I just wanted to keep you updated. I am still working on my membership site but things are progressing slowly as I have been busy with copy, design, and consulting gigs lately.

Anyhow, a couple of things.

First, remember in part one I said that I was trying to find affordable video hosting. I have over a hundred videos and they take up about 8 gigs of space. I purchased a couple of years of Godaddy Grid Hosting but recently discovered an even better solution. Amazon’s S3 service offers incredibly low cost storage and transfer costs and is very reliable. Even many large data centers backup their data with S3.  Go here for a screencast video on setting up video hosting with Amazon S3.

Next, In this process of discovery I signed up for some membership plugin email lists. One of those, Wishlist Member sent me a link to a good coaching call with Robert Plank and Lance Tamashiro (creators of multiple membership sites) discussing how they setup membership sites.

They covered some interesting ground and got me thinking more about fixed term membership sites. It’s possible that attrition rates will be lower with fixed term sites because people can see an end in site and may be more likely to stay on through the entire term.

Here are some of the other topics covered in the call:

• How they launch a membership site in 1 day
• Why “fixed term” memberships are better
• How and why to use “challenges”
• Why you need to change your thinking about membership sites.

So…without further adieu here is the audio for your listening pleasure. The call isn’t very long either, Probably only 15 or 20 minutes.

Click Here to Listen to the Robert Plank - Lance Tamashiro Coaching Call

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