Community Coalitions are gaining ground in all areas of business around the world. We have seen coalitions expand from grass root special interests to large groups of individuals from all over the globe with the same interests to regionalized communities of people sharing in the same activities.


CONNECTED COMMUNITIES

JCO Group has extensive experience in developing and supporting coalition groups. We have managed marketing, technology and business projects for companies around the world. A few examples include
- Cities that want to expand services such as parking and transit with tourism and retail.
- Transit and Parking Operators that want to take a prepaid card system and expand into retail and loyalty coalitions.
- Retailers that wanted to segment regions into communities to expand services for customer acquisition, retention and service expansion.
- Chamber's of Commerce and groups servicing B2C and B2B markets.
- Economic Development groups that are interested in building awareness, tourism and commerce within a city.
- Industry Groups that wanted to build interactive news, blog and discussion forum.

We believe the approach to developing a strong community program can include, but is not limited to:
- Collective interests of stakeholders
- Demographic factors
- Geographic factors
- Technology factors
- Open communications and dialogue
- Business models, rewards and incentives

We can support you in many ways to develop a strong community coalition program from a marketing, business and technology standpoint. We can design the program model to achieve self funding by offering targeted products or services in both the physical and virtual markets. We especially bring a strong technology background to develop and support the Portal where the community can effectively discuss the issues and promote the stakeholders programs.

Many examples of coalitions that can benefit from our services include:
- Chamber's of commerce
- Economic development groups
- Tourism councils
- Special interest groups
- Associations
- Industry groups
- Large specialty retailers or service providers
- Corporations developing intranet or extranet for stronger communications


CONNECTED CITIES

For more information, download our Connected Community Assessment project overview. OR review a sampling of our community portals AllPayNews and allCUnews

Contact us to discuss how we can help launch or take your program to the next level. JCO Group Team or call 1.512.246.9301

JCO Group believes in leveraging Open Source platforms whenever possible and we take this same philosophy with all marketing programs as well. The benefits to open source technologies are that you benefit with robust technologies, supported by large communities of developers and experts that have a passion to improve it and the cost for licensing is basically free. Some well known open source technologies include Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Dynamic Content Management Systems (CMS) allows many users to access and control content from a browser in an easy-to-use toolkit.