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ahopkins1965 · 11 months ago
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In Relation to the Bible:
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.”
Zechariah 7:9-10
This verse from Zechariah explains how we as people, not just Christians, should treat other people around us daily. God is telling us that we should be respectful and be truthful in the things we do in our daily lives. Not only should be true to others, but to ourselves as well. In that sense, phishing is not correct by any means based on this passage.
Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. “Be angry, and do not sin” : do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
Ephesians 4:25-28
This second passage explains to us that we should not lie to one another. Phishing is deliberately misleading someone else for a person’s own personal gain and essentially lying. Even if we are angry at someone else, we should not commit sin to fulfill these thoughts towards others. These verses also explain that we should change and try to be better in what we do each day.
Phishing is absolutely wrong. Nowhere in its concept is it morally or ethically right and there are many laws against it. It is very wrong to go and trick someone into something especially with some who is not very familiar with computers. It is almost as if you are taking candy from a baby, it is not hard to do it, but they can often not do anything about it. Phishing targets people who have very little information or knowledge about computers and sucks them into giving them information, which is then accessed and used. It is human nature to feel bad for someone who is being taken advantage of, and often we do what we can to help them. Just because someone has little knowledge about something doesn’t mean someone should be able to take advantage of them and trick them into do something they would otherwise not do. Phishing is wrong, and anyone who is caught phishing should suffer consequences.
I want to inform everyone that over 1,000,000 websites are utilized by computer hackers each day. I was online using my Mocospace account early this morning and suddenly, I came across someome who I perceived as a woman chatting with me. It looked suspicious because when I looked on her profile, I found out that she was not logged on to the website. Usually, whenever a person is logged on to Mocospace, a green dot appears right next to their name. This occurred around 12:30AM. I checked the female's profile, and it has been confirmed that she was not logged on to the site. She logged onto the website yesterday. I felt baffled and confused because I always thought that these women would be online. It turns out that the profile was hacked. Some tips that I have to offer all of you are as follows: Always check for the green dot to see if the person is officially on the website. Second, examine the profile to see how long the person was logged off. This is pertaining to mocospace. As far as Blackplanet.Com is concerned, always check the profile to see how long they have been logged off or on. On the average, most of the female profiles are hacked online because the hackers themselves usually go undetected. Most of the countries that have this kind of activity is Africa, India, Jamaica, Cuba, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, and London England. Most of your hackers are usually between the ages of 18-35. There are a very small percentage of the profiles that the hackers have are cloned. They are duplicated and the pictures themselves are copied by the hackers themselves. Hackers have a tendency to prey on innocent men who are online between the hours of 9:00PM-6:00AM. Most of the activity occurs between the hours of midnight and 5:00AM. Computer hackers who are living in other countries have a 7 to 12 hour start on Americans who are online. The time change makes the difference. When I got scammed 4 years ago, I did not know it. The scammers were using women's profiles on Blackplanet, Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter. Some of your computer hackers use profiles of younger women between the ages of 18-40. The profiles themselves are randomely selected. This is serious because an average man would think that he is talking to his female or male friend; when they are talking to a computer hacker and data thief. Data thieves usually collect social security numbers of innocent people and as soon as your information is online, it is collected from the website and in some cases, a third party. I am happy that they have Bible verses that pertain to my situation. In most cases, it is best to examine the information.
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soysaucevictim · 4 years ago
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Final week of current challenge/program!
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Nov. 21
I woke up barely before 1PM, today.
After some browsing and while listening to the Final TS YouTube Member Stream...
First, today’s DD. 30 side [elbow] plank knee taps with EC (15/15). Admittedly gotten through by the skin of my teeth and slightly sagging form.
Second, Day 25 of the YAC. 3 sets: 50″ boat pose + 50″ knee hug hold. Definitely taking some digging in. This final week is going to really kick my ass, I can tell. (As is frequently the case with these things.)
Last, Day 25 of TEN. Tendon Strength day. Counted 5 sets completed within time, +1 more overtime (to even things out at 3/3). Very manageable work.
I then got some dishes done and made today’s Hello Fresh meal. Chicken sausage and tomato risotto. It had lemony zucch ribbons, but one of them didn’t survive shipping too hot. I personally liked it and it was okay/accessible for pops. Never had zucch this way (marinated & uncooked), but I rather liked it (I ate all of it myself d/t dad’s dental situation and bro’s past complaints about sourness in things)!
Hit the showers and spent most of my night chatting and making Incorrect Sanders Sides Quotes from Metalocalypse. Which was pretty fun, ngl.
Got to bed in the red zone again, roughly same time as yesterday.
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Nov. 22
I somehow woke up before 11AM... even tho that meant I was undersleeping by a few hours.
Spent time browsing before getting in my workout pretty early.
First, today’s DD. 2′ butt kicks with EC. I counted 250 reps, happy I maintained a bit above a steady 2/sec pace. I was re-listening to Inverness’s “Lost My Mind“ as BG noise. That song had a great and sustainable tempo to work along.
Second, Day 26 of the YAC. 3x50″ supermen holds, 50″ rest. Similar feelings as yesterday - things are getting pretty tough!
Last, Day 26 of TEN. Cardio day (and/or abs). I counted exactly 7 sets completed withing time. I kinda upped the pace in the latter 2 sets to try to gt all 7 in time. I did opt for stepping in/out of plank rather than jumping - just because of my energy levels. The up and downs were pretty tough - and plank rotations the least fun to do. Think there was a typo too and was told to always go by illustration > text. So I did plank jacks not plank kicks, too.
Spent good deal of rest of night chatting, watching Back to The Future with a friend, and other miscellany.
Got to bed a bit earlier than yesterday.
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Nov. 23
I woke up a bit before noon.
After a bit of the usual and some errands, I did my exercise fairly early today.
First, today’s DD. 1′ hollow hold with EC. Intense, but manageable work. The minute felt a bit shorter than I expected today. Maybe because I was excited about a delivery I was expecting to arrive later.
Second, Day 27 of the YAC. 3 sets: 50″ boat pose + 50″ knee hug hold. Still a bit tough, but happy I could get through it.
Last, Day 27 of TEN. Cardio day. I counted 8 sets completed within time, +1 more overtime. I was mostly done with that last one by the time the chimes sounded. Noted a bit of complaining in left ankle and right knee - but I tried to mind how I made the impacts. Guts weren’t super happy and distracting - but I enjoyed it otherwise.
Made the family some dinner, installed that SSD with the tool kit that arrived today (which was a bit nerve-wracking, didn’t want to break or fry anything in the new laptop), and spent rest of night working on setting it up (while also chatting).
Got to bed a couple hours later than yesterday.
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Nov. 24
I woke up after 11AM.
Spent a few hours setting up the new computer further and some dishes, before today’s exercise..
First, today’s DD. 2′ skiers with EC. I counted 85 reps by the end of it. Given the ROM of these, it was physically a challenge to get all that close to 1/sec. Regardless, a fun one.
Second, Day 28 of the YAC. 3x50″ supermen holds, 50″ rest. This took some doing - might’ve been made a bit tougher after all those skiers (which kinda has a deadlift action to it - as far as the lower back muscles are concerned.)
Last, Day 28 of TEN. Arm day. I barely managed exactly 15 sets in the duration - kinda sped up that last one to get it done in time. Tough, but not too shabby!
Spent a good chunk of the night getting the new computer set-up for art streaming. Me and friend eventually hit a soft wall for energy to go forward with that that night. Spent rest of it chatting and the usual BS.
Got to bed a little earlier than yesterday.
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Nov. 25
I woke up after 11AM. Grossly underslept.
Got to group again today. I was there early so I threw down a couple sentences into that fic while I waited in the meeting room. Group went well enough, talked about grounding stuff.
Got home and did my exercises shortly after.
First, today’s DD. 10 cross tricep extensions with EC. I fully admit my form was a bit sloppy, but acceptable. I know you should drive the action equally between the arms, but I often leaned into one side to start the action before drawing on the other arm more.
Second, Day 29 of the YAC. 3 sets: 1′ boat pose + 1′ knee hug hold. That got pretty brutal, but I’m happy I was able to get through all the sets without dropping.
Last, Day 29 of TEN. Ab day. I counted 7 sets with in time, and 1 extra overtime. Neck was happy it could take a break for this sequence.
I then made today’s Hello Fresh Meal. Thai ginger curry. I was pretty much the only one who liked it (but then I do enjoy curry.) Probably won’t see a reprisal anytime soon.
