Roadtrip!

Some of the WishList crew will be heading to New York in June to soak up the wisdom of many and support Stu McLaren (WishList Co-Founder) as he delivers a brand new presentation called “8 Proven Membership Models:  How To Go From Sporadic Sales To Recurring Revenue”.

(so if you’re heading to BlogWorld be sure to let us know because we’d love to “hang out”… ok that sounds cheesy… but you know what we mean.  LOL)

With that in mind, Stu has already begun preparing his presentation and would like to show the audience a variety of membership site examples.

The question is, can we feature your site?

If you’re interested, here are the details to have your site considered:

Instructions For Submitting Your Site

Given the large volume of submissions we expect, please know that we won’t be able to accept all that we receive.

However, we will be going through them all and to do so, we ask that you keep your submissions brief and to the point by following the template below.

Also, please note that we will need your submission prior to:  April 30th, 2012

In addition, it should be noted that we will need you to create a “temp user” for a membership level so that we can see the inside of your site (we’d like to show the audience examples of how different sites are setup).  If that’s something you’re not comfortable with, then please don’t submit your site.

Finally, since Stu will be talking about these 8 membership models, please make sure your site “fits” one of them (otherwise it won’t serve as a good example! LOL):

Membership Models:

1. Publisher Model – Publish fresh, new content on a regular basis
2. UPS Model – Publish a “package” of content each month (Ex. CD, DVD, Video Tutorial, Newsletter, Interview of the Month or PLR type site)
3. Micro Continuity Model – A “fixed” term membership (3 months, 6 weeks etc.)
4. Modular Course – Site that delivers a modular course
5. Protected Download – Site that uses WLM to control access to digital downloads that have been purchased
6. Community Center – Primary purpose is to give people a place to connect (protected forum)
7. Private Members Area – Centralized place to deliver a variety of protected content and to communicate with members
8. Coaching Site – Site using the protected area to deliver content/consulting to private clients

So if your membership sites one of those models, here is what you’ll need to do next…

Send Us This Info:

1. Send An Email to support @ wishlistproducts.com (minus the spaces)
2. Use the subject line:  BlogWorld Case Study
3. Please make a note of #2 above – it’s very important you use that subject line
4. Please copy this template for your submission:
• Name:
• Membership Site URL:
• Test Member Login Info (login URL, username, password):
• Membership Model (pick 1 of the 8 that fits the best):
• Summary of Your Site (200 words or less):
• Ex. Who is it for?  What do you provide inside the site? How much do you charge?  How long have you been running the site?

If you have any other questions please let us know.

And remember, the deadline is April 30th, 2012.

Otherwise we look forward to seeing you in NYC and thank you in advance for letting us show off your site

You made the nominations AND selected the winners!

So who walked away with the Wishie awards?

Click through to find out who won based on your 1000′s of votes…

Best Design/ Most Visually Appealing

Finalists:

1. OnlinePregnancyCenter.com
2. AppBotic.com
3. Tapptics.com
4. HowToEarnMoney101.com
5. WorkYourArt.com

Winner: WorkYourArt.com

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Best Marketing Strategy

Finalists:

1. TheQuadrantQuiz.com
2. BoxShotKing.com
3. SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com
4. MarketingGraphicsMonthly.com
5. MyTravelResearch.com
6. ResponseDynamite.com/vault

Winner: TheQuadrantQuiz.com

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Most Unusual Membership Site

Finalists:

1. iDontStink.com
2. M0a.com/online-ground-school
3. PhotoRestorationSchool.com
4. PaperPunchFlowers.com
5. Hypothermics.com

Winner: iDontStink.com

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Best Overall Membership Site

Finalists:

1. HerbMentor.com
2. RyanLee.com
3. EverydayBetter.com
4. SuccessEtc.com
5. AskCharlyLeetham.com

Winner: RyanLee.com

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Most Valuable Insider Member

Finalists:

1. Blaine Moore
2. Rebekah Zobel-Jones
3. Charly Leetham
4. Jeff Pfau
5. David Brinton

Winner: Charly Leetham

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Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! We were again blown away by all the incredible submissions and hope that the Wishies have provided you plenty of inspiration for your next membership site.

We’d like to inform you of what happened along with what we have done to correct it and prevent it from happening again.

When WishList Member is purchased, each customer is issued a “license key” to verify the purchase.

