Ian Fernando

Late last week I was in Florida to get away from this grazzy Jersey weather. Ryan from Elite Clicks Media has gotten in contact with me at Ad-Tech NY and followed up with me after. He mentioned he wanted to get me out to Florida to meetup with his team and his new partner, Kevin Harrington.

It was very last minute when it was planned, but I manage to fly out and meetup with Ryan and Greg at the Hilton. After a quick 2.5 hour flight from Jersey to Florida, we all went out. I left Jersey at 8pm and arrived in Florida a little after 10pm.

Once at the Hilton I got comfortable and Ryan told me we are going to go out. So I prep up and got ready to head out with Ryan. We went out to a lounge and met up with Greg.

The funny part is I knew Greg prior to him being with Elite Clicks Media. I was going to buy one of his info products and re-brand it as mine. His info product was really informative with a lot of good breakdowns of his strategies. But anyways…

We headed out till the place closed and I met one of Ryan’s good friends which owned the place and just treated me with great hospitality. We had a nice VIP section overseeing the whole place.

After the night we just headed back I was tired from the plane ride and pouring the weather. So the night ended real good. Thanks goes out to Greg and Ryan’s friend.

The next day we went out to check out Ryan’s new partners office and studio. While I was there they had a live videoing of one of the prospects from Shark Tank . He was one of the users who wasn’t broadcasted on television, but now his dream is realized.

After the live taping we went out to grab lunch.Ryan and I discussed the future of affiliate marketing and our industry. He shared his vision on what he wants to create and how he wants to reach his goals. Big props to going extra big.

After a good lunch we headed back to the studio and we met up with Tim Harrington, Kevin’s brother. I was brought in a room where all the infomercial products were located. There were a lot of products I recognized and new ones that look like can be a re-billable product.

It was amazing seeing all the products that have been on the as seen on tv space for many years and up and coming ones as well.

A big thanks to Ryan, Greg, and their whole Elite Clicks Media Team for inviting me to see their operations. Thanks!

Wow it has been a while since I did a review of Wishlist Member and aMember. So now what I am going to do is do a recap of everything and you let me know which one you think is better. I have both and some are features do play a stronger role with each product.

I hope the past 2 write ups about each membership script was helpful. Lets get in the final round and lets see who is the best membership script.

So lets break it down and see which one will be better or acts better… these are my experiences and I hope it will help you decide which membership script will be better for you. Each one has its powers and each one has its weakness. So one maybe powerful because it is using the power of wordpress while the other will have more plugins and versatility.

Let the battle begin! Wishlist Member vs aMember Pro

Wishlist Member: Positives

• Easy to install, download > upload > activate
• a lot of video tutorials, which makes it easy to move around the interface and use its features
• very clean interface, can be easily navigated
• Easily integrates with aweber, paypal, and clickbank
• Ability to create multiple membership levels
• Really easy member management
• Content protection base on the membership level
• …more great features

Wishlist Member: Negatives

• Took a while to integrate the mailing list options – but the videos helped
• sometimes you forget to check off the membership level when you are trying to protect your content
• the main options are a must to do, I forgot to do it my first time installing
• …not sure how to integrate a forum

aMember: Positives

• Lots of plugins and tools to be used within the system
• built in affiliate program
• ability to mail membership type users (expired, active, etc)
• Simple interface
• Various ways to protect content
• Integrates with multiple payment systems
• system logging. Logs what the script is doing and what users are doing.
• Overall income reports and demographic reports! <- love this
• Main dashboards shows overall stats including income
• Integrate forums, wordpress, and other systems with their arsonal of plugins
• …more great features

aMember: Negatives

• Takes a while to get use to (interface and internal mailing features)
• if you have your own affiliate system it takes a while to recognize the payment scripts to integrate your affiliate system
• templates can be cumbersome to use and may be difficult to re-do yourself
• email notifications can take a while to understand especially if you are doing recurring billing
• Product integration can be confusing, especially if you have different levels of your membership

Overall

Now it may seem that I am favoring Wishlist more because of its versatility and ease of use but once you get to use amember it is very powerful. It does take a while to get use to while Wishlist you can upload it and start using it.

The big difference with Wishlist and aMember is that there is no setup with SQL since your Wordpress installation has already done that for you. aMember you will have to setup the SQL and all that stuff but it is easy.

I use Wishlist as a product download page as well as content. While I am using aMember as a gate to specific folders of my domain. aMember has a very nice and powerful security system. Wishlist uses the power of Wordpress to make their membership script work.

I personally do not favor either or I do use both and I do like both. I hope the above recap was helpful enough for you to chose which one will be better.

Check out aMember and Wishlist Member for yourself and see which one is better.

Guest Post: Donny Gamble writes a blog about creating wealth by combining Internet Marketing with Network Marketing.

I have been doing Internet marketing for sometime now and if I would have known about having these two things when I first started out, it probably wouldn’t have cost me all of the mistakes that I have made over the years. I was not worried about creating a brand for myself at the time; I was just worried about making money. If you are just starting out with any sort of online business, I highly recommend that you get these two things in place before you do anything else.

The first item that you need is a personal blog. I cannot explain the true importance of branding yourself through a blog. Many bloggers don’t even realize the influence that they have on their current audiences. This is literally costing them thousands of dollars every day. Once you begin blogging and sharing your story across the Internet, people will begin to relate to your story and start to develop a relationship with you without actually even meeting you in person.

I remember when I went to the Affiliate Summit in August and meet John Chow, it felt like I had known him for years because I had been reading his blog for about a year and it seemed like we had been friends forever. It was kind of weird when I first meet him because it was a lot different actually to meet him then reading one of his blog posts.

This is the type of influence that you can create on your audience just by being yourself, telling your story, and sharing your experiences and topics that you are knowledgeable about. There is no other form of media that can accomplish this besides the Internet, so I recommend that you take full advantage of it before the market becomes to saturated and you find yourself competing for prospects against your friends.

So now that you know that you need to start working on your personal blog, now you need to establish a personal newsletter. Most people hate the idea of not only writing content for their personal blog, but know they have to write content for their newsletter as well. My response to this is, setup an autoresponder, like Aweber, so that you only have to write the material once and the rest will become automated. Within this newsletter that you start, you must and I repeat must, build a relationship with your newsletter subscribers first before you ever try to sell them anything. If you start out trying to sell them different products without building a relationship first, a lot of them will quickly unsubscribe or never buy anything from you.

I have subscribed to a newsletter before and the very first email that I received was a product that the person was trying to sell me. I immediately unsubscribed to this newsletter and told them the reason why I did so. If they had introduced themselves to me in the first email, then I probably wouldn’t have unsubscribed so quickly.

Without a doubt, building your email list is one of the most important things that you should be focusing most of your efforts on. So if you start developing a relationship with your audience while building your email list, you will begin to see the type of influence that you will create and also the viral effect that it will have on your personal brand. I hope everyone learned something new from reading this post and apply the knowledge that they learn from it because like I said before, knowledge is useless without application.

I would like to thank Ian Fernando for letting my write a guest post on his blog.