I spent rest of day in kind of an overtired haze (with some Thanksgiving anxiety in the mix). Mostly the usual stuff and chatting.
Given how exhausted I was, I have no idea WHY I stayed up to around the same hour as last night.
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Nov. 26
I woke up proper around 2PM.
I’m glad I elected to stay home for Thanksgiving today (and that Dad decided to stay too, he definitely thought Grandpa crossed a line last time I was over there.) Bro brought home some of what grandma made for the family, though.
Anyways, after some YouTube + Tumblr stuff, did my exercises...
First, accidentally redid yesterday’s DD because [stress] brain thought it was the 25th still. :P
Second, Day 30 of the Yoga Abs Challenge. 3x1′ supermen holds, 1′ rest. I made the dubious choice of eating some of the Thanksgiving dinner today. Did contend with a lil bit of heartburn after set 2, but I’m happy I could get through it.
Third, Day 30 of the TEN Program. Tendon strengthening day. I counted at least 3 completed circuits, maybe the 4th was within time. But my computer display went to sleep and didn’t hear the chimes before confirming timer was stopped.
Last, today’s DD. 1′ toe tap hops with EC. I counted 92 reps by the time was up - hovering at 1.5/sec. Not too shabby, was tempted to try to hit 2/sec, but at the rate I was going at, i didn’t feel up for it today. A pretty fun little exercise.
Did some dishes, spent time chatting and watching some stuff with a friend. Did a little bit of writing too.
I got to bed later than yesterday.
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Nov. 27
I woke up after 11AM.
After some YouTube, I did my only intended exercise for the day (active rest day) - today’s DD. 20 up/down planks with EC. Wearing long sleeves always helps. Took a bit of grit - but mission accomplished.
I spent some time archiving my fitness blogging again.
Then I made today’s Hello Fresh Meal. Mozzarella and herb chicken. This was an enjoyable one for the family. I also appreciated that it was mostly a “set it and forget it“ kinda recipe too. Sometimes it’s nice to not have to babysit the meal so much and chill. (Especially on low energy days.)
After some of the usual, I did some dishes and updated my sleep data logs and revised some of the fitness archive. Spent rest of night chatting about that and about writing stuff.
I got to bed a little earlier than yesterday.
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Summary of Experience:
I completed my challenge and program on the 26th.
The Yoga Abs Challenge started to really kick my butt in the last week - but I’m glad I got through it. The boats were a little relaxed (knees bent) - but no less a cakewalk. Though specified otherwise, I’m kind of glad I did this before my main workout. (Probably would’ve dropped earlier on the ab days, that’s for sure!)
I really enjoyed going through the TEN Program! It was fun to try to challenge myself to get as many circuits/sets in those ten minutes as I could. My numbers (minimum completed in time; might be worth charting this data by category of WO - such as “cardio” vs “arm” days):
3 sets: 2 days
5 sets: 7 days
6 sets: 4 days
7 sets: 7 days
8 sets: 3 days
9 sets: 3 days
12 sets: 1 days
14 sets: 1 days
15 sets: 2 days 
And I counted 16 days where I did at least one extra set overtime, either for symmetry (especially in the cases of “tendon strengthening” days) or because I was mostly done with it before the chimes sounded!
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September 21, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
[SNARKs] Toward ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation
[ewasm] Latest Ewasm call
[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s latest implementation update: proposer & attester responsibilities, RPC validator interactions and minimal beacon chain processing & fork choice. Chose Bolt for database.
[Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementers call.
[Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime introduces its Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client
[State channels] Latest state channels call
[State channels] Learn State Channels, similiar to Learn Plasma
[Plasma] snapp - fully verified plasma chain using SNARKs and BarryWhiteHat’s roll_up
[Plasma] Enabling Faster Plasma Exits - NFT collateralization
[Plasma] Data Availability Solution for Plasma EVM without Confirmation
[Plasma] Quark–gluon Plasma - verified Plasma chain without confirmation signatures
[Plasma] Plasma Cash Defragmentation
[Plasma] Plasma Cash Minimal Atomic Swap
[Plasma] The current state of Plasma (before this week anyway!) by Kevin Zhang
[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementers call
A suggestion: if you want to work in this industry, publishing notes on any of these calls (Plasma, Ewasm, Eth 2.0, state channels, etc) is a great way to build knowledge and reputation.
Stuff for developers
Parameterized transaction reviews for when you want to decide which signers you want to approve different types of transactions
hosted Eth nodes and load balancing
Deconstructing Solidity, pt 5: function bodies
Solidity capture the flag pt 4 challenge, with pt 3 writeup
Sigma Prime’s Mehdi Zerouali: ‘breaking smart contracts for fun and profit’ slides
event logs parser
ethjs-abi for use in BigQuery, to decode Ethereum event logs
Ethereum in Google’s BigQuery: how we built this dataset
Ameen Solemaini video code walk through of Moloch DAO
Using APM to replace centralized package managers
Implementing Harberger tax deeds
Zymbit and Oaken blockchain security module available for pre-order for $47. i2c, Raspberry Pi ready. Ships mid-October
Registration open for next ConsenSys Academy cohort. Zastrin also just released an NFT/ERC721 course
RuntimeVerification’s formal verification spec in K of ERC777
Releases
Parity v2.1.1 beta and v.2.0.6 stable. Parity 1.x end of life.
Ecosystem
Multi-Collateral Dai: the code is formally verified and ready. Check it out on Kovan.
Avsa’s Universal logins working demo: first code release
Beltran on UX for mass adoption
Wyohackathon submissions and winners. EthBerlin winners. Also Hack the North Ethereum submissions
What Eth 2.0 layer 1 scalability will look like, by the numbers
TurboGeth is in private beta, per Rachel O’Leary’s interview with Alexey Akhunov
MEWConnect iOS app is out from My Ether Wallet
Ethfinex Trustless - non-custodial trading using Bitfinex order book, settlement on-chain
Governance and Standards
EIP1418: blockchain rent proposal
ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry is in last call
ERC1412: Batch Transfers For Non-Fungible Tokens
ERC1410: partially fungle token
ERC1417: poll standard
Nick Johnson had a chat with Kristy-Leigh Minehan and switched to supporting ProgPOW. Currently, there’s a 20x increase in processing over ethash in benchmarking, though Minehan says that’s because the CPU code is currently just a copy of the GPU code
Tokensoft on its ERC1404: simple restricted token standard
Project Updates
CasinoFair will be the first live FunFair casino later this month. Available in Canada, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Thailand. Signup for free FUN
Raiden update on mainnet launch. Testnet release: v0.10.0
Augur app v1.5
Streamr helping build a nationwide traffic map in Georgia
WindingTree’s summer demo release
Santiment’s daily active addresses and Github commit data is free.
Grid+ is live with its first electricity customers
Dapped launches with dapp game reviews
Intro to the Golem marketplace during Brass
1.25m Loom (~110kUSD) to run a LoomNetwork PlasmaChain validator
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Two great Blockcrunch podcasts on state channels: Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani and Celer Network’s Mo Dong
EthBerlin videos
Golem, Status, Raiden UX talks from their meetup at EthBerlin
Linda Xie with Laura Shin
First episode of Around the Block documentary
An interview with Conrad Barski
Latest Open Source Block Explorers call
Zero Knowledge Summit videos
Hudson Jameson on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business
Chart: staker rewards and total inflation in Eth 2.0
Polymath on using partially fungible tokens from its security token standard for gaming
Claims curated registries: reputation development
Bonding curves as funding mechanisms
Polkadot/web3
Jack Platts: state of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkascan explorer is live
GRANDPA block finality in Polkadot
Buzzfeed published a sensationalist hit piece on Gavin Wood over a short story he wrote years ago. His response. I read the story years ago; ‘twas obviously fiction.
Cloudflare now runs an IPFS gateway. How they built it e2e
General
15 of the world’s largest banks and trading firms start Komgo to build a commodity trading platform on Ethereum.
Airbus announced an ERC721 framework for charities to take donations
Rep Emmer (R-MN) unveils blockchain-friendly bills to clarify tax with regard to forks and not require miners to register as MSBs (which would be a truly asinine requirement)
NY AG claimed that Coinbase was doing its own trading. Actually, 20% of Coinbase exchange volume comes from Coinbase’s retail. It doesn’t even have an OTC desk.
