How To Build a Membership Site For Your Virtual Assistance Clients

One of the most asked for processes that our virtual assistance and web development clients ask for is for us to build and maintain one or multiple membership sites.  We use several different programs which I will be sharing with you here over the next few weeks.

One of my favorites systems is iGrOOps.com which is a pay-per-membership online group with web applications for collaboration. What does this mean for you and your virtual assistance clients?  Plenty!  Membership sites when properly built can maximize the sites potential through focused marketing strategies, membership building tips, membership participation and more.  A membership site allows you to protect premium content such as articles, video clips, course material, downloads and more in a password protected area of the site.  Paid membership websites are a dramatically growing part of online businesses and as a virtual assistant, you need to be able to work with your clients in this very important aspect of their business.

iGrOOP.com includes the ability to charge membership fees to your group with seamless integration with PayPal and AuthorizeNet.  You can use your own domain.  You don’t need to have a programming background or have run a membership site before.  You have unlimited storage space for your group videos, web pages, and other group related files.  Do you publish newsletters or ezines for yourself or your clients?  You can create and manage a list of your newsletter subscribers in your membership site.  The groups marketing efforts are kept private, and the administrator chooses who has access to the group information and applications.

iGrOOps.com has some quite incredible applications:

• Affiliate program module where you can create your own affiliate program to sell your products and services
• Audio and Video postcards
• Autoresponders
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Articles
• Calendar
• Communication system: Discussion boards and private messaging
• File sharing
• Support and FAQ
• Members can build their own web page
• Photo gallery
• Reviews
• Teleconferencing
• Video / MP3 gallery
• Web audio chat
• Web video chat

Examples

Master Business Building Club

International Association of Solopreneurs

What is the cost of all of this? $99 per month with a $99 one time set up fee.  It doesn’t get any better than that!