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New user account is not created or notification email did not arrive? Remedies

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:17:10 +0000

Symptoms:

You installed MemberWing, ran test transaction but new user did not get created and/or notification email did not get delivered.
or:
Your new member paid but he did not receive notification email.

Tips, Hints and Remedies:

Are you using free version of MemberWing? Free version does not support automatic account creation. Only Webmaster and Professional versions support it.
Did you ran test transaction against already existing account?
or:
Did you ran test transaction against your own administrative account/email?
All test purchases must be done from account/email that does not yet exist in Wordpress Users database. If account already exist – MemberWing will not send repeated notifications and no changes will happen into the database. Having said that if user was just a regular subscriber and bought new membership – he will get elevated to “Gold” or other premium member.
Every time before running test transaction – make sure to remove new customer’s account from Users database.
Did you check your email account SPAM folder? Quite often overly agressive anti-spam filters of your email provider treat as spam very legitimate emails. Make sure new account confirmation email did not end in your in-box SPAM folder.
Is your site password-protected?
Paypal or other processor’s IPN callback cannot get through if your site has any type of access or firewall protection to access IPN script.
Try to access your IPN script manually directly from your own browser:
Also you may try to manually access your IPN script directly from the browser in the following format:
http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/notify_paypal.php
to quickly check see if it is accessable.
Check to see if you have __log.php file created inside MemberWing’s installation directory:
/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/__log.php
This file is created and updated each time your system receives payment notification from Paypal (that is if it’s correctly setup). If you don’t see __log.php file than it means Paypal’s IPN either never reached your script or never was fired out for some reason.
Tip: __log.php actually gets created and updated every time any of notify*.php scripts get accessed.
To force creation of __log.php file – navigate with your browser to:
http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/notify_paypal.php
and then refresh/check memberwing’s directory again – __log.php must be created now. If it still not created – make sure your directory is writable.
Check your inbox SPAM folder. Some email services try to filter spam too aggressively and many ligitimate emails are ending up in SPAM folders.
Diagnose Paypal IPN errors using Paypal IPN history page. To do that: login to your paypal account and then follow this link:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-ipns-history
It will show you your IPN activity history as well as any status codes that paypal received. This area of Paypal will show you all IPN activity history as well as possible error codes.
Did you change your domain name or wordpress address or blog subdirectory *after* setting up Buy/Subscribe button?
In this case IPN notification will never reach your script.
Make sure IPN points to the same site where MemberWing is installed.
To create test “purchase” manually without exchanging money, charging Paypal or credit cards – look into notify_test.php file located into memberwing’s directory. This file has instructions to follow if you want to “generate” test purchase manually and see what kind of emails your customers will be receiving and to test integration with autoresponder. This way you will also be able to test Aweber integration if wanted to.
Please note that this feature does not include free support.

How to protect sidebar data and widgets via membership site options

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:29:38 +0000

Some asked an excellent and reasonable question:

How to protect sidebar data for the membership site?

The problem is that premium content markers { +++ } does not work within sidebar content. But the task can easily be solved with the help of free, simple and powerful Widget Logic plugin.

The sequence of steps to create a premium-only sidebar widget would be like this:

Install and activate Widget Logic plugin
Go to Appearance->Widgets
for the sake of this example let work with Text widget – drag and drop “Text” widget to the sidebar of choice.
Title it “Premium sutff” of whatever you want.
Inside of it put text: “This is my premium and very valuable text”
Note “widget logic” field available at the end of this widget dialog. (It will be available for every widget as Widget Logic plugin is installed).
Paste in this field the following code snippet:
```
return (current_user_can ('edit_users') || current_user_can ('read_platinum'));
```
Above snippet will show this widget only to administrators and “Platinum” premium members.
Cool? Yes!
Press button [Save] and link “Close”.
Now reload your blog – and you’ll see your premium widget – because you’re admin. Logoff and create some “Platinum Member” user (that is if you’re using MemberWing). Then login as new platinum member – and you’ll see your widget. Logoff and login as gold member – and you’ll not see it.
Here are variations of the code to paste into “widget logic” field to make the widget premium and be shown only to certain levels:

Bronze level: Visible to Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum members only:

return (current_user_can ('edit_users') || current_user_can ('read_bronze') || current_user_can ('read_silver') || current_user_can ('read_gold') || current_user_can ('read_platinum'));

Silver level: Visible to Silver, Gold, Platinum members only:

return (current_user_can ('edit_users') || current_user_can ('read_silver') || current_user_can ('read_gold') || current_user_can ('read_platinum'));

Gold level: Visible to Gold, Platinum members only:

return (current_user_can ('edit_users') || current_user_can ('read_gold') || current_user_can ('read_platinum'));

Platinum level: Visible to Platinum members only:

return (current_user_can ('edit_users') || current_user_can ('read_platinum'));

You may also add another pieces of logic into the snippet, such as is_page() to show the widget only to premium users that are viewing pages, but not posts. Sky is the limit!