Putting a Syrian airstrike early warning system on Ethereum for data transparency
SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on being CryptoMom
Blockchain futurism from John Wolpert: sidechains for fun and profit
David Chaum says he has built a better Bitcoin
A Bitcoin bug would have allowed inflation. It was discovered by a Bitcoin Cash developer
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
September 21-23 - EthAtlanta
Sept 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 8 - Settle virtual hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 12 - Non-fungible summit(SF)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3
Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
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liebeztod · 4 years ago
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a year in solitude.
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Peter being back in my life.  I wrote about Scott, and how he was married. And very soon after writing that post, I learned Scott hadn’t been separated from his wife while he and I were together. The 5 months we dated, I was the other woman. And it hurt a lot to have been the other woman without knowing it.
So, I did what I thought was right and contacted his wife. And a year later, upon checking in on her, I see she’s forgiven him, and it’s a weird feeling to see a monster like that get something he doesn’t deserve.
But last April, after I had reached out to her, I still had Peter. And now, a year later, I am without Peter, again.
Things seemed well enough. We spoke every couple of weeks, like in olden days. We had Zoom chats, face to face. I never told him about Scott, and I never actually confirmed with him whether his girlfriend moved back to Honolulu or not.
July came, birthday wishes were exchanged.
September came, and I was laid off. And it was a blessing, given everything BMW had put me through, and I felt very free. And Peter was there, and we arranged time for us to Zoom chat for two hours, and he consoled me.
And then November rolled around, and I went to Zion. And I logged into WhatsApp to ask him for his address to send him a postcard, but alas, my message never delivered. According to Peter’s “Last Seen” date, he had last been on WhatsApp on October 31st.
And everyday I went to check, it stayed there, at October 31st. And it felt very much like when he did the same thing in 2017, except in 2017 I would beg him for a response, and the messages would be delivered, and he’d log on but just... not reply.
And now it feels the same, but the circumstances are different, whereas I am not begging him to come back. But perhaps that is because of the logistics of it. Maybe if I knew he were logging onto WhatsApp, I’d be able to see if he was on recently, and I would know my messages could be delivered.
But now, into 2021, his Last Seen date reads, “October 31st, 2020.” So all I can surmise is... he changed his number. It can’t be a hard block because I’ve actually researched a WhatsApp block, and if he were to have blocked me, I wouldn’t see ANY Last Seen date. Not to mention, why block me on WhatsApp but not Facebook, or LinkedIn.
So... he changed his number. And I guess, what I am reading between these lines is, he changed his number and didn’t tell me. So I guess it’s time to let go. 
So I did the only thing that seemed cathartic... I blocked him on Facebook. Maybe he wasn’t even using it, but it’s symbolic, right? No trace of him left on WhatsApp, and I guess... I just wanted to sever what I had left of him on Facebook. LinkedIn doesn’t matter because I don’t use it, nor does he, I’m sure.
What’s hard is I still think of him everyday. I think of Peter in a lot of ways. I think of him as a waste of time, as the most interesting person I ever met, as a devil, as a bastard, as a scholar, as a robot, as a child, and as the love of my life.
I think of the possibility of him coming back. 
When we were reunited in Japan, and when he told me he had a girlfriend, he told me a beautiful lie and said that eventually it would be us. He said, “It’s going to be you and I eventually. Maybe in five years, we’ll finally be together.”
Perhaps I took comfort in it because, not only was it everything I wanted to hear, but... it was beautiful. Rob Reiner couldn’t have written a better line. In that moment, in that hotel room in Tokyo, I stood indignantly while Peter took me into his arms. Refusing to cry, I chose to believe that, yes, we’d be together in another 5 years. I chose to believe that other people get to be with the people they love instantaneously, whereas I was always waiting, always pining.
I pined for Jacob in high school, Esteban during community college, and really... I’ve pined for Peter for over half my life.
I’ve convinced myself there’s a magic in having met Peter, a world away, when I was 12. And now, at 28-years-old, devoid of hope, and truly disillusioned by romance, and traumatized by sex, I am still convinced it has to be Peter. And the sad part is... I think that I know it’s him, that he’s the one, and yet I can’t let him back in. 
We’re 2 years into the “5 years” that Peter predicted. What if he returns, fulfills the prophecy made in Tokyo, and I just throw away my dignity? Like I have before? Like I seem to keep doing with every man I let into my life, into my pants?
What scares me the most is my sister tells me that the things I feel for Peter are not love. She tells me, “I really don’t think you’re in love with him.” Then what is it--this pull, this obligation? Sure, there’s an element of obsession, but sometimes I get scared that what I am in love with is not Peter, as a person, but rather the idea of us. Maybe that’s why he left again. Maybe he’s aware that I don’t love him, but that I love our origin, our starcrossed nature.
Once my therapist asked me why I love Peter, and even when she gave me a whole two weeks to figure it out, I came back with no answer for her.
Right here, right now, I can say this: I love Peter for his sardonic attitude, the way he was gentle when I needed it most. I love Peter because I believe him to be the smartest person I have ever met, for being adventurous and inspiring me to be. I like to think that I am in love with Peter, but never once did I feel like he is in love with me, and yet that didn’t matter. Even with the “5 year” promise, even with the kind words via Zoom. 
I think I’ve also doomed myself because I’ve created so many imaginary conversations with him within my own head that, yeah, he’s so perfect to me. 
And maybe none of that is love, like my sister said. And if none of this is love, then it distresses me to know that I don’t know what love is. I think of Esteban, and Jacob, and guys like Max and George, and even losers like Scott, and think... they were all such vapid feelings. 
With Esteban and Jacob, I suffered butterflies DAILY. And then, once Peter came into my sights on a physical level, Esteban and Jacob were suddenly just... ridiculous fancies.
Max and George... Scott... there was no electricity, there was no longing. And even in terms of sexual desire, well... sex repulsed me as much then as it does now. 
With Peter, I believe love to be painful, and I believe love to be a waiting game, and I believe love to be a crescendo, a true climax. 
So if it isn’t Peter, then it isn’t anyone. And I have tried, very hard, to find it, to let someone new in, but it just sickens me. I am so, so terrified. I am sad because I’ve hardened myself so much after everything that’s happened to me; the sexual assaults, the disrespect, the lies. I feel ruined by the 2 rapes I’ve endured, and faulty because of sex being so terrifying. I feel spoiled and stuck up, but most of all I am just afraid of men. And Peter was the one person I was never afraid of, and perhaps wrongly so given how much I’ve let him destroy my dignity the way that he has.
But that’s just it. I let him do it, and I am all the ruined for it.
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COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems In Past
When Jorge Newbery finally got through to his 95-year-old mother, Jennifer, on a video call April 18, she could barely talk or move and her eyes couldn’t focus.
It was the first time he had seen her since California nursing homes shut their doors to visitors a month earlier. Immediately after the video chat, Newbery called the front desk in a panic.
“I said, ‘You gotta get her out, you gotta call 911,’” he recalled. “She’s looking like she’s about to die.”
Newbery’s mother was living at the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, one of 198 nursing homes in California where at least one patient had contracted the coronavirus as of April 28, public health records show. The outbreak at the Rehabilitation Center has been worse than most, with 12 employees and 24 patients infected, including nine fatalities, according to the Los Angeles County health department.
The Rehabilitation Center shares several other worrisome characteristics with many other homes beset by coronavirus infections: Historically, it has had lower-than-average staffing levels and a record of not always following basic staffing and infection control rules, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows.
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Compared with homes reporting no patient infections, California facilities with one or more patients with a COVID-19 case had on average a 25% fewer registered nurses per resident in the final three months of 2019, the last period for which the federal government has published data.
In addition, 91% of nursing homes reporting at least one case of the virus had a previous health violation for not following infection control rules, while 81% of homes without reported cases had such violations. Typical violations included nurses or aides not washing their hands or wearing protective clothing around potentially contagious patients.
“With low RN staffing, it is not surprising that these facilities have had previous violations for infection control and poorer overall quality as measured by having more deficiencies,” said Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco. “It is a classic situation that reaffirms what researchers have found previously, only the situation with the COVID-19 virus is far more serious than anything the nursing homes have experienced before.”
In an email, Jeffrey Huang, the administrator of the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, said “we respectfully and strongly disagree” that Medicare assessments of the home’s quality predict or reflect the nursing home’s efforts to protect residents from the coronavirus. The staff was “continuing to do everything possible for keeping our residents and staff safe in these uncertain times,” Huang wrote. He declined to discuss Newbery, citing patient confidentiality.
