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For clinicians, the assiduous and sustained resistance to change common in patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) has been especially noticeable and trying. The narcissistic patient's persistent denial of problems or limitations and lack of motivation for treatment until faced with a major failure have been documented by Kernberg (1985, 1992) and Millon. However, until recently the natural course of NPD has not received much attention in the clinical and empirical literature, and there is very little documented knowledge about the factors that might contribute to changes. Knowledge about the natural course of a disorder is important in evaluating the benefits of treatment.
In a first prospective follow-up study of patients diagnosed with NPD, we investigated the occurrence of changes in pathological narcissism over time (Ronningstam and Gunderson 1995). Twenty patients with clinical NPD diagnoses were interviewed with the Diagnostic Interview for Narcissism (DIN) (Gunderson and colleagues) at baseline and three years later at follow-up, and the patients' baseline scores were compared to their follow-up scores. The DIN includes 33 characteristics for pathological narcissism, 10 of which overlap with the NPD criteria set in DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. The characteristics are grouped into five sections: grandiosity, interpersonal relations, reactiveness, affect and mood states, and social and moral adaptation. In addition to the DIN, an unstructured interview was given to explore the subjects' interval histories regarding personal, vocational and treatment events, and to identify factors that could have contributed to changes in the patients' behavior and experiences of themselves and others.
A significant decrease in the overall level of pathological narcissism occurred over the three-year period. In particular, the patients' narcissistic features had lessened in the area of their interpersonal relations and patterns of reactivity, and their unrealistic grandiose sense of themselves had substantially diminished. Of the nine NPD criteria in DSM-IV, six showed high changeability (>50 percent, defined as the rate of decrease in the DIN presence score of 2), i.e., grandiose fantasies, uniqueness, arrogant and haughty behavior, entitlement, exploitiveness and lack of empathy. Exaggeration of talents and achievements, need for admiration, and envy proved to be more stable. Sixty percent of the subjects significantly improved while 40 percent sustained a high level of pathological narcissism. This was surprising insofar as, by definition, personality disorders are expected to be stable.
Our findings suggested that what appeared to be a narcissistic personality disorder at baseline actually included two types of pathology: one being a context or state-dependent type of pathology, and the other being a more long-term and stable trait pathology. The unimproved group proved to have had a higher level of pathological narcissism in the area of interpersonal relations at baseline, especially in their capacity to become involved in committed long-term relationships. This implies that severely narcissistically disturbed interpersonal relations may be the essential feature that defines patients with narcissistic personality disorder.
Prior research (Ronningstam and Gunderson 1990), as well as clinical and theoretical literature (Millon; Akhtar and Thomson) showed that the definition of NPD relied heavily upon characteristics of grandiosity. Our research shows that a considerable change in grandiosity occurred over the three-year period. This suggests that grandiose self-experience may be a particular mental state that is context-dependent. As such, grandiosity requires a careful assessment with specific consideration both to the patient's developmental stage-late adolescence, early adulthood, middle age-and to the mental state at the time of diagnostic evaluation.
Corrective Life Events
Another surprising result was that intervening treatment experiences (i.e., treatment length, type and intensity) were relatively equally distributed among the improved and unimproved group. In other words, treatment experiences did not differentiate between those narcissistic patients who had an enduring long-term personality disorder and those whose narcissistic pathology underwent change. What seems, however, to be causally related to the improvement in pathological narcissism were corrective life events.
Three types of such events could be identified through the unstructured interviews: those related to achievements, to interpersonal relations and to disillusionments.
Corrective achievements, such as graduations, promotions, recognitions, acceptance to sought-after schools, programs, or positions, etc., were the most common type of life event that contributed to change in pathological narcissism. These events contributed to a more realistic and accepted sense of the self with less need for grandiose fantasies and exaggerations of talents. The following case vignette describes such development.
Case vignette #1. - Mr. A, an extremely intelligent, shy but arrogant 25-year-old man, was a college student and came for psychotherapy because he had suffered from depression for several years. Although an exceptionally competent student, he constantly felt unappreciated. He tended to devote his time in lectures to "giving the teachers and professors a hard time" by criticizing them, and asking "impossible" questions in order to prove their incompetence and make them embarrass themselves in public. He described himself as extraordinarily superior with feelings of disdain and confusion toward people he experienced as different from himself—people who he felt had lower standards and different values than he. He also described himself as intellectually unique, stressing his specific theoretical and philosophical perspectives and high academic standards. He had several close friends among his male peers, but admitted that he experienced severe problems in relating to young women, had difficulty connecting, and felt shy and insecure.
Mr. A came from a very competitive and successful family background. His father was a famous lawyer in his early 60s, and Mr. A described having a complicated relationship, with mixed feelings toward the father. On the one hand he highly admired and idealized his father; on the other hand he despised the father's demands, values and expectations, and tended to take every opportunity to protest against him. While he envied his father and fantasized about becoming as successful, Mr. A also felt inferior, and believed that he would never become as successful as his father. Often he felt deeply misunderstood by his father. After successfully graduating from college, Mr. A decided to work as a pizza deliverer, a decision that he considered to be unusually risky but in line with his "unique approach" to life.
At follow-up time three years later, Mr. A reported a number of important changes and developments in his life. He had been in individual psychotherapy for 18 months and had specifically focused on depression and insecurity. A new job as a university teacher had, according to Mr. A, contributed to the most important change in his behavior and attitude toward himself and others. As a teacher, he had the opportunity to create the specific teaching atmosphere and technique he felt that his former teachers were unable to do. Through his work, he had learned to interact with people, was forced to and actually successfully managed to understand people with different ideas and values, and made efforts to develop specific teaching methods to facilitate learning and intellectual growth for his students. He described himself as more tolerant of criticism. His sense of pride was associated with a far more realistic self-appraisal and markedly diminished derogatory, arrogant behaviors. His relation with his father was still conflictual, but a more sincere desire to identify with the competent successful father had appeared. His relations to women had improved and a two-year relationship with a girlfriend also contributed to a change in Mr. A's self-esteem.
