membership site lessons: challenges & insights

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A presentation for Portland WordPress meetup. An overview of what it takes to build a WordPress membership site.

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Membership Site Lessons

Challenges & Insights

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bob dunn | aka bobwpWordPress trainer

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or just google bobwp

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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

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