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Website Membership Systems:

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• Profile Manager Premium v3 - http://www.interlogy.com/products/pmpre/
  • perl/cgi based system - can not use members only protected features on IIS
  • Designed to work with phpbb
• Membership website handbook - http://www.mequodalibrary.com/tocs/mwh2.html
  • Second Edition by Don Nicholas and Peter A. Schaible
  • Contents:
    • Preface The Mequoda Method History and Methodology (Coming Soon)
    • Part 1 Best Practice Guidelines
    • 2.1 How to Launch a Successful Membership Website

 2.1.1 The 12 Commandments of Publishing a Membership Website or Online Newsletter 
 2.1.2 Twelve Ways to Kill Your Membership Website 
 2.1.3 From Magazine to Book to Subscription Website: Is This a Viable Business Model 
 2.1.4 Adding Credibility to Your Membership Website: 14 Factors You Must Consider 
 2.1.5 Marketing Your Membership Website via Search Engine Optimization 
 2.1.6 Eight Steps For Successfully Marketing Your Subscription Website 
 2.1.7 My 12 Most Important Beliefs About Marketing 
 2.1.8 How To Evaluate a Market Niche for Your Member Website or Other Information Product 
 2.1.9 Top 10 Reasons Why Visitors Resist Subscribing To Your Membership Site 
 2.1.10 Beyond Email: RSS and Subscription Site Success 
 2.1.11 The Pros and Cons of Using the Recurring Billing Option on Your Subscription Website 
 2.1.12 How to Test the Viability of Your Idea for a Pay-For-Access Online Newsletter Before Development 
 2.1.13 Your (U.S.) Tax Dollars at Work: Excerpts from a Government Report on Research and Design 
 2.1.14 The Pros and Cons of Using the Recurring Billing Cycle  
 2.1.15 Do You Know Why Your Members Subscribe? 

