What can one do with a "Network Site"?
productArticle01 Jan, 2021

What can one do with a "Network Site"?

The limit is your imagination. You can run a community site, launch a publication, sell products, run courses, create new revenue streams for yourself or employment for others, even rule the world.

Network Sites

You heard the term "network site" here first. Ok? Ok.

One of the pillars of the MainCross solution is the cohesion of a "website" component and a "network" component.

Network Site = Social network + website

By website I mean the usual static website that everyone needs - businesses, organizations, individuals etc - a point of presence, marketing site that explains about the goods and services, or vanity site about an individual etc.

While the network is a digital network - they connect people to people, people to businesses, and enable flow of knowledge, information and commerce. Where would the world be without networks?

Creator / fan sites

A MainCross Network Site allows creators to effortlessly spin up powerful creator websites which enable community and commerce. Creators today are forced to use existing platforms, however one can clearly look into the future and see where the world will move to in this decade - creator economy, passion economy etc are the new buzz words. A Creator can use her own service (the Network Site) in myriad ways:

  1. Interact with audience, ie multicasting
  2. Allow the audience to interact with the Creator in ways that are respectful, authentic and controlled
  3. Allow the audience to interact with each other, ie create the power of belonging to a community
  4. Charge for subscription and share premium content with subscribers

Community sites

A MainCross Network Site allows community sites to be launched with the press of a button. Want to have a community of book lovers? A community passionate about gardening? Politics? Anything and everything is fair game. Why create a silly Facebook group when you can have your own community Network Site?

Add-on community to existing service

Imagine how powerful an empowered community add-on can be for your brand or organization. Here is a way for a brand, or organization to engage with a smaller group of humans, without the needless and endless distraction of platform social media with its deadly dose of toxicity. Engagement in a controlled environment, with their own rules and branding. And with the advantage to create custom flows, custom services.

Publications

At the heart of the MainCross system is the MainCross CMS, a "Network CMS". It allows for traditional formats of publishing as well as exciting new age formats that we have created. It enables simple requirements like professional blogs to complex media / publishing businesses. Why not launch your own publication or media business using the MainCross system?

New business streams

A MainCross Network Site also enables new business ideas - stuff that simply wouldn't be possible without our solution. Here is an idea for someone to take and run with:

Create pan India college level networks where students get a private space to interact on anything they want - with their trusted peers within their college and seamlessly with peers across colleges. This network gets used for sharing notes, gossip, selling micro services ("Hey I can do your homework for you"), ordering flowers & chocos, etc. Recruiters come in and want to tap into this student energy and find the best most enterprising candidates and so on.

Psss: we are looking for founders to launch new business on MainCross, we'll support you with tools and knowhow. Talk to us.

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