Journalistic integrity. Authentic community.
May 17, 2024
Free Press Plus Plans
Does your community know who you are?
Make your company's voice heard!
Open doors in your community for engagement. Promote freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of assembly. Communicate as a truly free press. Begin to share your news, your story!
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Small and medium businesses can now self-manage their marketing campaigns!
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COMMUNITY VENDORS
If you are a business manager with a Community Vendor plan then you have everything you need to build a thriving base for community marketing and brand awareness among existing and new customers.
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Share ideas and communicate in real time with customers and clients in your local community. Discussion, Media, Files, Member information, it's all there for you to encourage folks who live and work in your town to whom your organization may actively participate. It's social media that you manage according to your needs.
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VISIBILITY
Want to be discovered more easily and avoid the doom scrolling of other platforms? Write and manage your own live directory listing!
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PUBLISHING
Have a new project to major announce to publish? Post your own article in the Community News!
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ADVERTISING
Want to have more autonomy and control over your marketing and advertising? Write and manage your own live advertising profile!
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PARTICIPATION
Invite people to join you as Free Press Members, a free plan that gives your supporters access to actively participate in your groups.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Invite people to join your group(s) as Free Press Members, a free plan for your customers to actively participate in your groups. You choose your privacy and visibility! You manage your members according to your needs.
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Want to have an open exchange with new customers? Create a public and visible group that raises your awareness in your community.
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Want to have a secure place for your customers to connect and share? Create a private group that is available only to your customers.
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Need to talk with your staff in a secure, easily managed digital space? Create a private and hidden group for board members, staff, volunteers, or similar internal communications.
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GROWTH
The Community Vendors plan offers these and more. We are building, optimizing, and adding features regularly to amplify the public relations effectiveness of local small and medium businesses, and for-profit organizations in their own communities.
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Group social media features to encourage real-world engagement
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Your Group's social media features let members easily discover new group content in real time. Members can also interact with each other and join new groups based on their interests.
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Group managers can upload a variety of content to generate buzz around a topic by creating and managing posts. For example, you can post business updates or community announcements that you want members to know about.​
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Groups is a great social media toolkit to build a community for members of local clubs, teams, groups, businesses, and organizations who seek to be more active in their own communities.
Get members talking about you, and to each other, using your group's social media.
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You could be talking about... well, anything!
You could be reading your own stories, your children’s scores, your announcements, your friends' events, your workplace events, your social group chat, your business news, your town celebrations, and more in your own self-published free press local news magazine.
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How do I start my own Community Vendor plan?
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With your Community Vendor plan purchase, you will be able to log in and go to your Members Area.
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Create your Account
1. Your purchase and account are managed by a familiar multistep confirmation process managed by Wix ecommerce which provides the back office for The Rubicon Free Press. Follow the instructions carefully to ensure success.
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Welcome to the Members Area
2. Complete your Profile and any other relevant information that will assist your supporters in finding and joining you.
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Make your first Social Media Group
Community Group managers may make social media groups that operate much like the Big Tech platforms... with one primary exception, you have full management control.
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3. Create your Public Social Media Group and add that link to the Public Social Media Group field of your Group Directory listing.
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Maintain the group in the same manner as the big tech social media platforms.
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Start conversations. Moderate discussion. Share images, videos, and files.
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Build brand awareness of your unique offering to your local supporters and community.
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And that's not all you can do!
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Make your first Advertising Profile
4. Use the Vendor Directory submission form and complete your Advertising Profile.
This is the sales module of your Premium Member plan. It is reached via the click-through from your Vendor Directory listing that teases your latest offerings to new and existing customers.
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Some of the information from your Advertising Profile is used to complete your Directory Listing.
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Once submitted, your listing will appear in the same format as the above screenshot in the Vendors Directory section.
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These modules are 100% managed by the Community Vendor any time and anywhere!
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Congratulations! You've posted your first of many updates to your dynamic directory listing.
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Any website Member can Search for your company using the Country, Region, City, and Vendor Type search bar at the top of the section.
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Make your first Community News story
5. Make your first post in Community News by simply repeating the same fields in the Got News form that is found in the Members Area.
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