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3 Marketing Tips That Will Make Your Membership Website More Successful
Posted on 18. Jul, 2010 by Steve.
It doesn’t matter how good your membership website is if no one known about it. There are a variety of different techniques that can be used to increase the visibility of your membership site, however some are more effective than others. By taking advantage of some fundamental marketing tips, you membership website will be able to consistently increase its base of members. 1. Don’t Go For the Sale Right Away One of the biggest mistakes that you can make when marketing your membership website is to try and go for the hard sell right away. Instead of pushing for sales immediately, it is much more profitable to focus on lead generation, by gathering email addresses. Unlike many products sold online, a membership site is not a one-time sale, rather it is a recurring sale. The best way to ensure that your members will continue paying for access to your membership [...]
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Has the Release of WordPress 3.0 Had an Effect on Membership Websites?
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Steve.
The release of WordPress 3.0 has been in the making for some time and the official release has finally taken place. As with all major releases, the instant reaction of many people is to find out how these releases will affect their website specifically, and this is an especially important question for people who are using WordPress to manage their membership website. Downtime is never good for any website, but membership websites have even more pressure than most to be available to users at all times. This is because members have already paid for access to the content. This makes planning out the process of upgrading to WordPress 3.0 incredibly important to webmasters of membership websites. WordPress 3.0 Shouldn’t Affect Your Membership Website 1. Testing WordPress 3.0 went through a very long and thorough alpha and beta phase. This should have given every plugin developer plenty of time to update [...]
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How Much of Your Membership Website Should You Outsource?
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Steve.
When it comes to creating and maintaining your membership website, the entire process can mean a lot of effort and even more time. The most common way to bypass this problem is to simply outsource the work to someone else. However, many people are left wondering exactly how much of their membership website can actually be taken care of by someone else. There are several aspects of membership websites that are most commonly outsourced. The first is the graphics/design of the website. Learning how to create professional looking graphics is a skill that not everyone has, and the same is true for the actual design of the entire website. Outsourcing this type of work is extremely common and can be done by an independent contractor or through a professional website design company. Creating the actual content of the website is often outsourced as well. Sometimes all of the content is [...]
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