{"product_id":"2940013401853","title":"Quick and Easy Way To Building Membership Sites","description":"So you want to build a membership site huh?\u003cbr\u003eDeciding to do it is the easy part! Once that decision is made there are SO many different factors that go into the actual creation of the site.\u003cbr\u003eUnlike a simple WordPress blog, where you can basically install and go, a membership site has MANY more components.  You need to consider which membership plugin to use, how you'll handle payments and affiliates, how to layout the site, how to deal with privacy etc.\u003cbr\u003eBottom line, it can be really daunting.\u003cbr\u003eWhy Create a Membership Site?\u003cbr\u003eSo before you should even do anything, you need to give some thought as to why you are creating a membership site.  There are all sorts of reasons to do it, and just as many ways to go about it.  So let's look at some of the benefits of this content distribution model so you can get an idea of whether or not this is right for you:\u003cbr\u003eMembership sites are the easiest way to create user interaction.  If your goal is to create a closed community of committed people, this is the best way to go about it. You know everyone involved has paid something to get in, so oftentimes they will be more committed than the members of a free\/open community.\u003cbr\u003eEasy to update. Let's face it, if you distribute your product as an ebook, it is less complicated, but it also makes it much more difficult to update.  Once it's done it's pretty much done, and after a couple years, or even months the content can grow stale and irrelevant.  With a membership site, adding or editing content is no more difficult than creating a blog post.\u003cbr\u003eAllows you to distribute your message through more mediums. With a membership site its extremely easy to combine written content, pdf downloads, audio, and video into one product that will appeal to the largest variety of people possible depending on how they want to learn.  If you were to create a zip file with all of this stuff the file would be huge, and people will be more likely to skip over features because it isn't constantly being put in front of them.\u003cbr\u003eAllows you to generate recurring income. One of the most important questions you'll need to consider is whether or not your site will be a one time fee or a recurring monthly charge.  We'll talk about the benefits of both, but you can't charge a monthly fee for an ebook.  This flexibility really makes for an attractive option.\u003cbr\u003eThe product will keep getting better. The more you allow for user interaction, the more information that's being created within the site.  This only makes the site more valuable as time goes on.\u003cbr\u003eLimited design knowledge. To create an ebook that looks good, you've gotta have some design chops.  Unless you want to do it all in Powerpoint...and trust me, you do NOT want to do it all in Powerpoint.  With a membership site, aside from a logo and a few random components you can use a pre-made WordPress theme and keep the designing to an absolute minimum.  This alone could be worth it for many of you.\u003cbr\u003eThose are just a few of the benefits for using a membership site as your distribution model for your next product, but as you can see there is some pretty huge upside.","brand":"unique5stardeals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070023024880,"sku":"2940013401853","price":4.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013401853_p0.jpg?v=1763580425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013401853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}