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9. Ronningstam E, Gunderson J, Lyons M. Changes in pathological narcissism. Am J Psychiatry. 1995;152(2):253-257.


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Morro Bay Modernization & Replacement Power Plant Project
Docket Number:
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00-AFC-12C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Licensed; In Compliance Phase, Project Withdrawn.
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on August 2, 2004. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Michal C. Moore, Commissioner, Presiding Member
James D. Boyd, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Gary Fay
Key Dates
Docket Number: 00-AFC-12
- October 23, 2000 - Duke Energy files NEW Application For Certification. AFC assigned docket # 00-AFC-12.
- November 22, 2000 - Executive Director files data adequacy recommendation.
- November 15, 2001 - Part 1 of Final Staff Assessment issued.
- December 19, 2001 - Part 2 of Final Staff Assessment issued.
- April 25, 2002 - Part 3 of Final Staff Assessment issued.
- September 20, 2002 - Staff files Supplemental Assessment on Habitat Enhancement.
- April 30, 2003 - Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- November 21, 2003 - Revised Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- April 16, 2004 - 2nd Revised Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- June 11, 2004 - 3rd Revised Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- July 9, 2004 - Amendments to 3rd Revised Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- August 2, 2004 - Project approved by Energy Commission
- May 22, 2012 - Completion of Phase I, Termination request of Phases II and III.
Docket Number: 99-AFC-6
- December 8, 1998 - Duke Energy Power Services announces that it will undertake repowering of a power plant in California.
- August 31, 1999 - Duke Energy Power files Application For Certification (AFC).
- November 17, 1999 - Commission business meeting on data adequacy.
- December 27, 1999 -- Duke Energy withdraws its AFC.
Duke Energy Morro Bay LLC proposes to modernize the (MW) Morro Bay Power Plant. The "modernization" project is located at the existing 1,002-megawatt (MW) Morro Bay Power Plant site that is owned and operated by Duke Energy. The old plant would be replaced by a proposed 1,200 MW facility, for a net increase of 198 MW. This site is located within the City of Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, near Morro Bay Harbor, bordered on the west by Embarcadero Road and on the east by Highway 1.
The applicant (Duke Energy) proposes construction of two new generating units which replace the currently operating generation Units 1 and 2 (342 MW, 1950's technology) and Units 3 and 4 (679 MW, 1960's technology) with two state-of-the-art 600 MW combined cycle units. Upon completion of the project, the Plant will be capable of producing a total of 1,200 MW. Each new unit will consist of two gas-fired turbines and one steam turbine driven by the heat produced by the other two turbines. Each new unit will have two, 145 foot tall stacks compared with the existing plant's three 450 foot tall stacks.
The new combined cycle units will continue to use the existing once-through seawater cooling system that includes an intake structure that draws water from Morro Bay and an ocean out fall which discharges into Estero Bay. Power from the combined cycle units will tie into the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) Morro Bay Switchyard that is located immediately adjacent to the power plant. No offsite transmission lines or transmission line upgrades are required by the power plant. Natural gas will be delivered by the existing (PG&E) pipeline and distribution system.
Duke Energy plans to complete construction of two new generating units in a single construction phase lasting 21 months. Based on construction beginning mid-2003, full scale commercial operation will begin the first quarter of calendar year 2005, if the project is approved by the Commission.
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MemberMouse gives you everything you need to easily manage a successful online business. No matter if you sell digital products, subscription content, software as a service, or ship physical goods, MemberMouse provides a flexible platform that you can quickly shape to your business, with absolutely no programming required. MemberMouse gets you up and running quickly, and handles many of the common tasks in your business, freeing you to focus on your value proposition. Without a doubt, MemberMouse is one of the easiest ways to start your own online business.
Register new members and accept orders with highly configurable and easy to use checkout pages.
Easily password protect pages to deliver premium content, PDFs, videos, software and more.
Let customers update their profile, billing details, email, password, cancel subscriptions, and more.
Get a handle on critical metrics including sales, lifetime value by source, retention and more.
April 9, 2020
In this episode of our podcast, you'll hear from expert email marketer Brennan Hopkins about why email marketing should absolutely be one of your top priorities. Plus, he reveals his time-tested campaigns that are sure to help you make more money in your business.
April 2, 2020
In this episode of our podcast (we really should have called it a Masterclass), you'll hear from Jack Born of Deadline Funnel as he gives you a master's level education in marketing funnels.
March 26, 2020
In this exclusive interview with master marketer André Chaperon, we dive deep into the systems and frameworks that will help you attract your perfect audience and build a successful business. Don't miss this one!
MemberMouse is a WordPress membership plugin. Simply download the plugin and upload it to your WordPress installation, and you instantly get a flexible and feature-rich platform to grow almost any type of business.
The obvious advantage of using WordPress, is that it's a reliable, proven, and easy to use content management system. So much so, it's estimated that WordPress powers roughly 16% of the web.
It makes sense to use WordPress as the basis for your site, because you can get your website up and running quickly, at a low cost. It's a proven, scalable platform. And you have access to thousands of plugins, themes, and developers to easily customize, optimize, and extend the functionality of your website.
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No matter if you're selling digital products, subscription content, software as a service, or shipping physical goods, you need to deliver your core-value content in a protected area after a sign-up or a sale.
