Membership Academy is a subscription site offering how to set up a membership site. It teaches you how to build and maintain your site and provides members with a membership site script, tutorials, articles and videos. It also provides a forum where members can ask questions and communicate with each other. It is primarily focused on using aMember as the membership management script and the CMS systems Joomla and WordPress.
Basically, there are two levels of membership in the Academy, free and premium. Free members receive the privilege to access tutorial articles and videos that are essential in helping the users create and run their own sites. They also receive instructions on how to install a membership site software program but with an extra fee. No software is offered directly in the program, but it provides links.
Free members get basic help and instruction about such things as integrating WordPress or Joomla into their membership sites. They don’t have access to a lot of the things that paid members do, including many areas of the site forums. Free members can read helpful articles about running a membership site plus reviews about the different membership software scripts. It’s not surprising that the real meat of this program is only available to paid members.
Paid membership can vary in cost according to what you want. Basic paid membership is $197 per year or $19.95 per month, with extra start-up costs. You choose your paid membership according to what type of templates you want to run. This can be a little confusing for people who are new to running their site, but you can get help with this from the administration so you can be sure you’re purchasing what you need.
The good thing about this program is that even free members get some benefit. They are provided with very useful information and instructions helpful in starting up a membership site.
