hey guys it's a Spencer from builder preneur and this lesson is going to be about a membership area and I'll be fully honest this was the most frustrating part of clickfunnels when I first signed up I spent days trying to figure this out they don't have very much information on it and there's actually a lot of misinformation out there on it and so people were advising me in different directions I was so frustrated midway through this and so I really really hope that I can explain it everything that I learned and finally figured out in a way that makes sense quickly and where you can create this membership area in your click funnels account very easily so feel free to reach out with questions at the end of this I hope you don't have any but I'm sure people will it is just a confusing thing and click funnels is still kind of working on how they do that but anyway if you don't know what a membership area is it's basically just a part of your website or in this case a part of your click funnels account where you can give access to video or courses or written content or any other kind of like digital asset after people purchase a certain product so if I was selling a course that was you know a whole course on how to learn Facebook ads well I need somewhere where they can go access that course right so if I'm not just gonna email them an entire a bunch of videos if I want to actually have it like sitting somewhere then I need to create a membership area where I have all those videos and as soon as they purchase that course they're given access to those videos they can log in and watch those videos and so that's what a membership area is and just like everything else in clickfunnels there's beautiful templates already built out they're really easy to work with they're really easy to edit and they make it really easy to give access to people based on what they purchase right so you don't want to just give someone access to your membership area and have them have access to all the videos and courses and everything you've ever created you want it to be based on what they buy someone buys this YouTube course okay when they log in to their membership area there's the YouTube course but there's nothing else and you want it to work that way so that you can have one membership area and as you continue to sell the people further down the line then you're able to still have them use that same single membership area and click funnels but just add new permissions while when they're in that membership area so remember that you're gonna hear from other people they you should create multiple in my opinion you should always just create one membership area and that way people don't have to log into different places all the time and so let's let's start we're gonna dive right in and we're gonna create our membership area and it's just like creating a funnel it's gonna look like a little mini funnel but just remember this is there's going to be no funnel there's not gonna be people going through anything to get here this is just where you're gonna send people in any funnel that sells access to a membership area so we start with the same thing as always add new okay it's gonna give you what are your three things that you want here so your product our product is a membership let's name it membership area members member will build that funnel here okay so you'll create other funnels you know you're gonna create sales funnels just like we've been doing all along that are gonna lead people to this area but this area works individually by itself and so as you can see click funnels just creates a membership access piece of the funnel or page and then it creates a membership area so a membership access is like this right where you go to create your account or you go to login and so that's all you really need in your membership funnel is once someone buys a course you send them to this membership funnel they create their account once they create their account then they're taken to the next step in the funnel which is just a place where your information is right so there's nothing here right now I don't have any courses in this particular click funnels account but this is a membership area where they would be taken once they had logged in and created a login there and so we're gonna show you how to do all this don't worry if it sounds complicated but hopefully your at this point at least you've created a membership funnel you've got a membership access piece of the funnel and you can kind of choose from a few different templates for that they're all pretty basic I wouldn't over worry about it honestly because this is just where they log in right and then you have the actual membership area and it's going to give you a few templates for that as well and so let's start looking at that I'm gonna choose well I just have to choose a template for this I always just choose the first template right here okay so we've chosen kind of a nice easy login slash create your account and now we're gonna go start messing with our actual membership area okay the first thing that we really need to understand once we select the template here I'm talking about which one I always go with I think I go with the first one here too I mean these are so basic right it's just as long as it gives them access that's what really matters you can play through some of the funnels if you want but they're all they're all very similar and they all give access like they're supposed to so when you create your membership area you can see here it's not giving kind of that box here and the box here like it usually does where it says you can split test and there's no page that you can actually go in and edit it's just a very simple template you can edit a little bit of it right here but for the most part it's already there it just wants you to now start adding content to your membership area for for people that that are members of your of whatever group you've created and so let me explain these two right here we have the login URL and we have the secret signup URL right here and this is where all the confusion stems and what so many people are confused about and so you really need to understand what those two are if you want to be able to succeed with the membership area and funnels and so this is where someone logs in once they've already created a