You can quickly and easily protect:
MemberMouse makes it easy to deliver your product and customize its delivery based on membership level, duration of membership, referring affiliate and more. Selling one-off products and setting up "time-release" drip content schedules is a breeze. We also have a content "widget" that you can drop into your theme that will display what content is available to your members and what content will be released in the future. No other WordPress membership plugin even comes close.
SmartTags are shortcodes that allow you to add all kinds of functionality to your WordPress pages without having to know anything about programming.
SmartTags put you in the driver's seat, and allow you to display dynamic content such as member details, upsells based on other products purchased, or even targeted offers based on the referring affiliate.
SmartTags allow you to dynamically display content, member attributes, offers, upsells, downsells, and more using simple shortcodes. Put a decision tag on a confirmation page or thank you page and display relevant products after a purchase. The possibilities are endless. Because MemberMouse functions as part content-protection system and part CRM, you get unparalleled flexibility to display dynamic content such as first name, last name, products ordered, membership level, referring affiliate and more. SmartTags allow you to be creative and customize your website and sales process in ways that other WordPress membership plugins and CRM platforms simply can't match.
MemberMouse provides you with a suite of automated customer support tools. The "My Account" page gives a customer the ability to update their billing address, contact details, username and password, cancel their account and more.
MemberMouse will also email a customer when their card is declined, which saves you both time and money on customer service. It's things like this that make MemberMouse stand out from the competition.
When you're just starting out, your time spent on customer support might be negligible. But once you become even moderately successful, customer support can quickly become a burden if it's not streamlined. Ever try and manage a subscription site using nothing but PayPal? If so, then you know what a headache it can be. MemberMouse always keeps your billing and access rights in sync, so you never have to log in to two systems to manage your business. MemberMouse's automated customer self-service features will save you a bundle of money, and give your customers a smooth and professional experience with your brand.
Making decisions using average customer value as a bell-weather is a proven way to build a business with revenues in excess of 7 figures. Without a clear understanding of customer value, you have no way of accurately knowing the return on investment of your marketing dollars.
Improving retention is a time-tested approach to improving profits. Consider that just a 5% increase in customer retention can increase your profits by something like 75%.
To sum it up, the Advanced Reporting Suite gives you the ability to run your business by the numbers. It's the most reliable way to scale your business and bring revenue in the door. Entry level MemberMouse plans get access to basic reporting. Customer Value, Churn and Retention metrics and reports require a MemberMouse Advanced Plan or above. Don't miss out on these powerful metrics that can give you the insights you need to take your business to the next level. You can't get this level of reporting with any other WordPress membership plugin on the market.
Password protected member's area, easily protect pages, and deliver unique member home pages for each membership level.
Comprehensive member management including order history, engagement statistics, access rights, pause, cancel, refund and more.
Let customers update their personal and billing information, cancel their account, reset passwords and more.
Checkout pages configure themselves and are easily edited within WordPress. Get your checkout looking exactly how you want it.
Our extensive shortcode library adds dynamic functionality to your site without having to code. Display customer details, upgrades and more.
Maximize revenue with advanced billing functionality such as card-on-file and 1-click upsells.
Setup delivery schedules for your content and time-release programs. Easily copy schedules to different membership levels.
Sit back and let MemberMouse automatically downsell your customers when they attempt to cancel, increasing your revenue.
MemberMouse allows you to setup different price points for the same membership level to make split-testing prices easy.
Create one-time purchase products, recurring subscriptions, free trials, paid trials, payment plans, coupons and more.
Promoting your membership, products, and special offers on Facebook and Twitter is easy using MemberMouse's direct buy links.
Yes! We've got it. You can set the currency customers will pay you in and how prices will be displayed across the site. Learn more
Add support and sales accounts to your back-end without exposing access to your content or site configuration. (*Builder Plan and above).
In addition to the standard content protection mechanisms, MemberMouse can automatically lock accounts who share their login with others.
MemberMouse only integrates with PCI compliant billing vendors to make sure your customer data is always safe and secure.
Your members can gift memberships and bundles to other people. Makes it easy for people to share your membership site with friends.
Use MemberMouse's API and Push Notification system for external procedures such as physical fulfillment, call center notifications and more.
Make it easy for your members to register and login using social login functionality for the major social networks, Facebook, Twitter & Google+.
MemberMouse will optionally apply an appropriate discount to the customer's first charge during a membership level upgrade.
MemberMouse advanced plans and up have access to churn and retention metrics to help monitor and improve retention and profits.
MemberMouse will automatically email customers whose cards have been declined, keeping your revenue healthy, automatically.
Capture extended information about your customers anywhere on your site, even spread out a capture form over multiple pages.
Our database queries have been fine-tuned for maximum speed and reliability that both you and your customers will appreciate.
Selling additional products to your members is one of the easiest ways to increase profits. And the easiest way to do that is by using 1-click upsells. This one feature alone can add serious revenue to your business.
You can optionally ask the customer to confirm the order, or simply process the sale without confirmation. Note: this functionality requires a card-on-file billing gateway such as Stripe.
Fortune 500 companies like Amazon and Apple use 1-click buy functionality to add millions of dollars in revenue to their sales processes. Isn't it time you got on the 1-click gravy train? And don't forget, MemberMouse also helps you "save-the-sale" when a member is thinking about canceling, so you can offer them a special discounted subscription before they go. All of these features add up to a lot more revenue in your pocket. There is a reason seven-figure business owners choose MemberMouse.
MemberMouse works with virtually every affiliate platform in existence.
