Comments on: 7 Reasons Why Your Membership Website Sucks

By: Jerrick

Jerrick — Thu, 19 May 2011 07:56:33 +0000

Mostly will give up to become a member if there a barriers there. I would not like to register as a member if need to fill in too much detail and too much request.
Try to some call to action to let them become your member, or not they will not find out what the point of being your members and what the priority to be a member.

By: Julio Ruiz

Julio Ruiz — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:36:29 +0000

Great Article Matt.

Membership sites area a great way to get monthly income, but the essense to keep clients paying is communication with them and between them, so i think a forum is a very good complementing resourse to a memberships site.

i`ve personally stayed more in membershipsites that have a forum where you can find people who can help you any moment.

By: Paul butler

Paul butler — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:53:34 +0000

Great article Matt,
these are keys to long term success with your membership site. I like the idea to have multiple types of media other than video such as audio downloads. thanks for the ideas.
Paul butler

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:58:17 +0000

Great post Matt… It is really interesting… Love the information you shared… Thanks for the post…

By: Wayne Lambert

Wayne Lambert — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:52:14 +0000

Hi Matt,

Great post. I’ve just finished developing a 75 video traffic generation membership which I’m expanding rapidly.

In your opinion, is it better to index the content with the search engines, so people arrive from the SERP’s but then possibly bounce which google sees as a negative content vote against your domain, OR is it better to not index that content and drive traffic to the blog and then offer membership from there through things like Popup Domination and header offers.

Would be interested to hear your take on this.

Thanks,

Wayne

By: chris

chris — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:01:17 +0000

Thanks Matt – greatly appreciate the advice!

By: Matt Wolfe

Matt Wolfe — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:46:25 +0000

Hey Chris,
A combination of OptimizePress for your theme, Wishlist Member or Digital Access Pass for your membership script and Simple:Press for your forum. Simple:Press is free and works great with the membership scripts. Wishlist Member and Digital Access Pass are interchangeable for me when it comes to the script (I mostly use Wishlist though). And nothing beats OptimizePress for the sales pages / squeeze pages / membership layout.

Matt

By: Lewis LaLanne aka Nerd #2

Lewis LaLanne aka Nerd #2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:32:05 +0000

In reference to the first reason why your membership sites suck, one cool way I’ve heard about remedying this is by using a WordPress theme called buddypress.

Of course, this presumes you’re using the WordPress platform for your site, but what this does is it gives your members an exclusive, mini-facebook-like environment where they can all interact with each other and you like they do on some of their favorite sites.

I’ve yet to use this but the guy behind Internet Business Mastery, Jason Van Orden, turned me onto this and he uses it for his site and has found his members love it.

After reading your list, I’ve been reminded once again that this is something I need to look into. Thanks for slapping it to the surface. 🙂