As the owner of a membership website, your most valuable assets have to do with your expertise. In addition to the written material that you provide to your members, you often accumulate a collection of PDF, MP3, video and other digital files.
These add richness and depth to what you have to offer. Unfortunately they tend to get passed around too, which is bad because you want people to pay for them. That means you need to take special precautions to ensure that your members have easy access to them, but that others don’t.
The best of both worlds would be to allow members to have access to the full content, but provide non-members with a sample. That way they get a sense for the quality and want the rest, while your members get the full deal. It’s a win-win and that’s exactly what I show you how to do.
The last point is that when you do have a bad egg in the lot and he starts to pass around your digital content, you have a way of discovering exactly who he is and cutting him off. You’ll be surprised how simple it is.
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Now in the tracefusion feature once you see they have downloaded it once, will it notify you automatically if the same log in emails it to a friend and passes it around or you have to go in a manually check and look for the same log in?
The tracefusion features allows you to check a file that you find getting passed around. There’s no way to create a file that will send notification back to you due to technology constraints and privacy laws. Does that answer your question?
Good video.
What I don’t know at this stage is how I can access the premium files. I can upload them, but how do I see them. Even as administrator, I am denied access.
Must I become a member?
Shouldn’t admin have access to everything?
Thanks for your patience
Mark,
You might have the “Treat administrator as non-logged in user” option set in the memberwing main settings page. Uncheck that and you will see all your content.
I’ve kept my settings as MWX had setup for the Premium_Files and Premium folder. I then put in two pdf files, (one had the “denied” word in it with different content) in to the the Premium_files folder. But so far no link is being made, as in when I use the premium folder address plus the file name nothing appears. I’ve checked location settings, the admin acts as a user setting, cleared the cache and updated to the latest versions… I’m using streamline.net as a host.
Any suggestions please
Simon, I’m not sure what you mean about “no link being made”. After you put the files in your premium folder, you have to make the link to them and place that link somewhere on your site. This will most likely not be affected by your hosting provider.
Let’s say that I have put a file called “iwanttosharethis.file” in the /premium_files/ folder as created by MWX. It’s meant to be accessed by a link such as “www.mysite.com/premium/iwanttosharethis.file”. I’ve also created and placed an alternative file “iwanttosharethis_denied.file” in the /premium_files/ folder too, but neither version appears when I put the “www.mysite.com/premium/iwanttosharethis.file” in my browser. I’ve tried uisng a different browser, differnt PC, deactivating / re-activating MWX.
I’m obviously misunderstanding this. I hope you can help.
Thank you
Are you saying you put the files in your premium folder or the premium_files folder?
How I understood it was that MWX passes files that are kept in the Premium_Files folder by using a link that appears to be going to a folder called the Premium folder, thus protecting the location of the files. Am I wrong?
Simon, you’ve got the right idea. Keep trying different combinations until you get it.
Just wanted to say all videos were great. You explain what you do and why your doing it very well.
Thanks Daniel for a great product!
Chris