It’s Kit Elliott with SuperAffiliate.com. First, I hope your Memorial Day is going well.  I scheduled this ahead of time so I could be outdoors spending it with my family.   I had a lot of emails about last week’s post titled, “Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Membership Site“, and several of you have picked up the WordPress Plugin called DAP.

Click Here to Download DAP WordPress Membership Plugin.

I also received this email for membership sites from Jimmy Brown.  Jimmy is an expert at coming up with ideas for your membership site.  He’ll even train you every month on how to create content for your membership site.  His 12 month program is called Membernaire.

Once you find an idea for your membership site, there’s a specific process you can follow to get it launched.

Fortunately, there’s also a simple process that you can follow to get ideas for your membership site. If you’re unsure how to begin and are stuck for ideas, try out these tips. Your next membership site may not be that far away.

1. PERSONAL.

Begin by brainstorming your own life.  Get personal! Creating your membership site is going to be much easier if you know a little bit about the market. That’s why it’s a great idea to start your ideas list with hobbies, interests and activities from your own life.

Write down everything that you and your family members are passionate about or interested in. This list could be a goldmine for your membership site.

2. PRODUCTS.

Ebook and video course creators have done a lot of niche market research in order to create their products. You can piggyback on this research specifically by keeping an eye on “product launches”.

For example, if you see a lot of products being produced on article marketing you can safely assume that a membership site on the same topic would do well. Subscribe to email lists in your potential market to watch for product launches and get ideas for your site.

3. PERUSE.

Persuse means “to examine in detail”.  It also begins with “p” so it fits my outline.

If you want a comprehensive list of existing electronic products that are selling well, Clickbank.com/marketplace is the place to go.

Search through the marketplace to find out what topics your market is interested in learning about. You’ll be able to find new market ideas, content to fill your site as well as affiliate offers to create some backend sales.

4. POPULARITY.

Visit Amazon.com’s best-seller list.  Amazon is the top bookseller online so it makes sense to search their marketplace for membership site ideas. The bestseller lists in various categories will help you see what topics are popular. You can easily gather membership site ideas from these lists.

Hint:  Go with the topics that are popular.

5. PULSE.

Forums are the pulse of your market. You can be sure that a market has members that would be willing to pay if there is an active forum dedicated to that topic. Track down some popular forums in your potential market and spend some time browsing through the topics.

See what the market is talking about. Pay close attention to the FAQs section and the threads that have a lot of activity.  These are indicators of the kinds of topics which might serve as a topic for your next membership site.

6. PERIODICALS.

You gotta go to Magazines.com! This website is full of membership site ideas. If a market has a buying audience, there is probably a magazine out there dedicated to it. Magazines don’t get started without advertising dollars to back them up. If advertisers are paying to get to a market, it’s a safe bet that you can create a membership site for the same market. On Magazines.com you can search by category to find membership site ideas.  I love this place!

7. PROBLEMS.

The final stop I want to mention is Yahoo groups. These free e-mail discussion lists cover a wide variety of topics. Subscribe to a few groups in your potential market to look for ideas. The benefit of using groups like these is that you’ll often be able to see problems in the market that aren’t currently being met by other products.

By going through these simple outlets you are sure to find a great idea for your next membership site.

BUT…

If you’d like a major shortcut, grab a membership at http://www.Membernaire.com.  Once you join, I’ll send you a confidential report with my own “top 20″ specific ideas (with detailed explanations of each!) for hot membership site topics.

I’ve done all the research for you!  Plus, I’ll show you how to setup a membership site in as little as 48 hours.

Visit http://www.Membernaire.com for all the details.

Best regards,

Jimmy D. Brown

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It’s Kit again with another crazy week for online profits.  I hope you are jumping in full force and living the life you deserve.  You know I always come up with, create or invent new ways, new plugins, new services, new products – and a couple of years later – they actually get made and someone else profits from these ideas..  Does that happen to you?  You know.. it doesn’t have to be like this!

Kit Elliott - SuperAffiliate.com

For example – when I first bought a cell phone back in the 1990′s, I said – I want to see internet on the whole screen.. I want to view my website on one screen and be able to zoom in.. twist it around.. and get the full picture!

This was unheard of, and definitely, very expensive to create.

Fast forward to today, every phone has this feature now (and it has turned into a billion dollar idea!)  My idea…

In the 1990′s, I said – you know what would be better than Blockbuster..

How about you put a “vending machine” where people just swipe their cc or insert money – choose movie – and it comes out just like a Diet Coke?

Fast forward to today, RED BOX is set to profit hundreds of millions of dollars with their vending machine movie rental..  My idea..

So – I was thinking -

NEW IDEA: Wouldn’t it be nice to create some sort of training program..  where the content is delivered over a time period.. but no matter when someone joined – they would get that content in the order that everyone received it in.

Like time-released content..  this would be perfect for coaching, affiliate training, fitness, diet, exercise programs, etc..

That way – you create one membership site.. you charge a monthly fee or a one time big payment, and the material/content is dripped on customers as they enter the system..

That system is EASY to create thanks to a new WordPress plugin.. which I just purchased my unlimited site license.. to use on ANY and ALL WordPress blogs.

