Keep Your Community Thriving — From Day One and Beyond

Community Support & Success Plans

Your community is more than a platform. It drives engagement, advocacy, and shared knowledge. Whether you use Verint, Higher Logic, Bettermode, or Hivebrite, ongoing strategy and insight matter. Our Community Support and Success Plans help increase adoption, engagement, and ROI long after launch.
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Why Community Support Matters

Community Support Services

Communities don’t fail because of software—they fail when ownership fades and strategy stalls.

Our clients invest in ongoing community support to ensure their platform continues to evolve, deliver measurable value, and engage members year after year.

94%

Client Retention

Nearly all of our clients continue with our support long after launch.

6+ Years

Average Partnership

Our client relationships average 6 years and many have thrived with us for over a decade.

100%

Success with Ongoing Support

Every client who invests in their community and partners with us for ongoing support has a thriving, growing community.

Why Clients Invest in Community support

Benefits of Community Support

Peace of Mind

Expert support is always on hand when you need it. No scrambling for help when issues arise.

Proactive Guidance

Roadmaps, audits, and platform health checks built into your plan to stay ahead of problems.

Strategic Growth

Use-case expansion, training programs, and adoption campaigns that drive real value.

Better ROI

Platform adoption and business alignment improve results and justify your investment.

Churn Prevention

When online communities fail, it's rarely the software—it's the lack of ownership and post-launch support.

Avoid Common Pitfalls

Prevent UX decay, admin turnover risks, and the dreaded "We launched it—now what?" syndrome.

Our Clients

Chosen by Top Brands for Community Support

Some of the brands that have worked with us to enhance their online communities with our expert consulting.
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Our Community Support Retainer Model

This isn’t a bucket of hours—it’s a structured, strategic service plan designed to ensure your community delivers lasting business value. Every plan includes:
  • A dedicated Community Success Lead
  • An annual roadmap and platform health check
  • Access to experts in UX, content, governance, engagement strategy, and platform administration
  • Proactive recommendations to keep your community aligned with your evolving business priorities
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Choose Your Community support tier

Community Support Plans

Bronze

$30,000
/ year
Your community safety net — keep adoption steady and avoid disengagement.
Up to 10 support hours/month
Dedicated Community Success Lead for monthly guidance and ad hoc best-practice support
Community health checks and analytics snapshots
Light content and UX support
Quarterly governance and moderation check-in
Monthly office hours
Choose Bronze

Gold

$120,000
/ year
Enterprise partnership — continuous innovation and enterprise-scale optimization.
Everything in Silver, plus:
Up to 40 support hours/month
Dedicated Customer Success Team for ongoing strategic consulting and enterprise-level guidance
Quarterly innovation sprints (AI, automation, integrations, gamification)
Ongoing community management support (moderation, engagement)
Weekly dedicated office hours + strategy sessions
Workshops or training sessions as needed
Platform upgrades and release planning
Choose Gold
A Range of Community services

What’s Included in Our Community Support Plans

Community Strategy & Governance

  • Roadmapping & KPI setting
  • Change management strategy
  • Governance frameworks & advisory
  • Stakeholder workshops
  • Adoption campaigns

Community Platform Management

  • Platform admin & configuration
  • Health checks & bug triage
  • Reporting & analytics reviews
  • Interim community management
  • Compliance & documentation

Community UX / Creative / Design

  • Homepage and IA redesign
  • Theming and brand updates
  • Visual asset creation
  • Navigation & content tuning
  • Template development

Community Growth & Engagement

  • New use-case design + rollout
  • Persona-based enablement
  • Post-sale onboarding toolkits
  • Campaign development
  • Seasonal engagement planning
Guiding You at Every Step

Supporting You at Every Stage of Your Community Journey

From the initial evaluation of customer community platforms to the final stages of community growth and management, we provide comprehensive support throughout your entire customer engagement journey. Our approach covers every critical phase to ensure your online community thrives and delivers value to your business and your customers.
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Community Management Platforms We Work With

Bettermode

Bettermode helps retail brands build scalable customer communities with AI search, integrations, and tools to boost engagement and loyalty.
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Higher Logic

Higher Logic's powerful online community software brings together organizations and people, making real conversations happen.
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Khoros

Khoros is the leading customer engagement platform built to turn siloed knowledge into enterprise value, and customers into contributors
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Salesforce Experience Cloud

Salesforce Experience Cloud is a social platform designed to connect and facilitate communication among customers.
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Verint Community

Verint Community (formerly Telligent Community) is a leader in community software for digital marketing and support communities
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Testimonials

Client Success Stories in Community Support

From the beginning, our build posed unique challenges; multiple customer communities with competing needs, each requiring distinct branding and heavy customization. But our partnership with Social Edge helped guide us throughout the process to identify limitations and find creative solutions. The team from Social Edge was critical to ensuring the successful implementation of our Jive instance.
Beetna Kim Baird
Wiley
Here at Pearson we felt it was time to shake things up in our Neo community. And the shake up came in the shape of this beautiful tile from the team at Social Edge Consulting.
Kim England
Pearson
We accelerated our timeline for launch and were able to accomplish this thanks to the quick support of the Verint Community team and Social Edge Consulting. As of April 21, the community has grown to over 650 engaged members sharing much-needed credible resources and best practices to help navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage anyone in the early childhood field to join our growing community.
Colleen Murphy
Early Childhood Connector

Get Professional Community Support

Partner with Social Edge Consulting for community support that combines responsive technical help, proactive monitoring, and long-term strategic guidance. Whether you choose Bronze, Silver, or Gold, you’ll have a dedicated partner to keep your community delivering value every day.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Community Support

What are community support and success plans?

Community Support and Success Plans are ongoing services that help customer and member communities succeed after launch. They combine community strategy, platform support, analytics, engagement planning, and governance to improve adoption, increase member engagement, and deliver measurable community ROI over time.

Who should invest in a customer or member community success plan?

These plans are designed for organizations running customer communities or member communities on platforms like Verint, Higher Logic, Bettermode, Hivebrite, Salesforce Experience Cloud, and Khoros. They are ideal for new launches, relaunches, and established communities that need consistent ownership, engagement, and growth strategy.

How are community support plans different from ad hoc community support?

Unlike ad hoc community support or ticket based help, these plans provide proactive, ongoing guidance. You receive a dedicated Community Success Lead, regular community health checks, analytics reporting, engagement campaigns, and strategic roadmaps focused on long term community growth and platform adoption.

How do you measure community engagement and ROI?

Community success is measured using clear KPIs such as member adoption, active participation, content engagement, support deflection, and advocacy. Each plan includes analytics snapshots, performance benchmarks, and strategic reviews that connect community engagement to business outcomes.

Can community support scale as our community grows?

Yes. These plans are built to scale with your community platform and business needs. Clients can move between Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers as their customer community or member community grows, expands use cases, or requires deeper strategic and operational support.