Member Directory
When your membership becomes how they get work.
Filterable directories built for two-sided models: mentor and mentee, employer and employee, freelancer and client, expert and seeker. Both sides in one community, with the matching and trust layer underneath.
S.A.I.L. the four intrinsic motivators
Status
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Access
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Influence
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Leverage
The most durable retention there is
BuddyBoss features are live today. BOSS enhancements are custom.
Two-sided models it supports
Everything available to you.
Each side gets its own profile type, its own fields, and its own view of the other.
Development
Mentor and mentee
- Separate profile types with different fields
- Availability and capacity on the mentor side
- Goals and stage on the mentee side
- Matching and request flow between them
Hiring
Employer and candidate
- Job listings posted by member employers
- Candidate profiles with skills and availability
- Application handled inside the platform
- Placement tracked, and rewarded if you want it
Services
Freelancer and client
- Service listings with scope and rates
- Portfolio and recommendation display
- Enquiry and booking flow
- Reviews after a completed engagement
Finding the right person
Filtering
- Any profile field, including custom ones
- Skills, industry, and specialty
- Location and timezone
- Availability, so nobody contacts a closed door
- Gamification data, meaning level, achievements, and standing
Why they pick one
Trust layer
- Recommendations from other members
- Verified credentials and certificates
- Completed work or engagement history
- Response rate and reliability signals
Worked example
A directory that pays for the membership
One placement, and the annual fee stops being a cost.
Freelancer directory
One engagement
Leverage
Marcus lists his services, rate, and availability
With three recommendations and a certification already on his card.
Access
A member business filters for his specialty and timezone
Twelve results. His card carries the most specific proof.
Influence
Recommendations decide it
Not the rate, and not the portfolio. The vouching.
Leverage
Engagement completed, review left, both sides scored
Which improves his position for the next search.
Status
He now earns more from the platform than it costs
And his renewal is no longer a decision anybody has to think about.
Recipes
Three you could build this afternoon.
Show availability before anything else
When
Only if
Then
Let the trust layer do the ranking
When
Only if
Then
Close the loop after an engagement
When
Only if
Then
Before you build
Three things worth knowing.
Note
Two-sided directories need both sides seeded before launch. An empty side kills the whole thing and it is very hard to restart.
Note
Decide early whether you take a commission. Retrofitting a fee onto relationships that formed for free is a difficult conversation.
Note
This is the feature that turns a membership into a business asset for the member. It is worth building properly or not at all.
The rest of BOSS
Member Directory is one of 7 parts.
Member Cards
Gamplify Cards
Member Blog
Member Matching
Member Referrals
Member Directory
Member Messaging
Put Member Directory to work.
Tell us what you are trying to get members to do, and we will show you the Flow that does it.