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The results are in from the Spring Training poll I posted for this past weekend.

And the winner is…

Creating profitable membership sites with WordPress and Digital Access Pass

Here is the complete poll result:

I took the total numbers of “Definitely” and gave that vote 3 points. The “Probably” votes get 1 vote. So numerically…

• Discover DAP got 371 points
• Unstoppable Blogging 2 got 276 points
• Teleseminar Formula 4 got 162 points

As you can see, business blogging was a close second. However, in order to teach Discover DAP, there will be a fair amount of WordPress and blogging included to make your membership site look good and be profitable.

What Happens Now?

On Wednesday, March 17, I’ll send an invitation to my existing subscribers, customers, and clients to a free preview call with Ravi Jayagopal. We’ll dive into why DAP fills the needs of savvy membership site owners better than any other script on the market, and what’s coming soon in the next update of DAP.

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So I’m patiently waiting for my SIMPLE home study course to be completed based on the live event I held 2 weeks ago. Over the next 6 weeks, the audio, video, transcripts, and bonus 30 day implementation program will be compiled and ready for release. I’m shooting for my birthday (April 26) for the program to be available.

To tell you the truth, I’m very excited about it, but it’s a daunting task bringing all the pieces together!

In the meantime, I’d like to teach a virtual workshop to help you with your business even before the SIMPLE home study course is ready. I’ve narrowed down the areas I would personally enjoy teaching this time of year to 3, and I need your help to pick which one to actually do.

So please take a quick moment to rank these 3 potential virtual workshops as it would fit what you need right now.

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We’re just a few days away from SIMPLE – the School for Information Marketing Profits – Live Event. I know it’s a weird title, but I’m a weird teacher.

In any case, if you’re coming to Wilmington next week, I thought it would be cool for you to share your excitement with the others reading this. And also get a chance to let those that will be here have an idea of what you’re about, what you’re looking for at the event, etc.

So please post a comment below and answer as much of these questions as you’d like to:

1. Your name, where you are traveling from, your primary website, and Twitter ID if you have one
2. What has been your favorite training course or learning result from working with me in the past?
3. What are your primary goals while you’re at SIMPLE?
4. If this is your first event, what are you nervous about?
5. Anything else you’d like others to know before they meet you in person?

Of course, when you’re here, you’ll have a nametag and plenty of time to get to know each other. And since the event is designed to be small (about 60 people total), you won’t feel lost in a huge crowd.

See you in a few days!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you’re not on the list yet, you may still be able to get one of those last tickets. See if any are left at SIMPLE10K.com.

Over at IM Success Library, I’ve started coaching my brother through the start up phases of his new website, RestaurantManagerSecrets.com.

So that you can learn along with him, and see the exact strategic and tactical advice is the same for you as it is for my brother, you can eavesdrop through the process. This is called “Fishbowl Coaching”, where I coach & teach him, but you get to watch along the way.

Here’s a segment of the first session we did earlier in the week. The entire first session was based on getting a game plan together for the 3-phases of the SIMPLE formula, and focusing on phase 1, which is connecting to an appropriate affiliate product.

But before we get to the product, it was important to do a few things on the back side of his website.

Take a look!

And if you’d like to learn from the rest of Session 1, and be part of the next 2 sessions, jump over to the IMSL Case Study page.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. And for more help with your cPanel and the back side of your website, go to DiscovercPanel.com, or upgrade your account at IMSL to the Gold or Platinum level.

I continue to be very impressed with Digital Access Pass software as a membership site script working with WordPress. The IMSuccessLibrary.com runs on DAP, and I’m finding more benefits to the software than I anticipated.

Some people are in love with Wishlist Member for WordPress – a competitive membership script that I have not tested myself yet (but hope to soon).

The reason I chose DAP in the first place are documented in my first comparitive review.

Let me now share a few additional thoughts now that I’ve been using DAP for a few weeks on a live site.

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Info-product sellers know that the hard work starts after you launch your product — whether it’s an eBook, a recording of your teleseminar, a membership site, or even a consulting package. The real work is in getting your sales message in front of your potential customers so they can buy.

There are many ways, as you know, of getting web traffic to your sales message.

Arranging joint ventures
This works great once you are “in” with other successful marketers, but it’s not like you can just log into people’s autoresponders and mail for them, so it can feel like an uphill battle at times to get people to send promotions for you.

Twitter & Social Media
This also works, but it involves constant daily effort and sometimes it feels just like you’re talking to yourself. Is anyone really listening?

Article marketing
Writing and submitting articles to the article directories still works, but there is so much competition that it’s hard to stand out. EzineArticles.com has, as of today, 212,234 other Authors competing with you for attention. OUCH.

Why not cut out the middle man and position yourself right in front of your potential customers – where they’re ALREADY hanging out?

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As I set up my new membership site using WordPress and Digital Access Pass, I’m making a few notes about things I’m running into, or shortcuts I’m taking.