YES – WORDPRESS!

You can turn your WordPress into a membership site!  I’ve thought about doing that for Super Affiliate, and I probably will in the future.

Are you ready for this?

It’s called Digital Access Pass.. You may have seen Wishlist, but who wants to manually add people when they upgrade to different levels?  I want it completely automated.. I want to be able to create a post or a page – set the access level – and publish out.  DONE DEAL!

Click Here to Compare DAP with Wishlist

Digital Access Pass has about 20 new features that Wishlist do not.. but listen to this:

Sequential Content Delivery: This is where you can drip content little-by-little.
Dynamic “Live” Blog: The entire number of posts in a blog changes depending on viewer (non-member vs member who just joined vs 3-month member vs 1-year member)
Integrates with WordPress
ContentResponder with Tru-Drip: This is where you can make individual pieces of Content drip, little by little, exactly on the day you want – just like an email autoresponder drips emails. Set a blog post or a file or a video to drip on Day #1, Day #7, Day #31, etc. Or you can set it to drip on a specific date – like 12/31/2010). Only DAP has Tru-Drip which can save you an extraordinary amount of time setting up content dripping over a period of a year (or even when setting up dripping for a few months)		Only DAP has Tru-Drip
Built-In Affiliate Module: Every member is instantly made into an Affiliate and given an affiliate link that they can use to instantly start promoting your membership site soon after joining.
Integrated Shopping Cart for Authorize.net and Paypal Payments Pro: On-site Credit Card Processing. Your customer never has to leave your web site and go to a 3rd party site just to make a payment. Everything happens right within a page on your web site.
Built-in File & Download Protection: Can protect regular files like .mp3, .zip, .flv, .zip, .exe. .pdf, .doc. .xls, .mpeg. .swf, .js. Can even protect Images (.gif, .jpg, .png). You will never need another download protector ever again.
Automated Subscription Cancellations: When someone cancels their subscription, you don’t have to do anything. No need to do any administrative tasks to make sure that the member doesn’t get any further content going forward. DAP automatically takes care of subscription cancellations.
Members can purchase Multiple Stand-alone Recurring & Non-Recurring Products: One member can purchase access to multiple one-time products and recurring subscription products.
Integrates with WP user database
Unlimited Membership Levels
Works “WITHOUT” WordPress (regular HTML web site)
Free Installation
Built-in Email-Broadcaster: Ability to send emails to your members right from the software itself. No need to buy or signup for third-party services (like Aweber or GetResponse).
Built-in Email Autoresponder: Ability to drip Emails . Integrated Email Autoresponder can send pre-scheduled emails to all users. Set up different autoresponder series for different products.
Integration with Paypal Express Checkout
Integration with Paypal Payments Pro
Integration with Authorize.net
Integration with e-Junkie		Being tested now.
1-Click Upsells/Downsells/Cross-sells: Customer enters their credit card information only once – during the very first purchase. For all subsequent Upsells, they just have to click on an “Add To Order” button and their credit card that was just used, is instantly authorized and charged. Do Unlimited Upsells & Downsells.
1-Click Upsells using a “Regular” Paypal Account: No need for a merchant account. All you need is just a regular Paypal Business account.
One-Time Offers (OTO): At any time during purchase, you can make “One-Time Offers”. Doesn’t have to be an upsell. It can even be a “Sign up for my exclusive list” offer.
Features	Competition	DigitalAccessPass
Partial-Text Protection: Within one blog post, you can hide part of the post’s text using special tags around just that text.
Partial-Content Protection (Multi-Media): Within one blog post, the text content is publicly available, but the video/audio/pdf/other file is available only for paying members.
Synchronized Drip of both Content and Emails. Your Content, Emails and Files ALL can be synchronized to be delivered simultaneously.
Pay-Per-View
Pay-Per-Download
Multi-Level Recurring Cycles
Post-Cancellation Access: Optionally enable members to access old content they had previously paid for, even after they cancel or unsubscribe.
Integrates with 3rd-party Email Autoresponder Services like Aweber, GetResponse, etc.
Integration with Paypal (standard)
Integration with 1ShoppingCart and all private labels
Integration with ClickBank
Sneak-Peek: Show content from your blog posts up to the “More” tag. So when Google’s spider (or your visitor) arrives at your blog after you publish a new post, it/they will see a summary of the post, instead of being redirected to a login page. Extremely powerful SEO feature.
Features	WishList	DigitalAccessPass
2-level Affiliate Program		Coming soon
Integration with iDev Affiliate
Integrated “Affiliate-Only” Access: A free member who also automatically becomes affiliate, gets an affiliate link and can promote your product and earn commissions, but cannot access site content. Very useful for Marketing- or JV- partners.
Post-Cancellation Affiliate Access: Members who cancel, lose access to the content, but still retain their Affiliate link and can continue to promote your web site.
Pay Affiliates both Per-Lead and Per-Sale
WP-Forum Integration
bbPress Integration
Simple:Press Forum Integration
vBulletin Integration		Coming soon
Throttling of Broadcast-Email & Autoresponder Email: To make sure that you don’t exceed your web host’s hourly email-sending limits.
Broadcast Email to 3rd-Party Lists of Unlimited Size (import using CSV) [WARNING: Spam is Evil]
Job Queue: Having a job-queue is the only way to scale in size as your membership site grows to thousands of members, and as you start sending out tens of thousands of emails and your blog grows to thousands of blog posts.
Import CSV list of members from third-party membership software or list software
Use 3rd-Party Email Servers to bypass your web host’s email sending limits
Use Multiple Email Servers to speed up broadcasting to a large member list
3rd-Party Email Notification: Extremely useful in notifying multiple folks – like your staff and business partners – of a sale
A Single Email can be part of Multiple Autoresponders: Extremely powerful when you have multiple levels in your membership site, and wish to share some of the resources.
Recurring Autoresponder Emails: Create just one Autoresponder Email (say, an email that contains login and support info to the member) and schedule it go out repeatedly (Day #1, Day #32, Day #63, etc). No need to create a new email every time. Just add the same email multiple times and schedule it a recurring manner.
Features	WishList	DigitalAccessPass
Generates Access Logs and Error Logs for archiving and troubleshooting
Advanced Access-Control: Access to content can be configured by Days, Date, or number of Clicks
Advanced Member Management: Search for Users by Email, Last name, Member Id, Product name, User status and Product status. Easily modify their start dates, end dates, access levels (FREE or PAID), manually mark users as FREE or PAID, Rollback access to members by one recurring cycle (say, if a member is in month #6, and asks for a refund).
“Pause” Membership: A user’s access PAUSES when they stop paying. So if they decide to take a break and come back after a while, they can pick up right where they dropped off, and not from where your other paying members (who continued to pay during that time) are.
Targeted Email Marketing: Broadcast Emails to a variety of groups of segmented members and non-members, like (not limited to)… 1) Members who have purchased “Product X” 2) Members who purchased “Product X” between “10-01-2009″ and “10-15-2009″ (any combination of products and dates) 3) All Members 4) All Members with Expired Subscriptions (who no longer have access to any products)
Credits-Based System Using our “Self-Service Store” premium plugin, your members can be awarded “X” credits with each monthly subscription payment, and they can use those credits to purchase any content that *they* are interested in for that month, instead of being force-fed content only in a certain order as decided by you, the admin. Think of it like an “Audible.com” membership where members get credits, and can redeem those credits towards any audio book from the store. All credits roll-over each month, and if a product needs more credits than what they have currently, they can wait for the next month to accumulate more credits and then redeem those credits when they have enough. As Admin, you will be able to configure how many credits they get each month with each subscription payment, and also configure how many credits each “Product” (content) in your membership site is worth.		Premium Feature
“Admin Follow-Up”: A CRM Feature : Along with the Autoresponder Emails that you set up to go to each member on a specific day, you can additionally set up emails that get sent to you (as Admin) along with every individual member, so you can take some specific action. If you are also doing offline marketing to your members, you can also add an autoresponder email to go out to you (the admin) every time a member gets to a certain level.
Free Trial: Unrestricted free trial, where the free-trial version doesn’t have any limitations compared to the paid version.
Integration with Paydotcom