Nursing homes have emerged as one of the places the coronavirus spreads most aggressively. In California, 4,711 nursing home residents had been infected and 663 had died by the end of April, about a third of all COVID-19-linked deaths that homes in the state have reported to authorities.
The KHN analysis is the first to compare Medicare’s public quality measures for the 198 California nursing homes that registered coronavirus cases by late April with the 983 homes with no cases reported to either the state public health department or Los Angeles County, where a majority of homes with infections are located. KHN found that California homes with coronavirus cases averaged 2.8 stars on Medicare’s five-star overall quality rating, while other homes averaged 3.5 stars.
On average, the homes that have had coronavirus cases had more complaints lodged against them and were fined 29% times more often. In addition, Medicare also calculated that their health violations of all types were 20% more serious. They also tended to be larger, averaging 105 patients versus 83 on the homes without virus cases.
The analysis found no substantial difference in the homes’ numbers of nurse aides or licensed practical nurses, but fewer registered nurses, who have the most medical training and supervise the other caregivers. On average, there was one registered nurse for every 39 residents at a California home without a patient coronavirus infection versus one RN for every 52 residents for homes with infections, KHN’s analysis found.
Certainly, nursing homes with stellar quality ratings also have had coronavirus outbreaks. Nursing Home Compare, the federal government’s consumer website, gave its top overall rating of five stars to Life Care of Kirkland, the Seattle-area nursing home that was the first reported to have a slew of infections. In California, 12 of the nursing homes with coronavirus infections had above-average ratings for both staffing levels and inspection results, although only three had no history of infection control citations.
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The prevalence of coronavirus infections in lower-rated nursing homes could be explained by poorer care, but there might be other factors, said David Grabowski, a professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School. For instance, the lower-rated homes might be primarily located in low-income areas with high rates of coronavirus cases in those neighborhoods, he said.
“This suggests a very different set of policies if we want to protect nursing homes from further outbreaks,” Grabowski said.
Representatives of nursing homes rated as below average on Nursing Home Compare say that the coronavirus has thrown everyone off guard and that registered nurse staffing levels are irrelevant to whether a patient is infected by the new virus.
“It’s really hard to draw a straight line from” issues raised in previous years’ inspections “to this pandemic that even the experts didn’t see coming and were not prepared for,” said Elizabeth Tyler, a spokesperson for Longwood Management Corp., which runs three nursing homes with coronavirus infections that were also poorly rated before the pandemic: Studio City Rehabilitation Center, Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and Sunnyview Care Center.
Burbank and Sunnyview have a health inspection rating of one out of five stars, which is much below average, while Studio City has two stars. Tyler said that health inspection ratings are a “very, very complex system” taking into account hundreds of different factors, and she hesitated to make any connections between past reviews or staffing levels and the current outbreak.
Lakeview Terrace in Los Angeles, which has recorded three cases of COVID-19, has been on a list of 15,000 nursing homes around the nation that health inspectors are required to visit more frequently because of repeated violations of patient safety rules. It has an overall Medicare rating of one of five stars — the lowest rating — and almost six times the national average of health deficiencies.
In August 2019, inspectors faulted the home after they saw a nursing assistant deliver a breakfast tray into an isolation room without putting on personal protective equipment. They also discovered the home was not keeping logs to track signs and symptoms of possible infections.
DJ Weaver, an administrator for Lakeview Terrace, said that on the rare occasion that mistakes happen, the facility counsels and trains staff and makes systemic improvements to prevent future occurrences.
“Overall, we have done a good job not allowing cross-contamination of any infectious organisms, which is the real danger,” Weaver said in an emailed statement.
Lakeview’s cases came as a result of accepting a hospital patient who had undiagnosed COVID-19, Weaver said. His infection of two roommates couldn’t have been prevented by the facility’s policies designed to protect residents from the virus. Those include banning staff from working at multiple nursing homes and suspending group dining and activities.
“That kind of thing is really hard to foresee,” Weaver said.
Jennifer Newbery entered the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica in April 2019. Up until the day of the video conversation, Jorge Newbery said he and his four siblings had been told by staff that the nursing home had only three cases of COVID-19, and that everything was under control.
But after the home transferred Jennifer Newbery to a local hospital, doctors told her family she tested positive for the coronavirus and had pneumonia, Newbery said.
When Newbery later called to thank the staffer for facilitating the video chat, he asked if the facility had seen any deaths.
The staffer said yes, Newbery recalled, and it floored him. “We absolutely had no idea,” he said.
Newbery said his mom is getting better at UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica. After she’s discharged, Jorge wants to take her to Chicago to live with him and his family.
Newbery said he had been unaware of Medicare’s critical assessment of the Rehabilitation Center, which has two stars out of five overall on Nursing Home Compare, denoting below-average care. Inspection records show that during a visit in May 2019, health inspectors faulted it for failing to sanitize a blood pressure cuff before it was used on a second patient, and for allowing a urinary drainage bag attached to a catheter to be touching the floor. In August 2019, inspectors determined the home violated California’s minimum staffing requirements because it lacked enough nurse assistants on 10 out of 24 days.
Huang, the administrator, noted Medicare gave the facility five stars, the best rating, in a quality category that assesses things like the frequency of patient trips to the hospital or emergency room and homes’ self-reported assessments of how often residents improved during their stays. The regulators who issued the May 2019 deficiency found no evidence of harm to a resident, he said.
Michael Connors, an advocate with the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said nursing homes with fewer staff members and poor compliance with infection control practices are ripe for the spread of the virus.
“No place could be more dangerous to live right now,” Connors said. “It’s these characteristics that make nursing homes ground zero for COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths.”
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COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems In Past
When Jorge Newbery finally got through to his 95-year-old mother, Jennifer, on a video call April 18, she could barely talk or move and her eyes couldn’t focus.
It was the first time he had seen her since California nursing homes shut their doors to visitors a month earlier. Immediately after the video chat, Newbery called the front desk in a panic.
“I said, ‘You gotta get her out, you gotta call 911,’” he recalled. “She’s looking like she’s about to die.”
Newbery’s mother was living at the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, one of 198 nursing homes in California where at least one patient had contracted the coronavirus as of April 28, public health records show. The outbreak at the Rehabilitation Center has been worse than most, with 12 employees and 24 patients infected, including nine fatalities, according to the Los Angeles County health department.
The Rehabilitation Center shares several other worrisome characteristics with many other homes beset by coronavirus infections: Historically, it has had lower-than-average staffing levels and a record of not always following basic staffing and infection control rules, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows.
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Compared with homes reporting no patient infections, California facilities with one or more patients with a COVID-19 case had on average a 25% fewer registered nurses per resident in the final three months of 2019, the last period for which the federal government has published data.
In addition, 91% of nursing homes reporting at least one case of the virus had a previous health violation for not following infection control rules, while 81% of homes without reported cases had such violations. Typical violations included nurses or aides not washing their hands or wearing protective clothing around potentially contagious patients.
“With low RN staffing, it is not surprising that these facilities have had previous violations for infection control and poorer overall quality as measured by having more deficiencies,” said Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco. “It is a classic situation that reaffirms what researchers have found previously, only the situation with the COVID-19 virus is far more serious than anything the nursing homes have experienced before.”
In an email, Jeffrey Huang, the administrator of the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, said “we respectfully and strongly disagree” that Medicare assessments of the home’s quality predict or reflect the nursing home’s efforts to protect residents from the coronavirus. The staff was “continuing to do everything possible for keeping our residents and staff safe in these uncertain times,” Huang wrote. He declined to discuss Newbery, citing patient confidentiality.
Nursing homes have emerged as one of the places the coronavirus spreads most aggressively. In California, 4,711 nursing home residents had been infected and 663 had died by the end of April, about a third of all COVID-19-linked deaths that homes in the state have reported to authorities.
The KHN analysis is the first to compare Medicare’s public quality measures for the 198 California nursing homes that registered coronavirus cases by late April with the 983 homes with no cases reported to either the state public health department or Los Angeles County, where a majority of homes with infections are located. KHN found that California homes with coronavirus cases averaged 2.8 stars on Medicare’s five-star overall quality rating, while other homes averaged 3.5 stars.
On average, the homes that have had coronavirus cases had more complaints lodged against them and were fined 29% times more often. In addition, Medicare also calculated that their health violations of all types were 20% more serious. They also tended to be larger, averaging 105 patients versus 83 on the homes without virus cases.
