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Easy WordPress Membership Sites is a video training product on how to set up a membership site using the WordPress blog content management system, presented by Matt NG.

Product Name: Easy WordPress Membership Sites
Creator: Matt Ng
Website: http://internetmarketing-asia.com/ezwpms/
Purpose: To guide you step-by-step through creating your very own “members only” site using a WordPress blog.
Price: $19.90 USD
Reviewed by: Bryan Clark

The task of creating your very own membership site can be a daunting one. Matt Ng saw the potential to deliver a powerful informational product, and he delivered with this video training package. Let’s find out whether it’s worth investing $20 in this product.

What Is A Membership Site?

A membership site is a website that only allows members to view what is inside. Most of these sites charge a fee (usually monthly) to view the materials. Membership sites usually offer premium information that you can’t find elsewhere or attempt to do all the research for you, providing only what you need to know about a certain topic so you don’t have to waste time searching for it.

A membership site can be anything from a fan club, to an online class or a private forum where members can meet and interact. They can serve just about any purpose that you dream up as long as you meet people’s needs and wants. I’m sure there is something that you can create, place behind a membership site and sell access to.

Who Is This Product For?

The short answer - Everyone. I know that you’ve kicked the idea around about trying your luck at a membership site. It’s a pretty hot topic right now. This product will walk you through every step of the process. The tutorials are easy to understand, informative, and most importantly… cheap.

Easy WordPress Membership Sites picks up right after purchasing a domain name and hosting, and walks you step-by-step through the process of setting up a WordPress blog and creating a membership site with it.

Why Do I need A Members Only Site?

A membership site is a great way to generate a passive income stream. Passive income is what we, as Internet marketers are ultimately searching for, right? A membership site is the mecca of Internet marketing. It’s a great way to generate cash, build your list, and to start offering products and services to your very own paying customers. Does it get any better? I don’t think so.

If you are anything like me you are probably asking yourself why you need this product. The information is available online, but it’s not incredibly easy to find. So why spend the money? Well for one, it’s only $20… finding information takes time. If you could pay $20 for someone to do all the legwork for you why wouldn’t you?

Personally I would use the membership site to help with my branding campaign. Having my very own membership site is a great way to become an “authority” type figure in the virtual world. Even if you don’t have products to sell, you can use this software to provide a valuable service to your customers. For example, let’s take Yaro. Yaro uses his membership site, Blog Mastermind, to teach bloggers how to make more money, build traffic, and become better bloggers. I’m sure that you have something to teach as well. Whether it be bass fishing, or fashion - there is a market on the net for absolutely EVERYTHING!

What Do You Get For Your Money?

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I was given special access to Brian and Tony Clark’s new membership site Teaching Sells as a joint venture partner to see if I felt the program was worth recommending to you.

Every other blogger in my industry has already written their promotional posts about the program during the first few days when Teaching Sells was released. Although I know my blogging peers all work very hard to offer great content and unbiased opinion when they recommend a product, there is also an element of urgency whenever something new launches. As you probably can guess, in terms of affiliate sales the sooner you promote the more you make because you beat the other affiliates.

I was on holiday during the launch of Teaching Sells so I decided to hold off my post until I could actually look inside and review the content, rather than attempt to rush a post during my holiday purely for the sake of getting in quick for maximum affiliate sales.

I’ve just spent some time going through what’s available to members after joining and here’s what I think of Teaching Sells.

Can You Make Money Selling What You Know?

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I just completed reading a fantastic book called 50 Great E-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them by Ross & Holland published by Random House Australia (more details).

Here is my video review of the book (press play) -

This book features 50 stories of successful Internet businesses and the people behind them, including Australian successes Wotif.com, CarSales.com.au, Seek, RealEstate.com.au, big names like Facebook, College Humor, Hot or Not, Skype, YoutTube, Google, Paypal, and a section I was very pleased to see - bloggers! - including Engadget, PerezHilton, Treehugger, Gizmodo and Gawker, and some very web 2.0 sites like Pandora, Digg and Flickr.

Update: I’m going to give this book away at random to one person who leaves a comment on this post. For a chance to win, just leave a comment that is at least two sentences or longer.

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Monika, from The Writers Manifesto, offered to take a look at TNX.com, a text link brokering service with a unique spin on the traditional system used by other brokers. Here’s what Monika had to say after trialling the system out for herself in this review…

TNX.net Review

TNX is a text link based advertising service that works with a points system rather than just being a simple paid links service.

Their aim is to provide webmasters with highly targeted visitors via search engines and give advertisers a platform to purchase links from various websites.

The sign up process is free and quick and within minutes I was able to access the back office. I signed up with TNX because I wanted to learn more about this company. Lately there have been quite a few bloggers reviewing their site and the general opinion is kind of mixed. On my quest to find out more, here is what I learned.

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Angela Wills visited the IncParadise.com website last week for a review and she also conducted a brief interview with John Vanhara, the president of Inc Paradise. If you are in the USA and have considered incorporating a business this review should help to clarify a few questions you have.

For this review I stopped by IncParadise.com, a website that offers incorporation services for 50 states in the US.

I don’t know a thing about incorporating. I think mine is a good perspective to do the review since it’s likely most people coming to the site are new to incorporating and just want to get their business incorporation set up.

There are some things that I would expect to see on the main page of a site that offers incorporation services. Here are some questions I was asking myself as I looked for information about the service:

• How can they help me incorporate?
• What do I need to do to incorporate?
• How much will it cost for my state?

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