• Part 2 Membership Case Studies and Profiles
  • 2.2.1 Interview with Stanley Roberts, a television videographer whose membership website publishes restaurant and lodging reviews.
  • 2.2.2 Interview with LeaRae?Create Keyes, RN, publisher of a membership website designed to help nurse entrepreneurs develop and expand their businesses.
  • 2.2.3 Interview with Chris Parkin, co-publisher of an online newsletter for innkeepers and others in the hospitality industry
  • 2.2.4 Interview with Peter Hapgood, whose membership website capitalizes on his years of professional experience in the public employee retirement industry
  • 2.2.5 Interview with Dan McCormick?Create, publisher of a subscription website for photographers
  • 2.2.6 Interview with Reg Hardy, an expert billiards instructor who writes extensively about the game he loves and publishes a membership website for casual players.
  • 2.2.7 Interview with Sam Knoll: chemical engineer, MBA, entrepreneur, health products retailer, and membership website publisher
  • 2.2.8 Interview with Steve Yankee, the Video Business Advisor, whose membership website is a collection of tips, tools and techniques to build your video business!
  • 2.2.9 Interview with David and Jill Stowell who provide online advice for tutors and learning center owners at a membership website
  • 2.2.10 Interview with Dr. Joanne Fritz, a marketer whose interest in the adult market has spawned a new membership website for companies that want to sell to seniors
  • 2.2.11 Interview with Jessica Hostler de Sanchez, whose membership website is a treasure trove of helpful hints for overworked mothers
  • 2.2.12 Interview with Bob Chambers: This experienced membership website publisher has seen the future and it is spelled M-U-L-T-I-M-E-D-I-A.
  • 2.2.13 Interview with Kathy McCabe?Create, whose travel and culture newsletter can help make your dreams of la dolce vita come true
  • 2.2.14 Interview with Jerry Minchey, an engineer, computer designer, speaker, marketer, search engine optimization expert, and membership website publisher
  • 2.2.15 Interview with Dave Debs, the mastermind behind MemberScript?Create Content Publisher, a new product for managing a membership website
  • 2.2.16 Interview with Steve Sztopek, whose membership website for professional picture framers and gallery owners is a model of decorum
  • 2.2.17 Interview with Larry Pike, who with his wife, Holly, discovered an under-addressed niche market and responded by building a very successful business around a subscription website
  • 2.2.18 A car restoration enthusiast starts a pay-for-access website after spending two years in Ulaan Baatar, Outer Mongolia
  • 2.2.19 Now you can start your day with a pithy inspirational quote from a new subscription website. Its owners have been publishing a magazine equivalent of its message for more than 80 years.
  • 2.2.20 Frequent travelers are seeking responsible people to mind their homes and pets while they are away. An Australian company has recognized this need and established membership websites where, for a modest fee, you can connect with prospective house sitters and pet sitters
  • 2.2.21 Publishing restaurant and lodging reviews for fun and profit
  • 2.2.22 A subscription website where members can swap cars and leases
  • 2.2.23 Can you come out and play? This member site facilitates finding a teammate.
  • 2.2.24 Home swapping for vacations is a definite trend, not just a fad. But is it a worthwhile membership website niche? You decide.
  • 2.2.25 A membership website enterprise that enables disabled people to travel more freely
  • 2.2.26 What are the best practices for operating an inbound call center?
  • 2.2.27 Giving contractors online access to the building codes they use most via a membership site
  • 2.2.28 Start an online community based on your common enjoyment of a hobby, as this Massachusetts woman did, and before you know it, you could have in excess of 25,000 members
  • 2.2.29 The career path of this photographer took him from teenage hobbyist, to professional, to teacher, to membership website publisher
  • 2.2.30 Need sales leads? You can buy, sell and trade business cards at this membership website.
  • 2.2.31 Freelance writers, designers, computer programmers and others can find assignments at a website that uses the fee-for-access business model
  • 2.2.32 A subscription website that helps prepare for a career with the airlines has more than 15,000 members
  • 2.2.33 An online community for members of the book publishing industry to track deals, sales, reviews, agents, editors and news
  • 2.2.34 A business model for online publishers that does not require paid members, processing credit cards, or even creating all your own content
  • 2.2.35 A professional association of martial arts teachers boasts a subscription website that helps its members succeed in all aspects of running their schools
  • 2.2.36 The goal of this subscription website is to help high school seniors earn their way into the colleges and universities of their dreams.
  • 2.2.37 Finding a sponsor for your expensive motocross hobby using a membership website
  • 2.2.38 Do you worry about memory loss? A membership website is devoted to keeping your mind fit
  • 2.2.39 This subscription website matches meeting planners with aspiring speakers and charges members $50 monthly or $500 annually
  • 2.2.40 A website portal for the African American community in Los Angeles serves as a member site business model that could be cloned in other cities
  • 2.2.41 A member site that matches vacation property owners with prospective renters is an enviable business model for SWEPA members
  • 2.2.42 Making a profit from a free subscription website
  • 2.2.43 Membership website opportunity for scrapbook fanatics
  • 2.2.44 What hands-on, take-charge-of-your-own-health Baby Boomers really want is reliable information about alternatives to the traditional model of practicing medicine. One tireless medical detective is betting they will pay a premium to access his subscription website for answers.
  • 2.2.45 This membership website is an online community for embroidery enthusiasts to meet and exchange ideas, discuss new design and software releases, chat about life and make new friends
  • 2.2.46 A subscription to an online database or software application could generate significant income and create long-term customers. This app-on-tap website devoted to legal forms and contracts invites you to model its success.
  • 2.2.47 And now for something completely different
• Part 3 Membership Website Design Reviews
  • 2.3.1 WineSpectator?Create.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.2 TheAccountsPayableNetwork?Create.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.3 WSJ.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.4 TheBookStandard?Create.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.5 Firehouse.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.6 Moneylaundering.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.7 BabyCenter?Create.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.8 RichDadPoorDad?Create.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.9 Morningstar.com Website Design Review
  • 2.3.10 CreditToday?Create.net Website Design Review
  • 2.3.11 RollCall?Create.com Website Design Review

• 2.4 Introduction (Coming Soon)
• 2.4.1 Seven Rules About Writing for Membership Websites
• 2.4.2 16 Ways to Sabotage Your Subscription Website and Stifle Member Renewals
• 2.4.3 Tips for Increasing Subscription Website Discussion Forum Participation
• 2.4.4 How to Format Attractive, Easy-to-Read, Printer-Friendly Pages
• 2.4.5 Investigating Your Website Niche by Researching Online for Similar Topics
• 2.4.6 Adding Checks to Your Payment Options Can Increase Membership
• 2.4.7 No Cost Copywriting Lesson From A Wildly Successful Membership Website Publisher
• 2.4.8 Supplement Your Content With Book Reviews
• 2.4.9 Readabilty Rules For Subscription Websites
• 2.4.10 You Have Only 10 Seconds to Make A Good First Impression
• 2.4.11 Optimizing the User Experience: Excerpts from a Government Report
• 2.4.12 Trade Shows or Industry Conferences Are a Great Source of Content
• 2.4.13 Write your membership website content to be found by the search engines and easily identified by the casual visitor
• 2.4.14 How to Ethically Increase Traffic to Your with Additional Domain Names
• 2.4.15 Seniors Lead Online Growth and Create Opportunities for Premium Information Sites
• 2.4.16 What is Your Membership Website Passion: to Lead or to be Led?
• 2.4.17 Do Neatness and Order Add to the Credibility of Membership Websites?
• 2.4.18 How to Know if Your Website Search Engine Ranking Is Being Hijacked
• 2.4.19 Set Up Your Own Merchant Account
• 2.4.20 Find Out Who Owns That Domain Name With This Reliable Product

