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What is "Club Express"?
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A number of people have asked about Club Express - who are they, what is it, and why am I getting messages from them? 

Club Express is our website provider, membership management system, mass email system, event management and calendar, and some other things. We signed up for their services in May and have been learning how to use their various functions since then. 

One thing I didn't foresee is how 'present' their brand name would be on all our stuff and how that has confused people. It is not an "app" in the sense that you download or install anything. It is not a website that you log into (like MeetUp or Smugmug or Facebook). 

But when you go to our website, www.bmwclubofhouston.com, as soon as you click on anything it redirects to "bmwclub.clubexpress.com". In this day people are concerned about being redirected to someplace they don't know. But rest assured that is where you are supposed to be. They manage all our stuff now. 

I wish it wasn't so. Other website providers stay in the background and you never know if your website is built by WordPress, Joomla, Google Sites, Weebly, Yahoo, or many others. But Club Express provides a lot more functions than just a website, as I pointed out, so to keep everything integrated and secure they manage the domain. 

As I pointed out previously using their system greatly simplifies the management of things for the club officers. Everything is menu-driven and can be learned quickly by new officers each year after our elections. We used to have half a dozen different applications and systems that only a web expert of php, HTML, and MySQL could understand. That made the club very dependent on me as the admin and a few others (like Leigh). Club Express has an 800 number and they actually answer it in a minute or two. They provide email support and have dozens of videos for training. We didn't have anything like that before. The club management is much more self-sustaining now. (So please feel free to volunteer!)

So that is it in a nutshell. I can answer other questions here or personally by email if you like. I understand it is different from MeetUp and we are working through that learning curve. Let's start a separate thread on that if you like. I just want everyone to understand the big picture of what the club is doing. 


Jerry Matson

If you are interested in understanding more about Club Express you can read a PC Magazine review here: https://www.pcmag.com/review/344711/clubexpress

There is also a YouTube overview here (5 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7BRXraZps
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