Protecting your membership site business from content theft – MemberWing as an integrated solution for complete digital content protection and theft prevention

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:44 +0000

In the previous article about digital content and information theft I explained that theft sometimes could actually be beneficial for your business(surprise!).
But for more often that not when your main product or service got stolen it means immediate loss of sales, revenues and increased business risk and costs for your online enterprise.

I also briefly highlited possible ways these issues are addressed today. In most cases any anti-theft measures brings more complications than solutions.
Often hundreds and thousands of legitimate users and customers suffer just because you need to protect yourself against one or two crooks.

In this article I briefly introduce you to the ways MemberWing helps you to deal with online theft without harm to yourself, your customers and your
digital business environment.

Your digital property could be stolen in two main ways:

By using direct links to downloadable materials.
By cheating members who download and illegally share your materials with others.

MemberWing 4 included new features that were designed to address above concerns:

Digital Content Protection (DCP).
DCP creates a special protected “premium” directory on your hosting space where you upload your premium materials. Each uploaded file will have his own unique URL (WEB address) and you may freely give this URL to your paying members.
Non member and free visitor will not be able to access your premium content even knowing direct downloadable links to these materials.
Plain and simple. MemberWing automates this protection for you.
Additionally to that MemberWing allows you to substitute your premium downloadables with special “promotion” versions in case when non member or visitor tries to access it. Great chance for extra promotion to deliver to this valuable interested visitor. Instead of serving 404 or “access denied” error – your visitor will access something that hopefully will ignite his interest to become a paying member.
Benefits of MemberWing Digital Content Protection:
- Complete protection of your downloadable and other materials against link sharing.
- No extra software to install
- Non intrusive and transparent for both – members and non-members.
- Improves SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your website, reduces bounced visits and greatly improves visitor engagement ratios.
TraceFusion – Digital content theft detection, tracing and prevention system.
TraceFusion’s purpose is to help you uncover the exact individual who is illegally leaking and sharing your content.
That is without forcing legitimate users into any sort of extra licensing, server and password restrictions and paranoidal security hassles.
TraceFusion is an automatic feature.
Every piece of premium content that leaves your site is automatically and digitally “watermarked” with an identity of a person who downloads or accesses it. If later on you found your files on a free sharing sites or torrent sites – you will be able to track down offending member who did it.
Just go to http://www.TraceFusion.com, enter direct URL of the copy of your premium file and TraceFusion technology will be able to give you detailed information about the cheating customer or premium member who illegally leaked your content.
Get hold of the copy of your premium file and find immediately about the source who illegally shared your premium content.
This is information that becomes available to you:
- Who (first name, last name, username)
- When (date and time when material was downloaded with 1 second precision)
- From where (IP address and browser software used)
All above information is encoded into unique encrypted digital signature attached to your premium content. You can decode this signature at TraceFusion portal.
Please note that it is possible that digital product sharing was unintentional as sometimes your customer’s computers are being shared between multiple people. So be prudent and careful in your judgements.
TraceFusion gives you extra powers and knowledge. Use it wisely.

Benefits of TraceFusion technology:
- Make more money: TraceFusion allows you to discover and close the sources of your premium content theft and avoid further revenue loss and damages to your online business.
- TraceFusion prevents content theft – it acts like a CCTV security camera.
  Openly disclosing to your users that TraceFusion technology is used on your membership site to legally protect content acts as a repellent for crooks and digital thiefs.

Above content protection features does not impose any restrictions or force legitimate users to jump through the hoops to use your content.
No passwords to enter, no licenses to configure, no single machine restrictions, no IP address limitations.
Everything is integrated, automatic and turned on with MemberWing membership site plugin by default.

Protecting your digital hard work with your membership site

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:32:03 +0000

Internet allows you to convert you skills, experience and creativity into digital format and share it with the whole world almost instantly.
If what you do helps other people to solve their problems they’ll gladly pay you for that.

