The Membership Manual 2014 Personal Use Ebook

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS . . . . . . . 2
INTRODUCTION . . . . . 4
WHY DO I NEED A MEMBERSHIP SITE? . . . . . . 4
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN . . . . . . . 5
SECTION 1 – MEMBERSHIP SITE BASICS . . . . . . . . . 6
TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP SITES . . . . . . . . 6
WHAT PROBLEM DOES YOUR SITE SOLVE? . . . 6
HOW OFTEN TO ADD CONTENT . . . . . 7
PRICING AND PERCEPTION . . 8
LOCKING AND RELEASING CONTENT . . 9
SECTION 1 TAKEAWAYS . . . . 10
SECTION 2 – THE PLATFORM — WORDPRESS 12
WORDPRESS RULES, DUDE! . . . . . . . 12
BEST WORDPRESS MEMBERSHIP PLUGINS . . 13
THE RIGHT MODEL FOR YOU . . . . . . 14
WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS . 17
ROLL YOUR OWN . . . . . . . . . 17
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED WORDPRESS PLUGINS . . 18
SECTION 2 TAKEAWAYS . . . . 19
SECTION 3 – BEST PRACTICES . . 20
BUILD A RELATIONSHIP . . . . 20
RETAINING MEMBERS . . . . . 20
LEVELS OF MEMBERSHIP . . 21
AFFILIATES . . . . . . . . 22
CONTENT GENERATION . . . . 23
SECTION 3 TAKEAWAYS . . . . 25
SECTION 4 – MISTAKES TO AVOID . . . . . . 26
NOT COLLECTING EMAIL ADDRESSES . . . . . . . . . 26
NOT USING GOOGLE ANALYTICS . . . 26
POOR SECURITY . . 27
NOT CHANGING DEFAULT SETTINGS 28
NOT TARGETING EXACT KEYWORDS 28
NO BACKUP . . . . . . 29
SLOW SITE . . . . . . . 29

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Introduction

A membership site is a website that provides products, services, or both to members of the site in exchange for a fee. The fee is usually recurring, very often monthly or possibly charged quarterly or annually. It can also be a one-time fee.

Membership sites allow you to create a community around your products and services, deliver content on a regular basis and build a solid base of recurring income. As an example, a membership site called ViralURL (http://viralurl.com), which offers several services including link-cloaking, has over 70,000 members and has generated millions of dollars of income in only a few short years. Another example: A guy named Michael C. Podlesny, known as Mike the Gardener, has a “Seeds of the Month Club” membership site (http://www.averagepersongardening.com/)with over 20,000 members in many countries. That’s right, for seeds!

You may not want to get that big, but this report will show you how to plan, build and develop your own membership site using WordPress, popular content management software that also happens to be completely free. You’ll learn the top membership software packages that run on top of WordPress, and best practices to grow and monetize your site.

Other Details

- 10 Articles (PDF)
- 2 Ebooks (PDF), 31 Pages
- 1 Graphic (PNG)
- 2 Ecovers (JPG)
- Posters, Checklists
- Year Released/Circulated: 2014
- File Size: 4,087 KB

License Details:

[YES] Use it, learn from it.
[NO] Can sell.
[NO] Can giveaway.