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Circle Community Platform

Score8.9 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is Circle Community Platform?

Circle is an all-in-one branded community platform. Circle empowers creators and businesses to bring together their community, events, courses, and so much more — all under their own brand.

Categories & Use Cases

Circle Best community and course software

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have a mens community and using it to sell membership and courses. I was thinking about starting FB group but then noticed that it is to busy on there and to many distractions. Creating a community on Circle Community Platform gives people the focus on a specific topic and community. Allowing them to go deeper in the work.

Pros

  • Community Engagement, connection and communication
  • Courses
  • Payments
  • Channels/Spaces to specific topics and conversations

Cons

  • Video Space or Channel like YouTube
  • Giving more options for embed
  • Allowing documents and pdfs to open on mobile app in app versus needing to be downloaded on mobile first before viewing

Return on Investment

  • $500 a month, instead of needing several different platforms to do the things I need, Circle does most of them.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific and HighLevel

Other Software Used

Todoist, Financial Wellness by YNAB, HighLevel, Vimeo

Circle Community Platform is Great for Creating Community

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Circle Community Platform allows us to create a community of nonprofits who can share their learnings with one another in real-time.

Pros

  • Connects users
  • User-friendly

Cons

  • easier to navigate platform
  • consistently releasing new product features

Return on Investment

  • helped us increase engagement with our product
  • helped us to create a community of users

Usability

User friendly and effective

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We built our community of users there. The community is focused on educating our customers in the best use of our medical device, FlexBeam. Through the Community we keep our customer engaged and excited to keep using our device and we provide a lot of high value content from our Clinical Director. Specifically the Forum is the most popular space where users ask questions and share experience and all members can benefit of it.

Pros

  • User friendly
  • Nice layout
  • Good functionalities

Cons

  • Analytics
  • Log in for users
  • Integration with PayPal

Return on Investment

  • Paid members for PRO version
  • More engagement with our customers, meaning we can also have info that are useful for improvement of our product
  • Educational space for our users

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Podia, Mighty Networks and Discourse

Community Is A Key Marketing Strategy Right Now — Circle Community Platform for B2B

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use Circle Community Platform to host a currently free, active community for our customers, helping them connect to one another, access exclusive events and resources, and discounts. For us, it helps us build deeper bonds and trust with our B2B customers and serve our mission of empowering and inspiring our industry.

Pros

  • Dedicated spaces for different topics or audiences
  • A variety of formats to serve different content needs
  • Events - hosting and promoting

Cons

  • Deeper analytics and more customization in metric views
  • More accurate tracking for invite links (Not just clicks; actual joining would be useful)

Return on Investment

  • Increased the siz our most engaged audience
  • Increased our overall engagement with our audience - way more two way dialogue than traditional email marketing can do
  • Increased attendance at our webinars and paid classes

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Meta Business Suite and Slack

Other Software Used

Wrike, Slack, Semrush