With that in mind, WishList Member checks the license key on an ongoing basis to verify that each site is using the correct license and to also issue product updates to these sites accordingly.

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The problem that occured this weekend resulted because the “activation server” that verifies the license key, went down.

So for the sites where WishList Member wanted to verify the license, there wasn’t anything there to verify it was a valid license (because our server was down).

This caused roughly 10% of our customers to receive a “500 internal error”.

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As soon as we heard about our server being down (we heard first from our customers vs. our hosting provider), we immediately sprung into action to resolve the issue.

This being the first time something like this has ever happened in our company’s history (3+ years), we weren’t sure what was all of a sudden causing this server to crash.

Nevertheless, we got the server back up, everything was fixed and after monitoring it for several hours, it looked to be running smoothly.

Then, the following day it happened again.

This was baffling to us as this was two times in as many days and prior to that, it had never occurred.

Why was this all of a sudden happening?

We immediately got the server back up and then went into “investigation mode”.

After hours of analyzing the situation, we found out that it had to do with specific limitations of the server we were using (something we didn’t initially foresee).

That’s when we decided to make some significant changes in the way our verification process operates.

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We have now implemented a situation whereby the “verification check” must fail multiple times before the WishList Member license is deactivated.

Plus, even when it is going to be deactivated, the customer will have a number of days prior to the deactivation and will be made aware of that with several messages.

This will eliminate the situation we had this weekend because the sites would continue working fine until the next check. If the next check failed as well, the customer would still have plenty of time to prepare as well.

The time for this whole process to complete before the final deactivation would be roughly a couple of weeks. So, as you can see, this changes the situation completely from what happened this weekend when our server was down for a few hours.

Furthermore, we have made significant upgrades to our server environment introducing load balancers, mirroring servers (so if one goes down, the other kicks in to verify licenses) etc.

We are deeply sorry to those customers who were effected.

We take this very seriously as we pride ourselves on our products and the service we provide to our customers.

In addition, we too have sites using our own software (and we were effected as well – and we don’t want anything like that happening either).

Moving forward, we are very confident in the changes we have made and look forward to continuing to hear about your success.

Take care,

Stu McLaren
Co-Founder, WishList Products

We like treating our customers.

So for Christmas, we decided to put together an awesome package jammed packed with all kinds of goodies including a HUGE exclusive, custom drawn icon set, membership site graphics, 3 kick-butt plugins and a 3-Module training.

All the promotion details can be found here.

If you’re an existing WishList Member customer, here’s how to begin downloading them in 3 simple steps:

Step #1 – Login To The Customer Center

All the interviews will be provided from within the Customer Center.  You’ll need to login by going to:

http://customers.wishlistproducts.com

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Step #2 – Click On The “2011 Christmas Gifts” Link on the Dashboard

As soon as you login to the Customer Center you will be taken to the Dashboard.

From here you will be able to find the “2011 Christmas Gifts” icon:

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Step #3 – Click On The Gift You Wish To Access

As mentioned above, each of the gifts will be delivered within the Customer Center.

Simply click on the post title of the gift you wish to access and  you will see the download links for that particular gift:

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That’s it!

Enjoy the gifts.  We know you’ll gain tremendous value from what each of them and look forward to hearing how you’ll use them

In the spirit of the season, we decided to do something special for our WishList Member customers.

But we didn’t figure out exactly what we were going to do until our company “Christmas party:

To find out what we’ll be giving all our customers, watch this…

2011 WishList Christmas Promotion (part 2)

Click For More Details On The Gifts

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If you didn’t see part 1 of the Christmas video, here it is:

2011 WishList Christmas Promotion (part 1)

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With it being the Holiday season, the WishList team wanted to do something special for all of our customers (by now you probably know that we like giving our customers unexpected “extras”).

But as we’ve been preparing our customer Christmas gifts, we knew we’d need some extra help.

Unfortunately, things turned out to be a little harder than we expected…

WishList Products Christmas Promotion

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So what do you think?

Plummer?  Evil Wray?  or Sinta Claus?

Let us know in the comments below.

Also, let us know how you celebrate the Holidays with your members.

(it will be fun to see what everyone is doing )

We’re a little biased but we think we have the best customers in the business.

But to prove it, we need your help.

