Leonardo Papa, Cruise Director, Splendour of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Leo Papa

Mr. Papa was extremely nice. He explained that 95% of the people on board are Brazilian.

Only about 90 Americans so he is excited about my Portuguese for Gringos talk and my Brazilian cultural lecture called "Brazil: Where Latino is NOT Hispanic!"

Very cool!!!

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - Santos Yacht Club Sao Paulo Brazil

The richest Brazilans moor their yachts there.

Did I mention I'm cruising free?!

-Doc Brown

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Splendour of the Seas, Santos, Brazil

This photo brought to you FREE by Speakers Cruise Free Cruising Free Club Member...

Doc Brown!

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Speakers Cruise Free - Splendour of the Seas Pool Area Day 1 Santos Brazil

The legendary pool area! Nuff said...

-Doc Brown

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Speaker's Cruise Free - Santos, Brazil, from inside the Splendour of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

Yo ho SCF clubbers... Here we go...as I take this shot the boat is shoving off ... I'm aboard ... Oh and did I tell you?...It's all free!!!

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - Emergency Station

These are the stations you have to go to to do the emergency drill.

-Doc Brown

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Gettin Ready The Emergency Signal on my Free Cruise

Got to do the emergency drill. I watched Titanic and I'm not going to end up hanging on to some iceburg unless it's a shaped float toy in the pool!

-Doc Brown

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A Gringo Cruises Free

This is amazing... I am about to get on this boat for free!

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - I made it!

You're not going to believe this but there was a FREE cabin and my name on the manifest!!!

I have to admit that I was nervous thinking that maybe this Speaking Cruise Free stuff might not be real but I'm standing in line walking on board with all my papers in order...FREE!

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - Roberto and Dr. Eliane

Another great meal with freinds before jumping on the Splendour of the Seas in Santos Brazil!

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - Team Wallet Doctor Brazil

Paulo, Samuel, and I are planning the creation of a market in Brazil for my investment books and courses. Paulo Gergely specializes in marketing while Samuel Segal, MBA has a masters from Getulio Vargas the most prestigious business school in Latin America.

Oh, I forgot to explain that not only am I cruising for free I am also expanding the market for my courses to help families in Brazil learn to manage their money better...win, win, win thanks to help from Daniel Hall at Speakers Cruise Free.

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free - Doc Brown in a Brazilian Christmas dinner!

The fantastic aspect of Brazilian culture is that people are so incredibly open to other cultures. They will truly welcome you into their homes even if you don't speak Portuguese. If you do speak Portuguese, if you're willing to invest the time you will never want for freinds or a home to stay in.

I've been to Brazil before but this is the first time most of it's free. All because of Speaker Cruise Free by Daniel Hall one of the best investments I ever made!

-Doc Brown
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Cruise Speaker Good Times - Brazil

Christmas dinner in Sao Paulo ... Only possible as Doc Brown becomes the next speaker to cruise free!

More about Doc Brown...

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Speakers Cruise Free - Sao Paulo Skyline

You can see skyscrapers as far as the eye can see as I fly into this city of 20,000,000 people! Sao Paulo is on a massive uplifted continental shelf. On friday, the day after Christmas, I'll take the wild ride down the cliff to Santos to catch Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Splendour of the Seas going north up the Brazilian coast...for FREE!

-Doc Brown

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Santa Cruise Free

This Santa only speaks Portuguese. His helper too!

2 days left in Sao Paolo...on Friday it's all aboard The Splendour of the Seas!

Merry Christmas!

-Doc Brown
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Paolo helps me cruise Brazil free!

Paolo is a freind of mine here in Sao Paolo. He and I are going to see if we can get my investing courses marketed in Portuguese here in Brazil.

What I want you to understand is that my doctorate has nothing to do with my guest speaking free cruises out of Santos Brazil this Friday on Royal Caribbean's Splendour of the Seas. I am cruising free because my hobby is speaking foreign language.

I speak Portuguese and that is why I am cruising free. So don't think for a second that you need some advanced degree like my doctorate in finance to do what I am doing... Anybody who is comfortable speaking in a fun way to the public can do this.

Merry Christmas,

-Doc Brown

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Speakers Cruise Free & Hall Family Sing Jingle Bells (badly) 2008

Merry Christmas Eve - Eve

Boy, do I have a hilarious (a-hem) holiday treat you. The whole Hall family attempted to sing Jingle Bells... we had a BLAST. Doesn't sound too pure but we did have fun.

Introducing everyone in the video.

