I love it when the solution is free
I’ve been search for a membership site platform that does some very specific things for nearly six months. In particular, based on a site that I found (and my wife joined) at http://juicefeasting.com
(Notice how freakin’ healthy everyone on that site looks and tell me that raw food isn’t what was meant for the human body.)
What I especially like is that members can post videos, pictures, create their own blog, etc. I’ve looked at a number of solutions and I was ready to commit $500 (and that was a friendly discount) plus about $70 per month for hosting.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, maybe) my friend said they’d been having issues with the membership platform (sounded like a server issue) and he didn’t recommend using it at this time …
Temporary setback that seemed like a major wrench in my plans.
After 2 weeks of procrastination I sat down and spent a few hours looking at solution after solution until I finally found what I was looking for – and it’s free. Well, it could be. If you want to remove their ads, increase bandwidth usage, use your own domain name and remove their site branding, then that comes to about $40 per – but it’s all hosted by them, software automatically updated – it’s a beautiful solution.
What’s crazy is that after asking a number of people what the Juice Feasting site is using as it’s very cool platform … it’s this service. Which I only discovered after creating an account, logging in and having the system tell me which networks I was already a part of – my own and Juice Feasting!
So the solution here is called Ning – ning.com to be specific. You can setup your own niche Web 2.0 social community complete with member blogs, forums, event calendars and a ton of other good stuff.
Thank me.
And what, X, does this have to do with Adwords and affiliate marketing? Glad you asked.
Innovation my friend. Innovation.
I’m thinking less about products these days and more about people. I see huge potential in demographic marketing with Adwords. I want to attract people to a place of purpose that means something to them and have them virally invite all of their friends to jump on board (maybe by adding a financial incentive for doing so).
I noticed something last night that amazed even me -
After watching a YouTube video that stated a pretty profound and controversial view on something I’m not going to get into here, I wanted to read feedback online from people who knew the topic better than I did. I went LOOKING for intelligent, social feedback on the subject. I EXPECTED to see video. I EXPECTED to see comments.
This was something new – or at least something I’ve never had an expectation for before.
Last week when I promoted Agency Adwords Elite, I also did something I’d never done before – since it seems few of my readers here are willing to leave a comment (I don’t get that) I put up a poll instead. I gave – YOU – the power to leave your opinion. The effect of this? I sold more copies of the program from my blog post, with the social proof of people’s votes, than I did with an email that shared only my own clearly biased opinion of the product.
As an Adwords marketer I’ve been very slow to embrace social media networks, but I think I’ve seen a different vision now and I’ll be working my own spin on it.
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