The analysis found no substantial difference in the homes’ numbers of nurse aides or licensed practical nurses, but fewer registered nurses, who have the most medical training and supervise the other caregivers. On average, there was one registered nurse for every 39 residents at a California home without a patient coronavirus infection versus one RN for every 52 residents for homes with infections, KHN’s analysis found.
Certainly, nursing homes with stellar quality ratings also have had coronavirus outbreaks. Nursing Home Compare, the federal government’s consumer website, gave its top overall rating of five stars to Life Care of Kirkland, the Seattle-area nursing home that was the first reported to have a slew of infections. In California, 12 of the nursing homes with coronavirus infections had above-average ratings for both staffing levels and inspection results, although only three had no history of infection control citations.
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The prevalence of coronavirus infections in lower-rated nursing homes could be explained by poorer care, but there might be other factors, said David Grabowski, a professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School. For instance, the lower-rated homes might be primarily located in low-income areas with high rates of coronavirus cases in those neighborhoods, he said.
“This suggests a very different set of policies if we want to protect nursing homes from further outbreaks,” Grabowski said.
Representatives of nursing homes rated as below average on Nursing Home Compare say that the coronavirus has thrown everyone off guard and that registered nurse staffing levels are irrelevant to whether a patient is infected by the new virus.
“It’s really hard to draw a straight line from” issues raised in previous years’ inspections “to this pandemic that even the experts didn’t see coming and were not prepared for,” said Elizabeth Tyler, a spokesperson for Longwood Management Corp., which runs three nursing homes with coronavirus infections that were also poorly rated before the pandemic: Studio City Rehabilitation Center, Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and Sunnyview Care Center.
Burbank and Sunnyview have a health inspection rating of one out of five stars, which is much below average, while Studio City has two stars. Tyler said that health inspection ratings are a “very, very complex system” taking into account hundreds of different factors, and she hesitated to make any connections between past reviews or staffing levels and the current outbreak.
Lakeview Terrace in Los Angeles, which has recorded three cases of COVID-19, has been on a list of 15,000 nursing homes around the nation that health inspectors are required to visit more frequently because of repeated violations of patient safety rules. It has an overall Medicare rating of one of five stars — the lowest rating — and almost six times the national average of health deficiencies.
In August 2019, inspectors faulted the home after they saw a nursing assistant deliver a breakfast tray into an isolation room without putting on personal protective equipment. They also discovered the home was not keeping logs to track signs and symptoms of possible infections.
DJ Weaver, an administrator for Lakeview Terrace, said that on the rare occasion that mistakes happen, the facility counsels and trains staff and makes systemic improvements to prevent future occurrences.
“Overall, we have done a good job not allowing cross-contamination of any infectious organisms, which is the real danger,” Weaver said in an emailed statement.
Lakeview’s cases came as a result of accepting a hospital patient who had undiagnosed COVID-19, Weaver said. His infection of two roommates couldn’t have been prevented by the facility’s policies designed to protect residents from the virus. Those include banning staff from working at multiple nursing homes and suspending group dining and activities.
“That kind of thing is really hard to foresee,” Weaver said.
Jennifer Newbery entered the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica in April 2019. Up until the day of the video conversation, Jorge Newbery said he and his four siblings had been told by staff that the nursing home had only three cases of COVID-19, and that everything was under control.
But after the home transferred Jennifer Newbery to a local hospital, doctors told her family she tested positive for the coronavirus and had pneumonia, Newbery said.
When Newbery later called to thank the staffer for facilitating the video chat, he asked if the facility had seen any deaths.
The staffer said yes, Newbery recalled, and it floored him. “We absolutely had no idea,” he said.
Newbery said his mom is getting better at UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica. After she’s discharged, Jorge wants to take her to Chicago to live with him and his family.
Newbery said he had been unaware of Medicare’s critical assessment of the Rehabilitation Center, which has two stars out of five overall on Nursing Home Compare, denoting below-average care. Inspection records show that during a visit in May 2019, health inspectors faulted it for failing to sanitize a blood pressure cuff before it was used on a second patient, and for allowing a urinary drainage bag attached to a catheter to be touching the floor. In August 2019, inspectors determined the home violated California’s minimum staffing requirements because it lacked enough nurse assistants on 10 out of 24 days.
Huang, the administrator, noted Medicare gave the facility five stars, the best rating, in a quality category that assesses things like the frequency of patient trips to the hospital or emergency room and homes’ self-reported assessments of how often residents improved during their stays. The regulators who issued the May 2019 deficiency found no evidence of harm to a resident, he said.
Michael Connors, an advocate with the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said nursing homes with fewer staff members and poor compliance with infection control practices are ripe for the spread of the virus.
“No place could be more dangerous to live right now,” Connors said. “It’s these characteristics that make nursing homes ground zero for COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths.”
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COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems In Past
When Jorge Newbery finally got through to his 95-year-old mother, Jennifer, on a video call April 18, she could barely talk or move and her eyes couldn’t focus.
It was the first time he had seen her since California nursing homes shut their doors to visitors a month earlier. Immediately after the video chat, Newbery called the front desk in a panic.
“I said, ‘You gotta get her out, you gotta call 911,’” he recalled. “She’s looking like she’s about to die.”
Newbery’s mother was living at the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, one of 198 nursing homes in California where at least one patient had contracted the coronavirus as of April 28, public health records show. The outbreak at the Rehabilitation Center has been worse than most, with 12 employees and 24 patients infected, including nine fatalities, according to the Los Angeles County health department.
The Rehabilitation Center shares several other worrisome characteristics with many other homes beset by coronavirus infections: Historically, it has had lower-than-average staffing levels and a record of not always following basic staffing and infection control rules, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows.
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Compared with homes reporting no patient infections, California facilities with one or more patients with a COVID-19 case had on average a 25% fewer registered nurses per resident in the final three months of 2019, the last period for which the federal government has published data.
In addition, 91% of nursing homes reporting at least one case of the virus had a previous health violation for not following infection control rules, while 81% of homes without reported cases had such violations. Typical violations included nurses or aides not washing their hands or wearing protective clothing around potentially contagious patients.
“With low RN staffing, it is not surprising that these facilities have had previous violations for infection control and poorer overall quality as measured by having more deficiencies,” said Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco. “It is a classic situation that reaffirms what researchers have found previously, only the situation with the COVID-19 virus is far more serious than anything the nursing homes have experienced before.”
In an email, Jeffrey Huang, the administrator of the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica, said “we respectfully and strongly disagree” that Medicare assessments of the home’s quality predict or reflect the nursing home’s efforts to protect residents from the coronavirus. The staff was “continuing to do everything possible for keeping our residents and staff safe in these uncertain times,” Huang wrote. He declined to discuss Newbery, citing patient confidentiality.
Nursing homes have emerged as one of the places the coronavirus spreads most aggressively. In California, 4,711 nursing home residents had been infected and 663 had died by the end of April, about a third of all COVID-19-linked deaths that homes in the state have reported to authorities.
The KHN analysis is the first to compare Medicare’s public quality measures for the 198 California nursing homes that registered coronavirus cases by late April with the 983 homes with no cases reported to either the state public health department or Los Angeles County, where a majority of homes with infections are located. KHN found that California homes with coronavirus cases averaged 2.8 stars on Medicare’s five-star overall quality rating, while other homes averaged 3.5 stars.
On average, the homes that have had coronavirus cases had more complaints lodged against them and were fined 29% times more often. In addition, Medicare also calculated that their health violations of all types were 20% more serious. They also tended to be larger, averaging 105 patients versus 83 on the homes without virus cases.
The analysis found no substantial difference in the homes’ numbers of nurse aides or licensed practical nurses, but fewer registered nurses, who have the most medical training and supervise the other caregivers. On average, there was one registered nurse for every 39 residents at a California home without a patient coronavirus infection versus one RN for every 52 residents for homes with infections, KHN’s analysis found.
Certainly, nursing homes with stellar quality ratings also have had coronavirus outbreaks. Nursing Home Compare, the federal government’s consumer website, gave its top overall rating of five stars to Life Care of Kirkland, the Seattle-area nursing home that was the first reported to have a slew of infections. In California, 12 of the nursing homes with coronavirus infections had above-average ratings for both staffing levels and inspection results, although only three had no history of infection control citations.