Playing the piano, my aunt Mimi. Seated to the right of her with the Santa hat is my little Jem. Seated to the left of the piano is my Grandpa Bob. Behind Grandpa is my lovely (and extremely good-natured) wife Lanette. Then me. To the left of me is my son Jamey and to the left of Jamey is my son Anthony. Our Standard Poodle "Roxanne" is at Mimi's feet.

Enjoy... and Happy Holidays.

Speakers Cruise Free Roaming Report; Restaurante Tierra Firme

There's only one restaurant in the massive airport of Panama City. Begs to wonder what local political corruption could give the owner such a monopoly.

I'm enroute to Sao Paolo where I will descend to the Port of Santos to cruise free speaking on Royal Caribbean International's Splendour of the Seas known for it's "brass & glass!"

-Doc Brown; A Speaker Cruising Free!
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Doc Brown departing to cruise free as RCCL guest lecturer.

It's 5 AM and I'm wicked tired. Marisol drops me off at the San Juan airport as I begin the 3 day journey that should have me on the Splendour of the Seas the day after Christmas in the port of Santos in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

I'm acting as the first live roving reporter for Daniel Hall's Speakers Cruise Free Club. For more about me go to:

www.speakerscruisefree.com/forex.html

Merry Christmas!
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Gringo Scott Reporting From First Cruise As An Enrichment Speaker

Gringo Scott heads to Brazil tomorrow for his first SCF Guest Lecturers aboard RCCL Splendour of the Seas!

He will be reporting the whole experience on Daniel's SCF Club blog!
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A Money Making Shopping Cart?

A part of the service I provide for my Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club members is help with their businesses. To read about all the benefits of Club membership check out this page http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/clubfaq.html . You see for those that are interested we do so much more than helping you get approved to cruise free.

Although I help folks with many aspects of their business almost always I stress the importance of building an online business. Consequently, I help many of my members start or profit more from their Internet business. An important component of making that happen is having a full featured, reliable shopping cart.

To help you in evaluating the shopping cart systems out there I have published an ebook by Tom Antion and myself entitled:

How To Choose A Shopping Cart That Makes You Money

Double click on the link above or copy an paste this URL into a browser:

http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/ShopCart.pdf

This resource is just chock-full of the exact information you need for making an informed decision when choosing a cart. I typically relayed a bunch of the information in this ebook during coaching sessions so it made sense to make this information available in written form, if for no other reason than to save coaching time. So even if you are not yet a member of the Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club (why not?) you need to check out this resource if you want to build a truly world-class Internet business.

Your Traveling Companion Cruises Free

I just posted a new article for you over at the article site entitled:

Your Traveling Companion Cruises Free

Go check it out.

I would very much appreciate if you'd leave your comment there too. Thanks.

Can You Say Auto-Pilot?

I'll make this quick...

If you want to sell more of your stuff --
totally on auto-pilot, then check out this
game-changing technology.

It's deceptively simple!

But...

It's going to impact marketing in way
not seen since the email autoresponder
changed email marketing.

Even better ... these guys are passing out
beta-tester trial accounts.

I'm getting one. You should too!

But, hurry. They're only accepting
members on Friday, December 19th.

So, check it out NOW!

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Video here:
http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/r247.html

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Can't wait to hear what you say about this please
leave your comments below...

Ciao' for now,

Daniel


P.S. Heh heh -- folks like us will use
this like a license to print money. Watch
the video ... you'll see what I mean.

http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/r247.html

My New Cruise Speaker Article Site

Just a quick heads up to tell you about my new article site over at http://www.cruisespeakertips.com/ I will post all my new cruise speaker and cruise free articles there. So head on over and check out the first article I did titled --

Cruising Free: How My Story Applies to Yours

While you're there make sure you subscribe to the site. The opt-in form is at the top right hand corner.

Enjoy and thanks for your support.

Speaker Cruising Free: Another Happy Client

I'm just so proud of my students. Yesterday the lovely Kimberly Smith sent me a video of her experiences with my program. Thought you'd might want to see it...



Why don't you join Kimberly? Here's the place to do it:

http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/

Eternal Rome Through Civitavecchia

After we departed Drubronik, Croatia we were at sea for a day at which time we sailed through the Messina Strait.

(If you are still not approved to cruise free I suggest you get going with it ASAP http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/cruise-free.html)

The Strait of Messina is the narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Silicy and the southern tip of Calabria in Italy.

Early the next morning we docked in the port of Civitavecchia. Civitavecchia is the ancient central Italian port that serves the city of Rome which is about 80 kms distant.