Hereby we will discuss membership site model of selling information and methods of protecting your digital property against theft.

So, what is digital content?

On the internet everything is digital.
For simplicity let separate information into 2 types:

Plain text:
HTML – Thats what text on web pages, posts, articles are made from
Downloadable information:
Ebooks, PDFs, movies, sound files, MP3, downloadable ZIP archives, software, any kind of rich media, etc..

So, you got your membership site up and running and full of exciting stuff.
Exciting enough to make people want to pay you to help solve problems and address their needs.
Whatever is it you sell or giving access to – chances are it’s a content in a digital format – information.

While idea of getting paid for your work sounds fair and is appealing to you, the idea of getting your valuable content for free is appealing to many.
Let define the act of getting your commercial product without paying as “stealing”.

Why would you want other people to steal your digital property?

The question seems strange but apparently it is far from unreasonable.
Many successful internet marketers and digital product creators realized apparent benefits of spreading their digital information product worldwide.
More people are getting exposed to your skills, more people have a chance to know your name in industry and learn about your offerings.
Each stolen copy could still generate revenue back to you by the virtue of driving traffic back to your site, payouts from affiliate commission sales or extra signups to your opt-in lists.
You are using “ok to steal” product as a promotion for your main, real “not ok to steal” product or service.
Above usually applies to low cost items that are carrying plenty of back-end offers behind it.
Quite often free information, ebooks and videos are highly saturated with affiliate links and promotions.
General perception for free or stolen digital informational products is that “there are some gems into it if you manage to dig through the fluff, promotions and hype”.
General perception for free or stolen software items is that “there might be viruses, spyware, adware and malware in it”.
Quite often stolen copies of software on torrent sites are dangerously modified original versions.

Why would you be against other people stealing your stuff?

Some products takes years and tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to create and giving it away for free is not part of your strategy.

Most of your sales are coming from single product and you invested most of your time, money and skills to create it.
Your product was designed so that most revenue for it is coming from direct sales.
You product or service is a high priced ticket item and every stolen copy means lost revenue multiplied.
Your online service delivers time critical information. Sharing it illegally means immediate damage to your business model.
Availability of your product for free diminishes perceptive value of your services in the eyes of your potential customers.
Product that you sell may be of a confidential nature to certain group of specific customers. In certain cases not only your business but also your customers may get hurt by spreading information out of control.
Someone may embed viruses and malware into your software product thus putting other people and your name at risk.
Someone may change your links to their own affiliate links inside of your informational product thus reducing potential for backend sales for you down to zero.

Who steals your digital content and how?

Strangers.
People find direct downloadable links to your goodies. Once direct download links are discovered – everyone could get your stuff for free. No reason to pay if one could click and download it for free.
Your own customers (with less than pure intentions). They do it by one of these means:
- By sharing direct download link to your files
- By sharing copies of products they’ve purchased.
- By sharing their credentials to access to your membership site with other people
- Organized group buys at numerous private torrent sites. 50 people or more get together. One buys – 50 get it for 1/50th of a cost.
- Most fraudulent way of obtaining your product is: buy, get refund, illegally share it with others.

Once your digital property is stolen – usually in a short time it finds the way to file sharing and torrent sites where thousands of people gets everything for free.
Every stolen copy means direct loss of sales and revenue, loss of perceived value of your services for your customers and business risk to you.

How is it possible to protect yourself from digital thiefs?

Traditional ways to handle this was to raise digital fences and roadblocks:

Password protect your products in a way that it is impossible to use it without entering correct password.
Disadvantage: Must include some sort of password recovery mechanism.
Restrict usage of your product to certain computer or IP address (server restriction).
Disadvantage: What to do if legitimate user has laptop, office computer and home computer?
License enforcement. Means to control usage of your product via complicated license management technology.
Disadvantage: Often incompatible with different operating systems and system setups.
Using third party addons and softwares to protect digital downloadables.
Disadvantage: These may or may not be compatible with other software you using or server configurations at your hosting accounts. When your solution consists of bits and pieces delivered by different vendors – each of them tends to blame the other guy for your troubles.
You lose time on technical support, your upgrade hassles are multiplied and outcome of your technical support requests quite often is not impressive.

Advantages:

Prevents digital product sharing. Only one person may use the product on one computer with the correct license or password.

