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

Protecting your website does not have to be an expensive affair! In this episode, I talk about specific plugins that you can download for Free but will provide you with almost the same level of security as some of the paid plugins.

Listen to this episode to learn about:

* The Key security plugins and options that are available to you for FREE. The goal of this episode is to educate you about the TOP few free and paid security options so you can come to a decision based on your specific needs and budget.

* Free plugin that you can use to block specific countries from accessing your site in the event of a hack!

* Free plugin that will allow you to block undesired spam comments, trackback and pingback spam!

* Free plugin that will allow you to hide your Wordpress login page without causing conflicts with other plugins.

* Wordfence Premium vs Wordfence Free Plugin! What should you use?

* How you can combine Wordfence free plugin with a few other free plugins to get almost the same level of protection as Wordfence paid plugin!

WordPress security is about risk reduction, not risk elimination. It's about making it really really hard for hackers to attack your website. This episode of DAPCast is intended to educate you on some basic security tips, techniques and actionable steps that will help to improve your security and reduce the risk of an attack.

Listen to this episode to find out:

* The key differences between Wordfence and Sucuri's Application Firewall.

* What's better and why?

* What's that one CRITICAL thing that you MUST implement if you use Cloud-based Firewall?

* Currently Sucuri's basic plan costs $200 dollars a year for ONE website. I'v shared a simple tip on how you can get the best protection while saving money.

* Learn the answers to all of this, and MORE, in this value-packed DAPCast episode!

This episode is part-2 of my interview with Torey Lynn where we talk about problems and challenges that a majority of membership site owners face and the best ways to overcome these challenges and build a long lasting membership site!

This is not a typcial interview. It's more of a conversation where we talk about a wide variety of membership site topics that will keep you interested till the very end because we talk about problems and challenges that a majority of membership site owners face and the best ways to deal with it using our own experiences. This episode is well worth your time.

Some of the things we discuss are: 1. Why Torey uses ConvertKit and stopped using Aweber? 2. How she generates traffic to her website. 3. The problems software product owners face with Facebook group. 3. Why she uses Facebook group and not a forum for her membership site? 4. What would she advise someone who's just starting out with their membership site and struggling with it? 5. Free vs Paid. How she decides what to give away for free and what to save for her paid content/course. 6. What strategy she uses to manage ongoing content creation for her subscription program, without letting the amount of work involved in constantly churning out new content overwhelm her. And how she is able to free up time to market her products despite being as busy as she is. 7. How she manages churn and gets her members to keep coming back for more. 8. How she uses DAP and SPC to manage her membership site and sales funnel. 9. What content delivery mechanism she uses and why.

Episode Link:  http://DAPCast.com/12

In this episode, Torey Lynn breaks down her sales funnel and describes in detail how every element of her sales funnel is strategically designed to increase her sales and allows her to run her membership site on autopilot.

She also talks about all the tools she uses to implement these strategies, how she interacts with her customers and builds a relationship with them, how she uses email marketing to increase her conversions, and how she tracks her numbers and tweaks them to get more of out of her funnel.

Listen to this episode to learn how she is doing this and how you too can very easily implement these simple tactics to increase your sales. She has also shared a detailed and truly awesome behind-the-scenes video to show how a simple sales funnel tactic has helped her increase conversions by 80%!

If you want to get more out of your business and your sales funnel, just listen to this episode and then watch the behind-the-scenes video at http://DAPCast.com/11.

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The big difference between those who succeed and those who fail is as simple as those who succeed talk less and do more. In other words, they take action. They spend time doing things that matter. In this Episode, DAP users Torey Lynn, Jeff Sanders and Molly Martin share their thoughts on the one thing they would do differently in their businesses in 2018.

There is a big difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. Perfectionism causes stress, perfectionism crushes creativity, perfectionism prevents productivity and ultimately prevent you from building and growing a successful online business. Strive to create an excellent product but do not focus on minor and unnecessary details that will keep you from getting it out there.

In this episode I have shared my top 7 tips to get more done and get things out there. Take a listen to this value-packed episode to learn about how simple changes to your daily routine will allow you to be more productive, more focussed, do things that matter and accomplish your goals.

In this DAPCast episode, I talk to DAP user Jeff Sanders about how he leverages the power of DAP and Learndash to sell and deliver his online courses, and to manage his membership site.

