Community

Cimarket enable three mechanisms to increase our awareness of interdependence and community feelings and engagement within the market relationships:

1.- Choosing the variables and ratios most important to you and record the totalized purchasing levels of all customer members that care about the same issues.  It means that cimarket enables customers to flag or mark the variables that we care and we are going to look for purchasing. All customers that care the same variable become ¨a community of customers¨.  We will be able to track our satisfaction grading and sales levels and check out how consistent we are with the issues that matters. E.g. if you want to achieve better prices for a specific category of product, you will be able to ¨flag or mark it¨, but because of we need to make apple-to-apple comparisons, in this case the variable price that you want to track has to be related to an specific level of quality or standard definition of product components you like. The supplier that want to please that need, will improve processes and ingredients to fit you. ¨The community of customers¨ that care about price related to an specific standard of product definition, will track, not only their own score of level of satisfaction but also the accumulative satisfaction grade of all customer members that care about it. And of course, they will also truck the level sales of products that hold this improvement and together be able to review if the community is being consistent.Other example could be to review the level of preference of customer members to those companies with better score in the ECG balance.2.- Integrating suppliers to the community feeling. Because of the communication in statistical ways between customers and suppliers, we can experience that if we want to improve a specific ratio or variable, we can ¨work together and help each other¨. We prefer to buy from companies that generate open knowledge and produce locally when measurements of efficiency and customer satisfaction so warrants.3.- We empower working communities using networking.  Admission to the platform of each new member requires an existing member shall ¨Sponsor¨ him (her). The existing Member who invited the new associate is recorded as such and should help the new member to use the platform and to use all the information that is available. In turn, once you are already a member, you can invite and orient new stakeholders. It means that cimarket create a formal interconnection between customer members.It is a well known fact of social science that community projects only succeed when the community takes ownership. Hence, we encourage community members to take ownership through active participation. We have created the community administrator as role of teacher and trainer to new members to use and move within ciMarket Cimarket web information repository. This role helps to high light the ratios and variables that most affects the community well being.The Administrators will not be official employees of the platform, every member may decide to become Administrator; there is no selection process for this position. It may be required applicants some proof attesting that they fit to promote and support other members on the operation of the platform. We suggest that this role should be paid (always with a clear definition Maximum Income). We believe that the most effective way to pay this role is based on the level of consumption that have all the members ¨within¨ their own network.But the consumer members, as everything in cimarket, must to have information and decide whether or not it requires, and whether it is willing to allocate resources to finance the role of the administrator.We have to find the most effective ways to generate relationships between ourselves and the community that we create at the moment we get connected and face common issues.