Tip #20: 11 Tools & Services We are Using to Manage Our Membership Sites Successfully

There are many tools and services websites owners can use in order to improve their website, protect it and make sure it is well optimized to their users’ needs.

When it comes to managing a membership site, some services become even more crucial as they might have a great impact over your registration and retention rates, especially if you charge on a monthly basis, and you want to keep members engaged and active.

In order to manage our membership sites better, we are using a large number of services and tools.

We gathered 11 of the most crucial and important ones especially for you in this post.

These tools and services will allow you to:

• Track your traffic and conversions
• Analyze your membership site’s performance
• Check your website’s speed
• Protect your site
• Manage your membership site more easily
• And a lot more!

Our Favorite Tools

1. GetResponse (Email Marketing)

For building our mailing lists and stay in touch with our clients. We love GetResponse for many reasons, it offers a large variety of features.

We love the time travel feature that allows scheduling the emails to be sent according to the clients’ time-zone, which is highly important if you have customers all over the world.

2. Query Monitor Plugin (Environment Analysis)

Even if you are not a developer, you can still use the information that Query Monitor plugin supplies to identify the elements on the page you are currently viewing and its loading time.

Also, Query Monitor gives you a lot of information on many aspects on your environment, including: the server’s configuration, WordPress environment settings and theme information.

This information can be used for finding the bottle-neck of your website’s speed, information on your website’s theme usage and much more.

3. Pingdom (Speed Check)

In addition to the Query Monitor we are also constantly optimizing our membership sites’ speed, as slow websites can drastically decrease the retention rates and engagement of your members.

Using Pingdom we run speed checks and optimize our sites on a regular basis.

4. Camtasia (Videos Creation)

Camtasia is a very easy-to-use software for creating videos for every purpose we need, including the demo videos for the commercial plugins we develop and sell through our online store at – HappyPlugins.com

5. Google Analytics URL Builder – Chrome Extension (Tracking)

Allows tracking which of the links you build bring you the most traffic / conversions. We are using the URL builder to build every link we create, the key is to be consistent so you will eventually have enough information to analyze.

6. Join.me & GoToMeeting (Screen Sharing)

We are using both of them for sharing screens with our clients easily.

GoToMeeting also allows you to record your screen during the meeting.

7. CloudFlare Premium (DNS Management & Site Protection)

DNS management and redirection service to improve your website’s stability and manage DNS redirections quicker than your server.

Also includes protection against malicious code and blocks ips that are marked as spam which reduces the down-times of your website.

8. Max CDN (Cloud)

Max CDN serves as a cloud content display network which copies and cache all of your website’s assets including images and scripts and serves them to your client from the closest server to his location.

9. BackupBuddy (Backup)

To backup our membership sites on a regular basis and migrate sites when needed.

10. CuteFTP (FTP Software)

We are using CuteFTP to manage our FTP

11. UptimeRobot (Down-times Notifications)

This service notifies you through email or SMS whenever your website experiences a down-time. 

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