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Membership Site/Paid Subscription Help Needed:

by mrdeflation
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Trying to figure out the best software to set this all up.

What would you use?

Looking to start a membership/subscriber site where for $xx per month people receive an email every day from me with a "lesson of the day" in a certain niche.

Only paid subscribers should receive the email and when not paid should immediately drop off the list.

Was also thinking about adding a "community" to the website where members could discuss the email of the day and/or ask questions.

Is there a better CMS to handle this? Maybe a specific Wordpress theme or Email tools you would recommend?

Dont know if this is a classic membership site as there would be no other content for now other than the paid emails. Unless maybe it would be better as a membership blog with paid access to the subscription section and I manually send out the emails to everyone on the list to reference the website itself?

Figured with my niche it would be better to email them or even send a SMS when the lesson is ready.


What tools would you use to set up something like this?


BIG thanks =-)
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  • Profile picture of the author WPGuru
    Hey there,

    There are too many options available to achieve what you are trying to do...

    1. Create two lists, one for subscribers and one for paid members
    2. Configure your memberhsip plugin to add paid members to the paid list
    3. Setup autoresponder to send an e-mail regularly to paid members list (it can be a generic e-mail such as: New Lesson is available for you in the members area, Click here to access.)

    This can be done with most of the free / premium membership plugins available.

    If you want help in setting it up, I can help you out as well.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author enterprisemind
    I recommend Optimizepress. You can add BBPress plugin to it to create a forum for the community.(this is on Wordpress) You can break the lists up with any premium autoresponder service. I would recommend GetResponse for that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeff Hope
      On first subscribing, should all new members start from Lesson 1, or should they receive your latest lesson?

      What forms of payment do you want to accept?
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      • Profile picture of the author mrdeflation
        Originally Posted by Jeff Hope View Post

        On first subscribing, should all new members start from Lesson 1, or should they receive your latest lesson?

        What forms of payment do you want to accept?
        should be latest lesson as they are in no particular order for now..


        Wanted to test the idea before I invested heavily so I am debating setting up an email capture launch page using leadpages/optimizepress/clickfunnels

        was going to use Paypal and Stripe for payment collection
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  • Profile picture of the author Simpilot938
    Hi MrDeflation,

    There are some quite reasonable Wordpress plugins that will do the job for you. I have Memberspring which doesn't have a great reputation (mainly due to the sporadic support it sometimes gets), but I have no problems. It does the sort of thing that you want in that it can drip feed information to visitors who pay to subscribe and there are areas 'outside' the subscription zone for non-paying visitors too. With a decent autoresponder that allows rules so that some one subscribes to the free emails transfers to a paid subscribers list, you should be well away.

    There's nothing wrong with OP either but check out all the options before deciding.

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  • Profile picture of the author AlexanderBeloev
    Originally Posted by mrdeflation View Post

    Trying to figure out the best software to set this all up.

    What would you use?

    Looking to start a membership/subscriber site where for per month people receive an email every day from me with a "lesson of the day" in a certain niche.

    Only paid subscribers should receive the email and when not paid should immediately drop off the list.

    Was also thinking about adding a "community" to the website where members could discuss the email of the day and/or ask questions.

    Is there a better CMS to handle this? Maybe a specific Wordpress theme or Email tools you would recommend?

    Dont know if this is a classic membership site as there would be no other content for now other than the paid emails. Unless maybe it would be better as a membership blog with paid access to the subscription section and I manually send out the emails to everyone on the list to reference the website itself?

    Figured with my niche it would be better to email them or even send a SMS when the lesson is ready.


    What tools would you use to set up something like this?


    BIG thanks =-)
    What I personally use for exactly this purpose is OptmizePress.

    You can configure it the way you want.

    For example, when someone pays the X level subscription, they will be added to X email list automatically. And you can setup an automation process that will remove this subscriber from your freebies list automatically (This particular future is done by the autoresponder, I personally use GetResponse.)

    And you can use the same setup but in the opposite direction. If a user has downgraded, then he will be added to the list of downgraders and that automatically will unsubscribe him from the list of paid members.

    I do this with OptimizePress and GetResponse. But I am sure other plugins and autoresponders can do this as well!.

    Hope that it helps you,

    Regards,

    Alex
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    • Profile picture of the author oadvantage
      Facebook, you don't want to do this with Wordpress.

      You are creating a community.

      Facebook is used more than forums right now.

      Plus Facebook has notifications when new content is created via members.

      When you send you an email, you can also highlight different discussions in your group as well.

      It works great.
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      • Profile picture of the author mrdeflation
        Originally Posted by oadvantage View Post

        Facebook, you don't want to do this with Wordpress.

        You are creating a community.

        Facebook is used more than forums right now.

        Plus Facebook has notifications when new content is created via members.

        When you send you an email, you can also highlight different discussions in your group as well.

        It works great.
        Are you speaking of just a business page and a private group?

        why would you prefer that over a wordpress site with bbpress community..


        thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author oadvantage
          You will want to start a private group.

          This is because people are already on Facebook and they will get notifications when replies are made and when new content is posted.

          This way (if they keep notifications on), your content will always be on their mind.

          Also, I would STRONGLY suggest you watch the room, interact, and send a weekly email update with some of the highlights of the week and position it as extra content for your list.

          Conversations happen real fast and if you have a subject that is very passionate, you will see it quickly happen in real time.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jeff Hope
            If you want to keep things fast, easy, and cheap, I'd consider a private Facebook group as oadvantage suggested for the group / community aspect.

            For delivering current content by email to paid subscribers, it doesn't get much easier than Gumroad subscriptions.

            Of course, Wordpress and the various membership plugins will work fine too, but may be overkill for what I understand you want to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author roblawrence
    You could actually run the entire business off an Aweber autoresponder with an email signup form that you control. Set it and forget it. Why bother with a full membership plugin or script if you do not need it. Keep it simple. If it gets bigger, then you can expand and go full force with a site, forum, member profiles, video content, etc. Make money first before you spend any more.
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    • Profile picture of the author mrdeflation
      Originally Posted by roblawrence View Post

      You could actually run the entire business off an Aweber autoresponder with an email signup form that you control. Set it and forget it. Why bother with a full membership plugin or script if you do not need it. Keep it simple. If it gets bigger, then you can expand and go full force with a site, forum, member profiles, video content, etc. Make money first before you spend any more.

      yes but with the autoresponder..if someone drops out from recurring payment how will that list know? You would need some payment subscription plugin connected to the email list no?

      thanks =-)
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  • Profile picture of the author howtogurus
    I have several membership sites running on WordPress and linking into GetResponse. The plugin I use is s2member. They have a free and a pro version. For single web sites all you really need is the free version. Just do a plugin search from WordPress for s2member and you will find it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kylie B
    On Wordpress I use S2member it's good with a lot of payment gateways and member site
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