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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWir sprachen mit Paul Browning, dem Gr\u00fcnder von howtonetwork.com, und baten ihn, uns ein wenig \u00fcber seine Erfahrungen mit dem Aufbau und der Entwicklung einer Mitgliederseite zu erz\u00e4hlen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wie haben Sie mit Ihrer Mitgliederseite angefangen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ich habe 2006 mit Mitgliederseiten angefangen. Ich musste $10.000 f\u00fcr eine Lizenz f\u00fcr Membergate bezahlen, die damals die einzige vern\u00fcnftige Mitgliedschaftsl\u00f6sung auf dem Markt war. Damit konnte ich einige E-Commerce-Funktionen einrichten und Seiten f\u00fcr verschiedene Mitgliedschaftsstufen sperren lassen. Es l\u00e4uft auf Coldfusion und wurde nach ein paar Jahren sehr eingeschr\u00e4nkt, aber zu diesem Zeitpunkt waren bereits andere L\u00f6sungen verf\u00fcgbar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wie sind Sie auf die Idee gekommen, eine Mitgliederseite zu starten?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I joined a website by old school internet marketer and programmer Bill Myers. I loved the concept of having a niche site where members could join for a regular monthly fee. Cashflow is king in business, and after running a traditional high street business I didn\u2019t want the feast-and-famine money worries that come along with brick and mortar businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Was ist Ihr Hintergrund und Ihr Fachwissen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I worked as a police officer in the UK for 12 years and then made a career move into IT, providing helpdesk and\u00a0network support at Cisco Systems. We were all made redundant in 2002, so I started to work for myself teaching computer networking courses. I rented hotel conference rooms when I ran a course. I really wanted to move into delivering the courses via streaming video, so I began researching how to do that. I have no programming or coding skills, and I don\u2019t want to learn them to be honest, so I wanted a point-and-click solution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wo sind Sie ans\u00e4ssig? Gibt es etwas Einzigartiges\/Interessantes dar\u00fcber, warum Sie dort ans\u00e4ssig sind?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I lived in the UK for 40 years and then decided to move to Australia with my family four years ago. By this time I\u2019d grown my online income to a significant level, so I was able to work from home. My websites run off servers in the USA, and most of my videos stream off Amazon S3 cloud servers, so I can live and work from anywhere there\u2019s an internet connection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wer ist Ihr Markt?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Howtonetwork.com\u00a0helps novice to intermediate IT people pass their certification exams and enjoy a successful career. We cover networking, virtualization, voice, security, project management, and other IT related skills. The site is built around streaming videos with end of lesson exams and a members only forum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anything unique about your business or anything else you would want our readers\u00a0to know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, I suppose that if I can do it anybody can. I have no programming skills and if you have a good idea you can get started for a few dollars. If it doesn\u2019t work out you can adjust or start on another idea and have a working membership site up in a few hours. With Facebook, YouTube, and e-mail newsletters it\u2019s pretty easy to reach your target audience and build a relationship of trust with them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally,\u00a0how has MemberPress helped you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ich schrieb eine Liste mit allen Funktionen, die meine Mitgliedschaftssoftware erf\u00fcllen sollte. Sie sollte mit WordPress zusammenarbeiten, verschiedene Stufen haben, mit Stripe funktionieren, einfach zu bedienen sein, den Mitgliedern erm\u00f6glichen, ihre eigenen Konten ohne manuelle Eingriffe zu verwalten und einen hervorragenden Support bieten. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve built several membership websites over the past few years and it always ended up with me having to compromise on something important. I also found that the support for some membership plugins was terrible or you had to do PHP coding to get it working properly and I\u2019ve got no clue about all that. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ich nutze MemberPress in Verbindung mit WPCourseware, wodurch Mitglieder einzelne Kurse belegen, Pr\u00fcfungen ablegen und Abschlusszertifikate ausdrucken k\u00f6nnen. Ich habe Leistungsabzeichen sowie Belohnungen f\u00fcr Beitr\u00e4ge und die Beantwortung von Fragen im Forum getestet. Stripe \u00fcbernimmt die Kreditkartenzahlungen und die monatliche Abrechnung, und R\u00fcckbuchungen kommen so gut wie nie vor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n MemberPress has scaled well from the first few hundred joiners, and we\u2019ve had over 2,500 join so far. There have been a few teething problems, but it works like a well oiled machine now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019d like to thank Paul for his time and congratulate him on using MemberPress to help him create and run a very successful membership site. What Paul said is true, \u201c\u2026I suppose that if I can do it anybody can. I have no programming skills, and if you have a good idea you can get started for a few dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nehmen Sie sich also ein paar Minuten Zeit und besuchen Sie howtonetwork.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Erfahren Sie mehr \u00fcber die Einrichtung einer eigenen Website f\u00fcr Mitglieder, Sehen Sie sich diesen Beitrag an<\/a> f\u00fcr 25 tolle Ideen f\u00fcr Mitglieder-Websites. 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