Membership Sites are they Easy to Set Up?

I like (love) Wish List Member for a membership blog. I bought the unlimited version and they have good faqs to get it up and running.

i'll suggest Yaro Starak's Membership Site Mastermind. You can download his Membership Site Masterplan free report at membershipsitemastermind dot com

wordpress is great for easy membership sites.

try WP emember.

Hey John,

You can make it as simple or as complicated as you like.

The simple version is just having a paypal button which takes people to an email signup form. You then just put your stuff in a password protected directory and email your members the password.

That's something you could do quickly, easily and for free.

Or you could go for one of the thousands of bits of software that let you do more and it'll come down to your preferences.

You can do it using Wordpress and a membership plugin very easily too.

It's really down to what your needs are and how complicated you want it to be and how much money you want to spend.

You can pick anywhere from free to $10k

Or just pay someone else to set it up for you.

You don't need to buy anything to do it, so it's all down to choice.

Plenty of warriors have good membership scripts and systems.

Andy

That's hosted on DAP's official website so it's always going to be a bit bias.

However, I use DAP every day. If you know how to use Wordpress then turning it into a private membership with DAP is real simple.

Yeah, I know it's hosted by DAP.

But, it's a feature list. It's pretty clinical. Not an opinion.

you can use WP with a plugin, or easymemberpro script.

John

To answer your question...

I have found every membership site software I've bought (or been given) to be the most complicated, time consuming and mind numbing experience of my life. Butterfly marketing is a nightmare. I spent MONTHS watching the videos, making the changes and I still couldn't get it to work. Fireball should have been simple - but something went wrong. I can't recall all the other scripts I've tried to use. But there have been a lot.

Admittedly, I've not used any of the new WP scripts but Jimmy D Brown seems to have had the best idea, which is taking off now, and doesn't involve any scripts at all - create a fixed-term membership. People sign up for the 6-month or 12-month membership.They pay with PayPal on a recurring basis unless they unsubscribe. Each month you send an email with a link to the web page containing your content for that month (Jimmy gives you a pdf download) and towards the end of the fixed term you try to persuade them to sign up again for an advanced course.

I don't know how this will work for an ebook site (gosh, there are so many of those I wonder any of them make any money at all! - but it's down to good marketing). But maybe, what that market needs is a different approach. Use the Jimmy D Brown method and, every month, give them a link to the latest 10 or 30 new ebooks. I belong to a couple of ebook memberships and I really would like to be able to see clearly, which are the latest ebooks - instead they are just chucked into the list!)

Hope this helps
Joe

A membership site is easy to set up if you know how to install a script your way around Cpanel and a basic understand of how you want you site to work.

Amember is good
Instant member is pretty good but lacks the customization - you cant gain access to the script code and tweek it at all.

Butterfly marketing script from what I have seen sucks big time half the stuff does not work on it.

Looking for a easy set up either instant member or amember. There are other ones that are awesome and give you access to the code but they are going to cost you a grand plus.

Setting up a membership site doesn't have to be complicated from a technical point of view. Amember or WP wishlist, once installed and running (you'll figure them out in one weekend), will get the job done.

Running the membership site is a whole different story. Membership sites are difficult to run in my opinion, and hard work too.

Not one to brag but my product in my sig is centered around the creation and selling. Also comes with the software and content.
While I havent tried out a few that people mentioned here I do know that BuddyPress is what I used to do and should work fine if your not up to buying a way of how to create a custom one.

I just launched a membership site using EZMembership site (link at bottom of my website). The support is awesome. The script is just as it says EZ.

You can modify it or have it modified in pretty much any way you want.

I was also mentored thru the entire process by a wonderful lady who really knows her stuff when it comes to running membership sites.

PM me if you would like further details.

Mike Tansey

I have a membership website, but I am probably using the most difficult CRM for it. I am using Memberspeed. It is not easy, but since I have been using it for a few months now I have gotten the hang of it and it does everything you would want from a membership website. You can take a look at what I have done with the software in my signature.

Good Luck.

Hey Stuart,

Ill check this out, it looks promising, I oringinally got interested in membership sites with the intent of trying to build a recurring income I notice thata lot of marketers are going with this trend aside of their own products and affiliate marketing!

Thanks John.

And thanks for all the input guys its all being considered!