• 2.5.1 Mequoda Method Glossary
• 2.5.2 About Mequoda Group, LLC (Coming Soon)
• 2.5.3 About Don Nicholas
• 2.5.4 About Peter A. Schaible
• 2.5.5 Mequoda Method Library Membership (Coming Soon)
• 2.5.6 Mequoda Method Handbooks (Coming Soon)
• 2.5.7 Mequoda Method Seminars (Coming Soon)
• 2.5.8 Mequoda Method Coursebooks and CDs (Coming Soon)

• Membership Website Handbook - First Edition
  • Part 1 Best Practice Guidelines
    • 1.1.1 Twelve ways to kill your membership website
    • 1.1.2 Four Questions You Absolutely Must Answer in Order to Have a Successful Subscription Website
    • 1.1.3 The Five Most Profitable Subscription Website Business Models
    • 1.1.4 Find Your Focus Whether You're Just Starting Out or Already Established
    • 1.1.5 Pick Your Topic Wisely
    • 1.1.6 Twelve ideas for an effective affiliate marketing program that promotes your membership site
    • 1.1.7 Online Guerrilla Marketing, Week One
    • 1.1.8 Online Guerrilla Marketing, Week Two
    • 1.1.9 Online Guerrilla Marketing, Week Three
    • 1.1.10 Online Guerrilla Marketing, Week Four
    • 1.1.11 Online Guerrilla Marketing, Week Five
    • 1.1.12 What is it your subscribers really want and how can you help provide it?
    • 1.1.13 Why this is the perfect time to start charging for website subscriptions
    • 1.1.14 Accepting Credit Cards Online
    • 1.1.15 Making A Profit From a Free Subscription Website
    • 1.1.16 Your Privacy Policy is a Public Promise to be Trustworthy with the Confidentiality of Your Members
    • 1.1.17 Set Up A Merchant Account
  • Part 2 Membership Case Studies and Profiles
    • 1.2.1 Interview with Dr. Lynn Carlisle, a dentist who really cares about the doctor-patient relationship. His subscription website is a model for online newsletters directed at health care professionals.
    • 1.2.2 Interview with John Raabe, an architect who is venturing into the subscription website arena.
    • 1.2.3 Interview with Tim Kerber, creator of a subscription website focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed online
    • 1.2.4 Interview with Mike Gaynor, founder of RedPaper?Create.com
    • 1.2.5 Online sales training for people who sell advertising space is the niche of this membership website
    • 1.2.6 Interview with Joe Meth, whose website helps your potential subscribers know what online newsletters to buy. You probably want to know this guy!
    • 1.2.7 Interview with Susan Ellis, a world renowned authority on volunteerism and an online publisher
    • 1.2.8 Interview with Jim Laube, the founder and president of Center for FoodService?Create Education and publisher of a members-only website for restaurateurs
    • 1.2.9 A New York City Lawyer, after surviving leukemia, creates medical information products and sells them online using the subscription website business model
    • 1.2.10 Interview with Alan Forrest Smith: A Brit, hairdresser, copywriter and online information publishing success--hairee!
    • 1.2.11 A lesson in finding your niche market: A former model publishes a subscription website on fashion tips for well-heeled, upwardly mobile women, age 30-60.
    • 1.2.12 Interview with Michael Autery, creator of a membership organization of DVD product development enthusiasts and professionals
    • 1.2.13 Interview with Kyle Kepley, webmaster and resident pyrotechnic artist at Passfire.com
    • 1.2.14 Interview with Ron Shandler, who transformed his love of the game into the fantasy baseball industry's #1 premium information service
    • 1.2.15 Interview with Susan Wilkins-Hubley, publisher of a successful subscription website for a large but overlooked niche market: women who are second wives and stepmothers
    • 1.2.16 Interview with Mike Platt, president of AccountingWeb?Create, Inc., whose website brings both free and fee-paid premium content to the accounting profession
    • 1.2.17 Interview with Jerry Palm, who turned his hobby-a forum on college basketball-into moneymaking online content
    • 1.2.18 Interview with Winston D. Munnings, retired Consul General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and publisher of an online newsletter about the retirement paradise
    • 1.2.19 Interview with Rob Lawson, whose print newsletter for credit industry professionals is augmented by a subscribers-only website
    • 1.2.20 Interview with Barnaby Dorfman, the man behind a hugely popular paid member site designed for entertainment industry professionals
    • 1.2.21 Interview with Dr. Neil Clark Warren, a marriage counselor who operates a subscription website where he says singles will find the key to a lasting relationship
    • 1.2.22 Interview with Al Walentis, a Thunderbird enthusiast who has an online member site for owners (and wannabes) of the famous marque
    • 1.2.23 Interview with Howard Coffman, creator of a subscription website business model that delivers advertising for the fuel cell industry
    • 1.2.24 Interview with Mike Alexander, a disabled former Royal Marine, living in Australia, who maintains several successful websites, including a subscription site for newsletter publishers and copy editors
    • 1.2.25 Interview with Michael Schutzler, an Internet pioneer and the CEO of Classmates.com, whose membership is increasing at a rate of 1.5 million per month!
    • 1.2.26 Interview with Greg Gough, co-founder of the new Rivals.com, the No. 1 college, recruiting and high school network of sports sites on the Internet
    • 1.2.27 Interview with Lynn Marcus whose subscription website, MarketingWithHonors?Create.com asks, ПIn every competition, someone's got to be a winner. Why can't it be you?
    • 1.2.28 Interview with Troy K. Schneider, editor and associate publisher, NationalJournal?Create.com
    • 1.2.29 Interview with TV newsman Jim Lichtenstein, who secretly started this successful subscription website portal for journalists in his home
    • 1.2.30 Interview with Greg Charlap, founder of MyReminderService?Create.com, an online service that is a thoughtful paid subscription business model
    • 1.2.31 Would you buy an annual website subscription to keep informed of the latest software changes? VersionTracker?Create is betting that you will.
    • 1.2.32 Online job hunting is big business. While the big three job sites produce huge revenues, a few membership websites target small, niche markets.
    • 1.2.33 This restaurant reservation site enables members to book online, and more, but could be so much better!
    • 1.2.34 Teaching the skills needed for success as a medical billing professional using the membership website business model
    • 1.2.35 Member site enables aspiring songwriters to connect live via audio and video with veteran music industry professionals to write songs
    • 1.2.36 This subscription website is an online horticultural information service geared to serving landscape design professionals
    • 1.2.37 The subscribers of this members-only travel agency website are the primary contributors to its online newsletter
    • 1.2.38 Moving to France made easy is the theme of a new membership website
    • 1.2.39 Business model for information aggregators: Republish a guidebook or collection of maps on a subscription website
    • 1.2.40 In another twist on the Book of the Month Club sales model, this membership website sends you a taste of Italy every month
    • 1.2.41 A computer nerd who is also a newsletter publisher and a shareware author publishes my favorite of the many membership websites for parents and children
    • 1.2.42 These membership websites are portals that promote international sales. Are you missing a world of opportunity by not marketing your product to all continents?
    • 1.2.43 Subscribing to an online database of 140 million criminal records
    • 1.2.44 A board-certified family physician practicing in Minnesota has a fee-paid website that gets 870,000 individual visitors a month
    • 1.2.45 An online field guide for birders is available at a remarkably low price. Does this mean you need to carry a laptop with a wireless Internet connection out to the marsh the next time you go looking for the Great Blue Heron?
    • 1.2.46 A membership site comprised of thousands of automotive enthusiasts who share one common interest: their love and passion for the Porsche, Audi and BMW marques
    • 1.2.47 Selling an online subscription to a technical library is a smart business model
    • 1.2.48 Gardeners enjoy a popular membership website that serves more than a million hobbyists a month
    • 1.2.49 Do-It-Yourself advice for homeowners sold via the per-topic model
  • Part 3 Tips and Techniques
    • 1.3.1 Analyze Successful Subscription Websites for Clues on Designing and Marketing
    • 1.3.2 The Importance of Being Original
    • 1.3.3 What to Do When Your Site Goes Down
    • 1.3.4 Is Your Site Missing in Action?
    • 1.3.5 Avoiding the top 10 membership website design sins
    • 1.3.6 Choosing the right colors for your subscription website will affect visitor interest and member retention
    • 1.3.7 Search Engine Placement: Choose Keywords Carefully
    • 1.3.8 A baker's dozen favorite online resources for style and other authoritative information
    • 1.3.9 30 Tips for Building Successful Subscription Websites
  • Part 5 Appendices
    • 1.4.1 Mequoda Method Glossary
    • 1.4.2 About Mequoda Group, LLC (Coming Soon)
    • 1.4.3 About Don Nicholas
    • 1.4.4 About Peter A. Schaible
    • 1.4.5 Mequoda Method Library Membership (Coming Soon)
    • 1.4.6 Mequoda Method Handbooks (Coming Soon)
    • 1.4.7 Mequoda Method Seminars (Coming Soon)
    • 1.4.8 Mequoda Method Coursebooks and CDs (Coming Soon)

Membership Accounting Systems:

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• http://www.capterra.com/landing?cat=amm - Membership management software directory
• http://www.iventa.com/Enterprise-Ecommerce-Solutions.aspx
  • Starter, Standard, Premium - $40 - $180/mo + 1.75% commerce fee + 5% transaction, plus $50 custom design
    • Includes non-technical site builder
  • Silver, Gold, Platinum - $900 - $2000 a month. May require dedicated server
    • Custom design and integration $95/hr
    • features:
      • Accept credit cards online (Merchant account required)
      • Accept mail in payments
      • Built-in Fraud protection (AVS, CVV, Blocked countries, etc)
      • Secure SSL checkout
      • Online store & shopping cart
      • Paid membership system
      • Pay-per-download system
      • Paid reservation system
      • Paid online courses
      • Order management system
      • Backorder system
      • Complete inventory system
      • Automated UPS shipping
      • Unlimited product attributes
      • Unlimited product categories
      • Automatic Notification emails
      • Gift certificates & codes
      • Wishlist tracking
      • Built-in Afiliate tracking (click-thru, conversion, totals)
      • Subscription and membership system
        • Unlimited membership types
        • Variable length subscription periods (1 yr, 30 day, 7 day, daily, trial, etc.)
        • Restrict pages by membership type
        • Assign products to membership pack
        • Automated self-serve membership (join, renew, upgrade, edit online)
        • Store discounts by membership
      • Marketing & Campaign management system
        • Marketing campaign management
        • Search engine submission (Additional fees may apply)
        • Online advertising program setup
        • Discounts through advertising partners
      • Content management system
        • Word processor style content editor (no HTML or programming needed)
        • Folder based content management (move, copy, delete from categories)
        • Pre-publish and expire all content
        • Shared images library
        • File management system
        • Searchable news & press archive
        • Events & Show calendar
        • Unlimited photo galleries
        • Dynamic audio / video players
        • Custom page templates
      • Interactive applications
        • Survey creation and reporting (Checkbox, radio button, dropdown, open text, etc.)
        • Multiple-choice polls
        • Trivia
        • Online quizzes & tests (tie to membership upgrades, discounts)
        • Full message board
        • Content entry / winner management
      • Email publishing, targeting & tracking
        • Built-in Mailing list Registration
        • Graphical Email creation
        • Unlimited graphical email templates
        • Target emails on multiple criteria (Region, age gender, custom criteria, etc.)
        • Schedule email delivery anytime
        • Track read rates and click throguhs
        • Automatica process unsubscribes
        • Built-in email bounce processing
      • Incentives, Points Loyalty Systems & Grass Roots Marketing
        • Create Points-based Auctions (Your Customers Bid Points You Award Them)
        • Award Points for Purchases
        • Award Points for Marketing & Referrals
        • Award Points for Posting Links & Banners
        • Award Points for Offline Marketing (Customers Upload Pictures of Marketing Activities)
        • Create Custom Point Award Activities
      • Customer Service & CRM System
        • Built-in Customer Service Center (Customers Submit Requests via Your Website)
        • Customer "My Account" Page (Customer Can View/Edit?Create Info, Print Invoices, Track Orders, Etc.)
        • Customer Information Center (Consolidated View of History for Admins)
        • Track & Email Customers by Groups
        • Automatic "Lost Password" Retrieval

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• http://www.htaccess.biz/features.html - Doesn't do billing, but it seems to do the password and user management pretty well

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