can show exactly which product is receiving the most views. With the social community in place, you can learn why one product or service is doing better than another.
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Contact Management SBN has a built-in contact manager that records all contact information which can be later used in either newsletters, product updates and more.
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Auction With the built-in auction you can offer products, jobs and services up for bid and select the winning bid from either the highest or the lowest bidder.
EXPANDABLE
With the increasing and changing technologies and shifts in the internet over time, SBN was designed with expansion in mind. SBN was designed with a clear upgrade path from the ground-up. This allows your business to stay ahead or on par with the latest technologies before they arrive. THE NETWORK
When you create your SBN with Gateserver, your become part of our constantly expanding marketing and advertising network.
This allows for you to receive additional business and explore more advertising opportunities through our network of targeted communities. TIME TO MARKET
Although each SBN is customized to each community it is based on our core web platform that allows for it to expand or contract based upon your requirements. This allows for us to quickly assemble your SBN to the targeted market. MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT
The SBN is based on our core web platform that is constantly fine-tuned and maintained by use. We can fully support our technologies as they have been developed in-house by our team from the ground up. If selected, we can maintain and manage your SBN within our servers. COST & VALUE
SBNs are offered in a variety of distributions and features. Primarily the three distributions are: Licensed; Licensed is where we mange your SBN on our servers you have no rights to the website or contents. Managed; Is where you own the SBN and we are only managing it on our servers. You have rights to the content on the website. Owned; is where you own a version of the SBN for your business and can place it on your website or another webserver.
Features:
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Professional-looking, user-friendly and eye-catching design
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A functional and easy-to-use navigation
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Contact Form
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File Library
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Image Library
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Products
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Standard Shopping Cart
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Links Library
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Video & Media Library
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Member & User Management
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Dynamic Employment Sections
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Company Directory
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Employee Directories
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Emailing Application
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PDF Creation Flyer / Hot Sheet
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Dealer & Store Locator / Where to Buy by Zipcode
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Automation (Database to Database)
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HTML Web-Based Editors
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Dynamic Flash
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Dynamic Flash & Dynamic Video / Audio Media
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Application to Web Application
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Automation (XML / RSS / Web Services)
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Cellular Pages / SMS Email Notification
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Chat Integration
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External / Internal API Integration
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Banner Management
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Integrated Calendars
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Parametric Searches
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Price Comparisons (Where to Buy Online)
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Custom User Interfaces
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Blogs & Diaries
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User Groups & Security
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User Supported or User Provided Content
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Forums
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Sub-Sites or Pages
Contact Form
This is a standard form on your website that allows your visitor to easily and instantly contact you. The information in the form requested from your visitors can be customized to suite your particular business needs. As soon as the form is filled out and submitted, you will be alerted with an email message.
• Multiple Email Assignment Notification
• Database Storage For Record keeping or Analysis
• Mobile Paging
• Spam and Flood Preventions tools
File Library
The file library is a tool that allows you to manage the files on your website. Depending on your site's needs, each file can be protected by an easy-to-use user management interface or made public for full access to all your users. Each file may also be organized by various categories and sections on your site. Each file can then be assigned to other sections or items of your website. File libraries are ideal for management of Drivers and Manual Libraries or other files you wish to share online.
• Multiple Categories
• Multiple or single Image uploading
• Multiple File Formats (PDF, ZIP, etc...)
• Automatic File size to byte calculation
• File Tagging
Image Library
The image library provides an easy-to-use interface for you to manage all your images, depending on the requirements of your website. Each image can be organized by Gallery, Gallery Section, Image Section, Image Categories, Tags and more. This versatility provides you with virtually unlimited organization of your images and provides a useful interface for how they are presented to your visitors. Images stored in your image library are automatically resized for you based on the template design to fit your site's needs. Each image can also be resized to customized sizes for even more flexibility.
