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How It Works

As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, we host, manage and deliver all community applications and media. There's never any software for you or your members to download. You never have to worry about upgrades, application development or managing servers and databases.

The Step-by-Step to Get Started with KickApps:

  2. Begin Building Your Online Community Site

    You'll be logged into the KickApps Affiliate Center, which is where you'll configure, build and manage your KickApps-powered community. Begin customizing your online community using the KickApps WYSIWYG Site Styler and Theme Builder. For more advanced customization needs, you can also use your own HTML, Custom CSS and JavaScript to make your site look and feel exactly the way you want it to. For the deepest level of integration, you can use KickApps open APIs. Enable DNS masking so that your KickApps site points to the URL of your choice.  KickApps is also compatible with web content management systems (CMS) like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress,

  3. Integrate Your Online Community Using Widgets

    The integration of your online community site with your own site is crucial to delivering a seamless, branded experience for your audience and community members. Create Widgets using the KickApps Widget Studio, that feature your community's media and content (photos, blogs and videos) and contextually deploy the Widgets on your website alongside editorially produced content to drive traffic between your site and its community experiences.

  4. Cultivate and Nurture Your Online Community

    With a little work and some imagination you'll be on your way to stimulating rapid audience growth and driving active participation around your site and your brand. Begin programming your online community experiences to give members a reason to participate and interact with each other and your site's content. This could be in the form of a blog or video that you author where you invite your community to comment on, user-generated content contests or unique content or eCommerce offerings that are only available through the community

  5. Execute Your Marketing and Promotion Plan

    Your community's success is dependent on your ability to drive generate awareness and interest about it. For more ideas about this and all the above steps, download our white paper:
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