This Livecity platform will show you how to build a membership website, perfect for providing confidential services and sharing valuable information – as well as keeping customers tied to your business or organization. Creating a membership website is well worth considering in many situations, such as to create a club-style atmosphere, or for a professional body, association or grouping. The chance to add membership to a website increases its status in many people’s eyes and can be used as an indication of preferred customer or user status.
Creating a website with membership and user login is often a positive step, allowing you to confer an impression of status on those receiving or achieving it. A key decision is whether to opt for an automatic membership approval system or simply for manual membership approval. With the former, people might feel taken for granted but many are often reluctant to make the effort to cancel and just let things slide. With a manual process, you are regaining a fresh commitment each time. Which would work better for your company or organization?
Whether you opt for a fully members only website, or simply have one or more pages within the site available only to those who have registered, is a matter to consider. Many sites will have a public area to whet the visitor’s appetite and then encourage them to register to gain access to other, obviously more valuable, content. Again, it’s a way of reaching people with a heightened level of interest compared to a more casual visitor. Livecity quickly shows you how to lock a website where you wish to.
One aspect that appeals to many within a membership website, is the opportunity for confidential messaging within it only for those registered to do so. This could be purely for an internal company-wide grouping, or for a site where important information can be exchanged – say an academic institution or association for a specific area of business or field of study. Equally, you could create your own members club for key customers. They’d love that!
Livecity have delivered even more as part of the member system platform. When you create a membership website, in part or in whole, you might also add special access to online shopping sites, perhaps with a specific membership discount. Many major retailers have versions of this, perhaps supported with a club card or the like, to encourage regular viewing of their site and buying of their products. An opportunity that needs considering!