Almost every affiliate platform uses pixel-tracking code to detect when a sale is made. By placing pixel-tracking code on MemberMouse confirmation pages you can track commissions with ease, using the software of your choosing. But there are even more powerful options available.
MemberMouse also offers powerful "commission profiles" and "partner payouts" that allow you to fine tune how and when a commission is generated. Setup revenue splits, claw back commissions on refunds, and track commissions on rebills. It's all happening! Heck, you can even create your own home-brewed affiliate system by combining our commission profiles with our push notification system (so you can send an email or call a custom script when new sales or rebill events occur).
Pixel-tracking is for amateurs you say? Fair enough. With our direct integration partners, commissions are generated only when MemberMouse says so. No more innacurate reports, no slippage. Every sale and commission is tracked with precision, and communication between your affiliate platform and MemberMouse is seamless. Automatically create new affiliate accounts when new members sign up, which means more money for everyone. Do we recommend doing things this way? You bet.
These guys have been in the affiliate tracking business for nearly 15 years. That's a long time. You can imagine they've got things figured out quite well by this point, and that's exactly why MemberMouse provides a direct integration with iDevAffiliate. Their pricing is great too. Learn more
MemberMouse works with any affiliate platform. The tightness of the communication between the systems is up to you. Ease in with pixel-tracking. Or choose one of our direct integrations for immediate power and unparalleled accuracy, or even use our push notification system and the API of your affiliate platform for your own custom, airtight affiliate integration, it's up to you!
MemberMouse integrates with best-in-class service providers for payment gateways and email marketing. We're constantly identifying and integrating with the smartest providers to maximize your results. Our "card-on-file" integrations will allow for 1-click upsells that do not require the customer to enter their credit card details when making additional purchases. At MemberMouse, we're committed to integrating with the most advanced platforms available to us, in order to maximize the revenue of your business.
Mailing lists are automatically kept up-to-date when new members join or when an existing account is changed.
MemberMouse also allows you to segment your list based on product purchases, so you can easily send targeted promotions to your customers. Integrating is easy, and takes just minutes.
MemberMouse fully integrates with the leading billing providers to make sure that your customer accounts are always in sync.
If a payment is declined by the payment processor, MemberMouse will automatically update the account status to reflect the decline, and send a recovery email. You'll never have to worry about billing being out of sync again.
With MemberMouse's API, Push Notification System, PHP Interface, and WordPress hooks, you can communicate and integrate with any system external to MemberMouse. It's easy to:
Forget spending weeks or months patching different systems together, which usually leads to an unsatisfactory and less than ideal "ad-hoc" configuration. Since MemberMouse extends WordPress, your CRM and billing functionality are effectively integrated into your website. That means you don't have to figure out how to tie the two together, which is a major hurdle with any other approach. Let MemberMouse centralize and streamline the administration of your billing, so you can spend more time growing it and less time duct taping it together.
You may recognize some of our clients. Many of them are multi-million dollar membership and subscription businesses, who trust MemberMouse to handle their day-to-day operations. MemberMouse delivers the reliability and scalability necessary to handle thousands of customers without flinching. Our team has tested a million orders through the platform in a single day, and MemberMouse passed the test with flying colors.
"After spending 6 weeks evaluating different membership plugins (DAP, WishList, S2 Member, etc...), MemberMouse was a clear winner. I was able to get our site up and running in an afternoon. The level of documentation, support and functionality was much higher than competition. We've been using MemberMouse for 9 months and have no plans to switch. Additionally, hiring and working with a development team has been much easier thanks to documentation, their active support model and a sound architecture."
- Martin Wilson
"When we first started comparing membership solutions, we checked out all the usual suspects. We chose MemberMouse because it was designed to scale well for high volume merchants. It's well built, stable, and easy to use. The guys over at MemberMouse really know how develop software, and it shows. If you're serious about getting best-in-class technology for your business, I can't recommend MemberMouse enough."
- Tyler Sorensen
"After spending considerable time reviewing every membership plugin under the sun, and test driving the top contenders, we chose MemberMouse. The plugin is easy to use, the interface is very intuitive and the system has the flexibility we need. Their support is also among the best we've ever had from a software company. We're very happy to recommend them."
- Laura Femino
"MemberMouse is a rock-solid membership platform. It's a breeze to integrate with WordPress, and the attention to detail is phenomenal. The 1-click upsell, save a sale, and cancellation processes are built specifically for high-volume direct response marketers, and I've never found them anywhere else. Customer support is first-class, and updates are released frequently. If you are looking for a Wordpress membership platform, choose MemberMouse, you'll be glad you did."
- Dan Caron
Our programmers have architected systems for Wal-Mart, British Airways, Sony Pictures, the Department of Defense, and Barnes and Noble. They're not marketers turned programmers, or guys who decided to outsource the development. They're in-house, enterprise-level system architects, not simply "developers" or "coders." That means you get unparalleled "mission critical" performance and reliability, which are crucial to keeping your business running like a well-oiled machine. Other solutions may fill a quick need, but if you're looking for an intelligent, comprehensive WordPress membership plugin that can scale with your business, look no further.
MemberMouse was designed from the ground up to be a blank canvas for any type of membership or subscription business. Because MemberMouse is built on WordPress, you can configure every aspect of your site, down to the checkout pages and customer self-service pages which your customers use to update their member details and billing information. WordPress is a mature, extremely stable and scalable platform that can get you up and running quickly. It's the most widespread and widely supported platform on the web. And it makes sense to build your business on it for a variety of reasons, including widespread access to themes, plugins and developers. MemberMouse gives you a feature-set that is designed to be flexible and takes many different "use cases" into account, so you're less likely to be backed into a corner as is often the case with other solutions.