Jeff talks about how he uses his podcast to bring his target audience to his site, how he converts his podcast listeners into subscribers and how he uses both Learndash (LMS) and DAP (Membership Plugin) to manage and deliver his online course and other products / services.

Jeff has a very popular podcast called "The 5 AM Miracle" where he shares productivity tips that will help you tackle your grandest goals with extraordinary energy. He uses his podcast to generate traffic to his membership site, which is at JeffSanders.com.

And not just that... Jeff has also contributed an awesome BTS video to the DAPCast BTS library. He takes us behind the scenes of his membership site to show how has integrated DAP (his membership plugin) and Learndash (his LMS). Be sure to check it out at http://dapcast.com/9.

This episode is jam-packed with value and I'm sure you'll agree after you listen to this interview!

In this value-packed episode, DAP user - Nino Alves shares everything from how he generates traffic, to how he uses both a LMS and a Membership Plugin to manage and deliver his online courses, to all the components of his sales funnel!

Nino from JazzPianoPlayer.com, uses DigitalAccessPass (DAP) as his membership plugin, SmartPayCart (SPC) as his Shopping Cart platform, WPEP as his LMS and Drip as his Email Marketing platform. In this interview, Nino shares how these systems integrate seamlessly and has allowed him to build an high-converting and optimized sales funnel, to deliver his online courses!

We talk in-depth about WPEP, the learning management solution (LMS) that Nino uses to manage and deliver his online courses, and why he decided to use WPEP. And also how uses DAP and SPC to sell his online courses, coaching and other products! We also talk about why he is using both a membership plugin and a LMS, instead of just an LMS or just a membership plugin to manage and deliver his online courses. And why he decided to separate his membership site from his sales site. Great stuff!

Also, after you listen to this interview, be sure to download Nino's behind-the-Scenes video from http://dapcast.com/8 . His video is really awesome. He shows his entire set up - WPEP, DAP, SPC everything end-to-end and the front-end user experience as well.

Take a listen to this episode to learn how you can leverage the power of a LMS like WPEP, a Membership plugin like DAP, a shopping cart platform like SmartPayCart (SPC), and an email platform like Drip to build a long-term profitable, sustainable and successful online business.

A Learning Management System is a key component of a Membership Site but a Membership Site can do a LOT MORE than just Online Course Delivery.

Even if your goal is to just Create, Secure, Sell and Deliver an Online Course, the benefit of using a Membership Site is that you can scale it later to secure and deliver all types of content, and not just something that's packaged as an online course.

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.

So the question is why do you even need a LMS if your Membership Plugin can do it all?

That's exactly the topic of this episode! 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.

I'm trying out a new format for DAPCast starting this episode. I'm introducing new segments to make every show even more valuable for you.

1. News & Announcements - I'll share the latest from the world of DAP and SPC. This way you'll get a quick update on what's new and what's coming soon.

2. Actionable Tips & Stratgies and Interviews - This will be the core segment where I'll share actionable tip & strategies to help you with your membership site or an interview with other membership site owners, so you can learn about how other membership site users are monetizing their content.

3. What I learnt this week In this segment, I'll share blog posts or podcasts or quotes - things that will help you with your online business or motivate you if you're feeling stuck.

4. Quick Recap I'll do a quick recap of whatever I share in segment 2, and plans for the next episode.

In this episode, I've also shared the latest news & updates from DAP and SPC. We've ton of exciting things lined up for release. Take a listen to find out more.

Membership Site Planning is basically a visualization of what you need to produce, in terms of content and products, and what you to need to provide, in terms of services and community, in order help your members get from their start to their end state in a step-by-step way.

In this episode, I've shared 10 Steps that will help you with your Membership Site Planning.

As membership site owners, we're basically problem solvers with the goal of helping people get to their desired destination in smaller but well-defined steps so they can get there with faster without getting overwhelmed. But if you dump random unrelated content with no logical order, they are going to figure that pretty quick, you'll lose their trust which won't be easy to gain back. You are going to end up with a high refund rate and ultimately a product that has no takers, as you cannot deliver on your promise.

Now, the plan does not have to be set in stone. You need to evolve and adapt based on your member feedback and the lessons that you learn along the way, but it's important that you are fully and absolutely clear about both the type of content you're going to deliver, the order in which you're going to deliver it and the benefits.

Follow the simple steps that I've shared in this episode to come with a plan for your membership site. And this series is going to keep getting better as next we'll deep dive into different components of your sales funnel!