Share & Invite Members to Your Hub

Spread the Word

In Person

When in meetings or organization outings, start telling people about your Hub and have them login/register for the with you there. It's helpful to get them in right there on the spot so they can ask you questions as they navigate your Hub for the first time. 

Social Media

If your Hub is external-facing, use the Share icons on your Posts to share content to your social media sites. Sharing links from your Hub to these different sites will get users interacting with your content. If you’re constantly redirecting them to the Hub and giving them the content they need, they’ll organically start going there without your help.

Leverage your Mailing List

You may have a mailing list that you use now to communicate with your members. Once you determine a date to launch, send a regular email communication to those members, letting them know that your new Hub is coming and what they need to know. 

In this email, we recommend giving them key dates, like when your Hub will be live, and for them to be on the lookout for an email inviting them to join the Hub. If you don’t give them a heads-up and invite them directly, some may ignore the general invitation because they’ll have no idea what it’s for and think it’s spam. It's always best to give a heads-up before inviting them to your Hub. 

Promote your Hub everywhere!

Include a call-to-action everywhere on your materials. Make sure a link to your Hub is prominently displayed in all of the places that new and current members find you now.  This includes your website, emails, newsletters, banners, print materials, posters at events and your social media channels. Remember, it takes seven attempts to get people’s attention, so the more you remind people, the better it will be!  Something like "Looking for updates? They can be found in our Hub at … (your Hub address here).”

Add Members to Your Hub

Now that your Hub site is all set up, you want to start inviting people to come read and interact with your content! It's easy to invite or bulk import users into your site.

How to Invite a Member to Your Hub

Log into the Builder at build.inspirehub.com (USA), build.ihubapp.ca (CAD) or build.inspirehub.com.au (AUS) 

1. Navigate to 'Channels & Users' > 'Users'

2. Click on the 'Invite User' button in the top right corner

3. Fill in the User's Name, First and Last, Email, Phone number (optional)

4. Select which User Role you would like this User to be. On most occasions you will keep this on Registered User.
   Select Which Channels you would like this User to be apart of. You can add them to both public and private channels. Adding them to Channels before they even begin gives them a customized app right when they log in.

5. Add a custom message (optional)

6. Click 'Invite'

There you go! An invite has been sent to that person!

How to Bulk Invite People

1. In the Builder, Select ‘Channels & Users' > 'Users’

2. Select ‘Import Users’ from the top of the page

3. Select the blue ‘Select file’ button.

4. Locate the Excel or .csv file with the names of the people you want to upload

5. Select ‘Open’

6. The first few rows of information from your file will be shown in the preview window. Based on the sample data, use the drop down menus in ‘Assign a Category’ to correctly identify the first name, last name and email rows. Match the “First name” category to the “first name”, the “Last Name” category to the “last name” and the “Email” category to the “email”.

7. Select the blue ‘Continue’ button

8. Select one or more contacts

9. Select the blue ‘Continue’ button

10. Customize the subject or body of your invitation email, if you like

11. Select the ‘Invite’ button to send your invitation email to the people you selected