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Multiple or single Image uploading
• Multiple Categories
• Image tagging,and keywords
Products
If you have products and wish to sell them Gateserver has the solution to fit your needs. You can have thousands of products in your store and with our shopping cart system each product can be assigned to different store sections or categories and sub-categories for virtually unlimited expansion of your product lines.
• Customized Product Fields
• Batch or Bulk Product Uploading
• Multiple Object Assignments (Documents, Files, Images, Video, Audio)
• Multiple Price Levels
• Multiple or Single Product Parts
• Product tagging and keywords
Standard Shopping Cart
Many websites need some sort of e-commerce solution. With our customizable shopping cart engine we provide a method for you quickly sell your products to your customers. Our shopping cart is integrated with our administrative tools to provide you with order tracking and visitor notification when orders are shipped.
• Automatic Shipping Rates
• Support for Promotion Codes, Coupons
• Multiple Price Levels
• Customer and Administrator Notifications
Links Library
Links provide a way to connect with other sites and exchange traffic. This can be an effective marketing tool for you and related websites that share similar visitors with very similar interests. Our linking system can also feature counters and visitor tracking capabilities to help you fine tune your links and their relevance. Each link can also contain images to highlight a particular website you may wish to feature.
• Links Reporting
• Image Assignment
• Link tagging, rank, User ranking, and keywords
Video & Media Library
Today many websites are offering some form of media (video/audio) streaming to enhance the appeal of their website. With our media library integration of audio and video within your website is easy and manageable. Once media is in your library it can be utilized throughout all other areas of your website for the maximum effect.
• Flash (SWF, FLV)
• Real Player (.RA, RM) (Streaming)
• Windows Media Player (.WMV, WMA) (Streaming)
• Quicktime (.MOV)
• Other file formats supported
• Video tagging and keywords
Member & User Management
Our solutions allow you to manage thousands of members easily. We also provide tools that allow you to create access levels for different users. Members are able to update their personal information without the need for an administrator’s intervention.
• Multiple Access Levels
• Session Tracking
• Access Restriction, Auto Expiration of Access Level
Dynamic Employment Sections
This allows you to advertise job openings for your company within your website. Each employment section can be categorized and sub-categorized based on a job category. Some of the type of data that can be entered includes location, job title, description, job type and any other requirements that you may need from a perspective applicant.
A company directory allows you to list and manage multitude of companies on your website. Each company can be organized by category and sub-category.Each company can also be designated to span multiple categories (virtually unlimited). This feature can also include company details with images, media or other parameters. A company listing can also show services and products they offer that may be managed by that company’s administrator.
• Multiple Level Categories
• Multiple Company Designation
• Company tagging and keywords
• Multiple Images, Audio and Video Streams Assignment
Employee Directories
Large companies can have hundreds or thousands of employees. Our solutions provide an easy way to manage and display your constantly changing list of employees, consultants or staff members. This can all be easily controlled using our web-based administrative tools.
This is a customized web based application that will let you send emails to all recipients on your email list. This tool will send either html or text based emails. With html email you can send photos that may have special information or alerts of any promotions or events. This application is easy because you can select the information from your database of images, products, etc and using our customized templates your email is ready to go.
• Customizable Templates
• Multiple Email groups assignment
• Auto application feeding/removal
PDF Creation Flyer / Hot Sheet
Sometimes the needs of your website go beyond presentational html code. Our design templates can be converted into PDF documents, generated on the fly with our website administrator or based on the content of your database. This includes items such as a html flyer converted to PDF that can be printed or distributed as promotional or informational material.
• Customizable Templates
• Support Images, Tables, Text
Dealer & Store Locator / Where to Buy by Zipcode
Our locator application provides a method for your website visitors to find a dealer, store, retailer or any other directory listing you may have that contains a zipcode. This drives traffic to your website as well as providing an added benefit of identifying an exact location of the entities listed on your site.
• Online/Offline Locators
• Multiple Chain Support
• In-site Maps using APIs (eg Google, Yahoo etc..)
