"VKontakte" is a Russian-language social network with the largest user audience. This is the first site of the Russian-speaking Internet segment. According to data at the beginning of 2017, the daily number of visitors is 70 thousand people. How to create a group in VKontakte is a question that is relevant for many active visitors of this social media. The thematic communities help to promote their product, company or service for free, or even simply to assemble a club of users by interests, where like-minded people can meet each other.
How to create your own group in VKontakte
Only registered users can create their own communities on the VK territory. Before you start creating a group, you need to think carefully about the topic, the goal. A truly successful and competitive popular community with an impressive number of subscribers will be only one that is not the next clone of numerous groups, publics, which is ready to offer users unique interesting content. To do this, it is necessary to regularly replenish the community with valuable information and work on its promotion.
If you are willing to work on community support, let's move on to how to create a group as VKontakte.
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We go to your VKontakte page and find the "My Groups" tab.
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Click on the button "Create community".
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After that you have to choose between the group, the public page and the event( event, meeting).We are interested in the first point.
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Enter the group name( you can change it later if necessary.)
Setting up the community is the next step. It is recommended to change the default address( vk.com/club00000, where 000000 is the club number) to a more recognizable one, for example vk.com/ the name of your organization, services, etc.( The user can choose - make the wall open( at the same time, all participants can leave the message on it), or hide it, leaving it only for reading( made available only for administration)The same applies to photosdocuments, and the rest of the content
After the community is created, the opportunity to invite participants becomes available, and more willingly users enter groups with an attractive avatar, a beautiful, convenient, combined menu design, regular polls, discussions, voting, thematic hashtags, music, videos and otherEntering a group with content is not such a difficult task, there are no special secrets and you do not need to be a SMM guru( Social Media Marketing is a marketing specializing in promotionin social networks) to promote their group.
Advertising online with the help of social networks has high efficiency when integrating with other services. It will be useful to get accounts on Twitter, Facebook, other social networks. This will ensure a wide audience coverage, and sales will naturally grow. When creating your own community or public service, specify the contacts of the administrator, to which the user can write a message when any of these questions arise.
How to create a page in VK
To create your own VC community, you need a registration procedure that is simple and does not require advanced skills:
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Go to vk.com.
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Before you will appear an input form that suggests entering a first and last name. According to the rules of the site, this should be real data, but you can enter fictional.
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After entering the name and surname, click the "Register" button. A window will appear. It is necessary to fill in the field with a real phone number, to which the SMS arrives, confirming the registration procedure.
After confirmation, the system will offer to enter data about yourself - the date of birth, educational institutions, etc. If you are purposefully creating a page and community for business promotion, you need to specify on the page contact information - address, work phone number, login in Skype, links to accounts of other social networks. The main photograph of the community is better to make the official logo of the organization - this will ensure the recognition of the group and will inspire users with a certain authority and confidence that they do not deal with fake.
Which group can I make
When you figured out how to create your own group in VKontakte, it's not superfluous to find out what kinds of communities are provided in this social network. Users are offered a grouping on the following subjects:
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Automobile( motorcycles are included in it).
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Tourism and recreation in all its forms.
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Security issues.
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Business segment.
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Graphics and Design.
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Family( home, children, relationships and much more).
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Cats, dogs, hamsters and other pets.
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Health and treatment of diseases, prevention.
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Communication( dating, holding joint leisure, marriage).
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I-ti and all kinds of games.
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Movies and everything about movies( festivals, interest clubs, etc.).
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Fashion trends, beauty.
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Recipes, products and cooking in general.
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Art, cultural phenomena, interest groups in this direction and much more.
You can see the full list of topics in the pop-up menu "Community Themes".Ignore this option is not recommended. Thanks to this function, representatives of the target audience will be able to easily find your group, become its participants. Recently, a new tool "Goods" became available to groups, public pages of VKontakte, with the help of which, with the help of the community, it is really possible to open an online store. Due to this function you will be able to sell your products directly through the social network.
Menus in the
group The design of the menu is a factor that attracts to the community of users, providing its convenience. For him, you need to create a special technical photo album, which will contain pictures that serve as navigation elements. They need to be prepared in advance - these can be buttons that refer to community materials. You need to rename the "Latest news" item in the "Menu" using the editing mode, insert the links in the form of pictures into the sections of the community. If everything is done correctly, pressing the "Menu" sign will pop up the graphics block.
Avatar
The main photo of the page or avatar is another important design element. Choosing the appropriate image, to install it is not difficult. It is necessary to perform the following procedure:
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to the right of the main menu is the button "Upload photo", click on it;
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in the appeared window we press the button "Select file";
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we load the selected image from the computer;
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select image boundaries;
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click "Save and continue";
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set the boundaries of the thumbnail;
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click "Save Changes".
How to create a topic
Topics or discussions are a great way to maintain feedback to the audience. To create a discussion, you must perform the following procedure:
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click on the button "Add discussion";
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in the line "Title" indicate its subject;
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fill in the "Text" field, detailing the topics;
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, if necessary, attach certain materials using the button "Attach;
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we press the button "Create a theme".
How to translate a group into public
According to the latest trends of SMM-management, community is more popular than public, and public. Translate your group into the form of a public page is very easy. For this you need:
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log in using administrator rights;
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in the right menu select the item "Translate to Page";
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in the appeared window choose one of the page types - "Place or small company", "Company, organization or website", "Famous person or collective" or "Product or product".
Video: how to create a group
on VKontakte Use the videos below, which detail and available the necessary steps to ensure the rapid creation of the group. Actual problems of people who are planning to move forward in VKontakte, but still do not know what is needed for this, will be explained in the videos with details and details.