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Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost Software

四月 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost Software

sites iconWhile
the content and marketing of your site is of vital importance, you
absolutely must have an air-tight membership site in order to function
as an online business.

Thankfully, with low-cost and open source
components at your disposal, it can be done without paying outrageous
fees to proprietary membership site vendors. This course will explore
each step necessary to build a secure and user-friendly membership site.
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It All Starts With Your Parts List

The
first thing you’re supposed to do when you open one of those
do-it-yourself kits is look at the parts list and make sure you have
everything. How many of you do that? There are those who do it
religiously, and those who jump right in to the project, and hope for
the best. This is one of those cases when you need to make sure you
have all the parts.

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Finding a Home for Your Site

Finding
the right host is critical to a successful membership site. More than
just a place to stick your files, and serve pages from, your host is
your partner.

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Reaching Your Prospects

It’s important to choose the most effective tool for managing prospects.

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Partners in Promotion – Tracking Affiliates

An
affiliate program is a cost efficient marketing tool that also serves
to generate interest in your membership site and what you’re offering.
The right software can make it easier to set up and manage an affiliate
program.

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Managing Your Membership

This
topic walks through the basics of installing and configuring aMember to
manage a membership site. aMember is a program that handles membership
management. It enables you to provide protection and access control for
your member area, take and process payments, and do administrative
tasks related to membership – renewal emails, notifications, manual
payments, etc.

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A Place for Your Content

You need a program to design, store, organize, and manage your training content. In this topic we cover Moodle, the open source content management system (CMS) that we use. Moodle is a CMS designed to manage online courses and related training materials.

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Choosing a Payment Processor

With
a paid membership site, you’ll need a way to take and process payments.
A payment processor provides you with the capability to accept credit
cards and process payments from your members.

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Design Options for Creating a Consistent Look

Putting together a large scale ILE
with a mix of different scripts and systems not only involves tying
them all together in the backend, but also requires creating a
consistent look across your site. The programs we’ve discussed in this
course have themeing or templating systems, allowing you (or your
designer) to make that a smoother process.

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Integration – Putting the Pieces Together

Now
that you’ve pulled together some different programs to make up your
membership site, you have to make sure that they all work together.
This topic outlines ways to integrate some of the pieces we’ve covered
in this course.

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Working with a Technical Partner Reference Guide

When
working with a technical partner, it’s helpful to have a set of common
specifications to refer to. After completing this course, you may
choose to work with someone to develop your site rather than putting it
together yourself.

This brief document provides a list of the
programs we have used in this course, along with links to key
information and specifications for installation, configuration, and
integration.

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