First, when I went to activate DAP after installing the plugin that it requires, I got an error message:

Sorry, it appears that a required library (PDO) for connecting to a MySQL database has not been enabled. Pls ask your web host if your web site can have ‘PHP PDO Enabled for MySQL’

Installation failed. Please de-activate LiveLinks and re-activate it when you’ve resolved this issue. (101)

So I have submitted a support ticket to my host (this site is running on Kiosk, but you can use that or Hostgator). That should be fixed pretty soon. (UPDATE: it was fixed in about an hour – no sweat!)

While I’m waiting, I’m putting in a few quick settings that I always do for my blogs.

First, in the Settings, Permalinks, I’m changing the default structure of the URLS to %postname%. This makes my URLs more SEO friendly. I just have to make sure I don’t make any posts simply as dap, since that’s the folder of the script.

Next, I paste in a long list of ping services under Settings, Writing, Update Services.

I activate Akismet and delete Hello Dolly plugins. I upload and activate Comment Relish. Comment Relish is the nifty plugin you may have noticed here at AskBobTheTeacher.com. When you first comment, you get an automatic reply message.

I’m not going to spend time right now on my theme, but I do want to set myself up for easy changes. After searching the web, asking on Twitter and other places, I hear so many great things about the Thesis theme from DIY Themes that I pick that up and load it up. Out of the box it’s simple enough, but I’m told there are so many flexible customizations I (or my designer) can do, that it’s worth paying for. (Thanks to Mike Krumlauf for the final nudge!)

Mike told me I also should pick up the free Thesis Open Hook plugin, so I’ve uploaded and activated that as well.

A lot of adjustments can be made right from the Thesis dashboard, which is pretty cool. I’ll have to really play around in there soon.

For the Users settings, I change my own profile to include my main blog website. I change the display from admin to Bob The Teacher.

I’ll also need to set up the initial post, About Me page, and change the inital blogroll links to something more useful than the default settings. And I’ll need to add a few categories.

That’s pretty much it for now.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you’re just creating a regular website, and you want a blog as well as plenty of pre-built power, definitely get yourself a Quansite (that’s what AskBobTheTeacher.com works on). But if you want to be your own tech person, spend time with plugins, and add extra scripts, then you need to have your own hosting account.

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Have you ever dreamed up a website platform that would be easy to use like WordPress, but would do a lot of the hard work for you? Something that would be incredibly powerful, but not take a computer programming degree to operate?

That’s the idea behind Quansite, a next generation website engine from RPM Success Group®.

Formerly called Blogi360, Quansite is a business owner’s dream. Instead of worrying about which plug-ins to install, messing with MySQL databases, or fixing broken code, Quansite owners can simply point and click through the dashboard. The results are stunning.

And not just for appearances, either!

Go To QuansiteRevolution.com

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So you’ll be hearing me talk a lot about Quansite (since it’s the engine that powers AskBobTheTeacher to the top of the search engines). Part of the reason is because the people behind Quansite are having a contest.

Okay, so I’m going to call it a “Quantest”.

The cool thing is – you can win the quantest, too!

There is a lot at stake, most notably, the winner of one of the contests gets free Quansites for an entire year.

To participate, you need to sign up for free to the “Secret Society of the Quan.” I know it sounds a bit hokie, but these guys are from Hawaii via New Jersey, and now live in San Diego. So you know they’re bound to do things a little differently :)

Besides, they wrote the book on new media marketing, and they’re harnessing social media to build a lot of buzz around the release of Quansite. And they’re cool people to hang out with (like on the internet marketers’ cruise!)

To get the details on the contest Quantest, and see how you can win Quansite systems of your own (trust me: you will want one, whether you win it or not), go to the Quansite Revolution homepage.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. One of the things I did to try to win the contest myself is to create a new Squidoo lens about the Quansite Revolution. Check it out, and click those stars at the top of the lens :)

p.p.s. I’ll be answering questions about Quansite over the next few days. If you have questions, please post them below!

Have you ever wondered why when you do a search for certain keywords that pertain to internet marketing like

• learn Facebook
• best internet marketing teacher
• or best teleseminar training

my blog here at AskBobTheTeacher.com and other sites of mine show up in the top 5?

More importantly, have you ever wondered how you could do the same thing for your keyword phrases?

A not so well-known secret to my SEO success is the platform I’m using to build my website here. Since early 2007, I’ve been using Blogi360 to run my site. And the new media marketing engine that runs my site is largely responsible for my results (in combination with my USING it actively).

Now you can have this same powerful engine doing much of the online marketing for you.

But you won’t be using Blogi360.

Blogi360 is like the caterpillar stage, and later this week it’s metamorphising into “QuanSite”.

In fact, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this “Quansite Revolution“.

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Setting goals is very important in both life and business, and today I begin a public documentation of my own goal setting.

Over the last month, I’ve been documenting my personal 30 Day Autoresponder Challenge, and it’s been a lot of fun (we wrap up this Thursday with a rockin’ teleseminar with an awesome guest).

Now I’m going to be turning my attention to setting and achieving goals in three key areas: business, fitness, and life.

Normally I would wait to start this process until after my current challenge is over. But I’m getting help from a group of motivated home business owners like me, and we’re all taking part in Scott Tousignant’s Fat Loss Quickie Home Office Transformation Contest. And that just so happens to have begun today (if you’re late, you can catch up!).

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