5 Keys To Building A Thriving Community With WishList Member (Video 2)

5 Keys To Building A Thriving Community Introduction

Presumably your reading this article because you either have a membership site or you want a membership site. Well this article and the others in the series presume you either have or will be using WordPress CMS as your website management platform to which you will add membership site software in the form of a plugin. As you can probably guess, this particular article is about the WishList Member membership plugin.
I’m also going to presume you have or want to create a Subscription website, that is, you will have a number of pages available for general browsing but to see the ‘real’ content of the site visitors will have to become members of your thriving community membership site.

Why a WishList Member Membership Site?

Running a successful membership site is about membership site content and membership management. From a purely technical point of view you want things as simple as possible so you can concentrate on keeping your membership happy by creating and supplying great content. You don’t want to be messing about with coding and general membership management.

Membership Database and Subscription Management

Luckily for you, the combination of WordPress and WishList Member, allows you to concentrate on your members whilst these two excellent programs manage your membership database and subscription management tasks.

What Makes a Community “tick”

When you’re building an online community or membership site, it’s important to understand what makes a community “tick”.
You need to ask yourself questions such as:

• Why would someone join an online membership or community?

…AND…

• What makes them stay once they’ve joined?

These questions and more are answered in this free video, The 5 Keys To Building A Thriving Community With WishList Member, by Stu McLaren, Co-Founder of WishList Products together with Tracy Childers.

The 5 Keys To Building A Thriving Community

Key 1: Good content – you must have good content to attract people. People will come for the content but they stay for the community.

Key 2: Communication – you must communicate with members of your community. Let them know what’s happening, keep them in the picture.

Key 3: Connection – people want to feel welcome, they want to engage with others, they want to feel connected. Give them the opportunity.

Key 4: Contribution – involve your community, encourage people to become involved, to be part of the group.

Key 5: Collaboration – build something with your members, involve your members in community projects.

Wishlist Member Building a Thriving Community Conclusion

Well, I hope you found something useful and enjoyed this video by WishList Member Products, 5 Keys To Building A Thriving Community. Don’t forget to let me have your thoughts on this item. See you soon.