If fancy yourself as the next Mark Zuckerberg and want to own your own social networking site! Then check out these five amazing social network site building tools.
With your own social site your customers can become members and engage better and interact more effectively within a community of other resourceful users with the same interests. Get a better understanding of your consumer needs by engaging yourself to answering questions and demonstrating your level of expertise; give your users the freedom to express ideas and suggestions.
GroupSite.com is a great online social networking site builder tool providing an array of themes and templates to choose from. GroupSite.com offer several packages including a free package which includes up to 250 MB of storage, unlimited users, up to 5 subgroups plus all the standard features.
You can also add many premium features to your free package with prices starting from $9 per month per additional feature.
Features include:
- Additional storage 5 GB
- Custom branding
- Custom domain name
- Premium permissions
- Unlimited subgroups
- Add more pages
- Premium statistics
- Enhanced security
The paid services offer small, midsize and large packages. Check out the price plans below.
Social Engine is a complete and unique social networking software package which you can purchase, download and source even your own web hosting company to manage.
Features are plentiful giving you 100% control in design, content and a fully encrypted PHP source code which includes plugins and themes, quick and easy setup and expert backup and support. A single Social Engine license will set you back $250.00 however you can signup for a free 30-day trial.
If you’re looking for something real simple and easy to setup with some great features then Wall.FM is for you. Wall.FM allows you to start you own:
- Social network
- Photo/Video sharing site
- Dating site
- Education project
- Customer community
- Fan club
- Family site
And much more…
Wall.FM is completely free to signup, setup and start using.
If you’re looking to create a revenue generating community then Ning.com is the social network tool for you. With Ning you get complete creative freedom and control with built in social integration, mobile and cloud service extension and of course the revenue generating application.
Price plans start from $29.95 a month for a Plus package with advanced features as well as this they also offer a 30-day free trial. You can also try out their Mini package designed for small groups from $2.95 per month. Check out the price plans below.
SocialGo is one of the most popular social network developer sites available with a range of stunning features which consists of personalised profiles, easy messaging, groups, events and promoting events, text and video chat, forums, blogging, photo and video sharing and social media integration. Other benefits include unlimited storage and white labelling giving you the power to brand and market your network site.
These are some of best features available from a social network developer site and one of which that comes at a small premium too.
The basic package is free but trust me it’s as basic as basic gets, offering 1GB of storage and 10GB of bandwidth.
The premium package offers all the features excluding white labelling and member billing which is available at extra cost. The premium package will set you back $24.99.
They also offer a concierge package at $149.99 which includes 7 days free and all the premium features including white labelling, member billing and a design and setup service.
So what are you waiting for? Start creating your social networking revolution for your business today.
About Fabrizio Van Marciano
My favorites from the lists are SocialGo, Ning and Social Engine but I think if I would ever decide to build a social networking site, I would rather go for a self hosted script like Social Engine or Dolphin because that will give us more power over our sites and then the ownership to the sites will also be ours. With these hosted kind of social network sites we never know when they may shut down our site and we never are the real owners of our site
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Thanks Shiva, yes I agree with you. I’ve used SocialGo before and they’re definitely one of my top pics they do offer a great range of features. I’m not too sure how user friendly Social Engine is but the fact that you can self-host and have complete control and ownership does appeal to me.
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