Membership Site Lab: Actionable Tips & Advice on How To Build & Grow your Membership Site!

Are you ready to gamify your Podcast to grow your audience?

This is part 2 of a series of episodes on gamification where I've shared 2 simple gaming techniques to build and grow your podcast audience. Gamification's power comes from the fact that it speaks to our most automatic drives such wanting to do well, a gentle nudge to keep pushing, rewards, points, healthy competition, wanting to win, sense of achievement and so on.

Take a listen to learn how you can leverage simple gaming techniques to increase your podcast listens and subscribers.

Episode Link: https://MembershipSiteLab.com/24

This is part 1 of a series of episodes on gamification where I will share actionable tricks, tips & strategies that will help you nail gamification in your online business.

Gamification is all around us — from marketers who use games to attract consumers to companies that leverage gamification to train employees. Gamification's power comes from the fact that it speaks to our most automatic drives such wanting to do well, a gentle nudge to keep pushing, wanting to win, reward, points, healthy competition, sense of achievement and so on.

Are you ready to gamify your business?

Take a listen to episode #23 of "Membership Site Lab" to learn how you can incorporate game-elements in your online business to engage, educate, entertain and convert!

Details here: https://MembershipSiteLab.com/23

In today's marketplace, where it's so hard to stand out from your competition, where you've to have to constantly come up with creative and smart ways to keep your audience engaged, what's that one thing that can help?

Gamification!

I'll be speaking at this year's podcast movement event in Florida and the topic of my presentation is... "gamification"!

It's all about incorporating gaming elements to non-gaming situations to create excitement and increase engagement. And giveaways are a big part of gamification strategy.

As I was doing research for this topic, I stumbled upon a giveaway campaign from a well-known marketer, Ezra Firestone. So I took a closer look at his funnel and was intrigued by the strategy he was using to get more people to participate.

I've shared the strategy and also all the details from my recent giveaway in this episode of "Membership Site Lab"! 

Episode Link: https://membershipsitelab.com/22

Selling online is getting harder and harder. People spend so much time endlessly tweaking the style and design of their websites that they have no time to work on things that actually matter.

In this episode, I've shared tips and strategies that are proven to work and are sure to help you increase your revenue by at least 5% - if not more, using Order Bumps! And by the end of this episode, I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say:

"You are NOT just a "funnel away. You are just an "Order Bump" away!"

Here are some things to keep in mind as you design your bump offer. => People are willing to pay for convenience (a product or service that allows them to do things faster and saves them time, money and effort. For e.g, installation, setup, 30 min consultation, DFY, etc).

=> Impulse purchase - something they want and need, and with a great discount, you make it a no-brainer, impulse buy.

Take a listen to the full episode as no one has shared order bump strategies and secrets the way I have done it in this episode of "Membership Site Lab"!

If you like this episode, please share with your friends and followers and tag me so I can personally thank you for spreading the word :-). Also, look for "membership site lab" (3 words) in your favorite podcast app and subscribe to it as this way you won't miss any future episodes.

Episode Link: https://membershipsitelab.com/21

Launch weeks inevitably end up being crazy, stressful times. We tend to give ourselves less time than what we need, and that certainly adds to the stress.

As you may know, we recently launched a help desk plugin called DAP Ticket. My kids had their spring break the week before my launch. So we took some time off for a family vacation. We got back home on Monday night and my launch was on Wednesday! 

I had just 14 hours to put things together for my launch! 

But there was no panic, no stress!

So what's my secret to a stress-free launch? 

I lean on my bag of simple tricks and shortcuts for my launches and it works every single time! I'm able to do things quickly and effortlessly without compromising anything. 

In this episode, I've shared all of my launch secrets! Take a listen!

Show notes @ https://membershipsitelab.com/20

Say you are starting out. You are not making any money yet. How do you keep your membership site costs low while using a setup that allows you to scale your site easily as your membership site grows? What are the bare minimum things you need to run a membership site?

That's exactly the topic of this Membership Site Lab Episode (Episode #19)!

Here's what you will learn in this episode:

1. Webhosting Platform

Say that you don't want to spend $60-$100 each month on a cloud-based (VPS) hosting. Can you go with a shared hosting plan for your membership site? What are the potential problems with a shared hosting account that you need to be aware of and the best ways to address them?