Automation (Database to Database)
Our scalable website solutions provide methods for your website database content to be automatically updated from an external database source. This can be ideal for realtors or retail merchants with thousands of items on their website that require frequent updates.
• Customizable Notification
• Support for Scheduling
• Support for data conversion and formatting
Dynamic Flash
Flash designs are a great way to show animation, while providing excitement and enhancement to your website. We offer not only Flash design but added support for dynamic integration of your data with flash utilizing XML. This allows you to dynamically change your Flash animation without the need for re-coding or redesign costs. This also enhances the appeal of the flash element in that it can be changed as soon as you have new content available.
• Administrator Controlled (Images, Text, Video)
Dynamic Flash & Dynamic Video / Audio Media
Utilizing Dynamic flash we can also provide dynamic Video and Audio media content. The effect of this is dynamic flash content along with Dynamic video and media, which further enhance the presentation of your website. This provides full control over dynamic media and flash by utilizing our Administrative Interface.
• Controlled by Administrator
• Random or Fixed Videos or Images
Application to Web Application
Sometimes a website needs to present data generated from a desktop application, then that website needs to collect user information and pass it back to the same or another application to continue a specific function. Our team is familiar with "round trip" solutions to integrate applications residing on a server or standard PC to integrate into a website and then from the website to pass it to single or multiple application.
Often, your website update and maintenance may require direct HTML on HTML editing. Our solutions provide an easy-to-use and browser-friendly way for you or your users to update complex html code and integrate it into your website. Examples of these types of html data may include specifications sheets, specific product details and charts or graphs that aren't easily mapped to a database.
• Drag Drop Images, Links, and HTML
• WYSIWYG Editing
• Administrator or User Interface Integration
Automation (XML / RSS / Web Services)
We provide methods for automatic XML and RSS feeds input or output. Our solutions also provide back-end web service integration solutions that are transparent for your visitors and that can span one or multiple domains. Multiple domain spanning is ideal for single user authentication processes, and web to web synchronization of transactions.
In a fast paced world sometimes getting back to a visitor is key in making the sale. Our tools allow you to get notified on your portable device instantly from your website’s visitor.
We can provide live chat tools for your website. Chat can either be between visitors on your website or visitors and administrators or sale representatives. Chat can also be user initiated or sales rep/administrator initiated. This allows you to monitor a web visitor's activity to a particular website page and offer assistance. Many times user or administrator initiated chat assistance will lead to an instant purchase.
• Flash Chat
• Ajax Flash Support
• Common JAVA Chat Application
External / Internal API Integration
API integration provides a way of combining existing technologies or customized applications and connecting them to your website to offer your visitors an enhanced user experience.
• COM Object Support
• Web service Support
• Javascript, AJAX, Web 2.0 Integration
Banner Management
We provide tools that allow you to manage banner zones, banners and banner campaigns easily on your website. Our solution is scalable and allows you to have any size banners of either html, flash, static, media, animated/non-animated graphic types.
• Multiple Banners, Campaigns and Zones
• Support for HTML, Flash, Gif, JPEG, PNG
Integrated Calendars
If you wish to have a calendar that is controlled from your website, our calendar tool allows you to display a schedule of your events very easily and in multiple formats (daily, weekly, monthly, annually). Each event element can be created for a particular day or days and is displayed accordingly within the calendar.
• Daily, Monthly, Yearly Display formatting
• Event Highlighting
• Notification Reminders through Automation
• Outlook Calendar File Support
Parametric Searches
Parametric searches allow your visitors to find a particular item of interest by answering a couple of easy-to-understand questions. Based on the answers the search will then choose the best-fit solution.
