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#141
12-14-2002, 11:22 PM
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I have read most of these thread and with no disrespect to anyone here, I think some folks do not have a good sense of what you have to provide in terms of additional features to get your members to pay in a meaningful way.
We run elitefitness.com, the largest site for bodybuilders and one of the largest vBulletin's. A few stats -- we have about 40,000 visitors a day and we serve about a half million pages a day. We have just over 1079 members paying on average $11 per month. That's nice revenue, but we have a monthly ISP bill of over $4,000, so we have to charge -- there's just no way around it. Here's what we offer our "Platinum" members (taken from our sales letter): ______________________________________________ Post as many pictures as you like anywhere! Uploaded from your PC, or using the [IMG] tags. Access full size pics when you click any thumbnail on all the Picture Boards Including: Pictures of Gear (Never get fake gear again) Pictures of Our Members (Check out our members) Pictures of Men (For the ladies) Pictures of Women (Hot and sexy!) Pictures of Competitors (Amazing Pro Physiques) Access the private Platinum Hardcore discussion board! Access the private My Training Journal board! Access the private Best of Elite Fitness archive board! Platinum Chat -- so you can chat live with all the other members, moderators, and me! Private and Uncensored! We use volano chat. Become eligible for special Prizes and Contests! Priority for becoming a Moderator! Free Telephone and Free Email Support! Special Stars and 150 free Karma points for supporting the site! Get 200 PMs (private messages) mailbox size. Regular users only get 50 PMs. Turbo Code -- this makes the boards run 50% faster -- just for Platinum Members. Personal Photo Gallery -- Access your own photo gallery of every image you ever posted and see every member's photo gallery -- full size images! Task Bar Ticker -- Just like the stock exchange -- see the latest posts as they are made scroll by! Images in Signatures! -- back by popular demand, put a picture in your signature for the whole board to see! Stealth Web Address -- Does your boss know you surf Elite? Using the stealth address, your boss or company's IT department will think you are checking a PC Technical Support web site, because that's what the web address (URL) will look like to them. In fact, you'll be surfing the elitefitness.com boards at work -- not getting caught! Get your own Avatar (Profile Picture) right away -- no waiting! Use the new advanced Spell Checker! No Advertisements -- NO banner ads and NO pop-up ads! You save the $40 initiation fee! You get a permanent 10% discount on all products at MassQuantities.com (on top of any other discount) plus other exclusive discounts and specials. Make your membership pay for itself! Plus, for signing up before midnight Saturday, December 14, 2002, you get seven free bonus reports -- a $273 value, all for Free! including: The 7-day DNP Fat Loss Inferno Cycle -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Modafinil: Science Makes Sleep Obsolete -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Xyrem -- New Pharmaceutical GHB -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Why Billy has Breasts -- Understanding and preventing gynocomastia -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Botox for Bodybuilders -- Do it yourself guide! -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Engineered viral delivery of IGF-1 for huge muscles -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Huge GHB busts! And how two athletes beat the system and got off! -- a $39 value, yours FREE! Only $8.98 per month -- Less than a movie! When you join for three months and get an extra month FREE! And we'll waive the $40 initiation fee. _______________________________________________ Even with all this, we still have trouble keeping our members paying. Two things we are considering are closing the boards to new non-paying members, and making the search a paid feature. We spent a small fortune developing this and it runs on 2.6 Click here for our site: http://www.elitefitness.com Here for our boards: http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/index.php And here for how we market our Platinum memberships: http://www.elitefitness.com/reports/platinum/ I would be happy to provide the entirity of our code to someone who could port it over to the new version 3.0 and then we could give it away or sell it as a complete hack. It would be great to hear from the other sites that have actually implemented a paid membership program and more specifically, hear from sites that have a significant number of paying members. 
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#142
12-25-2002, 12:29 AM
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I plan to implement this very soon. My system won't be as complex, as I haven't found a hack to do it.
I am running 2..2.9 so if anyone knows of one please let me know. What I want for contributing members at a price of $5/month: 1. They get another special title under name. 2. They get access to a contributing members forum. This forum is key and will hold hundreds of technical documents all in PDF format. Documents added monthly. 3. A monthly publication 4. Access to a forum to ask questions and a website tech answers (technical automotive questions). 5. Ability to upload an avater The main thing people will like is the publications we will release. They will be how to documents and more. Anyone know of a hack where I could put peole an a usergroup and they can get access to a special forum, custom avaters, and be able to have another title that says "Contributing Member" under name? Hope to hear some feedback.
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#145
05-23-2003, 06:15 PM
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I offer a subscription-based system using some ideas from this thread (great discussion, by the way), and I have found that most users are not willing to pay more than a couple of bucks a month.
Best of luck to my fellow webmasters out there! Kaelon
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#146
05-24-2003, 03:11 AM
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There seems to be more than a couple of hackers working on this hack with their own versions ...!
Anyone have some kind of demo links ... or if u want me to, i can beta test for you. Let me know, and i'd be very much interested in such a hack. Cheers
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#147
05-24-2003, 11:43 AM
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I have been working recently on a system for my forums. Photo in profile, vbpad, double points for posting, and loads of other priviliges around the site for donator. It's all automated too and memberships expire after a year automatically. Also i plan to modify it so you can have lifetime memberships and have a price for each tier of membership whether it be 1year,2years or 50years
 - miSt
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#148
05-24-2003, 11:59 AM
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I have just installed an Addon that does some of this. Here's a link:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53320
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#150
08-17-2003, 06:42 AM
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I guess the hack was removed as it became a paid hack - but it handles paid memberships...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=vbtrader link Quote:
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