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The prevalence of coronavirus infections in lower-rated nursing homes could be explained by poorer care, but there might be other factors, said David Grabowski, a professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School. For instance, the lower-rated homes might be primarily located in low-income areas with high rates of coronavirus cases in those neighborhoods, he said.
“This suggests a very different set of policies if we want to protect nursing homes from further outbreaks,” Grabowski said.
Representatives of nursing homes rated as below average on Nursing Home Compare say that the coronavirus has thrown everyone off guard and that registered nurse staffing levels are irrelevant to whether a patient is infected by the new virus.
“It’s really hard to draw a straight line from” issues raised in previous years’ inspections “to this pandemic that even the experts didn’t see coming and were not prepared for,” said Elizabeth Tyler, a spokesperson for Longwood Management Corp., which runs three nursing homes with coronavirus infections that were also poorly rated before the pandemic: Studio City Rehabilitation Center, Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and Sunnyview Care Center.
Burbank and Sunnyview have a health inspection rating of one out of five stars, which is much below average, while Studio City has two stars. Tyler said that health inspection ratings are a “very, very complex system” taking into account hundreds of different factors, and she hesitated to make any connections between past reviews or staffing levels and the current outbreak.
Lakeview Terrace in Los Angeles, which has recorded three cases of COVID-19, has been on a list of 15,000 nursing homes around the nation that health inspectors are required to visit more frequently because of repeated violations of patient safety rules. It has an overall Medicare rating of one of five stars — the lowest rating — and almost six times the national average of health deficiencies.
In August 2019, inspectors faulted the home after they saw a nursing assistant deliver a breakfast tray into an isolation room without putting on personal protective equipment. They also discovered the home was not keeping logs to track signs and symptoms of possible infections.
DJ Weaver, an administrator for Lakeview Terrace, said that on the rare occasion that mistakes happen, the facility counsels and trains staff and makes systemic improvements to prevent future occurrences.
“Overall, we have done a good job not allowing cross-contamination of any infectious organisms, which is the real danger,” Weaver said in an emailed statement.
Lakeview’s cases came as a result of accepting a hospital patient who had undiagnosed COVID-19, Weaver said. His infection of two roommates couldn’t have been prevented by the facility’s policies designed to protect residents from the virus. Those include banning staff from working at multiple nursing homes and suspending group dining and activities.
“That kind of thing is really hard to foresee,” Weaver said.
Jennifer Newbery entered the Rehabilitation Center of Santa Monica in April 2019. Up until the day of the video conversation, Jorge Newbery said he and his four siblings had been told by staff that the nursing home had only three cases of COVID-19, and that everything was under control.
But after the home transferred Jennifer Newbery to a local hospital, doctors told her family she tested positive for the coronavirus and had pneumonia, Newbery said.
When Newbery later called to thank the staffer for facilitating the video chat, he asked if the facility had seen any deaths.
The staffer said yes, Newbery recalled, and it floored him. “We absolutely had no idea,” he said.
Newbery said his mom is getting better at UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica. After she’s discharged, Jorge wants to take her to Chicago to live with him and his family.
Newbery said he had been unaware of Medicare’s critical assessment of the Rehabilitation Center, which has two stars out of five overall on Nursing Home Compare, denoting below-average care. Inspection records show that during a visit in May 2019, health inspectors faulted it for failing to sanitize a blood pressure cuff before it was used on a second patient, and for allowing a urinary drainage bag attached to a catheter to be touching the floor. In August 2019, inspectors determined the home violated California’s minimum staffing requirements because it lacked enough nurse assistants on 10 out of 24 days.
Huang, the administrator, noted Medicare gave the facility five stars, the best rating, in a quality category that assesses things like the frequency of patient trips to the hospital or emergency room and homes’ self-reported assessments of how often residents improved during their stays. The regulators who issued the May 2019 deficiency found no evidence of harm to a resident, he said.
Michael Connors, an advocate with the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said nursing homes with fewer staff members and poor compliance with infection control practices are ripe for the spread of the virus.
“No place could be more dangerous to live right now,” Connors said. “It’s these characteristics that make nursing homes ground zero for COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths.”
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of�� the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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alanajacksontx · 6 years ago
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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soysaucevictim · 5 years ago
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Final week of current stuff~
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June 20
I woke up before 9AM... somehow. (Itching + heat probs didn’t help.)
I rambled a bit on Twitter about grapefruit, felt a bit risky/curious about eating just a quarter of one this morning. (Was a bit concerned about drug interactions.)
Did some sketches, chatted, did some dishes, and made today’s Hello Fresh meal. Zucchini pomodoro penne bake an enjoyable meal, even moreso thanks to it’s relative ease to make.
I spent a few hours after that- chatting, playing KH, and steaming some leftover zucchini grandma brought us.
(Okay it was late, but I really jumbled up my exercise itinerary today...)
First, Day 25 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. Counts were fast and form wasn’t stellar... but I’ll accept it. That was nevertheless intense. Also, had a few moments of “but wait, what side am I holding for again?“
Second , Day 25 of the MC. 15′ meditation + OM Mantra. I decided to sit against my bed and let my arms rest in lap. It went alright... got interrupted  twice and had a few moments where I think I was dozing off a bit. I’ll call it done.
Third , today’s DD. 1′ tree pose with EC. Out of order, since I barely remembered to get this one done before calling it a day. Breezy and fun work.
Last , Day 25 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. Pretty fun and breezy. Hip flexors felt it a little, too.
I regretted my decision to break out my 2DS... got to bed way too late again.
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June 21
I woke up a bit before 2PM.
I believe the first thing I did waking up was accompanying brother to get some Subway. After some YouTube, I got started with today’s exercise.
First, today’s DD. 30 side-to-side lunges with EC. Just about manageable.
Second, Day 26 of the VP. Level 3, 30″. Arms needed some recovery time to work with, but got it done.
(After watching Lord of War, Dinner for Shmucks, and chatting with a friend...)
Third, Day 26 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. I debated heavily on rain checking it, since it was past midnight. But I did it anyways. Also doable, but I felt I had to try to be a bit more quiet.
Last, Day 26 of the MC. 1′ equal breathing + 15′ meditation. Got a little impatient at the very end. But I did have a few moments of enjoying some ujjayi-style breathing sounds.
I then repeated yesterday’s mistake of playing more 2DS games, despite sense telling me not too... oh well.
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June 22
I woke up around 2PM.
Ate dinner, just some Chinese fast food. I spent a few hours watching some YouTube and reading some cool SaSi analysis posts before getting started on exercises.
First, today’s DD. 1′ hollow hold with EC. Still not particular fond of this one, but can still manage.
Second, Day 27 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. A bit of stretching stuff, overall quite breezy~
(After chatting and passing some more time to allow food to go down...)
Third, Day 27 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. That was pretty intense, but it was a good call to stall a bit for more food digestion beforehand. Honestly, quads got a good deal of action with the core/abs. But, consider it done.
Last, Day 27 of the MC. Backup & Restore + 15′ meditation. One thing I always like about B&R is the rush of cool you get after getting out of the second child’s pose. Did doze off a lil during tonight’s session and it took a bit for my right quads to stop trembling from fatigue to stay relatively still. Eventually stopped but did crush my left foot a tiny bit awkwardly (was sitting cross-legged).
After YouTube and some gaming, I decided I would try to actually get to sleep in the green zone. Despite the impulse to play more games crossing my mind. Yay!
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June 23
... I woke up just shy of 5AM. Had a restless night’s sleep. Got to be PROFOUNDLY itchy. I think ti was because of the heat. =_=
After some deliberation on twitter, I ordered some OTC antihistamines, did some dishes, confirmed an appointment, and followed up on our census response. I then took a nap.
Woke up again at around 3PM.
Tanked my ENTIRE day playing Gemcraft and regretted it.
Got to bed obscenely late again, too.
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June 24
I woke up before 1PM.
After a bit of YouTube and a phone call from my case manager, I started to play catch-up with my exercise stuff.
First, yesterday’s DD. 2′ jumping Ts with EC. Took a false-start trying to find a sustainable pace. But I eventually I nailed an exact 1/sec pace, 120 reps. "Forbidden Fruit" turned out to be a good tempo to work alongside. (As well as in terms of run-time.) :,D
Second, today’s DD. 20 up/down planks with EC. I went at this as fast as I could so I could get through it. Did wear some long sleeves for it. Elbows still had to look forward to doing more tho. :P
Second, Day 28 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. The heat plus those 2 DDs made this harder than it otherwise would be. Notably, especially at the start - doing balanced leg raises was hard and had a few drop-downs (still a self-imposed challenge there.).