Disadvantages:

Great increase in hassles for legitimate users.
Increase in cost of establishment of protection mechanisms.
Increase in complexity for your business. Increased requirement of skill level for you and your employees and technical support personnel.
It becomes more expensive to handle support requests from people who want to legitimately change computers, locations, internet service providers, forgot passwords and use incompatible setups for licensing.
May make competive products more attractive and increase the rate of refunds and chargebacks for you.
Increased hassles for your faithful and loyal customers.

How does MemberWing helps you to make more money and protect you against loss of sales due to theft?

Read on – Digital Content Protection and Digital Content Theft Prevention with TraceFusion…

Membership sites and SEO – what you don’t know may kill you[r organic rankings]

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:26:45 +0000

There is plenty of information about websites and SEO but very little of value written about Membership Site SEO issues specifically. Particularly about problems that most membership sites have with their Search Engine Optimization.

Keyphrase	Number of results on Google
web site SEO	371,000,000
membership site SEO	867,000

web site SEO = 371,000,000 results on Google
membership site SEO = 867,000 results on Google

So besides the fact that there is not enough information on the subject – many facts are just not disclosed by members+hip software creators. Because if people would knew what they are getting – these vendors and developers would see their sales plummeting.

First and most unpopular fact about membership site softwares – is that once you convert your site to membership site – your SEO ranking goes down the drain. See, plenty of fresh content is a necessity for good SEO and consistently growing organic rankings. For higher organic ranking and good, deep indexing – your site needs to have frequently updated unique content.
Membership sites by definition are designed to hide content. To hide content from non-members. And from Google as well.

So once you put a lock on your portal and price tag as an entry fee – poor Google cannot get inside either. If Google cannot see your premium, unique and just exceptionally great content – your pages are not going to be indexed and your site is not going to get any organic visibility on search engines. In other words – people who are searching Google for keyphrases relevant to your business – will seldom find your membership site.

You maybe working hard creating new stuff or paying someone in cash to generate valuable new content – it’s no use for your visibility on search engines. You maybe creating new movies, podcasts, ebooks, articles – but all this good stuff is going to be locked out of Google reach. You may or may not care about it. Perhaps your business strategy is to lure new members via some email list promotions or word of mouth exclusively. Then organic rankings might not be important for you.

But for membership site webmasters who wouldn’t mind to get a regular stream of new subscribers right from Google – organic SEO ranking is a life line. Many actually rely on it exclusively – they invested time and money to realize their business vision and built their own membership site.
Only to find out a bit later that no one joins.

“Why I do not get any subscribers?”.

For me it was a the sole reason I created MemberWing. About 2 years ago I was looking for membership site software that would allow me to maintain and grow organic presence of my future membership site. There were plenty of offerings on the market proudly explaining how “safely” they could lock out everyone from your site and hide your information from visitors. And from Google obviously.

I didn’t see it as an attractive strategy. Without finding any SEO friendly membership site solution whatsover – I decided to build MemberWing.

Free Teasers. Bow to them.

My first concept for SEO friendly websites was simplicity and free teasers. It is very popular and successful marketing strategy – show part of your good stuff to get people excited to want to buy the rest. So I did it just this way: MemberWing allows you create your premium article and then “mark” free teaser in it. You do it via simple premium marker: {+++}

Write your article, insert premium marker inside of it and voila! Anything above it is free teaser, anything below it is premium content visible to Premium Members only. Suddenly you gained double benefits:

Google will see your free teaser as a separate page, it will index it, analyze it and rank it. Here comes your SEO benefit! It doesn’t matter how many “premium” pages you have – Google will index all of them (albeit free teaser part only). It’s up to you how big or how small your want your free teaser to be. But the light is here – with each premium page – Google adds more pages to it’s index and your organic ranking will grow.
New visitors and non members will be able to find your premium membership website on search engines. They’ll come – read your free teasers content, presumably it is appealing to them, and it will help them to make decision to join your membership site. Free teasers helps your organic ranking and helps you to convert prospects to customers. As simple as that.
Simplicity. You don’t need to struggle with intricate settings or watch plethora of video tutorials struggling to make sense of software that supposed to make your life easier.
Once you upload and activated MemberWing – go ahead – start writing premium content. The only tutorial to it: insert premium marker: {+++} where you want your free teaser to end and premium content to begin.

First Click Free (by Google. Free for everyone)

Membership site popularity “wave” did not pass unnoticed by the Google. Google is struggling to offer valuable content on it’s organic listing pages. Naturally – indexing pages with the sole content such as: “Click Here to join my membership site” wouldn’t do any good for Google’s visitors. Hence after working deals with major news agencies and online publishers Google introduced the concept of First Click Free for WEB Search pages.