2. Wordpress themes What happens if I start with one theme but decide to change it later? What themes do you recommend and why?

3. Email Platform

Do I need an email platform or can I send emails through a membership plugin like DAP? What are the pros and cons of using DAP to create and send out emails to your subscribers vs a full-fledged ESP like Aweber, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit etc?

4. Is an LMS a must-have if I want to offer online courses or can I do it using DAP? What are the pros and cons of using an LMS vs just a membership plugin like DAP for my online courses?

5. What are my options for a scalable and robust membership plugin? What do you recommend?

Not a good question to ask me :-). My answer is always - DAP, DAP and DAP :-).

6. Shopping Cart Platform

You've a membership site. You want to sell products. You want to accept payments. You want to give your users an option to pay using Paypal or pay using their credit card. You want to give users access to your products when the payment is complete. You want to automate the whole process.

But you're just starting out and don't want to spend a ton of money on a cart platform.

What are your options?

7. Forum / Community software

What do you recommend? When should you add a forum to your membership site?

8. Audio, Video, PDF and other files

How do you store, protect and deliver these files from your membership site?

This is a great episode for all membership site users - regardless of whether you are just starting out or have an established membership site.

And don't forget to share with your friends and followers and subscribe to this show. Look for "Membership Site Lab" in your favorite podcast app and hit subscribe!

Listen to this podcast to learn: 1. Why I'm re-branding my podcast and what I'm calling it now.

2. The new format of my podcast and how it'll help you.

3. What's the purpose of this podcast.

4. Whether it's a trial offer, ebook, checklists, a video library, an action or execution plan, a lead magnet, an online course, or an ongoing subscription, you can deliver it all from a Membership Site, using a Membership Plugin.

Then why do you need a Learning Management System (LMS)? Take a listen to this episode to learn the differences between the two, the overlaps, and how to leverage BOTH to Create a Powerful & Profitable Membership Site. 

Successful login is key to creating a happy membership experience for your members. If the login stuff is not working right, it's going to frustrate your members more than anything else and they will lose trust in you because they can't access what they were promised when they purchased your product.

So making sure that your login process is seamless and problem free, is critical to the success of your membership site.

In this episode, I've shared 8 simple tips that will help you create a great login experience for your members:

1. How does the login work for people who have multiple products versus a single product?

2. Where should you send members after they login?

3. How do you tell the login form where to redirect users when they login? How do you configure that?

4. How you can prevent frequent login timeouts.

5. Should you create product-specific login page or one login page for all products?

6. How do you login and test user experience if you don't know member password?

7. How you can troubleshoot login issues.

8. How you can customize login form and messages.

And more...

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The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) will have a very big impact on the way marketers store, manage or process the personal data of EU citizens. Be sure to listen to this episode to learn how to make your Membership Site GDPR-Compliant in a few simple and easy steps!

Here are the 10 Key Items that I've shared in this Podcast:

1. What are the different options available in DAP to help you get GDPR-complaint. 2. How to deal with existing members that dont have a GDPR status. 3. How you can capture GDPR compliance date. 4. How you get GDPR members to update their status in the members area. 5. How you can automatically capture GDPR status at the time of member login. 6. How you can create a GDPR terms page using a shortcode. 7. How you can update your frontend pages to be GDPR compliant.  8. What you need to say on your privacy policy page for your membership site. 9. How you can export a csv list of GDPR status and compliance details of your members. 10. How you can test GDPR options on your frontend pages if you're not from a GDPR country.

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The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) deadline is 25 May 2018. GDPR will have big impact on the way marketers store, manage or process the personal data of EU citizens. Be sure to listen to this episode to make your Checkout Pages GDPR-Compliant!

This episode of DAPCast will help you prepare your Checkout Pages - Powered by SmartPayCart.com - GDPR Compliant, in a few simple and easy steps!

Listen to this episode to find out:

1. How to enable GDPR options globally for your SPC site. 2. How to configure SPC to send you an email when a GDPR user declines to give you consent. 3. How to add your country to SPC GDPR list for testing purposes. 4. How to add a GDPR terms section to your checkout page. 5. How to customize the GDPR terms. 6. How to check the GDPR consent "date and time" in the user's DAP profile.

And more...