MemberMouse is an "off the shelf" solution that gives you an easy way to deliver digital and physical subscription products, manage your customers, and grow your business. Why re-invent the wheel? MemberMouse takes care of all the common tasks associated with operating a subscription business, without the headache or financial risk of developing these functions in-house. Right out of the box, you get fully customizable checkout pages, a highly configurable password protected member's area, a "my account" page for customers to update their profile and billing details, and much more. The fact is, WordPress has become more than a blogging platform. It is a mature, stable, and feature rich framework that makes sense for almost every business. You could spend months and thousands of dollars on custom development, only to find it's not what you want. Or you could choose WordPress and MemberMouse and hit the ground with the easiest, most reliable, scalable membership platform available today.
MemberMouse is more than just a script to provide a password protected member's area. It's an enterprise-class WordPress membership plugin that tracks all of the critical metrics associated with a subscription business. Want to know your customer lifetime value? Want to know your retention rate? Want to know your refund rate? Without these numbers, it's impossible to make decisions, improve weakness, and intelligently scale your business. If you're not using data to drive your marketing decisions, if you're not paying attention to the numbers, then you're wandering in the dark. Sure, there are other membership plug-ins out there, but they don't come close to providing you with the direct response analytics that are absolutely key to growing your business.
Our competitors will shout from the hills that you only have to pay a one-time fee for their plugin. They'll proclaim that their software is "open source" and you can make all the changes you want to the code! The problem with this approach is that if you make changes to the structure of the application, you break the ability to upgrade the software. Which means, if you customize that plugin at all, there is a good chance you won't ever be able to upgrade your platform. With MemberMouse, we provide professional grade interfaces such as our API, Push Notification System, PHP Interface, and WordPress hooks. The entire purpose of these tools are to allow you to customize the platform, and adapt it to your business, without breaking future compatibility. That means, as we release new features and make improvements, you will always be able to benefit from these improvements, and won't be stuck with an antiquated, ever-aging code base. You won't find this level of architecture in any other WordPress membership plugin on the market.
MemberMouse has been designed to be easy to use. But that doesn't mean you won't need a helping hand from time to time. And that's why we've designed our entire support center to be video-based, so that you can see exactly how to use MemberMouse.
We've left no stone unturned, and every page of the application has a video associated it. Here's just one example video from our very comprehensive Support Center:
By using MemberMouse, you can also participate in a forward thinking community of business builders. The MemberMouse Community includes all current MemberMouse customers. Consider it a place to share tips and tricks, best practices, and success stories. We believe that there is tremendous value in building a community that can foster growth and provide ancillary support above and beyond our in-house customer support. The community is also a place to highlight bugs (they're few and far between, but we still like to squash them) and vote on feature requests. We take your feedback and your user experience seriously and will take your comments into consideration as we continue to improve the platform. You can find the community forums by visiting our Support Center, just look for the "General Discussion" link.
You should take a moment to explore the support center even before you sign up. It'll give you insights into the platform that you can't get anywhere else. None of our competitors provide this level of pre-sale transparency or in-depth video support. All of our plans come with email support, and our Premium and Professional plans come with phone support.
Take a look at our support center, and compare it with any of our competitors. It's very thorough and very useful.Visit The Support Center
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We've designed our pricing to be affordable for businesses of all sizes. If you're just getting started, the Starter Plan will get you off the ground quickly at a low monthly price. As your business scales and you require more powerful features, you can easily upgrade to one of our Advanced or Premium plans. Our recommend plan for most users is the $99/month Advanced Plan. Consider the fact that it only takes 5 members paying you $20 per month to subsidize a MemberMouse Advanced Plan. With pricing this friendly, you have no reason not to get started. And remember, all plans come with a 14-day free trial.
If you're a developer, you'll be able to crank out membership sites with ease using MemberMouse. Here are some of the features we think you will find relevant as a developer. If you're not a developer, don't let this scare you, just know MemberMouse has a lot of power under the hood if you need it.
MemberMouse comes with fully functional page templates out-of-the-box, but you're not locked into these templates. All of the functional elements are delivered via shortcodes and you can safely move items around, restyle them as you see fit which means you can create entirely custom layouts for even your most demanding clients and not have to worry about breaking anything.
Our shortcodes allow you to dynamically display content based on member attributes such as the "referring affiliate," "number of days as member," "products purchased," "membership level," and more. And with our PHP Interface you have access to all the power of our shortcodes within WordPress templates so you can build dynamic templates based on membership information without having to understand the inner-workings of MemberMouse.
MemberMouse supports dozens of sites with 50,000 users or more without ever breaking a sweat. Our developers have designed and built systems for Wal-Mart, Sony Pictures, British Airways, Barnes & Noble and more. Give your clients world-class solutions without breaking the bank.
shortcode example <p>Welcome, [MM_Member_Data name='firstName']!</p> <ul> <li>Membership Level: [MM_Member_Data name='membershipName']</li> <li>Days as Member: [MM_Member_Data name='daysAsMember'] days</li> </ul>
With our comprehensive support center, you can be sure that your decision to use MemberMouse is not only good for you, but for your clients as well. Plus, we have customer support personnel who are not only technical wizards, but also run their own online businesses.
Easily modify, add and remove code from core MemberMouse functionality without touching the core files. Other companies offer it as a benefit that you can modify their code but once you do this you can't receive any updates. Our approach gives you the flexibility you need, without breaking future upgrade ability.
There may be times when you want to perform an action when a common event occurs on your site. For example, you may want to update a 3rd party system when a member joins, or you may want to email a fulfillment warehouse when a particular product is purchased. With Push Notifications, you can create automated processes to handle all of your business routines. When a push notification event is triggered, you can send an email (which can include data about the member) or call a custom script to connect with another system's API (which can also include data about the member).