user account for themselves and so if you look at this I hope that works I think I actually set anything up yeah I'm already logged in so if you look at this it's where they've already created an account and so it's just the place they log in and this is the place where they go to create an account and so this one should let's see if it just logs in automatically yeah it's gonna log in automatically because it's saving them because it's got cookies let's pull up in a new incognito window so you can see I'm talking about boom see this is where they create an account so secret signup URL create an account login URL is where they go once they're ready to just log into an account they've already created and so it's very important that you understand that when somebody purchases your course they need to be sent to the secret signup URL every time because they've got to be able to create a login and if they already have one then they there's a button there they can click that takes them straight to the login URL but if you send them here first they have nowhere to create a login this is just where people that already have login details can log in so I hope that makes sense I know it sounds like actually maybe pretty simple but they don't really explain that very well and click funnels and so just remember that and you'll be set to go for the rest of time ok so let's explain these two things we say there was a section and a lesson here a section would be something like in an example we use previously Facebook Ads course so that's the entire section you know the entire course or kind of an entire product that you're selling and then within that section you have multiple lessons and so we've got lesson 1 we can add new lesson let's do that real quick just to kind of show you we're gonna add it in our first section we're going to name it lesson 2 it says what's the template you want to use there's two templates so I wouldn't worry too much about that video lesson and then the last option you can actually have it so they don't get access for a certain number of days so maybe you want to give them one course access a day for 14 days or something like that maybe I'm actually doing that with this course I can't remember what my plan was but but you can do that we're not gonna do it on this one will create the lesson there you go so lesson 1 our first lesson and lesson 2 and that's all in my first section which would be let's say my my Facebook Ads course and so you can't you can I mean you can open the editor here and it's very simple I guess we should peek in there just so you understand what I'm talking about ok and so here's where you can add a little teeny video or oh this is for text lesson sorry I'm gonna actually do a different one so you can see what video lessons are like because that's what you're watching right now so let's add a new lesson let's do a video lesson less than three and in the first section there it is open an editor oops open an editor okay so here's just a simple video lesson when they go into lesson one you add a video here the same way you do in the other editor you click on it it's it looks a little different but it's fairly similar right you embed your YouTube video or your Vimeo video and I would pause here and say Vimeo is the way to go definitely Vimeo is the way to go I took five five bucks a month I think and you're able to embed and you're able to do a lot more as far as preventing people from sharing your your content whereas YouTube it's kind of all about sharing so anyway you add a little video you add your text here and then you can add any resources that you want right here and it probably should be noted that this is just a link to a resource and so you don't actually add any resources here you add resources let's close that up a second show you add resources in your account and digital assets and you can upload resources and then it'll give you a URL and then you can link to that URL in each lesson anyway so that's how that works we've got three lessons here we've got a section and you you can only restrict people based on sections not less and so you can't say you know you can't say give this lesson to people that purchased the YouTube course but not this lesson you can only restrict based on sections so let's add any lessons section so let's call this the google adwords course and we actually probably are gonna have all these in the future so let's call that that section let's call this Facebook course so you kind of see what I'm talking about all right let's peek real quick at our restriction so we want we want people that purchase the Facebook course to be able to get access to that and we want people to purchase the AdWords course to be able to get access to that but we don't want them to be look at access to each other's courses right and so that's all done right here we restrict access it's gonna say what's the name here Facebook course product requirements now this is blank here because we haven't created a product we don't have any products right none of our funnels actually have products associated with them so it doesn't have any products that we can link it to but we're gonna go create a product and we'll dive back in here to show you how to do that okay but there would be products right there anyway so I hope that makes sense we now have our membership area we're gonna go create a funnel and show you exactly how a funnel would interact with that membership area so let's go glad to save it I think we're good to go so let's go to funnels okay and at minimum we need our funnel to have some kind of place where they pay for their access but you'll need some kind of landing page a sales page maybe an upsell page we're not gonna create all of that at minimum you need a place where they pay for access to the course right so we're just gonna add that to this funnel add new let's choose a sell your product and let's say actually let's just create a custom funnel since that's what we're doing here membership funnel to ok so pretend this is our sales funnel that we want to sell people on and once they purchase and pay in this funnel they get access to let's say that Facebook course let's say we're doing this for that Facebook course so a little our sales page we're gonna go to an order form so an order form is what would happen right before