Archive for 'Tips & Tricks'
Essential Steps for Your Membership Site
Posted on 18. Mar, 2011 by Steve.
3 Essential Steps Keep Your Membership Site Ahead of Your Members It doesn’t matter what type of website you run, the biggest problem that you can have is falling behind your members. There are a number of different areas in which this can occur to a membership site including content creation, topic relevancy, and product promotion. Fortunately there are some simple steps that you can take to stay ahead in all of these areas. The first area and often the most important is the content creation itself. Some people make the mistake of over-preparing content before opening a membership site, whereas others are on the ropes from the very beginning. The general rule of thumb is to stay two to three months ahead of your oldest member. You know that if you stay ahead of them, that you will be ahead of everyone. The easiest way to do this is [...]
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Best Membership Software
Posted on 13. Mar, 2011 by Steve.
How Do People Choose Their Membership Software? If you haven’t yet decided what type of membership software you should use, then you have probably already done some research and found out what type of software other sites are using. While this is valuable information, it is even better to know why your competition is using a particular piece of software. Not only will this tell you where to start, but also give you an idea of what their priorities and methods are. Here is a quick look at some of biggest factors that many people consider when choosing their membership site software. The first thing that most people will look at is integration. The key thing to keep in mind is that some people are more than willing to pay a developer to integrate software that may not be originally designed for their content management system, whereas others prefer to [...]
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Creating a WordPress Membership Site
Posted on 05. Mar, 2011 by Steve.
Why Creating a WordPress Membership Site Has Become the Most Popular Option When it comes to creating a profitable online business there are a number of different strategies that you can use. There is affiliate sales, Adsense websites, email marketing, PPC, product creation, and much more. Above all of these options, membership sites have become the most popular for a number of reasons. More specifically, the WordPress membership site has taken hold. Here is a quick look at why membership sites, especially those hosted on WordPress, have become so common. Membership sites in general hold a number specific advantages. The primary advantage is that it provides both passive recurring income as well as instant income. It creates passive recurring income from your membership fees, while this does take some maintenance, you really only need enough content to meet the needs of your longest member, assuming that you are drip feeding [...]
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Most Important Feature of Your Membership Software
Posted on 01. Mar, 2011 by Steve.
What Is the Most Important Feature of Your Membership Software? It seems like the average membership site software that has been released over the past few years has become much more feature-rich. While this is great news for users because it can boost versatility and productivity, it can also be distracting and actually hinder your site. The key is to identify the most important feature or set of features and make sure that they are a priority. So what is the most important feature of your membership software? Most people can answer this question immediately, but does that mean that they are actually giving the right answer? For example, many people would immediately point to either a security related feature or promotion related feature, but that doesn’t mean that they are right. Identifying the most important feature can actually be a tricky process. Here is a closer look at some [...]
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Simple Tips to Improving Your Membership Site Order Process
Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
Simple Tips to Improving Your Membership Site Order Process For ecommerce sites, one of the biggest areas that continually gets tested and improved is the checkout or order process. This same trend can now be seen in the arena of membership sites as well. There is nothing worse than getting someone who is ready to become a paying member, only to bail out during the checkout process. Fortunately, there are a lot of small things that you can do to prevent this from happening. Here are a few simple tips that will help you improve your order process and boost conversions. The most important that you can do is make the checkout process as clear as possible. One reason that people will back out of the subscription process to your membership site is that the instructions are not clear. They may not understand why they are entering certain pieces of [...]
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Where Does Your Membership Site Fit Into Your Business Strategy?
Posted on 14. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
One of the biggest decisions that you have to make is where your membership site will fit into your overall online business strategy. For some people it is a springboard for more expensive products and services like coaching and mentoring programs, sometimes even live conferences. Other people make their membership site the top of their pyramid, while some it the whole of their primary strategy. Here is a closer look at different ways that a membership site or series of sites can be fit into your overall plan and how they can be used. The Top of the Ladder For a lot of people, there membership site is really the focal point of their online profit strategy. There are several benefits that can be gained from this. The primary benefit is that recurring income is where the focal point of the marketing efforts will go. This enables a very solid [...]
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3 Essential Elements of Effective Membership Site Management
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
Creating a membership site is only half the battle. In reality, anyone can setup a membership site, but the thing that sets successful sites apart from the rest is how it is managed. This is because a poorly managed membership site will quickly drive members away which makes creating a sustainable site impossible. In order to make sure that your membership site is set up so that you can effectively manage it, here are three things to keep in mind. Time Spend Pre and Post Task It may surprise you how much time you spend preparing for a task and finishing a task. For example, loading a WordPress post (assuming it is already written) includes signing into your admin area, entering the post section, and creating a new post. All of this before you actually add your content. Once you are finished, you need to add tags, a description, any [...]
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