We’d like to show the world YOUR WishList Member site in our Annual Wishie Awards

Here’s how to participate in 60 seconds or less…

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Here’s How To Nominate Your Site

(60 seconds or less)

To get started, just follow the steps outlined below:

Step #1 – Pick A Category

Select a category you’d like to enter your site for:

1. Best Design (Got a great looking site?  Pick this one)
2. Most Unusual Site (Serving a weird niche market?  This one is for you)
3. Best Marketing Strategy (Doing something cool to attract or keep your members?  Tell us about it)
4. Most Valuable Insider (Who rocks WishList Insider like nobody’s business?)
5. Best Overall (If your site looks good, kicks butt and you’re proud of it, enter here!)

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Step #2 – Nominate Yourself

Nominate yourself (or another WishList Member customer) for any of the awards listed above.

Just leave a comment with the following information:

Name:
Website:
Category: (Best Design, Most Unusual etc.)
Reason For Nomination (50 words or less):

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Step #3 – Spread The Word

We’ll be accepting nominations until December 12th, 2011 so be sure to ask your community to nominate you by coming back here and leaving a comment.  The more nominations you get, the more likely you’ll be a finalist!

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That’s all there is to it.

There are SO many wonderful WishList Member sites out there and we really look forward to showcasing them to the world

Good luck everyone!

3 years ago today (October 22nd) our pride and joy was born.

We were beaming with pride but at the same time a tad nervous.

Would people like it?

Would people use it?

Well 3 years later and over 29,000 membership sites and online communities are now powered by WishList Member… WOOHOO!

And now it’s time to celebrate with all our customers by giving them a little something…

Happy 3rd Anniversary WishList Member Customers

Purchase WishList Member today!

To celebrate, we will be giving anyone who purchases WishList Member during the month of October a copy of our brand new book called “Membership Site Masters”… absolutely FREE!

(International orders outside of the U.S. will have a small shipping fee)

In this book you’ll hear the best membership site tips and tricks from people who are running 6 & 7-figure membership sites with thousands of members.

…PLUS…

ALL existing customers will be receiving a digital copy of the book along with the audio interviews that accompany the book.

You’ll hear from:

MASTER #1 – The Prolific Veteran

What does it take to create a 7-figure membership site? Find out from this master who with over 10 years experience, has had up to 48 membership sites running simultaneously!

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MASTER #2 – The Freebie Genie

Can you really get paid every month by giving the majority of your content away for FREE? The answer is YES as this membership site master shares his formula for blending both free and paid content en route to big success.

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MASTER #3 – The Community Cultivator

This master is proof that you can build a very profitable membership site even when working within a tiny niche market. With over 4,500+ paying members, you’ll hear how to create a welcoming community that your members won’t ever want to leave.

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MASTER #4 – The Tester

Flying in the face of conventional wisdom, this master marketer has built a 7-figure membersip site by testing and tracking countless pricing and conversion strategies. You’ll discover his highest converting tricks along with tips for maintaining an above average retention rate.

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All WishList Member customers will receive the details on how to obtain their books (and downloads) prior to October 31st.

If you haven’t got a copy of WishList Member, now is the best time to do it.

Grab a copy by going to www.WishListMember.com.

Thanks everyone – we really do appreciate you and look forward to serving you another 3 years!

Before we knew it, 3 years flew by.

But as we approach the 3rd Anniversary of WishList Member, our team has been pondering the question…

“What should we do to celebrate?”

That’s where we need your help.

Watch the quick 2 min video for details…

Here’s how to send us your video in 3 easy steps:

Step 1) Create Your 5-15 second video

• Include your name and a quick description of the best gift you ever gave or received
• The shorter the video the better (ideally between 5-15 seconds) – That way we can include more people
• Ex.  ”My name is [INSERT YOUR NAME] and the best gift I ever received was [INSERT BRIEF GIFT EXPLANATION HERE]

• Upload your video to YouTube
• Include “Happy Anniversary WishList Member” in the title of the video
• Copy the URL of the video

Step 3)  Post The Video URL in The Comments

• Let us know where we can find your video by posting the video URL in the comments of this post.

IMPORTANT

• All videos must be posted by midnight on Monday, October 17th, 2011
• We’ll try to include as many as we can (depending on how many we receive)

That’s it!

We look forward to hearing from you and including you in our next video

Time really does fly and it’s hard to believe that WishList Member is coming up on it’s 3rd Anniversary.

To celebrate, we want to doing something special.

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Share your “WishList” memories from the past 3 years below.

What sites have you launched using WishList Member?

What’s your favorite feature?

Let us know in the comments