Question about using aweber for membership recurring income...

[BJ Min]

hi,

i read recently that some people like to use autorepsonders
such as aweber to create their membership recurring income...

are there any good courses that show how to do this?

basically, i sell my own ebook on clickbank...but also
want to do the forced continuity using the aweber style membership...

any tips on how to get this started..and what the strategy is?

i'd love to know...because i know the power of continuity..
but i'm not the most technical type of guy who likes to do
the whole membership site thing...

any tips would be great on how to INCORPORATE aweber to
create a forced continuity program after my customers
buy my basic clickbank ebook...


thanks
BJ

ps...i also use dlguard too...anyone who uses dlguard membership
script with aweber...i'd love to hear your input on how to
best set this type of continuity program...thanks!

[tommen]

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[Josh Anderson]

Hi BJ,

To do this correctly you need to be able to do the following:

1. You need to be able to process the payment and when it is verified have the system processing the payment subscribe your prospect to your Aweber.com list. This means that the system you use must have a parser built in Aweber.com for it that you can turn on for the list you are using as your paid "members only" list.

2. You also need the system to be able to remove your subscriber automatically from your Aweber.com list if they ever stop paying or cancel.

3. A forced continuity offer is where the customer purchases something but they also get a trial to another thing attached to the purchase that they cannot remove. They can cancel the trial to the second thing whenever they want. You then want to automate the cancellation of access to the thing they had the forced continuity trial to if they were to cancel their purchase. Clickbank does not do that.

Nanacast does all the above and can deliver all the products, the continuity content, and automate the billing, manage cancellations, and automate access control. No programming required, no scripts to install, better affiliate tracking than clickbank.

You can always use clickbank ebooks as a lead generator... but the most profitable continuity and upsell funnels are built outside of the limitations of clickbank.

[BJ Min]

thanks for the comments...i have some ideas...i am thinking of doing audio interviews and sending through aweber using dlguard membership...anybody use aweber & dlguard for continuity program?

[samstephens]

Hi BJ,

Probably the easiest way to do this with Clickbank, DLGuard, and Aweber would be:

Create your recurring product in Clickbank.

Set the initial price to the price of your ebook, and have the recurring price the price of your membership.

That would be forced continuity.

If you don't want to force it, but only want to offer a free trial, then create the ebook product and the membership as two seperate products in Clickbank.



Now, for the actual membership: where did you want Aweber to fit in? Are you thinking you want to notify customers each month when new info is posted?

A really easy way to do this is create different member pages like this:

month1_fsen9.php
month2_sdfgh0.php
month3_asedug.php
..etc.

The random sting at the end of the page name stops people from guessing their real location.

Then you can have Aweber send out the URL to the next month's page each month.

If the customer cancels their membership, DLGuard will block access to their membership.


Does this all make sense?

cheers
Sam

[Simon Cad]

Hey Sam, this sounds good but does DLGuard block the aweber mailings for that customer without removing them from the list completely? I want to be able to build a buyers list for future projects.

Thanks

[samstephens]

Hi Simon,

If they cancel, currently DLGuard won't remove them from the mailing list - it just blocks them from accessing the members area.

So basically you're sending a "Here's what you're missing out on" email to all the people that have cancelled...it may actually work in your favour.

cheers
Sam

[Simon Cad]

Hey Sam

I've kinda got confused now heh. I wasn't planning on having a membership site, I was just going to deliver their monthly content via sending a download link every month to their video's via aweber autoresponder.

The 6 months of emails and download links are pre-set before they even sign up.

The perfect solution would be for their messages to be stopped automatically after they cancel their subscription, but still keep them in the list for future promo mailouts.

Would this still work?

Hope this makes sense.

Simon

[samstephens]

Hi Simon,

I'm not sure if the major autoresponders have an API that would allow you to take a person out of the auto mailing sequence, but still keep them in the list.

GetResponse have a new API, so you could probably check with them. Aweber don't have an API at the moment, so there wouldn't be a way to externally control this, however I'm not sure if you wanted to handle that manually (and if it can even be done manually?).


The members area would be a much easier way of doing it, or I could probably set up an auto-login script so you could just give them a link in their email, and when they click on the link it automatically logs them in to the members area (could probably even initiate the download, too).

Depends if you want a custom script written?


Nautrally with that solution they'd still be on your mailing list, and still get the auto email sequence, but their download links wouldn't work.

Would that be a solution you'd be interested in?

cheers
Sam