Ravi Jayagopal's Digital Access Pass is a system that transforms your WordPress blog into a membership site that can help you make money online. What got me eager to try it out is its "content responder" feature, which allows you to drip content to your members.

Here are the advantages of "dripping content" over a period of time, instead of making everything downloadable from the start...

1. Solve Information Overload

Have you ever seen those sites where hundreds of articles, blog posts, or video tutorials are available right from the start? Yes, we're talking about info overload.

You (and your members) feel overwhelmed just by looking at that long list of things to read or videos to watch.

It would be better if you deliver the content by installment, to motivate your members to avail of the online internet marketing training, for example.

2. Protect Members

Earlier attempts of membership sites have the site owner slowly adding content. But after 10 months (and loyal members who have been with you, and paying their monthly subscription from the start), new members join and then have easy access to all the content.

Yes, all ten months' worth, with just one monthly payment. You can imagine how betrayed your earlier members will feel.

With a true drip content system (such as the one offered by Ravi's Digital Access Pass), people who have been members for 10 months will be the only ones who have access to 10 months worth of information and tutorials.

While people who have been members for just one day will have access only to Day 1 distance learning training materials.

3. Easy Member Administration

Other WordPress membership site systems allow you to create member classifications depending on the length of time someone has been a member of your site.

So if you're delivering content on a daily basis for 60 days, you will need to create at least 60 types of members. For example, MemberDay1, MemberDay2... all the way to MemberDay60.

Next, you will have to create rules that state something like: "After one day, upgrade MemberDay1 members to MemberDay2. And yes, all the way up to MemberDay60.

That can be quite tiring.

With Digital Access Pass, you simply tag each blog post with the Day Number. For example, show this blog post on Day 30.

DAP will then automatically keep track of when your member first joined, automatically compute how many days that person has been a member of your site, and then show the appropriate blog post (i.e., Day 30 blog post).

Plus, DAP comes with an email autoresponder system which will send reminders to your subscribers. Personally, though, I prefer to use a third-party autoresponder provider to handle such email deliveries.

There is something I wish Digital Access Pass could do, though. And that is the ability to automatically change the the date shown to members.

For example, if Member #1 joins on January 1, then blog post number 1 should show the date January 1. If another person joins on January 2, then blog post #1 should show January 2.

For now, however, the alternative is to not show the date at all.

Anyway, we'll just have to dig around some WordPress template tutorials to see how we can display dynamic blog post dates.

I'll also have to see how we can get rid of the Sorry, this is protected content. Click here for details. message, so that members will only see what's available to them (and not see which materials they do not have access to yet).

In the meantime, if you're thinking about putting up profitable premium or even free WordPress membership sites in the coming months, try Ravi Jayagopal's Digital Access Pass today.

UPDATE: I'm seeing some issues with password management in WordPress when the DAP plugin is activated.

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First Posted: December 29, 2009 | Filed in: Make Money Online

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