About: George Fischer

Thanks CN. That is good info. I am using cancel/loyalty discounts but I have to look in my stats if many are really using this feature. So this might not be a deal breaker. Geo-currency, well, this sounds not so good. I agree. This might turn off non-american clients, if they would be forced to pay in Dollars. But even this might be no deal breaker for me because most users do come from the US. No checks. Well, not to many use them in my case either.

When I think about what you write, CN, it makes me think about my strategy again.

Maybe I should separate things. Old and New. Instead of migrating current customers I could
a) Keep them where they are and not giving them more access to the other sites. Nothing would have to be changed. The old sites stay as they are and just enjoy the new content via the CMS
b) All NEW customers that would come through the WP/BP front-end would enjoy the All-you-can-eat option, that would practically be a premium part of the social network. The CMS feeds the content accordingly, coming from the three niche sites, that would be still there.

My new idea. Keep the three sites and ad a premium part in the social network.
Feed the all-you-can eat content to all three sites and the premium part via the CMS.

The only less transparent thing would be for old customers who would join the new social network. They could NOT just get access to the premium part although they are paying still for the access to the previous sites.

In case a already paying member would “accidentally” sign-up for the new premium part they could get a refund, if they complain. That could be handled individually.

This might be an easier set-up and would not change too much for current members. And I would maybe need less external resources for mods.

Thanks

G