Premium membership accounts?

2013-12-06T18:26:24-05:00

What is all about? Is RallyPoint moving in the direction of something like LinkedIn? What are your thoughts?

Response by Col Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 6 at 2013 7:14 PM

2013-12-06T19:14:40-05:00

WO1 Baker, awesome question... thanks for posting!  I think this is one of those things that may have some potential, although would have to be applied very carefully. So, I'd have to say that it depends on what a potential 'paid account' is intended for... for example for the average user, I believe membership should remain free (or RP could risk being considered obsolete/irrelevant by many users, like what happened to Classmates or TWS, meanwhile 'free-to-the user' platforms like FB & LI flourished); recruiters (along w/ those who have the need to target market to a military audience) could potentially pay a reasonable fee, just as long as it doesn't affect the average user and their perceived usefulness/utility of the site.  At the end of the day, the site will need to pull a profit; though my gut tells me that if members are charged, or free accounts were to become "watered down" in any way, the audience/usership/utility of the site could dry up nearly as fast as it has grown thus far.  I'm very excited about the direction that RP is heading, and I'd like to see it remain useful and accessible to a wide audience (meaning free of charge to the average user w/o watered down services), if it remains free and useful, the site will likely continue to grow at an exponential rate.  In short, if anyone is charged at all, I believe it should be outside sources like advertisers, universities, and/or recruiters.  Thanks again for posting...  Great question!  

Response by CW3(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 6 at 2013 8:31 PM

2013-12-06T20:31:10-05:00

Also just saw this.

Q&A: Yinon Weiss on Building Social Network RallyPoint to Connect the Military and Employers - SocialTimes

SocialTimes recently caught up with Yinon Weiss, co-founder of RallyPoint, a social network that connects current and former military and employers. It is similar in some ways to LinkedIn.

Response by Spc 1 J W. made Dec 6 at 2013 8:36 PM

2013-12-06T20:36:11-05:00

LinkedIn has free and paid accounts. So far I have a free account there though many of my connections have a paid account.

Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made Dec 6 at 2013 8:53 PM

2013-12-06T20:53:45-05:00

I'm not seeing it...

Response by CW3(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 7 at 2013 11:43 AM

2013-12-07T11:43:39-05:00

Heres the link

RallyPoint | Facebook

Response by SSG Arron Daniels made Jan 15 at 2015 10:23 AM

2015-01-15T10:23:55-05:00

I am skeptical about premium accounts. LinkedIn was great at first, but now there is so much spam/fake accounts that it's ridiculous now. I would say it depends on what the functionality of the premium accounts are. Predatory lending, fly by night marketers, and "we are hiring" spam could poison what I think is a pretty solid with the right/wrong capabilities.