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I have looked at setting up a membership site because I have products ideally suited for one - but the tecchie logistics
just floor me. Even the Wordpress plug-in is over my head. How does one do a very simple membership site ?

Tinu 331 pts moderator

Hello there,

There are 4 really easy ways but there's now way I could give you all the details in a comment reply. 1- Forgo the site altogether and do an email membership. The Rhodes brothers had a free ebook out about this years ago. Very simple method. 2- Just create a page, password protect a directory, You'll have to manually add and remove people, but it is easier to manage than software, though more labor-intensive.3- Hire someone to install the plugin for you. You can probably get someone to do it on Fiverr or Odesk. For another $5 - $10 they'd probably give you a walk through too.

4- Pay/partner with someone else to manage the site, while you just do the marketing.Hope this helps.

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Hi Anne

The simplest way to do it would be to create a password protected directory. But the problem with that is it is easy to circumvent. If the techie details are over your head, you can probably hire someone inexpensively to install it for you.

I have looked at setting up a membership site because I have products ideally suited for one - but the tecchie logistics
just floor me. Even the Wordpress plug-in is over my head. How does one do a very simple membership site ?

The answer is, create a membership site that has a wide, speciality, consumer audience, and charge a membership fee so low that it wouldn't be wroth it to unsubscribe. :)

I may do an article on this, just for you. :)

I personally have always thought that if you could learn to make just a few bucks online (of actual profit not just sales) then you could always figure out ways to leverage your efforts.

My first website cost me more money than it made me for years and still does but I just don't want to let it go.

My other websites actually do make money because I generate traffic and the products cost much more than the advertising.

So my question is "How do you create a cheap product that provides value without giving it all away so you have nothing more to sell?"