During the first seven years of running our memberships sites, we added tens of thousands of members. We also endured hundreds of unnecessary headaches as we learned about subscriptions the hard way. The most significant lesson? Selling memberships is really hard. Forget the fantasies of money growing on virtual trees. The truth is that membership sites can be one of the hardest ways to earn a living in e-commerce. This session will be a step-by-step guide to building a successful membership site with WordPress. The session will be highly-practical and will give you a blueprint to launch your first membership site. We’ll also provide resources to allow you to dig deeper into the topic after WordCamp Tampa, allowing you to make detailed decisions about payment gateways plugins and business strategy

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Style Tiles are a simple and effective way to help clients separate design decisions from content, so you can make sweeping changes before they become time-consuming and expensive. If you design websites, or work with people that do, this presentation will explain how Style Tiles can promote buy-in and a sense of ownership from the client, helping them feel like the final design was their idea all along. You will learn how Style Tiles fit into the design process and development process. And to get you started, a Style Tile template and some basic survey questions will be available for download.

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