New Website Input

Since most of this is for you at this point, I'd like to ask one more time for your input so we can get this wrapped up and online. All of the critical functions and main pages are already in place, just like with anything else, it's the details that take the longest.

I'll give you an idea of what we have so far and what will be different.

Since the site will automatically handle all Paypal subscriptions (now if a new subscription comes through I have to send out the invitations, welcome email/information, email delivery sign up, etc. The new site will handle all of this) it will free up my time. We've been at capacity for a while and I'm actually not trying to encourage new members as I've already had to refund people trying to sign up because the Blogger site we are on now limits private sites, I literally have no space for them.

All current members will get instructions for the new site address and a coupon code, current members will stay at the current membership price, any new members after the new site is launched will pay a little more.

You'll have a lot more control over your preferences, any email address you  want to use will be fine, you'll be able to choose whether you want all posts delivered to you or if you only want certain categories such as trade ideas, or the daily wrap. Posts that are specifically about one subject like a trade, will be color coded in the header.

The new website will automatically refresh so if a new post comes out, you don't have to rely on your email or refreshing the site to know a new post is out.

There are several other member preferences you'll be able to set up and change, including your profile and/or passwords, etc.

The new site will look a bit different, but clean and easy to use.

I've had some people ask about being able to use credit cards outside of Paypal, we checked in to this and the price for recurring subscriptions is just way outside of our budget.

There have been several requests for text alerts for trades, I looked in to this as I'd need a third party service to do this and I figured out based on their pricing that if I sent every trade entry and exit for a typical recent week to every member it would cost about $300 a week and that's not including the site growing, it's also almost 10,000 more texts than they allow for 1 month.

The only way I can think of to do this is to offer the service as a side subscription if it is important to you, and then it becomes more practical, but if only 1 or 2 people wanted that and were willing to pay the extra monthly amount, it wouldn't be enough people to make it affordable, on the other hand if half of our members wanted it, it would be too expensive and run over their monthly limit so I'd either need to get some idea of how many people are interested in it, I'm just making a wild guess and thinking it might be $10 more a month (obviously depending on the number of people and package). Or, if anyone has alternative ideas beyond the color coded posts and the ability to receive them now in email format (you could choose to receive all posts or just trade ideas or any mix of the different categories).

However if anyone has alternative ideas, I'd love to hear them.

There are certain things I'm considering and these are really small details, but they are taking up a lot of time, like a risk management calculator.

Somethings we've looked at over and over and just can't find a good solution for, but I figured I'd ask one last time before we lock this down because I really need to get the details taken care of so we can get this up which will make my life easier and the service more user-friendly and customized for you and I won't have to keep sending refunds and long emails describing the situation for people who want to become new subscribers.

I'm hoping that within a year or less that the site will be able to sustain such functions as a 1-800 number instead of emails for important questions you have during the trading day, web or podcasts on certain topics or concepts that are interactive with members, I'd like to add someone else who does what I do, but perhaps is better than me in a specific field and yes, I really do mean it and want to have things like a discounted rate cruise for members and we can spend a couple of hours doing a seminar (I'd love to have some guest speakers and have talked so some really amazingly talented people who would be interested) or some live trading and then enjoy the rest of the day.

One bridge at a time though and the first is settling on the details and getting this on line, every week is getting more and more expensive.

Thanks for your input.


TIA