anybody bought anything right they would fill out an order form so we'll select just a basic template here okay and you edit kind of how the order form looks within the order form itself so we'll kind of peek at that real quick so there it is right they fill out their contact information and you don't have to have them fill out all this if you don't want in fact i erase almost all of this just get an email address and credit card information people tend to not like filling out lots of forms I'm sure that if you're watching this you're the same way anyway it's all set up it's all integrated right this has everything that's set up to complete an order and make a purchase and so we just need to attach products to this form so it doesn't know yet well if somebody puts in their credit card and eyes on this page click funnels doesn't know what that means you know what did they buy I don't know I don't have any products so if you're in here you have a product section and so if you're ever on a sales page and a sales purchase page we have a product section right here and this is where we add products so that we can then associate those down the road with our membership area so let's add a product let's say on this page if they got to this order form page I am selling them my Facebook Ads course okay and if you've integrated your billing which we had a lesson earlier on integrations and it'll let you select it it looks like I haven't integrated on this account so let's pretend I have integrated Braintree says how much is this product gonna be let's say a hundred hundred thousand dollars that'd be great okay and then price to spray override I don't understand totally why this would be an option because you can make it actually cost a hundred thousand dollars but then you can have it show that it only costs ten dollars all right so that's a very dangerous option that clickfunnels gives you I would recommend just ignoring the price display override because you could find yourself with so very unhappy customers okay and then the last thing is a bump let me explain what a bump is real quick so it's saying should this product yep on the page so not a product but a bump and let speak it a page to see what they're talking about there at that bump this particular page doesn't have a bump a lot of maybe I can actually add it here let's let's check out quick and see if we can add an order bump order bump [Music] so you see you know what this is you know you're purchasing something and you're kind of going down and then it's got a little check mark and you can say yes I also want this that's an order bump right it's a really good idea to let's say you're selling something for 25 bucks and you're like I wonder if I can get 5 more bucks off these people add this little thing a lot of people will buy it especially if it's if it's somewhat cheap they've already pulled out their credit card that's kind of a small price in fact my very first course had a hundred percent of people purchase the Youtube bump a little youtube course that I had attached to it so that was really exciting I always do an order bump there anyway so this is what a bump is and so when it says should this be the bump that would mean you would need to add a product that would sell to them if they ever selected that check that bump box so I hope that makes sense here we'll peek at it oh I didn't save it anyway if anyone selected that bump box then they would get access to that product it's what it's saying let's add that product again Facebook Ads course we're gonna do it through Braintree I usually go through stripe I would just recommend stripe honestly anyway so let's create that product Facebook Ads course right and so that's what they're buying when they're on this opt-in page and they're putting in their credit card they're buying that Facebook Ads course let's add a bump if they bump we're gonna give them one free ad so I'll write an ad for it maybe something like that so let's say that will be five five dollars I'll do that and it is a bump okay so if they click a bump button on that opt in page here if they click a bump button they're now gonna get access to this as well they're gonna have purchased this and it's going to charge them five dollars if they just go through and fill out the form it's going to charge them ten dollars let's peek at it real quick make sure all that worked okay I really hope this is making sense to everybody it's night this is one of the nicest things about clickfunnels right if you created a website it's hard to get all this stuff set up you gotta make a secure site you gotta get everything set up so that these credit-card processors trust you and are willing to let you run credit cards on your side but clickfunnels has it all done for you I could run credit cards in five minutes on this site so save that let's go back I wonder if it really saved okay let's preview the page here there it is so somebody fills out all this information says it now knows ah what you're buying is the Facebook Ads course and we can add other products as well and have them select those so they enter in their card information they fill out this giant form that no one ever wants to fill out and then they could go to complete order in fact I would add the bump up above complete order so they see it but anyway if you select that and now it's gonna charge them $15 right so they put in the information they complete the order and we're good to go so I hope that makes sense let's go peek back at our membership funnel so I can show you what I'm talking about those products back here membership area sham membership area okay now here's our Facebook course right we want to restrict access to people who purchased in membership funnel two which was the funnel who purchased that okay so now it's attached to their email address so as long as they purchase and they use that email the same email address that they used to create their account as they do when they purchase anybody that buys the Facebook course will not have access to the Facebook course but not access to the Google AdWords course and any other courses that I have so I hope that makes sense to you how we're working that okay so now we're gonna do one more thing now you need to know how to send them to our signup URL you copy and paste here so we need to send them as soon