Apr

29

Time management tip: use Microsoft Publisher to create custom calendars to plan your content, marketing, and new products

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A simple, “low-tech” feature built into Microsoft Publisher can help membership site owners better plan and manage their time each month. Time management is of crucial important to membership site owners. Membership site owners have to continually satisfy both long-term and short-term content, marketing, and new product development resources. Short-term goals include planning and completing [...]

Apr

9

Time management tips for membership site success involves setting goals for each day

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Membership site success involves carefully balancing long-term and short-term priorities. Short term priorities involve the need to continually add new content to your site. Yet, content alone isn’t enough; membership site owners must also constantly be acquiring new members while reselling (or retaining) their site’s existing members.
In addition, there’s the need to invest in new [...]

Jan

1

Setting membership site goals and resolutions for 2008

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Before identifying your 2008 goals and New Year’s Resolutions, take a moment to reflect on 2007. Look for important lessons that can help you plan for a more successful 2008. Ask yourself questions like:

Accomplishments. Did I accomplish everything I had hoped to during 2007? What were my specific membership site accomplishments during 2007 in terms [...]

Dec

24

Why membership site owners should prepare a procedures manual

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One of the most important documents you can prepare is a procedures manual that describes minutia of membership site content and design, as well as marketing and promoting your site.
As you create your procedures manual, print the pages on 3-hold punched paper and store them in a 3-ring procedures binder. Your procedures manual will help [...]

Nov

29

Secrets of effective delegation–Creative Briefs

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In order to maximize their time, most success-oriented membership site owners quickly discover the advantages of delegating routine tasks to others. The most successful membership site owners, in fact, willingly delegate tasks that they could do, but that others can perform better.
These tasks include copywriting, graphic design–including blogs, newsletters, and white papers–as well as keeping [...]

Jul

10

Creating a procedures manual for your membership site

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It’s never too early membership site owners to create a procedures manual for their sites. These manuals should describe detailed content and design standards for various categories of membership site pages and marketing.
A procedures manual for your membership site should be printed on 3-hole paper and inserted into a 3-ring binder. Separates pages should [...]