No You Do Not Have To Be A Whiz Kid Or Rocket Scientist To Set Up A Killer Membership Site
I have several of these sites and once you get them set up and get them going, its just about directing traffic into a nice funnel to get people to subscribe. I am using the $1 trial for 30 days route and it is working like a champ. With membership sites, you have to make it EASIER for people to say 'YES' on what you have on offer!
In all my testing the $1 trial works best, because you do not get the FREEBIE tire kickers, but real people who are looking for valuable help.
Sure not all of the people who join your sites are going to stay, but realistically you have to expect that. But you can reduce the number of unsubscribers by giving them great help, and sharing high quality info. You can even outsource someone else to create content for you, and update your membership sites for you as well. So then you can stick to your job ...which is just to keep driving lots of fresh, highly targeted traffic to your trial offer page.
Have a look at Kim Roach and Chris Farrell membership sites, To me they are classic examples of great membership sites, and I love how they give away free videos, content and make it hard for people to say NO to their offers. I do the same with my membership sites.
Quick ways to set up membership sites.
1) You can use optimize press, which is wordpress based and does all the hardwork for you. I use S2 member in conjunction with this. They are easy to set up, update and use.
2) Another good one I know of is wpmudev.org. For a price they offer a lot of plugins for wordpress based membership sites, including tiered membership and all sorts of things.
3) wpmemberchamp and wishlistmember. Both are plugins for Wordpress.
4) A very good membership solution is Digital Access Pass, also known as DAP.
WordPress Membership Plugin - Membership Script For WordPress Blogs And Regular Web Sites I use this, and many other warriors talk about how good this is.
5) Amember - It is not cheap, and has many extra functions, and I will admit it is a little bit more complex, but you can drip feed content and update things very quickly and in a orginized fashion.
Here is another thread that may help you on your quest for creating the perfect membership site.
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...hip-sites.html
Hope it helps.
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