as they filled out that order form we want them to go and do what we want them to make and create an account so let's go to click funnels here I'll do two things in that membership funnel please remember before this opt-in page we have the rest of our funnel normally that we create so I would add a few more steps that were a landing page where I maybe sold them and then got their email address and I'd have another page where I started selling them on the next product and if they clicked yes I want that then maybe I'd take them to this page so this would actually be the third step in a funnel I'm just not building out the whole funnel because we just want to focus on the membership area right now okay um so right now I'm showing you how to oh I'm showing you how to send them to that page where they can create a login okay so we're on it right here we're we're on that that product page and you remember we talked earlier about how we can go into our settings and we can send somebody to a different page after they fill out a form so not necessarily the next step in the funnel but a different page that's right here on submit go to yeah we want to go and once they submit we want to send them to where they can actually create a login so did that we click Save and now when someone fills out this whole form okay they fill out this form and it's going to take their money one and then it's gonna take them to this page right here actually what's doing Cognito so it makes sense it's gonna send them here and they're gonna create an account and then they're gonna be able to sit in their membership area and have that access that we talked about it's the very last thing you want to talk about is email okay so click when you buy something you need when someone buy something online you always get an email right they send you everything that you need to know about your purchase and then usually they'll send you kind of if something goes wrong here's an the way to login so let's go back to products okay so when they purchased that Facebook Ads course we set up this part but if you look there's other things as well so we want to send them a fulfillment email telling them thank you for their purchase and then what we want to do is say you may access well thank you for your purchase you may access your will right out or an email here something like course here anytime and then we would add the URL for people to log in so that would be I came here what that was you know for a login but then we would say if anything went wrong and you were unable to create an account you can create your account here right yeah there it is and that's where people go to create an account okay so I'll kind of explain these other tabs email integration we talked about how we want to we want to capture their email address right and we don't want to just sell them this one thing we want to keep selling them for weeks and weeks to come and so that's where we have these automated email autoresponders we integrated one called active campaign this guy right here earlier action on submit we want to add to a list inactive campaign and that list is gonna I'm gonna create a list an active campaign right now or I would say this is a list for anybody that's created my Facebook or that's purchased my Facebook Ads course and then as soon as they get added to that list it'll start emailing them once a day or once every couple days but it'll say things like hey I hope you loved that Facebook Ads course here's a some more valuable content for you it's clear that you're interested in Facebook ads and then maybe further down the road it says by the way if you like Facebook ads you would love this course on Google Ads and you can purchase this for you know as a limited discount right now and it'll send them that email and and so that's how it works that's how that's how you make the most money off a person that comes to your site so we add them to a list these are the current list we have let's just pretend there's one said purchased YouTube core or purchased facebook course for now I'll go purchase YouTube course okay so now as soon as they purchase I clicked up I'm gonna click update product it's going to do a bunch of things it's gonna charge their credit card it's gonna send them a fulfillment email it's gonna send them to my create a login page and then it's gonna add them to my email list and then from now on my email list is going to start emailing them whatever emails I create and we're gonna talk later about that I think it's in lesson who maybe eight or nine and and I have a totally separate course actually that I sell that teaches you how to how to automate email campaign so let's kick update product we don't have to ship anything so we're not gonna worry about that and we're good to go so I hope that I hope that whole funnel process made sense you can kind of see maybe why it was confusing for me having no resources to all to figure it out I eventually was able to figure it out if this course doesn't make sense to you please reach out and I can help you get your membership area set up or you can click down here where's my mouse right here click funnels will help you get it set up as well they're very responsive though not quite as fast in their response as you would like so that's how you create a membership area I hope you're interested in this at some point even if you're not selling a membership area right now down the line I'm sure you'll want to be able to teach other people what you've learned as you've you've made money and click funnels and the way that you teach people is you create a membership area and then you bring people to that membership area charge them to have access to your courses and it's a great way to make money right because once you've created the product once you you're done you just have to send people to it and you can just keep making money off people and you get that warm hearty cheery feeling in your heart that comes when you help somebody learn something that you learned so good luck good luck building your membership area and I think our next course we're going to talk a little bit about analytics and we're gonna get some pretty cool stuff where you can kind of see how users are reacting with your site and and really fix problems that you may not realize your site is having thanks a lot guys
