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Is Your Membership Plugin Keeping Pace With Your Members?
Posted on 19. May, 2011 by Steve.
When you installed your membership plugin when you first launched your site, everything seemed to be laid out pretty well, but over time you may have noticed that there are some minor tweaks that need to be made. The problem is that your plugin is making this task a much bigger problem than it should be. There are a number of different ways that your members can out-pace your plugin. Here is a quick look at the two major areas to focus on when deciding whether or not it is time to upgrade and get a better membership plugin. The first area is your members themselves. There are some membership plugins that were designed to do absolutely everything. Many of them get billed as the set it and forget type plugins that will magically create a membership site out of thin air. Normally they will include a number of feature [...]
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Does a WordPress Membership Site Still Offer Simplicity?
Posted on 09. May, 2011 by Steve.
Membership sites are currently battling the same problem that many other online profit sources have faced at one time or another. A relatively simple concept has become unnecessarily complex. This is a problem that happened to ebook publishers a few years ago. The sales pages grew to 10 pages long, the ebooks got longer and more complex, and the entire promotion process jumped from a few weeks to 6 months before the launch. Today, the use of audio, video, and more effective launch tactics, ebook publishers have re-simplified. WordPress membership sites have undergone this same problem lately, fortunately there still may a light at the end of the tunnel. The problem that had arisen with the WordPress membership site first started before there were a wide selection of premium plugins to choose from. Webmasters were forced to piece together a multitude of different plugins simply to secure content and accept [...]
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How Many Payment Processors Should Your Membership Plugin Support?
Posted on 18. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
One of the biggest sticking points when choosing a membership plugin for your WordPress site is payment processor integration. There are a number of issues to consider when deciding what your best options are. You should not only consider which payment processor that you want to use, but also what your current and future members want to use. To answer this question, many membership site owners think that they only need a plugin that has “enough” options available, the problem is deciding what “enough” really is. The truth is that one could be enough or maybe you need 10. It all comes down to what your members and potential members want. If you are only operating in the United States then you might be able to use only PayPal, but you might also need a regular merchant account as well. The problem is that most membership sites are not very [...]
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3 Ways the Right Affiliate Plugin Can Boost Your Profits
Posted on 09. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
When choosing an affiliate plugin, it can be easy to notice the similarities that most of them have in common such as sales tracking. At the same time, it is very easy to overlook additional features and abilities that can boost your profits. Many of these features are subtle and many people will undervalue them. Here is a closer look at several of these features and how they can be used to boost your profits. Along with tracking, the heart of the best affiliate plugins is communication. There are two separate features that you need in order to communicate effectively. The first is that you need to be able to automatically add new affiliates to your affiliate mailing list. This will ensure that they are alerted whenever changes are made. More importantly, you also need to have a way to communicate with them through the affiliate area. If you have [...]
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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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Can a Membership Site Based Around a Forum be Profitable?
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Steve.
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of different types of membership sites that have become popular. One of the most recent trends is to create a website that is freely accessible by the public but a forum that is only for paying members. Another spin off the same concept is to create a forum that is available to everyone while have a sub-forum that is for paying members only. The big question lately has been whether or not this type of membership site model will be sustainable over the long term. Here is a quick look at some of the reasons that forums will likely be an effective membership model for a long time. 1. Interaction One of the biggest reasons that forums will likely always be a great membership model is because of the personal interaction that forums are built on. Most people sign up [...]
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3 Reasons To Choose Your WordPress Membership Plugin Carefully
Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by Steve.
As WordPress continues to claim a larger share of the CMS world, there are more plugins created for membership sites than ever before. The problem that many people run into is that they either assume that all of these plugins are created equal, or they simply don’t know how to choose the right one. This means that you need to choose your WordPress membership plugin carefully. Here are three all-to-common scenarios that people face when they choose the wrong membership management plugin for their WordPress site. 1. Plugin Dictates Site One the biggest problems that you will run into if you do not choose your WordPress membership plugin carefully is that your entire site will be limited by the plugins abilities. For example, if the plugin doesn’t allow you to post teaser content then your membership sites SEO abilities will be limited or you will be forced to create another [...]
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