Google + WordPress = Like
It’s no secret that people who are using Wordpress as a blog have been producing some fantastic results. It was only a fleeting time ago that this was all Wordpress was used for.
Blog popularity is due in large part to blogs’ simplicity. Hosting companies have made setting up a personal site simple. Every one on the Internet no mater what amount of technical proficiency is capable of setting up a blog.
Today Wordpress is not just for blogging but can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) which opens all sorts of new possibilities to businesses and marketers.
This means that it is more of a web site development program.
Since Wordpress enabled its CMS as a default option you can now make portals, membership sites, lead capture sites and even deliver product in this simple system.
The process is in the end the same for all the above options.
1. Load your Wordpress Script
2. Customize your site with a theme
3. Add some plugins for greater flexibility
4. Lock down your registration and login scripts
5. Add your content and chose your system
What system you choose will depend on what you want to do.
Membership Program
You can easily run a simple membership program and add content on a fixed basis and charge for it using any of the standard payment processors.
Lead Capture
In the end the same as the members system but you exchange the sales letter to drive them to the signup box instead of the payment one.
Product Delivery
Again you use the same system but instead of constantly count product you can just use it to deliver your product in the member’s area.
The secret is to exchange the login and registration files or simply get a plugin. Once changed you direct the client to the changed registration page so they can access the locked content.
There are lots of plugins to organize all this for you but I have been using a simple manual system where the customer pays for a product or service; they are directed to the new wordpress registration page and penetrate a username and email and their password is sent to them.
All this is the habitual Wordpress automated system. The only manual part is if you are accepting monthly payments and they don’t pay. You will get a notice from the processor and you go and delete the account. Very simple and simple to manage.