How to Create Your Community Toolbar
Setting Up a Successful Program is as Easy as 1-2-3!
1. Create your community toolbar.
A few easy steps are all it takes to create your community toolbar. Our point-and-click wizard guides you step-by-step, so you don't need any technical knowledge. Just:
- Choose your language
- Add your logo and most useful site links
- Pick your favorite RSS feeds and online radio stations
You can save your work to come back to it later, even jump around steps.
After your basic toolbar is created, log into your account to personalize it. Our intuitive configuration panel lets you add powerful and engaging tools:
Along with your community toolbar, you receive a fully hosted, download site that includes important information such as privacy, technical support, a contact form, and more.
You can customize your download site with your logo and messages, and even choose your own sub-domain for easy access.
2. Promote your community toolbar.
Once you've built your community toolbar, let your subscribers and the world know you have one.
There are several ways you can promote your new toolbar. We'll even help you — our online promotion toolkit provides automatic code generation of content that you can embed directly on your website and in your applications.
The toolkit includes promotional banners, toolbar and gadget download badges, and installation packages that allow you to distribute your toolbar directly from your website or from a CD-ROM.
On your website:
- Add banners to your homepage and popular site pages. Select from over 50 banners, and place them on your homepage and other popular site pages. Simply copy and paste the code snippet into your site.
On the Web:
- Use search advertising to direct traffic to landing pages on your site. Link those landing pages to your download site.
- Talk about it in your blog, newsletters, and e-mails.
- Issue a press release.
- Add a link to your download site in your collateral and e-mail signature.
- Offer exclusive promotions and incentives available only to community toolbar users.
- Use social media to promote your community toolbar to new audiences.
- Provide links to your download site from other websites.
After your huge success, contact us. We'd love to make a case study!
3. Track, manage, and improve your results.
Track your community toolbar's adoption and usage with daily reports, available on-demand in the "Reports" section of your control panel.
We have a full set of analytical tools, providing you with extensive information about:
- New installations
- Number of active users
- Usage rates
- Daily generated Conduit Rewards revenue
Remember: no user specific information is available, because we do not collect it — period. Our privacy guarantee is an essential aspect of our service.