This concept allows membership site owner to gain more visibility, deeper indexing and higher rankings for their online portals. To comply with it webmaster must agree to let any visitor coming directly from Google to see full content of any page. That is when visitor is arriving directly from Google.com. Once on your site – if visitor subsequently clicks on another premium page – it’s up to you whether to show or to hide next page. Idea is to let Google index *everything* and let any visitor *from Google* to see full content of first page. After that – he is yours.

Google First Click Free concept was implemented in MemberWing to enhance it’s SEO offerings and give you potential to boost your website SEO even more. This option is “OFF” by default as some webmasters might not see it as suitable for their business strategy. But it’s here for you as soon as you need it.

Premium Digital Content. Your ticket to hearts, minds and pocketbooks of your customers
Guard it with your … MemberWing

Last but not least – lets talk about digital downloads and digital content protection in general.

Part of your membership site business strategy may be selling and/or giving people access to downloadable materials or rich media. These could be ebooks, movies, podcasts, software tools, images, ZIP or RAR achives, etc…
Best stuff that people would pay you money to access.

In fact *majority* of membership site owners have some or more downloadable non-text materials that they would like to present as “premium” content to members. The problem with downloadable stuff is that URL links to them are rather easy to share.
And as it is often happens overly excited members send links to your “best stuff” to their buddies. And you lose – people can have direct access to your digital materials without becoming a paid members. If I can download good stuff for free – my interest to pay for it would be close to zero. There are products on the market that offer you special download guard features. I decided to make life easy for MemberWing customers and make Download Guard and direct linking protection feature integrated directly into MemberWing.
So problem of link sharing by members is solved: Free visitors cannot download good stuff without being logged on as a premium members.

But remembering my passion for perfect, cutting edge SEO I decided to make an extra step…

…You can have anything you want if you help enough other people to get what they want.
(Zig Ziglar)

What this famous quote by Zig Ziglar has to do with SEO? Let me explain it.
When person (free visitor == non-member == prospect) clicks on direct link to your premium materials – he expects to see good stuff. Other “protection” softwares would show them ugly “access denied” or 404 error. Result: the guy left for good. You lost customer. Your smarter competitor took money that you left on the table.

Solution? PromoFusion!

PromoFusion is a MemberWing-only system that allows you to automatically substitute premium content with promotional materials if non-member tries to access them. In other words if your valuable prospect tries to access/click/download your premium stuff – you don’t kick his butt out. Instead, your portal politely gives him “shorter” version of your great eBook, “trailer” version of your best movie or trial version of your downloadable software. In other words – people are getting what they are asking for. Almost. “Conversation” stays active. Visitor engagement grows up. Visitor is getting extra exposure to good quality stuff. You are able to deliver extra dose of promotional materials to another pair of valuable eyeballs. Visitor is happy and closer to making decision about becoming a paid member.

Benefits:

SEO. SEO. SEO:
– Higher visitor engagement.
– Lower bounce rate.
– Better “stickiness”.
– More rich media materials available on your site for Google to index.
Google sees it all and rewards your portal with higher rankings.
More paid members for you. Less errors, less “access denied”s, more rich content. It means more customers, more subscribers down the line for your business.

Conclusion

If you are concerned about (or just plainly love) SEO – stay in the know – SEO was one of the primary guiding force for me to create MemberWing. Everything that was possible to incorporate that would help to make your membership site SEO-friendly – was done.

And the work is ongoing. This stuff just gets better and better.

Enjoy!

MemberWing and IonCube support

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:12:55 +0000

MemberWing 4.x uses IonCube technology to protect integrity of it’s source code and prevent code tampering. IonCube support is required from your hosting company for MemberWing to work.
Most modern webhosters support IonCube automatically – so you don’t need to worry about it.

But when you try to activate MemberWing plugin and observe this error message:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” – it means IonCube is not currently enabled at your hosting space.
MemberWing code attempts to enable IonCube support for you. To test this – try to re-activate MemberWing plugin second time.
If it will be activated successfully – you are all set. If you still observe an error – please do this:

The most painless and quick way to setup IonCube is to contact your hosting company. Just send them email or call them and request IonCube support to be activated for you. They should and must be able to help. It’s their job and they are taking your money for that type of support.
IonCube setup is specific to each hosting company so they know how to do it – they 100% could do it themselves or at least can point you to clear point-and-click instructions on how to do that.
If they ping pong your request or will not address it in a timely manner or refuse to do it – it’s a big red flag that you might be using wrong hosting company. Here’s our currently most recommended webhost company.

