Using WordPress as a membership site; using membership sites as revenue generator

The mysterious Seth W.¹, has written two very helpful posts on Blogussion.

Membership Sites: Can You Make Money from Them? is actually about two things:

Using WordPress as a membership site – with its native capabilities, and with some plugins. The answer – depending on the content and/or the audience – yes!.

But we’d like to add that using WordPress as a membership site also lends itself to other non-business functions: group collaboration and discussion, political campaign planning, all sorts of business and NGO collaboration, and, we think, just another example – as a tool for coordinating litigation.

Back to the question of blogging with WordPress to make money – check out Seth’s 30 Real Ways to Make Money Blogging.

Also – about Blogussion -

• The site is one of the nicest Thesis Theme customizations around;
• The customizations are credited to Kolakube
• The  icons are credited to Function

1. By which we mean there’s no bio on the site for us to link to [↩]