Many people think that to take advantage of membership site software, you need to have a service to sell, such as hosted web applications, or e-learning.  In fact, the truth is that it is surprising how many different markets lend themselves to a subscription based pricing model.

With a bit of creativity, you can make the membership site software work for you. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of unique ways to exploit membership site software, so we will touch (more…)

In today’s world of internet marketing and online product sales, many consumers are reluctant to actually buy a product in case it does not quite meet their expectations.

One of the things many merchants have to resort to is lowering their retail price significantly, and thus losing out. A convenient alternative is looking towards creating a membership website and letting customers ‘pay as they go’.

One example of taking advantage of a subscription based membership website, is the highly competitive web services market.  This industry has slowly risen to the challenge of rising development costs by taking advantage of a subscription model and creating a membership website for (more…)

These days many people have realized that a membership website is a great way to make a passive income. You can prepare the content, drip-feed it to your subscribers and literally set-and-forget. However, whilst there are a lot of good membership websites out there, there are not many great ones.

So, What is a Great Membership Website?

Many people mistake membership website with information communities.  The truth is, a good membership site does not require a constant and ongoing commitment.  Many internet (more…)

Every Internet marketer knows the benefit of creating a membership website, and many struggle using retail products, open source equivalents and also hosted versions.  However, what exactly are you getting for your time and money with the various Membership Site Software packages that are out there?

Do you really have all you need? What are the Features most people want to see? We have recently taken a look at the top five features that everyone that needs Membership Site Software really needs to (more…)

One of the biggest drawbacks of turning to a subscription based pricing model is the fact that maintaining records, collecting payments and managing accounts can be tremendously tedious and time consuming.

Luckily enough, nowadays there are many membership software packages that offer to fulfill this service, but the problem is that many of them actually take a tremendous amount of time to setup and administer.

Effectively, this has prevented many people from taking advantage of many of the benefits of using membership software to manage a subscription based pricing model.  However, thanks to (more…)

Another ingenious feature brought to you by Extreme Member (Membership Site Software) This video demonstrates a brand new feature developed for people who like to upload their files via FTP but then need to use them in the Media Library. In the past there was no way to sync FTP’d files to your site with the Media Library.

Watch the video below for a LIVE demo to see it in action. (more…)

When starting out creating a membership site there are many things to decide. Like what domain name to use, what membership software to use, hosting, billing, pricing, recurring intervals, admin, support and many other things that go into making a successful membership site.

Sometimes people get caught up in the small stuff and spend more time worrying about trivial stuff that is not going to make one iota of difference to their site and membership business. (more…)

Extreme Member has now successfully upgrade all Membership sites to WordPress 2.8. This is a major enhancement for WordPress and Extreme Member.

Some of the key improvements include:

1. A much faster Admin – now whizzing around the back office is even faster! If you’re on the CDN it will be even faster again.

2. Widgets – new interface and much slicker to (more…)

WordPress 2.8 has just been released. So what does this mean for you?

If you’re an existing Extreme Member client this means that you wont have to worry about handling any upgrades yourself. We take care of all the behind the scenes joy there for you. (more…)

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I want to say thank you to everyone who has taken a minute or 2 to let us know your thoughts and feedback about the idea of us running an online membership workshop type series of training. At this stage I’m thinking it will be a 5-6 week course broken up into specific sections covering the most important topics that are going to get you up and making some $$ fast.

The content (e.g. Teleseminars, worksheets, (more…)