Archive for 'Tips & Tricks'
The 7 Point Checklist That Must Be Covered Before Making Your Membership Live
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
One of the most difficult times of launching a membership site is the final days where you are trying to double and triple check everything to make sure that launch day is a success. While there are details that will vary from site to site, there are 7 main points that must be double checked before you launch a membership site. 1. Content and Styling This is where the most variability will be from one membership site to the next. While the details will vary greatly, the overall sections will not. The first thing to check is the typography and layout to make sure that everything is standardized throughout the website. Next, you need to double check spelling and grammar, not only within the content, but also the styling. While checking the spelling, consistency (such as tense and phrasing) is something to keep in mind as well. Also double check [...]
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Changing Your Approach: Turning Trial Members into Premium Members
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
You have worked really hard getting people to sign up and become trial members, but it doesn’t seem to be paying off because you are having difficulty turning them into premium members. In many cases, the main problem is how membership sites actually view their trial members. There is so much attention being paid to recruiting trial members, that little attention is being paid to people who are currently in a free trial. Into to address this issue, it is critical that you change the way that you view trail members. The first thing that you have to do is treat trial members as leads, not trial members. Just because they have signed up for a trial membership, doesn’t mean that you are going to be able to monetize them and turn them into premium customers. Instead, it is much more beneficial to view trial members in the same way [...]
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Do You Need a WP E-commerce Affiliate Plugin?
Posted on 12. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
Many people with WP e-commerce websites often have problems deciding whether or not they need a WP e-commerce affiliate plugin or not. Fortunately, finding the answer to this question is pretty straightforward as long as you know what questions to ask. Here is a quick look at some of the questions that you need to answer in order to find out whether or not this type of plugin is right for you. 1. What is Your Relationship With WordPress This is a question that is often overlooked, but critically important. You need to really think about whether or not WordPress is the CMS that you plan on using. If you haven’t been very happy with WordPress up to this point, then you may not want to invest in a plugin that is specific to WordPress. However, if you are like most WordPress users and have been happy with the results, [...]
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The 3 Basic Steps to Using Facebook for Membership Sites
Posted on 10. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
Facebook has quickly become a well known tool for promoting businesses, products, and of course, membership websites. There are a lot of different tips and techniques that can be used, and if you really dig into the details, then it will take years to read and learn everything. However, with so many tiny details that people focus on, they all boil down to 3 basic steps. Here is a closer look at the 3 basic steps to using Facebook for your membership site. 1. Creating and Managing a Profile Regardless of what you are promoting, the first thing that needs to be done is establishing a plan for creating and managing your membership site profile. This includes things like creating a business account, reading and understanding the rules of Facebook, and installing the right applications. Normally, these applications are designed to accomplish goals like integrating feeds from your blogs as [...]
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Overcoming Barriers and Using Twitters Power to Grow Your Membership Site
Posted on 09. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
Using Twitter to promote a business or product is nothing new, however there are additional barriers that membership sites must overcome in order to utilize Twitter successfully. In order to find out how you can effectively use Twitter, it is important to understand what barriers you will be facing and what techniques you can use to overcome them. The Big Barrier There is one primary barrier that is unique to membership sites and it is that a majority of the content is in the members area. Most websites and blogs will simply post links to their content so that there followers can read the new content, however with a membership site this simply isn’t possible. That means that you need to find a way to still take advantage of the power that Twitter offers, without compromising your members only content. The obvious solution is to simply create more content and [...]
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Using the Magic Affiliate Plugin to Make Managing Affiliate Less Time Intensive
Posted on 08. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
By choosing the right affiliate plugin for your WordPress site, you can save a lot time by streamlining time-intensive activities. The Magic Affiliate Plugin is a great tool in this regard. The features are designed to not only be extremely useful, but also very simple to use. This means that you can save time on every task, which in the end means that you have more time to focus on other aspects of your website to further increase your earnings. Here is a closer look at some simple ways that the Magic Affiliate Plugin saves you time. One of the most time consuming tasks in regards to managing affiliates is paying them. Many affiliate plugins will force you to sort through all of the sales to find out what you owe each affiliate. Then you have to manually send a payment to each one individually. The Magic Affiliate Plugin allows [...]
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3 Underutilized Features of Your Affiliate Software
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Steve.
Most people using affiliate software spend a lot of time looking at the stats, seeing which affiliate are producing, tracking affiliate retention, and in general analyzing some number or another. While statistics are incredibly important, your affiliate software provides a lot of additional opportunities that you need to take advantage of. Here is a quick look at the 3 most underutilized features of your affiliate software. 1. Auto responder Integration Most business that run affiliate programs will probably integrate their autoresponder add a few introductory messages and that’s about it. They may even send out a mass update every once in a while. Just because this is the norm, doesn’t mean that it is necessary the best way to handle things. By being able to integrate an autoresponder, you have a lot of power that you should take advantage of. To start, you should offer a quick affiliate training course [...]
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