When a push notification event is triggered, you can call a custom script or send an email. You can pass data to either of these actions that make it easy to automate your own unique business processes. Many of our customers write scripts to connect with the APIs of other platforms to accomplish all kinds of things, ranging from connecting to customer service platforms, to text message providers, and more. The possibilities are endless!
Answer: MemberMouse has a powerful import wizard that allows you migrate users from any 3rd party membership system or WordPress membership plugin. You simply upload a file that contains all of your member information including email, username, password, access rights, custom field data and more and the import wizard will create an account for each member in the file. The import wizard has built-in intelligence for migrating over from another WordPress plugin. MemberMouse seamlessly integrates with the WordPress user system so while processing the import file, if the user already exists in WordPress, MemberMouse will simply use the existing account and add on the specific member data. This means that following the import, all of your existing WordPress users will be valid MemberMouse members and still be able to login using their same exact username and password. To learn more about getting your users migrated to MemberMouse, watch the import wizard video in the Support Center.
Answer: Yes. Upgrading is easy. Simply login to this MemberMouse website with your username and password. Then, in your "My Account" section, you will find a link to upgrade or cancel your account. Unlike many of our competitors, we use our own software to run our business. So when you upgrade your account, you're using MemberMouse to change membership levels, just like you could have your own customers do when they want to upgrade membership levels.
Answer: The plugin runs on your own server, just like any other WordPress membership plugin. We have a licensing server that the plugin checks-in with to verify that your account is active. If for any reason our licensing server goes down temporarily, your plugin will still function properly. We understand that uptime is critical to high volume businesses, and you can sleep soundly knowing that we have contingency plans in place to handle any potential downtime on our end.
Answer: The code behind MemberMouse conforms to the highest standards for WordPress plugin development, and will always function correctly with other well-written plugins and themes. However, if you're running a ton of plugins or using a theme created by an inexperienced developer, there maybe times when you notice that something is not working quite the way it should. The reason for this is almost always a plugin written by a less experienced developer, who is not following WordPress development best practices. If you notice errant behavior, simply disable all of your plugins (besides MemberMouse), and enable them one by one, until you find the plugin that is causing the conflict. MemberMouse is continually updated so that it always functions with the latest version of WordPress.
Answer: We have a group of qualified contractors than can help you with your website. Developing MemberMouse is our top priority, we still have a number of features that we want to implement, and we will always be focused on improving the platform, so our in-house team is not available for development services. Although, we are willing to have discussions with your outside developer or one of our qualified contractors on how to implement and extend MemberMouse to suit your needs.
Answer: If you are considering an Advanced Plan or above, and have additional questions that have not been addressed on this page, you can email our support queue with the subject line: "Advanced Plan Inquiry," and we'll address your pre-sales questions as soon as possible. In many cases, looking at our Integration, API and Push Notification documentation in detail will give you the answers you need.
Answer: While we try to outline all of the functionality of MemberMouse on this site, the easiest way to determine if MemberMouse will serve your purposes is to sign up for the 14-Day Free Trial and try it out for yourself. Once you see how MemberMouse can be adapted to your business, your implementation questions will answer themselves. All of the major functionality is provided in the Free Trial, and we're quite confident you'll see how easy and flexible the platform is. If you still have a specific question about functionality, please email us.


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a Tesla for folks not in the 1%
a Tesla for folks not in the 1%
Wait a couple years the GenIII is coming and will be the car you want.
Check this old post for full details.
Sounds like my 1993 Ford Escort wagon conversion lol!! Using 20 6V deep cycle marine batteries 120V nominal DC, Curtis 1221C motor speed controller, Advanced DC 9" dual shaft DC motor, Todd DC/DC converter and a few (ok alot) of man hours. Drove that thing for just over 3 years as a daily driver. While I waited for an EV-1 lease to come available, sadly I never got one.
The problem for BEV affordability seems to begin and end with the batteries, put enough in the car to make it useful then it's too expensive on the other hand put few enough in the car to make it affordable then the car is not useful due to limited range capability. With no BIG battery energy density / cost breakthrough looming it might be awhile before we see the needle move towards an affordable "desirable" BEV.
Those cars are made now. And most have a range more than 45 miles.
And second, Tesla's aren't just for the top 1%, although they certainly are luxury sedans. Perhaps more like the top 10%.
The price of the Model S is not what I'd call reasonable if viewed from the other 90 - 99% of the car buying public and is on the bleeding edge even in 40kw form for the majority of the public who must justify it on their family budget sheet.
Teslarumors.com asked the question, "Can you afford NOT to but a Model S?" based on 5-10 year TCO, using conservative depreciation rates etc. You can probably tack on about $1-2000/yr value that people put on skipping the gas station experience, too.
People buy solar roofs and other assets based on that kind of calculus. Don't underestimate the public or the market.
@jdmd & @Mark22: I would disagree. I am no were close the top 10% or let alone top 1%. However, I am getting one (P8460). It is all about planning and budgeting. It is tough (trust me) but it isn't impossible.
@Brian H: Definitely one of the many reasons that I added to my reasons of getting a Model S. Have been following Tesla since 2006 - so close to getting mine (2/21 - 3/7)!
Desai, if you were to put a $ value on avoiding gas stations, what would it be per year? Assume identical cars, same costs, but one refills at home. How much is that worth?
If you live in Norway people that can afford Model S equals people that can afford a car. Any car.