Click Here to Download DAP WordPress Plugin, and if you buy any of the upsells, then I get a commission!

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Here’s the Goal:  I do not want a post or a page to be published to the public, but I do want my email list to view it.  Can I hide a post or a page in WordPress?

I found the easiest solution…It’s Simon Wheatley’s Hide-A-Page Plugin..  You can find it by clicking on the keyword below:

How to Hide a Page in WordPress

It takes 30 seconds to install the plugin, and instantly adds a “do you to include or exclude this page” checkbox to the right.

Now, there are so many ingenious ways to use this trick, but one way is to build a list.  You can have your “opt-in to view this video” on the right.. and then, redirect to the “hidden page in WordPress”.

Enjoy!
Kit

DinerDave just posted a question on the SuperAffiliate Blog:

Hi Kit, The site looks great! Can you tell me how you created the slides that are in the "video box" on the home page? I really like the cartoon pics! Is there some type of slide software that you are using to create the pics like the "lab" picture with the dog in the background? I would like to do the same thing for my website!

First of all, thanks for the kind words.  I have been working overtime lately on launching a new MLM company, building two new websites, increasing a membership drive, and creating three new direct mail offers (all this month!) and still spending time with the family! 

The Video Box on the home page is a FREE PLUGIN.  You can download it, and inside Wordpress – you can hit browse and install, and voila’ it’s ready to be inserted in your blog.

Jason Schuller created this free plugin called:  The Featured Content Gallery.  I found this a year ago, and installed it on ALL my blogs.  Since it’s free, it’s one powerful weapon because it takes DinerDave.com and turns it into GourmetDave.com.  The cartoon pics – iStockPhoto.com..  Another great online business model, and if you visit my YouTube Channel (youtube.com/SuperAffiliate), you can hear some great iStockPhoto.com’s NEW AUDIO! 

If you have a mystery that needs solvin, please post it in the comments section, and I’m on it! 

Onwards and Upwards…

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