We're moving!
Hahahaha...I haven't even opened the doors to the website and already we're moving.
After trying out the membership platform, my thoughts about it has changed a bit. There was just too much trouble integrating the buy button. I tried different payment systems and it wasn't working. When a person would try to become a paid member it just would send you to the members area sign up and not the payment gateway. Worked with it most of Thursday, Friday and Saturday with no answers. Support never answered my questions and after looking in their F.A,Q's section the problem I was having seemed to be a common issue. And even the other people who asked the same question never got an answer either.
It also wouldn't send sign up information to the free members. It would only do that if you had an invoice. When you signed up for free the invoice would not be sent out. That would've meant that you had to immediately write down your password and username and not forget it.
So I've looked and have found a new home for us.
And as it turns out, it will be much, much better.
In fact, here is a list of all the goodies that will be available for the site:
| Built-in membership portals |  | ||
| Built-in squeeze pages | | ||
| Built in event posts | | ||
| Built-in sales pages | | ||
| Built-in marketing funnel management | | ||
| Live support | | ||
| iPhone and iPad video encoding | | ||
| Simple copy/paste analytic fields | | ||
| Straight-forward wysiwyg editor | | ||
| Built-in Clickbank integration | | ||
| Built-in groups | | ||
| Built-in community | | ||
| Automatic updates without lifting a finger | | ||
| Comes with ridiculously fast servers | | ||
| Automatic backups | | ||
| Custom domain names | | ||
| Built-in themes | | ||
| Different membership levels for users | | ||
| Search engine optimized (SEO) | | ||
| Built-in disclaimer management | | ||
| Organize content into categories | | ||
| Built-in file management for users | | ||
| Schedule content | | ||
| Streaming video player | | ||
| URL media uploading | | ||
| Video embed fields (YouTube, Vimeo and More) | | ||
| User management | | ||
| Password reset for users | | ||
| Session records for users | | ||
| Direct integration with shopping carts | | ||
| Bulk user import | | ||
| User badges and rewards | | ||
| Tease content for different membership levels | | ||
| Set expiration dates for different membership levels | | ||
| Question and answer forum built in | | ||
| Built-in squeeze page templates | | ||
| Built-in marketing images for your content | | ||
| Built-in styling options for your content | | ||
| Email opt-in customization process | | ||
| Built-in opt-in graphics and buttons | | ||
| Automatic integration of Facebook comments | | ||
| Tease future events and videos with "Coming soon" | | ||
| Built-in social sharing via Facebook and Twitter | | ||
| Stylish purchase buttons to choose from | | ||
| Timed “buy now” buttons | | ||
| Pre-cart pages for user transparency | | ||
| Built-in thank you pages | | ||
| Perpetual marketing funnels for automation | | ||
| Built-in gatekeeper to keep track of returning visitors | | ||
| Standby pages to build leads or create scarcity | | ||
| One-click cart controls | | ||
| No set up headaches or coordination | | ||
| Built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN) | |
See I don't want to spend so much time on little things that shouldn't be that hard to implement. Instead I want to focus on building up the community and helping the members.
As much as I love our new potential home, it will come at a price.
The pricing structure for the other platform was based on the number of users. For ex.if we had 50 members the amount I would pay would be different than what I would pay monthly for having 100 members.
The benefit of that was I wouldn't have to pay a high monthly fee until the number of members grew, which was a good thing. As it stands now, I'll have to pay a high monthly fee whether I have paying members or not.
So what does this mean?
Well, it means that a much higher emphasis will have to be put on spreading the word about the site so that it can get paying subscribers and I can start adding even more valuable content, data and research reports through the different purchases for the members.
Now I'm off to do a little more work. lol
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