Follr Community Feature #6: Inviting New Members!

Season’s Greetings!  As the holidays are upon us this year, now is a great time to talk about your Follr page and then invite new members to become part of your growing community.

This week we’re going to take a look at how to effectively reach out to people in your circle of influence and send invites for them to join you on Follr.

Let’s get started!

First log in to www.follr.com, then click on the “Communities” link at the top.  (Make sure to create a Community page if you haven’t already done so!)

Next click the Pencil icon next to the Community you wish to update:

Then on the left-hand side, click on “Members & Paid Levels” and then “Invite”:

Now you’re ready to begin inviting new community members!  On the next page you’ll see two parts you’ll be interested in.. sending invites via social media and email.

To invite via social media, click on any of the icons to produce a post on one of your linked social media accounts:

Or if you’d like to invite via email, click on “Invite Members” at bottom:

This will take you to a page where you can manually enter the email addresses of people you’d like to invite, or you can choose to upload a file of email addresses by clicking on “Upload File”:

** Please note that if you’re uploading a file it needs to be in a text or .csv format, with one email address per line.  And please, no Spam! 🙂

After you’ve entered or uploaded your file of addresses, click on “Send Invitations”:

That’s it!  Now you can sit back, relax and watch your Follr community grow.

As always, have fun and we hope you enjoy your holiday season!  And Happy New Year from all of us here at Follr!

 

Follr Community Feature #5: Changing your Theme

Hello again!  This week on the Follr Blog we’re going to be taking a look at another exciting feature for your Community: Changing your Theme.

One great thing about Follr is that you can really make your Community page your own.. you can let your creative side out and design to your heart’s content!

Let’s take a look at how you can change the look and feel of your Community page.

First log in to www.follr.com and create a Community page if you haven’t already done so.
Then click on “Communities” at the top and then the Pencil icon or the “Administration” link next to the Community you wish to update:

Good work!  Next click on “Design & Layout” on the left-side navigation and under that click on “Theme”:

Next you can upload images to change the Banner, the Inner Banner and the Thumbnail image of your Community page:

Now for the really cool part!  Keep going on that page to change the Background Image and Background Color of your page:

Here’s a close-up of the color wheel you can use to change the Background Color.  Use your mouse to click, hold and drag the small white circle around the outer color wheel to update the color square in the middle.  Then do the same with the small white circle in the color square to choose the color you want.  You’ll see the box at left update with your chosen color.

Then when you’re ready, click “Save Changes” at bottom.  That’s it!  You can then go to your Community page and see your awesome new design.

Keep coming back to the Follr Blog each week for an exciting new Community Feature you can use to improve and grow your Follr Community!