To say I was excited about visiting Rome is an understatement. Both my maternal grandparents were born in Northern Italy and were very well traveled. I remember my Grandfather (with whom I was very close) telling me stories about Rome and his visits to the Vatican. But to actually be there and see it... I was in a state of awe.

Our first stop was the Vatican. Here is a picture the entrance to the Vactican Museum. The Vatican is its own sovereign nation where the Pope is its temporal leader. Interestingly, the Vatican is the only counrty in the World where Latin is still the official langauage.

This is the courtyard leading into the Vatican museum. You can see Arnaldo Pomodoro "Sphere Within a Sphere" sculpture. Its actually a fascinating sight. The center globe remains stationary while the outer globe rotates around it. It is supposed to symbolize how the church remains the immovable center of the world.















I loved the ceilings of the Vatican museum. This is a rather narrow hall lined with priceless art.



















A view of the Papal gardens.















There is an obelisk in the center of St. Peter's Square which marks the spot where St. Peter was crucified upside down for being a believer. He requested this because he did not want to be crucified in the same manner as Christ out of respect. In any event, this piece of art shows the transport of the obelisk from the Valley of Kings in Egypt up the Nile. A picture of the obelisk is below.







What I find curious is how and why there is an ancient and pagan Egyptian obelisk in the center of St. Peter's Square. And why use to it to commemorate such a sacred place?











Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica. Notice it is behind glass that's for protection from further attack. On May 21, 1972 (Pentecost Sunday) a mentally disturbed geologist named Laszlo Toth walked into the chapel and attacked the Virgin with a geologist's hammer while shouting "I am Jesus Christ."

By the way, Italians are always very quick to point out the proper pronunciation of Michelangelo's name which is not "Michael" Angelo as Americans are prone to saying. It is "Meekel" Angelo. Speaking of Michelangelo you will notice that there are no pictures here of his famous Sistine Chapel which is gorgeous. We did visit the chapel but there are no photographs allowed. I asked why because you can freely take pictures anywhere else on Vatican grounds. I was told that in there are restricted photos for copyright reasons which apparently were sold to a Japanese TV network NHK in exchange for funding of restoration of the Chapel. You can read the whole story here.


I did find this public domain photo of the "Creation of Adam" panel of the ceiling compliments of the Web Gallery of Art.








This is a photo of the enthroned St. Peter. It is custom to touch the feet of the statute as you walk be and ask for St. Peter's blessing.














Not really the best photo but I was most interested in the the depiction of the Holy Spirit in the form of a stained glass dove above the High Altar. Here's the thing: it's wingspan is 6 feet across. BTW the Pope is the only one who can say Mass at the High Altar. However, there are Masses being said at one of the many chapels within the Basilica most all day.








The baptismal font within the St. Peter's















An interior view of the doumo. In any event, my visit to the Vatican was a deeply moving and (dare I say) spiritual experience. They say that the Basilica was built with such great beauty to represent heaven on earth. After having been there I can see that...








A picture with one of the Swiss Guards. Their colorful uniform design compliments of Michelangelo.













External view of the Basilica.















St. Peter's Square with obelisk and exterior of the Basilica. From here we headed back to the bus en route the Coliseum. We saw some cool stuff along the way (below).












The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building inRome, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.









The Tiber River.















The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) is a monument to honor Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.












Same. Supposedly the Allies called this monument the "Typewriter" when Rome was liberated during WWII. Many Romans took to the name.












Exterior of the Coliseum.














The first Triumphal Arch built by Constantine to commemorate his victory in liberating the city from his co-emperor Maxentius in a bloody civil war.












My sign of victory! Claim your victory as a cruise speaker http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/cruise-free.html












The interior of the Coliseum.

Black Friday Savvy Shopping & Bonus

Today is Black Friday. Traditionally the biggest shopping
day of the year.

Are you gearing up your Holiday gift shopping?

If so I have an incredible little known resource for you to
get huge bargains on eBay.

And it all has to do with many eBay sellers inability to
speel (er, um spell).

http://www.dealzorama.com/spelling.php

This little tool will take any keyword you are shopping for
and misspell it in myriad ways.

How does that help you?

Because auctions with misspellings are more difficult to
find. Difficult to find auctions mean fewer shoppers and
much lower bids. It generally means huge bargains for those
that find these hidden gems.

Here's another reason to shop at
http://www.dealzorama.com/spelling.php

When you have shopped through that site and you email me
your receipt I'll send you an extra special mystery bonus.
So if your shopping eBay for the Holidays you mind as well
shop here. Email your receipt to daniel (at) speakers cruise free dot com

If you want a finer point on how to use this savvy shopper
technique I've got a more thorough article for you here:

http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/ebay.html

Happy bargain hunting.

