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WP-Members is arguably the first membership plugin that was available for WordPress. It started as a simple project so I could publish my own membership sites on the WordPress platform. More than a decade later, it has grown into a much larger plugin than originally conceived and provides a framework for building membership sites and generating revenue.
Here are 5 reasons that I use it for building membership sites. [Read more…]
This is a review of Brian Clark’s book “A Content Marketing Strategy That Works.” It is the second in a series of four books that Brian has written on content marketing and it is available free as an ebook. I highly suggest you get a copy (and read it!).
This book is available as both an PDF and an EPUB, which was great for me. I converted the EPUB to MOBI format and was able to read it on my Kindle. What I like about being able to read on my Kindle is that I tend to make notes, highlights, and marks in my books and use 
that information later, and this book was no exception. I was able to go back to my notes later for ideas on each section.
The book takes you through Brian’s recommended 7 Step Framework for Content Marketing Success. There are checklists in the book for each of the 7 steps in the framework. I found printing the content marketing success strategies from the PDF to be quite helpful in executing the plan. [Read more…]
A cursory search on Google (or your favorite search engine) for WordPress Plugin Reviews is going to yield a massive number of results. I entered “wordpress plugin review” in Google and got over 17,000,000 results. Narrow that down with a specific type of plugin and you might tighten things up a bit. Changing to “wordpress membership plugin review” still yielded more than 1.2 million results. You might get similar results looking for a security plugin, backup plugin, and the list goes on. That’s a good sized mountain of search results. [Read more…]