Planning a membership site is like building a house. There are many aspects that go into building your membership site. A growing number of membership and course sites are utilizing video to share with their members for learning information as they build their site. Today, we’re going to talk about video hosting recommendations for membership …
The membership model is more popular than ever before. According to research published in 2020 by Paysafe , 86% of Americans have at least one subscription, with 69% subscribed to multiple memberships. And 36% expect to sign up for even more subscriptions this year. If you run a membership site, these stats should have you feeling …
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Over the last few months, we have been having a number of conversations with customers and the community around Restrict Content Pro. In those conversations, we realized a couple of features were greatly needed to grow Restrict Content Pro in the WordPress membership market. At the same time we were having these conversations, we were …
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We have been excited to have the opportunity in taking over the development and advancement of Restrict Content Pro. During the last few months we’ve been conducting research, understanding our customers, reaching out to see what issues they are encountering over and over again, and looking forward to the new direction we’re looking to take …
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Today, we’re excited to release Restrict Content Pro version 3.5. This release is focused on better support with Stripe. We’ve got new features relating to renewals in Stripe, fixes for Stripe payments and the biggest piece; updating the Stripe API. New in Restrict Content Pro 3.5 As this release had a heavy focus on our …
The year 2020 started off as the year of perfect vision. Let’s face it. We’re all really looking forward to get rid of 2020 as fast as we can. Some of us are sprinting full speed ahead, some are limping. We’ll all likely remember is as the year of the Coronavirus lockdown. Or maybe you’ll …
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Building a Membership site can be a fun and rewarding process. You can use it for passive income or you can make it be your full-time business. Whatever you choose to do, you may want see what it takes to building a membership site before getting started. Membership sites are a type of business model …
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For owners of membership websites, email automation can make much easier. To connect with your members and subscribers, emails are the most effective form of communication. Even with the scope of digital marketing expanding daily, email still remains a highly efficient marketing medium. In fact, depending on how well you use it, your returns on …
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For membership site owners, membership retention is super important. Firstly, adding a new member to the list requires a lot of work. From constant touchpoints to the amount of investment that goes into converting them from interested to active members, there’s no downplaying the sheer amount of effort. However, signing a member up is one …
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Today, we are releasing Restrict Content Pro 3.4.2 as a number of issues have been fixed from the 3.4 release. As with any plugin that enables the ability to have a wide range of membership models, we may see bugs from time to time. Luckily in this case, these bugs were all minor and specific …
With more people than ever working for home and the growing number of small businesses looking to the internet for the first time, there’s no question people are looking at membership sites these days. They likely will be for some time. If you are just getting starting at building a membership site, one thing you’ll …
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I remember when I was younger going to the carnival and watching the stand where you had to throw a ping pong ball into a fish bowl. If you made it in, you got a goldfish. There was something about it that always attracted me to spot it out at every carnival I would attend. …
Membership models are becoming more prevalent than ever before. We got used to them pretty quickly with gym memberships, but then Netflix hit the scene with a subscription that allowed you to receive DVDs in the mail. Fast forward to today and every business is experimenting with subscriptions (memberships). Did you know that Panera now …
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I distinctly remember moving from middle school to high school. I had just spent 2 years getting to know who my teachers were, how they graded, really how they operated. I knew all my friends’ schedules. Everything was perfect. But then I moved to high school. It was bigger. There were more students, 4 grade …
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Today, we’re excited to release Restrict Content Pro version 3.4 and Group Accounts 2.2. Both of these releases give you a number of exciting features including: the ability to toggle auto renew off and on with Stripe, a new payments importer tool, new logging functionality, the ability to have discounts apply to signup fees, a …
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Today we are really excited to share that Restrict Content Pro has been acquired by iThemes.
We’re so excited to finally bring you the beta for Restrict Content Pro version 3.4. It includes some very exciting new features, including: the ability to toggle auto renew off and on with Stripe, a new payments importer tool, new logging functionality, a bug fix related to renewal expiration dates, and more!
Over the last few weeks, we have been testing an exciting integration with Restrict Content Pro and are excited to share it with you.
Membership sites are a form of an eCommerce site and have many of the same components of an online store. One important trait that affects all stores is cart abandonment. Shopify, arguably the largest eCommerce platform out there, estimates that the number of people who abandon an online cart is hovering around 70-75% of consumers.
Let’s be real: Failed payments can put a bit of a damper on things when you’ve worked so hard to create your content and build your membership ecosystem. In this post, we talk about how to handle them, so you can focus more on growing your membership business!
As a part of our new Customer Showcase series, we talked with From Studio to Stage owner Will Doggett about his membership business, his experience with Restrict Content Pro, and his advice for people getting into memberships!