A Thanksgiving Message & Gift

It's Thanksgiving morning here in the States. I got up
early this morning. Everyone else was asleep. I shuffled
out to the kitchen to turn on the coffee sent to me from
Puerto Rico by Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club member,
Dr. Scott Brown (http://tinyurl.com/docscott ) and then to
my home/office to check my orders and email. On the way to
my desk I turned on the satellite radio Reggae station and
then ensconced myself in my office chair.

What did I do next...?

I thought about the significance of the day. I thought
about my family and just how blessed my life is. And I
thought about YOU!

A profound feeling of gratitude overcame me. Yes, in fact,
I did tear up a bit. The feeling was so strong that I felt
compelled to write and tell you about it.

So I am writing to let you know that I am thankful for YOU!

Thanks for being a loyal subscriber...

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to be in your life...

Thanks for allowing me to help you cruise free...

Thanks for trusting me to help build your business...

I do not take you or your trust for granted. I am deeply
grateful for both.

And this is a perfect day to communicate this fact. No
matter where you live in the world -- Happy Thanksgiving!

As token of my gratitude for you I wanted to give you access
to an interview I did with with Tom Antion in which we cover
the top 10 ways to make money as a speaker and the top 10
ways to be great on stage. You can stream the interview
here:

http://tinyurl.com/thanksu

Enjoy..

Procrastinator's Guide to Authorship

Get ready to harpoon your hesitancy.

...fix your foot draggin’

...and pin-back your procrastination because in 36 hours
Rita Emmett is launching her Procrastinator’s Guide to
Authorship System.

The site (http://www.helpwritingbook.com/ ) will go live on
Tuesday, November 25 at 12 PM (noon) Central Standard Time.

Rita’s program will take you gently by the hand and help you
finish (or start and finish) your book even if you’ve been
thinking about (or writing) it for the last 20 years. And
just so we’re clear when I use the word "finish" I mean
completed, published and making money!

If you know you tend to procrastinate.

If you know you need help finally getting your book finished
and making money. You’ve got to get over to
http://www.helpwritingbook.com/

Let this be your first break through in throwing off your
procrastination shackles.

Rita’s system goes live in 36 hours and there only 500 slots
available. A ton of people have already emailed to say they
want in so be watching for the post "It’s Live, Go, Go,
Go!" then go grab your spot.

Free Cruises & Florida OJ? Say What...?

I really admire when marketing has the potential to go viral. Here's a perfect example....

Brilliant. Thanks to John Kremer for the tip http://blog.bookmarket.com/

Dubrovnik, Croatia - A Very Pleasant Next Stop

I was looking over my blog and realized that I've not posted anything on the rest of that cruise since our stop in Venice. So I'm going to pick up the ball and run with it.

This post is all about our stop in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

First, I must say that I had very low expectations about the place. And shame on me; I did not do my usual research. That being said we learned a bunch during our time there.

What made Dubrovnik so special to me was its old city. Dubrovnik was once the ancient city-state of Ragusa. At one point it was one of the only city states on the Adriatic to rival Venice. It's wealth was derived from maritime activities and the aristocracy were skilled diplomats.

The old city was completely walled. While the walls around the city were stunning it was what was contained within the walls that made the city so remarkable.

Dubrovnik's old city appears to be a perfectly preserved and pristine medieval city. When I say pristine I really mean clean and perfect in just about every way. There is no motor-traffic within the old city which makes it all the more quaint.

Also, because of the ethnic warring that has gone in the region in the last couple of hundred years the place does seem that heavily "touristy".











The people were great too. Very friendly and open. Many of them wanted to talk about the presidential election. Jamey and I had lunch made at a local grocery store and ate on square with a fountain. We had a long conversation with a Croat sea captain who was in for the day. He was drinking a beer and visiting with neighbors. We were instantly brought into the conversation and were treated as old friends. In the photo to the left a Croat musician in traditional dress plays for us. The fountain behind him is actually an ancient drinking fountain which is placed right inside the main city gates. You can see a woman refilling her water bottle.










This photo is taken from top of the wall. There is a walk-way on top of the wall all the way around the city. As you might imagine it has spectacular views. The structure behind me here is fortress designed to protect the North end of the city wall.











The old city is very much still mostly residential. And most of the "streets" look like this quiet & peaceful alley. Here a feline resident takes time for nap.
















But here's the cool thing: trips like this become so much easier to take when you are cruising free as a enrichment speaker. And make no mistake you can do it too (if you are so inclined) and you get some help. That's precisely why I designed my Speak on Cruise Ships program and the Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club. I hope you will allow yourself the opportunity to make your cruising dreams come true.

