February 24th, 2010 
Marc Wow.. what a couple of months I’ve had. No sooner am I back from attending the Alex Jeffrey’s workshop in Las Vegas, Lee McIntyre hosts his third ever workshop – and in my hometown too!
As soon as Lee announced the workshop, I booked my place. The event was called “Continuity Live” and, as the name suggests, focussed ENTIRELY on continuity income and setting up membership sites. As I have a membership site of my own, and I’m working towards launching another two I decided this was a “must-see”.
Fortunately I wasn’t disappointed and Lee further convinced me that membership sites are definately the way to go.
Are they easy? NO
Are they problem-free? NO
But the possibilities are literally endless!
Lee touched on everything that we could possibly need to know as far as membership sites are concerned and even talked about the hassles, problems and annoyances that would drive some people to the edge!!
One thing which particularly struck me from this workshop was the difficulties of doing a Free Plus Shipping offer now. In case you’re unsure, this is an offer where you give away a valuable free gift for the cost of the postage, and then roll into a monthly billing or membership unless they contact you to cancel. Visa and Mastercard seemingly don’t like this activity due to an increase in chargebacks and refunded payments.
As a result, I’ve had to change the format of one of my upcoming membership site launches in the self-improvement niche. But at least I can now understand why it’s definately a good thing!
So.. if you get the chance to see Lee’s Continuity Live workshop, or catch the DVD recordings when they are released then I HIGHLY recommend that you do so!
Before I go.. I was watching T.V. the other day and I found this advert. It’s for a company who call themselves: “The London Mint”. It sounds very official and as if thats the folks who strike our money here in the UK. But it isn’t. It’s a private company and their advert operates a free plus shipping offer with a cleverly hidden continuity program/re-billing.
Here’s the advert. It’s worth watching. Shows how easy it could be to catch someone out who is unaware of the formula and would be re-billed unexpectedly:
That’s all for now.. don’t forget to comment 
Marc!
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Hey Marc,
How’s it going? It has been a while.
Wish I could have joined you & the rest of the guys in Vegas, but it is a good 15 hour flight from here in Perth Western Australia. (Not to mention the $5,000 air fare)
I have been looking into membership sites myself for a while, tossong around the idea of what to put into them. It is a great concept & one I will definatly be looking closer into.
What membership software do you use? I would be interested to know more about what you are doing. Give me a ping next time your on Skype.
To Your Success,
Rob
Rob Willis´s last blog ..Mapping Out Your Life
What a shame I didn’t drop by your blog before lee’s event cos the first thing I noticed when I came here was obviously the Hair and I’m thinking to myself hey I’ve seen him somewhere… *ting* Lee’s continuity Live workshop. It would’ve been great to actually meet you but never mind I’m sure there is plenty of events to come and the world is a small place.
Btw this is the same Maddi who you had a brief conversation at the Warrior Forum about your upcoming membership site. Whats happening with that? Have you launched it already or is it still under construction.
Anyways now that I know of this Blog will drop by often and yea btw loving the header, gotta get one of those myself for my blog
Speak soon,
Maddi Murtaza
http://maddiction.com
Hey Maddi,
Thanks for stopping by. I hadn’t put 2 and 2 together at Lee’s workshop, though.
The site was planned to launch in February, as you may remember, but I decided to hold back and see what I could implement from Lee’s workshop. But I took his advice about not doing a free + shipping offer so I am re-structuring the offer before it goes live…
I’ll let you know as soon as its ready to roll though!!
Thanks,
Marc