If you want to try to remedy it yourself – here are instructions:
Make sure you have Ioncube loaders (*.so and *.dll files) inside /MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/ directory,
such as:
http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/*.so
http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/*.dll
etc…
Free version of MemberWing might not have loaders included into it. In this case:
– Please download FREE IonCube loaders from here . Extract the archive.
- Upload files to your MemberWing directory so that the resulted files will be named like this:
http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/*.so
- Make sure your blog root directory is writeable (chmod 777)
- Make sure your ./wp-admin/ directory is writeable (chmod 777 wp-admin)
- Make sure your ./wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ is writeable (chmod 777)
- Make sure you rename all php.ini and php5.ini files that might be located in these directories to other names, like: php.BACKUP
- Reactivate MemberWing after that. MemberWing will try to re-created all required php.ini files and use existing ioncube loaders.
- Chmod your blog root, wp-admin and memberwing directory back to 755: chmod 755 dirname.
If that still did not remedy your problem, access these help files:
Diagnostic for your website:
http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ionize_wordpress.php
Another diagnostic for your website:
http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php
IonCube website to get loaders if you are managing your own web server:
http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php

(substitute YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME and MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY with your specific names)

These page will run special code to present you information regarding IonCube support and possible remedies.

Some web hosting companies have Ioncube installed but disabled by default – and they need to “enable” it. This is usually quick process. As soon as customer (like yourself) contact your hosting company’s support and requests: “Please enable Ioncube support for my account” – they will do it for you or direct you toward instructions on how to do it.

If your hosting company does not support Ioncube or refuse to enable Ioncube support for you – we highly recommend to switch your webhosting company to the one that offers reliable services and support for modern technologies.

Here is the best hosting company that we highly recommend and use ourselves.

Self help tips:

IonCube supports 64-bit Linux, Unix and MAC-based platforms.
But if you are self-hosting on your own server and running 64-bit Windows / IIS – you need to setup 32-bit loaders for your 64-bit Windows. Here are instructions on how to setup PHP/32 on Windows/64 and then you may be able to use 32bit *.dll Ioncube windows loaders:
http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/07/03/how-to-install-php-isapi-on-windows-2008-iis7-x64/
(better though to run hosting off Linux rather than struggling with Windows)

Integrating your membership site with Rapid Action Profits system

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:30 +0000

Premium editions of MemberWing 3.77 and higher now include free addon for smooth integration with Rapid Action Profits (RAP) system.

RAP is a powerful all-in-one web marketing, affiliate and joint venture management and secure digital product delivery platform.

RAP also includes unique feature where affiliate is paid immediately via Paypal after referring sale to you. This feature makes RAP-based sites very attractive for affiliates.
RAP allows you to market infoproducts very efficiently, include upsells, include downsells (if upsell is rejected – it will offer paying customer cheaper version of something) and pay different commissions on different products.

Contrary to other self-managed affiliate softwares, RAP automatically manages affiliate payoffs – in fact it happens right away and you don’t need to remember to allocate your precious time for housekeeping needs.

RAP includes templates to customize your sales pages any way you wish.

Here is a list of main features of Rapid Action Profits system:

Complete integration and automation of sales functionality
Instant affiliate sign-up without approval hassles. Helps to grow network of your affiliates the quickest way.
Together with traditional marketing creatives and templates – includes peelaway ads and adsense ads templates.
Includes equity partner to share portal revenues with other parties.
Allows to offer 100% commission for your front-end offer and pay different commission levels to different affiliates and joint venture partners.
System to manage and promote One Time Offers.
Sales pages Split Testing capabilities
Ability to create expirable and hidden downloadlinks for your digital products.
Discount Coupon Management System

Rapid Action Profits has an active discussion forum where you’re more than welcome to chat with other users of this system.

How to add free members to membership site without payment

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:43:59 +0000

If you have membership site (based on MemberWing or any other software) and would like them to become a members without requiring payment – here are steps:

Login to your Wordpress admin panel
Go to: Settings – > General -> Membership
Check this: [x] Anyone can register
Set “New User Default Role” to “Bronze Member” – or whatever role you want free member to be.
Send visitors to this page for login or registration:
http://www.YOUR-SITE-NAME.com/wp-login.php

That’s it – now anyone can join for free and be assigned role that you set.