membership site lessons: challenges & insights
DESCRIPTION
A presentation for Portland WordPress meetup. An overview of what it takes to build a WordPress membership site.TRANSCRIPT
Membership Site Lessons
Challenges & Insights
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bob dunn | aka bobwpWordPress trainer
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a little history
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passive income,make money while you sleep
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it worked if I slept 6 hours andworked on my site the other 18 hours
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Launched Feb. 19th
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discover your niche - competitionbuild your community
pick your membership platformchoose the theme
build the sitecreate contentpre-publicitylaunch site
find your customerskeep your site fresh
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community=
social mediacolleagues
fansvendors
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your competition
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discovering your niche
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personality
style
content
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make a plan
or at least start one....
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membership plugins
themes
building the site
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choosing yourmembership plugin
Ask people you know and trustConsider all of your variables
And don’t be afraid to ask questions
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WooTheme - Appply then Upstart
WooCommerceGroups
Groups 404 DirectGroups WooCommerce
WooCommerce - Checkout Password Strength MeterWooCommerce Checkout Manager
WooCommerce Smart CouponsWooCommerce Stripe GatewayWooCommerce Subscriptions
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WooDojoAffiliateWP
CM AnswersEasy Pricing Tables Premium
Hide Page & Post TitlesNo Right Click Images Plugin
Simply Exclude
a total of 43 plugins
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creating content
who, what and why?
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pre-publicity
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launch
Anything that can possibly go wrong, does
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find your customers
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social medialocal eventsconferences
word of mouth
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keeping your content fresh
there’s a lot of work ahead of you
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visit bobwp.comfor a chance
to win a membership