SocialGO Owners

 

 

Todays workshop 'Member Billing 2.0, Profile Designer & GOCart' 5:00pm GMT | 12:00 pm EST | 9:00 am PDT. Mail support@socialgo.com to join!!

Hi guys!

We have just updated the SocialGO Owners' theme which is a preview of a new collection of themes coming from Ryan at GO Social in the next few months. 

We are hoping to launch these in the next 10 days in your Theme Stores. 

GOCart is here! It's an easy way to embed a powerful BuyItSellIt.com shopping cart into your social network under it's own tab.

BuyItSellIt.com is a great online shop builder that allows you to list and market your products. It supports multiple currencies, payment methods and shipping options and allows you to also upload your own HTML and files. This widget takes all the hassle out of setting up and integrating your BISI Shop with your SocialGO Network.

Setup is easy:

• Firstly, head over to the widget storage to purchase the widget.
• Second, set-up an account directly with BuyitSellit.com by clicking here.  (Note: you have the choice to take a free account or a premium account depending upon your needs)
• Then, email support@socialgo.com with your SocialGO network URL and your login details to your BuyItSellIt.com account.

Within 2 working days we will setup your store for you under a tab on your network. In the meantime you can begin to preview your content.

Expansion packs will also be available to purchase on a regular basis to increase your game arcade selection.

 

Twitter Connect is an easily installed widget that allows a user to login to a SocialGO network using their Twitter  account! The user's profile picture will be pulled right from their Twitter account, and they can directly update their Twitter status straight from your SocialGO network.

Want to get started? Here's how:

1) Log in to your admin centre (http://my.socialgo.com) and head over to the Widget Store to grab Twitter Connect.

2) Move on over to the Layout Manager and find the newly installed widget in the 'purchased' section. Drag it over to the main admin column on the left. Once it's there, double click it to open the popup window and leave it open.

3) Now you need to register your network URL with Twitter as an application.  Don't worry! It's easier than it looks. Go to Twitter.com and log in to your account. Then visit the following link and click 'Register a New Application':

http://twitter.com/oauth

4) Fill out the form, guided by the information provided on the widget popup window from your Layout manager. Remember to double check everything when you've finished!

 

5) Once you have completed the twitter.com Application registration process, twitter will show you a number of keys. The only keys we're interested in are the "Consumer Key" and the "Consumer Secret". Paste both of these into the widget popup window.

Click "Save" and... that's it! A button will appear under the Login area of your network that looks like this:

Using this button, your users will be asked to confirm the connection, and will then be able to Login to your network using their Twitter accounts! Amazing!

 

Good day, SocialGO Networkers!

We’re ecstatic to announce that you have more ways than ever to handle your subscriptions with the new Member Billing 2.0! Combined with using your Member Levels, you now have the ability to charge people to access premium areas of your site, like your Videos tab. This is a superb way to generate serious revenue and to up sell your members from a Free plan to a paid one. Amazingly, the new system supports free trials, so you can easily offer motivation for people to ‘try it before they buy it’, and it also supports multiple billing providers and accepts more forms of currency than ever before.

First, if you haven’t defined your member levels already, you will need to go to the Member Manager section and do this. You are free to create an unlimited number of levels and to name them whatever you wish. In this example, we’ve used 2 levels - ‘Free’ and ‘Paid’. For instructions on how to create your member levels, please click here.

If you already have Member Billing, you will need to click the 'Upgrade' button in your 'Membership Billing' area.

Now choose the payment details for the 'Paid' level of membership - in this example, we've created a $10.00 monthly fee and added a 30 day free trial. If you were to choose 'Private' for any level, this will ensure the level/plan is unavailable during sign-up and can only be offered and assigned by the network owner manually.

Now you should assign the member levels to the tabs and pages of your network. In this example, we've restricted the access of the Photos tab to 'Paid' members only. You can allow any number of levels to access a tab.

You will see below the results of what is seen during the sign-up process.
Note the paid subscription has '(30 days trial)' beside it to reflect the trial period. We will soon update the text to '30 Days Free Trial' to avoid any confusion.

Videos tab - currently, the system will limit access to the tab but not to the actual video. You will need to disable the Members tab to prevent the viewing of videos to levels that should not have access to them. This is a temporary measure as it will be possible to limit the Video tab's content, without sacrificing another tab, in approximately 2 weeks.

If you have any questions or feedback, as always, let us know by emailing support@socialgo.com.

Now that a vibrant community of professional suppliers has grown around SocialGO we plan to launch the SocialGO Pro Service Directory in the very near future. 

The purpose is to connect network owners who have a need with professional suppliers who can solve that need.  The listing will be FREE for pprofessional suppliers that want to list and FREE for network owners to access. 

You can expect to see professional suppliers offering services such as custom development, network moderation, network marketing, affiliate programmes, content management, custom design etc.

The SocialGO Pro Services Directory will initially be found in the Admin Centre of every network next to the Theme Store Tab.  Later it will also be features on SocialGO.com.

If you woud like to list your company or service in the Pro Services Directory, we would be happy to hear from you.  Please email niall@socialgo.com.

The genius folk at Widget Laboratory are really turning them out - professional and highly functional widgets that add power and steam to your networks.

The newest widgets include TabDoctor, FootDoctor, LabAffiliate, and LabArcade V2. Click the photo icons to be taken to a video example.

If you have ever wanted to purchase a plan and make your payments via PayPal, now you can - we've added PayPal as an accepted form of payment. Feel free to update your payment information via your Admin Center or to use the PayPal option to upgrade your plan!