• Customizable Answer Weights
• Multiple Result "Best Choice" Answers
Price Comparisons (Where to Buy Online)
Price or item comparison tools allow your visitors to compare the same or similar items based on a list of specific criteria (price, availability, retailer and more)
• Multiple Suppliers per Product
• Chain level Supplier Support
• Support Automatic price update and download feeds
Custom User Interfaces
With our technologically savvy team we have the ability to create customized user interfaces using current and cutting edge technologies to expand the usability and interactivity of your website. Customized interfaces can include technologies such as Flash, Javascript, XML, CSS, AJAX, DHTML and more.
• Support Dynamic Flash, Images or Data
Blogs & Diaries
We provide tools that allow you as a webmaster or users of your website to create blogs or personal diary entries. These entries can contain a mixture of text, images, audio, and video. They are easily updated by either your users or designated administrators. Blogs are a great marketing tool in providing valuable information to your consumers, as well as providing your website with content to increase the search engine ranking.
• RSS Import and Export
• Multiple Images
• Support for Audio, Video Streaming
• Attach Multiple Links, Related Blogs/ Diaries
• Multiple Categories
• Tagging and Keywords
User Groups & Security
With our tools we allow you to manage users and groups from one central point within your website. Each user or group can be assigned or unassigned for specific access. We also provide tools that allow of automatic subscription (activation/deactivation) to key website sections and services you may wish to provide.
• Multiple User Groups
• Image Verification (Human verification)
User Supported or User Provided Content
Visitors to your website can often provide content for other users without the need for an administrator to provide the content. With our development knowledge in user supported or provided content, we provide another source of content that enriches your site.
• Customizable User Content
• Security
• Spam Prevention features
Forums
Many websites utilize forums to provide either customized support for their technologies or as a tool for users to interact between each other and share ideas or views on the content of your website. The forums that we design can be integrated into your website template allowing for a single point of user interaction with image, file, audio or video sharing capabilities.
• Built-In Integrated Forums
• File, Image Attachments
• Support for Categories, Forums, Topics, Messages
Sub-Sites or Pages
Sub pages or sub-sites allow you to run mini sites within your site. This allows you to expand your website by allowing your users or administrators to run virtually unlimited secondary content on your website. Each of these sub sites or pages are then controlled by a master user and each sub-site has it's own website elements that is completely expandable as your or their needs grow.
• Customizable Templates
• Secondary Managers with Sub-Access Levels
•Separated and Integrated Administrators
Feature Images:
Home Page
Personal Profile Home Page
Company / Store Home Page
Products Listing Page
Advertise Page
Marketing Services Page
User Account Page
User Account Business Section
Packages:
We have various Packages to accommodate different budgets and needs. Please see below which fits your needs better or please contact us for further assistance, as custom options are available!
FEATURES
Standard
Pro
Premium
Contact Form
File Library
Image Library
Products
Standard Shopping Cart
Links Library
Video & Media Library
Member & User Management
Dynamic Employment Sections
Company Directory
Employee Directories
Emailing Application
PDF Creation Flyer / Hot Sheet
Dealer & Store Locator / Where to Buy by Zipcode
Automation (Database to Database)
Dynamic Flash
Dynamic Flash & Dynamic Video / Audio Media
Application to Web Application
HTML Web-Based Editors
Automation (XML / RSS / Web Services)
Cellular Pages / SMS Email Notification
Chat Integration
External / Internal API Integration
Banner Management
Integrated Calendars
Parametric Searches
Price Comparisons (Where to Buy Online)
Custom User Interfaces
Blogs & Diaries
User Groups & Security
User Supported or User Provided Content
Forums
Sub-Sites or Pages
Private Messages with Attachments
Multiple Stores and Products
Master and Sub Level Products
Auction
Advertisement Engine
Contact Management
Statistics and Reporting
Marketing & Promotion Manager
Interested in this Package?
For more information regarding all of our products and services, please contact us by calling our toll free number 1- 800-571-7065 or emailing us at info@gateserverdesign.com
You can also reach us by filling out our quote form for other specific needs and someone will get back to you shortly!
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