Cruise Speaker Memory Maker - Alaska, Family and Bears, Oh My!

Okay, and now for a sweet, sappy story that got me a little teary eyed when I thought about it.

My 7 year old son Jeremy (I call him Jem) came home last week with a school assignment. He and I were to create a "bear" project.

Because I am fairly comfortable creating multimedia products, Jeremy and I approached his teacher about doing a short bear video. She was excited and thought that that was a great idea.

At the time, however, I really did not know what we'd do a video on but I was confident we'd come up with something.

Later that day I was talking to my wife about our upcoming Caribbean cruise (we depart December 28) and it dawned on me that during our last cruise to Alaska the family and I had an up close and personal encounter with a bear while riding the Yukon & White Pass Rail Road up into Canada.

I even had pictures of the event (if I could only find them) and thought they'd be great for use in the bear project video. Luckily, after about 2 minutes of searching I found the photos on a CD.

They were much better than I remember and I had bunch of them with my Jem in them (no surprise there) . As I reviewed the photos I became nostalgic and grateful that because I was an approved cruise speaker I can take my family on fabulous cruises all over the world and create one of a kind memories and not have to worry about its effect on my wallet.

The experience was made all the more special when I sat down with Jem to reveiw the photos and come up with a plan on how we would present them in a video. (BTW I used Camtasia studio and you should learn to use it too see this post)

Jem lit up!

He got so much out of the experience. Both the one in Alaska and looking at the photos.

In any event, he pointed to the pictures he wanted to use and I helped him to put his "bear" project together. Using cues Jem remembered I wrote the Alaskan bear story and put in PowerPoint and my Jem narrated it into Camtasia Studio.

It was a thoroughly heart-warming and bonding experience for the both of us because we essentially got to live this wonderful cruise memory.

Want to see the results of the collaboration?

I posted below the video we turned in at school today.



So are you ready to make your own great memories as a cruise speaker?

What are you waiting for?

I've laid it all out for you. There is no guesswork. With my program I take you gently by the hand and SHOW you and then personally HELP you get it done.

What's my success rate?

I've never actually figured it out but the vast majority of people in my Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club have been approved or are on the verge. In fact, here's a video of Tom Antion in which he talks about the experiences of some of the people he has referred to me:



So are ready to get started? Great!

Go get my Speak on Cruise Ships program which includes a free month in the Speakers Cruise Free Coaching Club at http://www.speakerscruisefree.com/cruise-free.html

The memories you'll make are priceless.

Membership Software: Beginners Making the Right Choice

Membership sites can be a great source of recurring income. Unfortunately, some of the membership software it takes to run these sites can be quite expensive or complicated or both. As such choosing membership software can be daunting and may scare off the beginner. Consequently, I wrote this article to help you make an informed decision.

The big question: Do I want to invest a little or a bunch in my membership software?

There are alternatives ranging anywhere from thousands of dollars to essentially free. On the upper end of the range is a membership software company called MemberGate. This is definitely the Rolls-Royce of the industry with lots of bells and whistles. Problem is - it is cost prohibitive for most beginners with packages ranging from nearly $4,000.00 to over $15,000.00.

In the mid range of cost is membership software from Amember. This software is around $300 and you must host the software on your own server. I use this software for one of my membership sites and I am fairly happy with it. Problem here is it fairly costly for a beginner and in my opinion the membership software is rather clunky and NOT intuitive. That is, the learning curve for using it is fairly steep especially if you are not technically inclined.

At the low end of the investment range is using open source content management software like WordPress. In fact, using WordPress with available plugins you can have your own membership site up and ready to accept paying members in 2 hours or less and you can essentially do it for FREE. And here’s the best part, you can have the same powerful functionality as the more expensive membership software. Namely, you'll be able to:

• Start accepting payments with PayPal so you can make money right away.
• Email your members from within your membership site so you save time and hassle.
• See members and guests on your site so you always know who's there at any given time.
• Offer free content and yet protect premium content so you can make more sales by allowing free browsers a hint at what's available to them in the premium area.

The challenge with using WordPress and plugins for membership software is there is no real roadmap that describes how to set-up the WordPress software and how and where to find the needed plugins. That being said, it is definitely doable with Google searches and significant trial and error.

Alternatively, you can check out http://www.wpmemberprofits.com/ and sign-up for FREE WordPress tips, tricks and insider details for making a WordPress membership site wildly profitable.

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Watch the video of this article here: