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In this issue:
1) On a personal note...
2) Forum Stress
3) Continuing Domain Issues
4) Featured Articles
5) Forum Posts
6) Cool Tool
On A Personal Note
Last week we had a major wind and rain storm come through our area. Several
homes at a nearby beach were nearly swept into the ocean.
Our house was without electricity for 10 hours and it started to get cold. No
electricity and 2 small kids in a cold house isn't fun. It also makes it
challenging to run an internet business!
Luckily my laptop's nationwide wireless could connect. It also keeps a charge
for a long time (5+ hours). Just as we were packing up to go to a hotel room for
the night, the power came back on.
We had discussed getting a generator in the past. We are now sorting through
our options with it again.
It made me think quite a bit about how much of everything that we enjoy these
days is related to the harnessing of electricity.
Forum Stress
For many membership site owners,
the upkeep of their forums is one of the more important functions of running
their site.
The forum has one of the
strongest effects on your attrition (drop out) rate.
People join a site due to your
offering, they tend to stay with a site due to the quality of the forum
community.
A post this week in our forum
brought up the "immediacy issue" of how quickly forum posts should be answered.
She felt she was required to answer quickly regardless of what hour the posts
came into the forum.
That's completely unrealistic of
course.
Considering the time zones and
locations of your members, its impossible to expect you to be monitoring the
forum 24 hours a day.
Besides that, who says you have
to answer every post yourself?
The perfect ideal of a forum
is one that requires a minimal amount of interaction on your part. Instead
members helping each other is a very good goal to shoot for. The forum then
becomes more self sufficient with some (but not all) interaction by you.
Unless you have a very high end
coaching club, your forum is a COMMUNITY event.
If you have set yours up as one
on one consulting directly with you, I hope you are charging a substantial
amount for that service. Even then the members need to know what the
expectations are.
Members of MSO can read the post
by clicking here.
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Continuing Domain
Issues
I mentioned this in a
recent newsletter but it bears repeating. I am still hearing from site owners
being affected by this.
If you're domain name is
registered with RegisterFly.com, transfer your domain names IMMEDIATELY or risk
losing them.
They were decertified a few weeks ago as an ICANN recognized registrar. This means that
servers around the world will no longer be recognizing the domain names
registered with them.
Just this week alone I have
talked with 3 membership site owners. Their sites disappeared off the internet.
Well actually the sites were still there but the domain name wasn't working
anymore. All 3 were RegisterFly customers.
I recommend using GoDaddy's transfer service to get your domain names out of there as soon as possible.
Featured Articles and
Resources
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Forum Posts
If you haven't stopped by our forum recently, its time you did! Its active
with exceptional advice and tips from very successful membership site owners.
Don't have a membership yet to check out the forum? No problem! You can try
our site ABSOLUTELY FREE for 14 days with our trial membership. Get started with
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Here is a recent post from the forum.
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Tupacia asked in the forum:
Tim, I know you've mentioned before about the 6-figure per month membership
site success stories out there.
As I go about crafting my own membership site, can you or other members give
examples of sites that are doing this kind of volume?
I would love to be able to look at these sites and see what they do that
differentiates them from other sites. Thanks guys!
Here are some of the sites that are recommended viewing for some of the
best practices that they are using successfully:
http://www.membershipsiteowner.com/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=1062#4567 |
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Best wishes for a great week!
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