(After a bit of time recovering from that with a bit of rest and pickle juice for electrolytes...)
Third, Day 28 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. Elbows were not the most happy about more up/downs... but I was able to manage. If barely in the last couple sets.
Second, Day 29 of the VP. Level 3, 30″ rest. Arms were a bit tired after that, and this was an arms day. So I started off with that rest period, did think to close it after a couple sets... but eh. Might as well go a bit easier on myself after everything...
(After a bit of debate on whether to do more doubling up...)
Third, Day 29 of the CSP. Level 2, max rest. Accrued fatigue made me feel like Level 3 wasn’t happening today. Neck strain was probs the worst part to contend with here...
(After some dishes...)
Last, Day 28 of the MC.15′ meditation. I did some slow breaths, counting upward for each inhale/exhale. Had a few brief moments losing count, but doing such does help to maintain a bit more deliberate focus.
After a bit of a headache setting things up, I streamed that chibi!Remus drawing. I wound up pulling an allnighter, by the time I finished it.
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June 25
After posting that art and doing a bit of gaming, one of the first things I did was take a hot shower. Sleep dep made me feel my tired muscles more... taking a hot shower just now helped that for a bit.
I wound up staying up so I could get to the laundromat as planned and deal with clothes. Afterwards, spent time unpacking some deliveries, taking out the trash/recyclables, making dinner, feeding/watering dog, and putting away my laundry... honestly was too tired to be saddled with all that. But I did what I needed to do.
Very late, but one of the last things I spent energy on today was exercise.
First, today’s DD. 1′ climbers with EC. 130 reps were counted by the end. Given my food choices, I’m glad this was the only exercise on docket that could aggravate the stomach. And even then, it went without much issue.
Second, Day 30 of the Vitality Program. Level 3, no rest. Honestly, the only hard part here was probably the calf raises - given how sore my calves were getting (after those Jumping Ts and no sleep to recover from them). But this was just manageable.
Third, Day 30 of the Core Strength Program. Level 3, 30″ rest This was pretty breezy by this program’s standards. Was arguably too exhausted to mind how high I was targeting for the leg raises, but I won’t dock any points for it.
Last, Day 29 of the MC.15′ meditation + OM Mantra. Because tired, leaned against bed again. Did have a few moments of drifting focus from the mantra. But I did the best I could and appreciate the activity.
I went to bed in the green zone. Because my wall was hit.
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June 26
I woke up proper around 1PM.
One of the first things I did today was make today’s HF dinner. Hoison-sesame roasted veggie bowls. I was thrilled that dad liked this one, given that he has stated not liking sweet potatoes / yams before. This def speaks to how much of a big deal is in HOW you cook stuff (than only just what's in it).
I then spent time doing dishes, before doing a little bit of exercise.
First, today’s DD. 40 raised leg circles. Just about manageable.
Last, Day 30 of the Meditation Challenge. 20′ meditation. Tried to focus on breathing, but I did have some trouble staying focused on it (was fidgety in thought and with my hands/arms)Observed left leg went to sleep and took a good minute or 2 to normalize sensation. Didn’t stop me from getting up and walking around, KNOWING after the first window where the sensation feels okay you get slammed with weakness/parasthesia. :,D
I then spent some time to clean the kitchen countertops and toilet. Did some logging and video editing before turning in. Pretty late, later than yesterday.
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Summary of Experience:
I finished both my programs on time, in June 25.
The Vitality Program. was a good warm-up and mostly a breeze to get through! Easily managed Level 3 for the whole program. What I did note was how long I needed to rest between sets.
No rest for 25 days
30″ rest for 5 days (arm-centric days)
The Core Strength Program had a lot of days that kicked my ass a bit. But I’m happy with how far I could take it most of the time. I only needed to knock 2 days down to Level 2 (16 & 29) and did Level 3 for the rest. I also recorded the spread for how long I needed to rest between sets.
No rest for 3 days
30″ rest for 2 days
1′ rest for 5 days
1′30″ rest for 5 days  
Max rest for 20 days
I finished the in Meditation Challenge June 26. This was a good thing to rerun, for many reasons. I did it all to silence. I occasionally experimented with different sitting positions (largely determined by how tired I was). Focused on breath most of the time, counting them a couple times.
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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7 Membership Sites that Make $100K+ Per Year (Real Examples)
Chances are, you’ve heard about people starting membership sites and making buckets of money.
Maybe you’re a little skeptical, and rightfully so. We all know better than to believe everything we read on the Internet.
But here’s the real question:
Should YOU start a membership site? Could YOU realistically expect to make any money?
And that’s a tough one to answer.
If you Google it, you’ll find lots of how to’s for getting a membership site up and running, but nothing about how to figure out if a membership site will work for you.
What if your niche is the exception, and you pour days and dollars into setting one up and it bellyflops. And what’s more — and this is kinda embarrassing —  you’re not even sure exactly what a membership site is.
I get it. In fact, I felt like a fool a while back when I was curious about the same thing. I’ll bet we’re not the only ones too. So, I’m going to clear it all up for you.
Let’s start at the beginning…
What is a Membership Site?
For the sake of this post, we’ll define a membership site as any part of your online business that contains gated content (information behind a log in). A gate is simply a barrier to limit access to your content to those who pay or you decide to let in. And once inside, they get access to exclusive content and membership privileges.
Think of it like a gym membership.
Before you’re allowed to pass the turnstiles, you’ve got to sign up as a paid member or for a free-trial. Once you’re inside, you have access to everything, usually on an unlimited basis.
Sometimes you can also have different membership levels. One level might have access to all the fitness machines, while another level up gives you access to a sauna and heated pool.
Simple enough, right?
Well, membership sites work the same way. Before you can get access to their content, you have to become a member, and you can also offer different levels of membership with varying benefits.
It’s the same idea as a gym membership, except on the Internet. That’s pretty much the only difference.
Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at why a membership site is a smart idea.
3 Reasons You Should Build a Membership Site
Put simply, membership sites are a blazing-great way to monetize your blog.
How exactly? Well, the money flows because of three key reasons:
Reason #1. Leverage
Membership sites allow you to leverage your time and content in two ways:
Your content is a reusable asset. You can create it once and sell it to hundreds or even thousands of students for years to come.
Membership sites can be totally automated. How dreamy is the idea of having a hands-off campaign that invites people to buy into your membership program while you’re sipping margaritas on the beach somewhere?
Reason #2. Value
Weirdly, people value things they pay for more than they value a freebie.
So in their eyes, your paid membership site content is more valuable than free information.
What’s more, once cash is exchanged, they’re more likely to take action and achieve results that get you rave reviews (which equals more sales).
There’s also an interesting money-credibility thing going on in cyberspace.
I’m sure you’ve noticed how easy it is for any old Joe to jump on Facebook live and create online content nowadays. It’s led to a rather strange online phenomenon, I call the ‘credibility gap’. Meaning, even though content volume is going up, trust in most free online content is going down.
So, why not play this to your advantage?
How?
I’ll explain. People attribute a higher level of credibility and trust to paid content, right?
Which means they’ll attribute higher value to any content locked behind the gates of your membership site. What’s more, existing members are more likely to upsell from within your membership site. Once they trust you, they’ll trust all your content.
And finally, let’s flip to your prospect’s perspective.
By packaging everything they need and presenting it with a bow and a roadmap, you’re making it easy for them. You’re also saving them tons of time.
No longer do they need to cartwheel about the internet piecing things together. You’ve given them one simple place to access everything they need and they’ll pay you for that simplicity.
Reason #3. Tribe
People love being surrounded by a tribe of people just like them, united by common interest, with similar problems and worries to chat about.
And membership sites build tribes. They provide people with a place to hang out, belong to and feel part of something bigger than themselves. It’s the vibe of your tribe that will make people stay, pay and play.
Let’s not forget that every tribe has a leader too. One with unique character.  
On the surface it may seem as if people are just buying your content, but it’s really your character and personality they’re buying.
They want to be like you on some level. They’ll  connect with your character through the tone of your writing or the personality you show in videos. And it’s this that they’ll return for over and over again with credit card in hand.
You’re convinced now, right?
Hmmm, I have an inkling you’re still wondering.
You know it’s a good idea. But… what if your niche is the exception? What if you are the exception?
Let’s take look at a few successful membership sites that all make over 100K so you’ve got some proof.