GenIII whatever it is MUST offer some value over Focus Leaf etc. when introduced. $40,000 for 75 mile range just won't cut it. Tesla has set the bar pretty high and if GenIII is just another attempt at an affordable BEV that offers nothing more than others existing at that time, my guess is that it will be met with limited acceptance.
Tesla branding "might" help to a point with some sighting the performance and cutting edge tech of preceding offerings "Model S & model X" but at the end of the day we are going to need to see something near Model S / X type range capability @ say $25-27K to tip the scales if the climate remains as it is as far as BEV acceptance / affordability.
Additionally as has been mentioned elsewhere in these forums "we are moving from pioneers to settlers" and in a click and ship world GenIII is going to have to have MUCH better supply / availability of vehicles and a ramp up of communication from Tesla throughout the ordering and delivery process. Joe car buyer might not be able or willing to cough up 5K and then wait 3-6 months or more to get a finalize button. then wait weeks / months? more to get the veh.
He will also be more likely to be trading in another veh. to assist in the purchase, another area where Tesla is currently hampered with no dealer network to handle the inflow of used assets coming in on trade. Make no mistake folks this is a "heavy lift".
I hope they can pull it off but it is bound to be a rough ride.
Maybe the GenIII trade-in problem will solve itself; the car will be so popular that ICE cars will be virtually worthless on trade-in except for scrap value because no one will want them, so TM will just have to hook up with scrap dealers. ;) ;p >B-0
@Superliner GenIII whatever it is MUST offer some value over Focus Leaf etc. when introduced. $40,000 for 75 mile range just won't cut it.
How about that @ 0-60 in 3 secs? :-) (twin motors and all that)
Realistically, if Model S 40kWh version starts at approx $50k and has 160mile battery I would expect GenIII $30k getting at least same range (it's smaller which equals better CdA, even if they use heavier and cheaper materials).
Also the beauty of the Tesla.
Somebody has to pay for the design and innovation costs. This is super expensive and it still is a start up company. Nothing on this scale has ever been done with ev so that is why the costs are high. If you read Elon's report from 2006 subtitled "just between you and me" you will see a brilliant business model that is coming to fruition. It also Lays out the plans for a more affordable version down the road.
Um I think you haven't looked at the new 2013 leaf. 75 miles real worldrange, bare bones, 28,800 BEFORE tax credit. This is what you are describing
300+ mile range for the price of a prius will compel millions to convert. Build it and they will come as they say. Tesla needs a couple years to prepare internal systems for this tidal wave of business. Not a matter of will, but when...
Right now the biggest limitation is the price of batteries. However, the price and performance of battery technology is rapidly improving so it is just a matter of time. The next biggest cost I expect is the price of all of that aluminum instead of steel. I suspect the cost of the electric motor is not that much, likely a lot less then a gasoline engine, though the big inverters are probably not all that cheap (though the price should drop with quantity).
I am not in the 1%. I am just careful with my budget and threw every extra penny I had into paying off my house. Once that's done, everything else is a lot easier. It also helps that I bought my house at the right time (1997).
@ Timo
0-60 in 3 sec. or twin motors etc. is not what I and perhaps many want or expect out of our daily ride. I've made commutes of as little as 4 miles to as many as 115 round trip for more than 30 years, and can probably count the times on one hand that I found a need or desire to blast to 60 mph from a dead stop. Whats MUCH more useful is in the 45 or 50 to 65 or 70 mph range for merging passing etc.
Drag racing belongs on the strip IMHO
Yes I have.. and here is what I found! By the way it won't allow me to configure a 2013 currently. $35,200 for an SV and $37,250 for an SL as soon as you click the configure link. These prices exclude tax, lic, etc so at the end of the day $40k or certainly within spitting distance. The tax credit is at this point pie in the sky and a year away for Joe car buyer. Want one today it will cost you close to $40K out the door or on the back end of your lease if you terminate.
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I believe if Tesla is successful over the next couple years, then there will be a car for you within the next 10 years jdmd, if not from Tesla, then a competitor or partner.
BTW, I'm not in the 1% (but definitely I am very fortunate to be able to afford a Tesla).
If you are in North America, you can make it into the 1% if you really want it bad enough... Even people who can barely speak english when they arrive here can be millionaires within a decade if they work hard and smart enough, I know quite a few of them and most of them started from nothing...
You may be familiar with a young middle class kid from a country that was diving for the weeds with a knack for programming, he later started a company called Tesla Motors... He was not born a billionaire!
I do not buy that class warfare crap about the 1% versus the 99%... Malcontents without vision or too lazy to innovate or work hard I call it. Get some discipline and save your money, invest it or build a business or something... This is America, you are free to succeed or fail on your own merits here. If a lowly paid schoolteacher can afford a Model S by saving up for it so can you! Sure there are a lot of displaced workers with outdated skills or degrees, the politicians lie about everything, this 'jobless' recovery is no recovery at all, we are still in recession and a lot of people are still hurting, but such is life - it beats socialism - just ask any Cuban or North Korean! In a free market their is always hope because we can make our own future...
Hope is not doled out like government cheese, it spring forth from the freedom to make a better outcome for yourself and your family...
"battery cost is the limiting factor"
Lets assume 40kWh for 150+ mile real life range.
Lets use same Panasonic NCR18650a as is in Model S for that (should be cheap as dirt by then, but lets take current day price) ~$7 (cheaper for Tesla perhaps) / cell. 40kWh equals about 3600 cells. That's $25200 for batteries alone.
That leaves $4800 for rest of the car for $30k price tag. Not likely, but in the limits of possibility. Wont be premium no matter how you look at that though.
Drop to $5 / cell: 18000 for battery, 12000 for rest of the car. Now that starts to look more feasible.
