by Dave Jackson on November 9, 2009
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Today I want to thank Marcus Couch of the Scene Zine Podcast at www.thescenezine.com for sending in this link. It’s kind of a membership site tool, but its really designed for people looking to educate.
The site is www.prfessor.com (that’s not a typo) and for $49 bucks a month you get a hosted, turn-key solution for anyone looking to create courses, and charge money (or not ) for them. You can literally create your University, training center, or certification program in about a half hour.
Set up unlimited courses, for unlimited students and create tests and exams for the course. Set up payments easily with paypal or use your authorize.net account. You can set up multiple “programs” (kind of like different school in colleges).
You can be the dean and the teacher, or recruit professors and give them a whatever percent of the classes they teach. You can create intelligent quizzes in a snap.
You have 1 gig of file storage, and 30 gigs of transfer per month. If you have a bunch of videos, I’m not sure if 1 gig would last. I wonder if using something like the S3 Media player would allow you to copy and paste code so storage wouldn’t be a concern.
So what’s the catch? Well if I had one thing to complain it’s that the default theme of the site is kind of plain. It’s not ugly, but it’s not “wow.” Are you stuck? No. You can upload your logo to help. If you need more help to update the look of the website you are going to put out some cash to have the look customized (to the tune of about $1000). My thought is I will build the site and once I get some students I will pay to have it customized.
It really looks easy as the tools automatically create your course catalog, FAQ page, contact us page, and instructor recruiter page and you can drop in a logo and brand your site in seconds. It’s only $49 bucks a month.
Check it out at prfessor.com
by Dave Jackson on July 4, 2008
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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #46
Premiumcast – Selling Via RSS, Digital Products, and Membership Sites All in One.
Today I talk about Premiumcast.com a site that allows you to sell items via RSS, as well as sell digital products, and create membership sites. Depending on the features you need the price ranges from FREE, to $37 to $67 a month. They’ve been updating the site and adding more features on a regular basis. The nice thing in this configuration is the technology keeps getting more robust, and you didn’t do a thing to upgrade it. I went to a webinar where they showed off the membership site feature. Later when I went to create one I clocked in around 5 minutes. It’s very, very, easy to configure. The other bonus is where sites like amember and easy member pro force a person to log in to see the content, Premiumcast.com allows you to force people to login, or they have the content delivered via RSS, or both. That makes premiumcast special (nobody else is doing that – at least that I know of. ). Check it out at Premiumcast.com
Keep Up With What is Selling on the Internet
If you are into affiliate marketing, you may want to check out www.smashbuys.com that shows you what are the top 10 times at sites like amazon.com, itunes, and more. Then if its something that interests you, you may want to blog about it. Check it out at www.smashbuts.com
How Fast Does Your Website Load?
Pingdom.com has a tool at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ that will show you how fast your website loads (and what is taking so long if that is the case. Check it out at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
by Dave Jackson on September 7, 2007
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Today I give some insights into Membership sites. I’ve used a few (www.amember.com) and really like a new one some of the features of Easy Member Pro. You have the ability to have a free membership site, and then upsell them later. There is a built in affilaite program (powerful), and a built in WYSIWYG system. This way you don’t have one system to build your site, and one system to protect it – they are all one in the same. The best part is while many membership software titles are well, membership based…. this system is a one time fee of $137 and it runs on your server.
Be sure to hold on to anyone who cancels their membership. You never know when they may report you to paypal saying you billed them again.
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