Successful Membership Site Examples
Site #1. Orchids Made Easy
Growing orchids is a popular and ongoing hobby with hungry orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Ryan ‘the orchid guy’ has created a fantastic character story and feeds his members with continuous drip fed content via a monthly membership subscription to his Green Thumb Club. Members can join at a low starting price for a month so they can test the waters.
Site #2. The Game Changers
A specialist in the business coaching niche, Barry Magliarditi guides his members on an ongoing development journey that dives into the structures, systems and mindset that fuel business growth. He offers a fixed fee membership to his Opulence Program which has three tiers of access. In other words, the more you pay, the more access you get to one-to-one advice.
Site #3. Smart Blogger
Of course you know this one, but it’s totally worthy of a mention. As a leader in the blogging niche, Smart Blogger offers high-quality online courses to paying members. Programs such as Serious Bloggers Only and Freedom Machine are a phenomenal guide for members to navigate how to start a blog and monetize it.
Site # 4. Lady Boss Weightloss
Losing weight is a never ending plight for millions of people. Kaelin Tuell Poulin has created a paid 28-day challenge membership site filled with stacks of advice that gets real results. People start by joining for a 7-day free trial. Her style is authoritative and her character has a popular zero to hero story. She offers lifetime access to her content, plus a strong community for support and accountability.
Site #5. Magnetic Memory Method
Anthony Metivier’s membership offers free content, products and a fantastic blog on the surface.
Yet, the success of his behind the scenes membership program demonstrates the power of a narrow and focussed niche with a strong sales funnel.
He leads people gently, builds trust and engages them as he moves them into his fixed-term online program. He also offers a continuity program for those who want to stay — and many do!
Site #6. Succulents and Sunshine
Cassidy Tuttle’s online business is a thriving success that uses a hybrid of affiliate commissions, display ads, ebook sales and a gated online course as income. She offers  “easy access to all the resources and information you need to successfully grow succulents… all in one convenient place”, and has rave reviews as social proof on her site.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. Smart!
Site #7. Jan Spiller Astrology
In full disclosure, I couldn’t get confirmation that this site made over $100K, but it’s pretty safe to say it’s doing well given the length of time it’s been around.
Long-term survival in the online world is dependent upon income and a hungry market.
The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model. Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche.
There’s no denying success can be had in a huge variety of niches. Let’s wrap it all the learnings in in a few lesson’s to give you crystal ball clarity.
Lessons Learned from $100K Membership Sites
It’s apparent that success is possible for membership sites in a wide variety of niches. And you’ve no doubt noticed that there are different models for membership sites.
The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you.
To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership models and the variables.
Let’s dive in…
The Three Core Membership Models
The Fix Model
Fix model membership sites are focussed on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve month program.
The Motivate Model
When people are faced with a goal that they’re likely to struggle with alone, such as weight loss, fitness goals or a new diet, having an external source of motivation is often the difference that makes the difference.
Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
The Hangout Model
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong. Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or writing.
On the surface they’ll appear to join because they want to solve a problem, yet they’re more hobbyists at heart and their love for their ‘thing’ drives them to be around others who speak their secret language.
Once you know which model suits you best you can customise your membership site by deciding from the following variables.
The Five Core Membership Site Variables
Fixed Fee or Monthly Payments
If you choose the Fix model then a fixed fee works well. Prices can vary from a $27 online course to a $3,000 plus online program. It’s all about how much value you offer. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Content Type
When it comes to content, you’ve got an enormous range of choice.
Depending on your model, you can use video (live or you talking to slides), worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, webinars and so on.
As long as it’s online and accessible within a gated forum or platform, you’re good to go.
See, even mind-maps work as membership site content.
Drip or Immersion Access
Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is personal preference. You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content.
Drip fed content is perfect if you offer a free trial or want to build excitement and suspension.
Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose.
Lifetime or Fixed-Term
There are no hard and fast rules here. Lifetime access provides paying members to ongoing ‘forever’ access to the course or content they’ve paid for. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage members to complete the course. It also opens the door to offer a continuity program for those who haven’t finished within the fixed term and want to retain access.
Tiered or Single-Level
Single-level access means a fixed program structure. You may have one or more programs that solve a specific problem, which is best suited to a dedicated, single-level or set structure.
Or, you may offer a program, in which three tiers works best. You can offer online access as a base level and leverage one-to-one access to you at your top level.
  It’s pretty clear that membership sites can work in a huge range of niches. And they’re a great way to leverage your time to create the income you know could change your life and give you the freedom you crave.
But that’s not the real issue here is it? Could it be that a sneaky fear of not being up to the task is lurking behind the clumsy charade of ‘will it work for me’?
You’d be inhuman if it wasn’t.
Regardless, now is the time to step up and decide. Because you’re only ever one decision away from changing your life. Could this be one of those decisions?
I’m guessing though, because you’re a passionate blogger with your heart set on spreading your message, that you’re keen to discover a bit more about how to build a membership site.
How to Build Your Membership Site
If you’re up for playing a bigger game, rather than giving in to those progress-halting worries of yesterday, you’re ready to create a membership site to leverage your time and make money faster. Fantastic!
But, just as you’re enjoying your moment of excited inspiration, you wonder what is the best platform to build your membership site with?
Well, your options fit into two broad categories — a WordPress Plugin or a non-Wordpress All-in-One platform.
Let’s take a look.
WordPress Plugins
If you’ve already got an existing WordPress website oozing with content and attracting traffic, then a plugin may be the best option.
Using a plugin gives your readers a sense of familiarity as you can maintain brand consistency and probably reuse your existing website theme.
Plugins makes marketing simple as you can install a ‘log in’ button on your existing home page and avoid having to create a new domain name as well. Plugins these days are remarkably easy to get up and running too — even for non-techies.
Here are a few options for you:
Memberpress — MemberPress will help you build astounding WordPress membership sites, accept credit cards securely, control who sees your content and sell digital downloads … all without the difficult setup.
Learndash — a powerful WordPress plug in with course builder, quizzes, cart, group management and is compatible with any theme.
Restrict Content Pro — a seriously top-level and increasingly popular membership plugin that offers all the features you could want.
Memberium — Built exclusively for WordPress and Infusionsoft™, Memberium is the perfect tool for creating scalable membership sites.
Non-Wordpress All-in-Ones
Perfect for bloggers or online newbies who don’t yet have a fully fledged website or tech stack in place, an all-in-one platform makes things ridiculously easy. Just pay a subscription and have fun with the drag and drop builders to customise and upload your content.
You’ll also benefit from a host of extras such as payment systems and course builders plus marketing and email automation options as well. Job done.
Here are a few of the players worth considering in this space:
Kajabi — the all-in-one tool for those who want it all and want it simple. Websites, membership sites, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, webinars and payments.
Teachable — With just a few clicks, you’ll get a fully functioning school with learning management, payment gateways, and sales and marketing tools.
Thinkific — drag and drop design, customised pricing and cart for those who want to educate with confidence.
Kartra — this relative newbie packs a punch as it does every-single-online-thing you’ll ever need. Pre-written funnels, email marketing, membership sites, analytics and everything else.  
Simplero — Action packed ALL in one for your website, membership site, email and business management, CRM, hosting, payments, marketing — everything you’ll need to be online in one place.
AccessAlly — if you’re ready for upselling and sophisticated marketing as well as a solid course builder with gamification and more, AccessAlly is a great option.
Is a Membership Site for You?
Starting a membership site isn’t for everyone. It takes a certain kind of person to jump into content and community management like this.
Yet, for a blogger who is serious about monetizing, it’s a road worth considering. Seriously.  
Because it’s a way to build a following and an income — fast.
A membership site means you’ll build your name with credibility, trust and value. It’ll make you stand out from the crowd as an online entrepreneur with a character people love.
Because you’ll be someone who offers a solution to fix problems, motivates people beyond that which they can achieve alone and you’ll give them a place they want to hang out.
But only you know if you’re up to the task.
Only you know if you’re disciplined enough to map out a vision, a structure and create the content you need.
Only you know if you’re up to taking the leap and taking charge of your future.
So what do you say?
Are you up for it? Or not?
About the Author: Miranda Hill is a qualified coach, behavioral profiler and writer who helps people to master their  performance in business and life. As a published blogger and ghostwriter, she helps entrepreneurs to trade confusion for clarity. Trained in many coaching models, she’s developed her guide 10 Mindset Secrets That Set Truly Successful Writers Apart so you can boost your writing results.
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