So it all depends of the battery prices by the time GenIII affordable car (bluestar) appears.
@FLsportscarenth, I concur, making money is not difficult. Hard, but not difficult.
I have tested a Nissan Leaf.
I had driven 97 km with it, and the battery was almost empty (only 10 km were left).
I am also waiting for a good Tesla Car that really is affordable.
When will Tesla show their next car (after the Roadster, Model S, and Model X)? In 2013 / 2014 / 2015?
@ FLsportscarenth
That's all true, but I did not see anyone in this thread complaining about that?? My point is.. If Tesla wants more market share and ultimately more BEV's on the road which would benefit all now and in the future, then they will have to move down market.
I guesstimate that the GenIII will be revealed, and reservations opened for deposits, in late 2014. One year of collecting reservations, and then deliveries begin late 2015-early 2016.
I don't think Tesla will ever sell a car with a 45 mile range. The company DNA requires that the range be substantial, as does the supercharger network.
Generation III will need to be in the 200+ mile range to be seriously thought of as a Tesla. For an Audi A3 equivalent, this means at least 50 kWh.
They've got two years for battery prices to come down. Remember, this means per kWh, not per cell, so the quickest way to get there is for new cells to hold more charge, so fewer cells would be needed. I don't think the price per cell will drop that much, but a number of 2x improvements have been announced, so if even one of those pans out partially (say a 1.7x improvement), that would be good enough for a very nice Generation III car to be sold from $30K to $60K.
I think that first of all the Supercharger network will have to be completed in USA, Europe and Asia, before Tesla Motors will become a brand that sells really big numbers of cars annually.
@Super That is the plan... GENIII is the goal and a very worthy one... Providing that it has the Tesla DNA (decent range - 200 miles, sporty looks and high quality, SC option would be nice too). My point was that if someone wants a model S, it is within reach, go for it! I admire that schoolteacher for getting one... It is not limited to the 1% or 10% or whatnot.
@Benz Agree with your estimate, a 2015 production date will give time for the price of the batteries to go down - the biggest problem right now... SC Network will bring Tesla from a Porsche like niche car to the big leagues... As long as they keep building the North American network and there is plans or desire to expand it to Europe, Australia and Asia the concept will help sell Tesla...
When I read the title of this thread, I already thought that this car must be expensive. But I guess being expensive doesn't necessarily just plain expensive, but rather something that will be worth it. I know Tesla always produces quality cars that's why whatever the price of the cars are, it's just right.
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(Cross posted from the Model X thread)
paraphrased question: Why delay the Gen III by developing the Model X? Why not go straight to the Gen III?
I think a major under appreciated factor affecting the timing of the Gen III is the battery cost. If the Gen III were completely designed and ready for production now it would flop. Why? Because the cost of the battery is currently too high to make an affordable AND desirable electric car. We need 3-4 more years of 8% per annum battery improvement/cost decline to make the Gen III possible. Therefore most likely Gen III will begin production in late 2016 or early 2017.
Therefore the extra volume & profits of the Model X will help make the Gen III both possible and successful.
More profits equals more money available for Gen III R & D.
More volume (Model X combined with Model S) equals economies of scale necessary to drive battery & battery pack production costs down.
Also, Mod X addressed a different aspect of the market's need, and took less alteration of the Model S design. Mod X was a minor deviation; GenIII is a semi-major one.
I hope that the Tesla C 3 fase car will be more affordable than the leaf sins even that car is out of my league
Not likely, Maiky. Tesla is a high-end brand, so even their "affordable car" will most likely be competing with middle-level BMW, Audi, MB etc.
OTOH BEV is so much cheaper to keep that you should calculate if it gets cheaper than your current car in long run and then calculate if you can afford it by taking car loan (and pay that loan back by saved gas costs).
Eventually, there will be a REAL low end version, which people will nickname the "TesKia". >:)
Good point. Sounds realistic to me.
Gen III is targetted to cut MS costs in half. I think the battery will be bigger than you project, and the price before options a bit lower.
@Brian H
Would Tesla Motors consider to introduce a stationcar (before the introduction of the GEN III car)? These stationcars are very popular actually (certainly in Europe). And every car company has got these on offer. I am thinking of a stationcar which will be on the same platform as the Model S and the Model X. I believe these are the GEN II cars, right?
Benz, I'm guessing that you mean station wagon with station car. At least I don't know what station car means.
Well, here in The Netherlands "stationcar" is a very commonly used word. Maybe you are right, and the official word is "station wagon". But I understand that you do know now what I mean?
Elon has talked about "variants" on the Model S, and that might be one of them.
Good to know that there just might be more "variants" coming (next to the Tesla Model S and the Tesla Model X). That would be just fantastic.
It's good for the buyers that they will have more options to choose from, because of their own individual situation (they can buy what suits them best). And it's good for Tesla Motors as well to offer more options to the buyers, because the buyers then will not have to go to another car company, to make their personally optimal choise.


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The Sterling Heights plant used to produce the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger but was slotted for closing last year because, well, it used to produce the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger.
It seems a colony of approximately 100 feral cats have existed in the plant for two decades and, as the plant closed, the management was talking about "getting rid of the cats." Great, more proactive Chrysler decision making. Why make anything better when you can just axe things?
The Viper? Gone. Durango? Dead. Sebring? On its way out. PT Cruiser? You'll be able to buy it forever, apparently, but it'll be the same car. Jeep? Ready for adoption.
Thankfully, authorities were alerted and a group is now taking care of the colony; feeding and neutering them to control the population. Sadly, this may actually be better treatment then any of Chrysler's workers will be getting for working at the plant for 20 years.
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