How To Start And Run A Successful Membership Site

I'd go with www.easymemberpro.com (not an affiliate).

I'm working with it at the moment and the recent upgrades are excellent. (And the price is right)

Cheers
Kim

Looks really good, Kim.

I don't want the option of signing up at any time though. People need to sign up before the month program starts and I also don't want there to be a refund option.

Thanks

Can you intergrate Aweber with Easymemberpro or any other membership software?

Also can easymembershippro be intergrated with wordpress easily?

I've personally used aMember for this exact setup. What is nice about aMember is that it also has modules for various software plug-ins so you can have it create access to say a private forum. It will also suspend access when the user doesn't pay or membership is over.

If you want to go the "real thrifty" route, you can create a Wordpress site with your content, and password-protect your membership content.

You can manually create logins for everyone, or you can create 1 standard login (not recommended).

You can do PayPal recurring billing to accept payments, and you can use your Aweber account to send information.

Just a suggestion... good luck in your search!

I also use Wishlist and am a big fan. Pretty high quality, and way easy to integrate with Wordpress.

But, if you don't need all of the features of a website, the autoresponder gig is pretty solid too (think Russel Brunonson's Micro Continuity stuff).

Social Sam is amazing. I do believe his is a relatively new service. I was literally blown away to see that they handle everything, and I mean everything from their platform. You can affordably create your own custom-branded private social network that combines e-Commerce with a social networking and membership website in less than 5 minutes!

The cost per month is minimal starting at 7.95 a month and is scalable from 10 members to 10 million members..

You do not have to worry about software to install, no servers to configure. Everything is handled for you. No need to configure, apply or buy a SSL certificate, no HTMIL, they handle backups, RAID, firewalls and virus protection - you just focus on your business.

Create Membership Packages and set access rights according to your own business rules.
Use your own merchant account information so you can start collecting money immediately.

Everything is integrated & built for e-Commerce

Forums and Discussion Groups (with complete access management control)
Recurring Billing - Membership fees/dues automatically collected
Member Profiles, Member Search, Friends and Photos
Membership Management System
Shopping Cart, e-Commerce Solution
Built in 2 Tiered Affiliate Tracking System*. Allows you to pay your members for referring others to your network
Event Calendar
Event Registration*
VAM™ Technology - Allows members to mine, upload and send network invitations to their e-mail contacts from Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail and many more
Classified Ad System
e-Course Content Distribution System
Article and Content Management System

I recommend you check it out. Online Social Marketing Solutions, Networking Membership Software

Cheers!
Terri

I use aMember for my projects, and there is a clickbank payment plugin you can use with it too.
It integrates well with wordpress, which you can use for the presentation of topics/media.

At its most simple, you can use wordpress comments as a kind of forum - otherwise you can integrate something like vBulletin or SMF using a plugin for amember.

Cheers
Rob

I use wishlist in conjuction with wordpress. It is easy and very flexible.

If you are looking for a much cheaper option you can check out Jason Fladlien's product shown in my signature.