Hi there guys and gals, just wanted to quickly say thank you for a great year and hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We will be available over the festive season. We will be limited and having a few days off over the Christmas break.

You may have noticed we now have Live Support! This is not 24/7 BUT, if we’re not available you can send a message through which we’ll receive and be able to reply to ASAP.

We’re hoping that adding Live Support will be a real help and benefit especially for our new clients and anyone considering using Extreme Member who might have a few questions they would like answered before coming on board.

Anyway, feel free to drop by and have a chat sometime!

I’ve had a few people lately asking about having a ‘Kajabi’ / Jeff Walker Launch Style Extreme Member site.

No problems the quick and easy answer to that is to use a Theme like JV Press or Optimize Press. Check them out below and give it a whirl if you want a killer Sales focussed site.

So, sign up for Extreme Member, then purchase your theme, upload it to the Themes folder and you’re away!

Another quick video / presentation – Enjoy…

Hi there groovers, I just watched this video and thought of you immediately. Check it out and review your own site to see what you can or should do to improve it. It’s a great presentation:

We’d just like to congratulate Vladimir our Head of Development and Internet Security at Extreme Member for well over 2 years now for his work and contribution to WordPress 3.0.2. Click here for more details.

It is interesting to note that at least one other Internet Hosting Company is claiming credit for Vladimir’s work.

In actual fact they have other security issues that are unrelated to this fix (they have a vulnerability in their actual hosting NOT in WP itself and recently had over 40 of their WP sites hacked – not related to the 3.0.2 bug fix), but because Vladimir has done some work on a Systems Admin level for them they are claiming they found the problem and had Vladimir fix it. This is not the truth!

Vladimir was not the first person to find this hole in WordPress as he notes in his post. But he was the first to report & fix it. He found some other vulnerabilities whilst fixing it.

As noted by Vladimir himself “Extreme Member is much more secure” than these other hosting companies. We have 24/7 monitoring and dedicated security experts on our team.

We’re very happy for Vladimir that he has been recognized for his good work with WordPress as he continues to make valuable contributions to the wider WP Open Source community too. Three cheers for Vladimir!! hip hip hooray!

In this video I’ll show you how to adjust your settings and control the Mini-meta Widget perfect for Membership sites. Once it’s setup you can forget it!

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Over the next few days we will be finalizing the upgrade to WP 3.0.1 for all clients sites. Please ensure that any additional themes and plugins that you’re running are compatible with WP 3.0+. If you have any questions please contact support.

On October 10th we will also be doing some software upgrades to our servers. There will be very minimal downtime <5 minutes.

There’s a number of different options out there if you want to have a forum on your WP/Extreme Member site. One of them is bbPress (built by the WP guys), then you have BuddyPress, Simple Forum, phpBB etc.

I just read an interesting article that sounds very positive for the WordPress community which of course has a good spin off for Extreme Member clients too.

It looks as though bbPress is going to be turned into a plugin to work on any WP site.

This is fantastic news and it will make the whole process super simple, no more having to try and match skins/themes between the forum and the WP site theme or other hacking to make it work.

If you’d like more information click here to read the post.

So how do you go about setting up your site if you want to sell an ebook or other digital product? Here I’ll cover in 5 basic steps what you need to do on the ‘back end’ side of things.

Once you’ve done that you need to go hard and market it!

Step 1

Upload your PDF ebook to secure files – click here for instructions on that.

Step 2

Create a new membership level – click here for instructions on that.
But it’s VERY easy. Just go to MEMBERSHIPS > ADD MEMBERSHIP and then choose the ‘One Time’ membership.

Why do we do that? (more…)

Before I get into one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made with Extreme Member let’s cover how to be successful online there’s a fairly simple formula you can follow to ensure that you’ll ‘Make It’. It aint that difficult and if you persist and are consistently going for it you’ll end up winning.

1. Identify what your market wants – Ask them

2. Produce it

3. Deliver it to them at a fair price (over deliver – make sure it’s a win-win)

4. Give amazing customer service

5. Repeat 1-4 (more…)