Types of Membership Sites

Coming Up With membership Site Ideas

Starting Your First Ever Membership Site - Quickly and Easily Finding New Members

Getting People To Stay As Members

Increasing Your Income

 

Types of Membership Sites

 

People generally join membership sites for two main reasons:

 They want to access content on a regular basis (the content you are offering – which could be downloads, a course, personal mentoring, etc.)

 

 They want to join a community and wish to meet likeminded individuals

Some membership sites cover both – for example there is a members content area AND a forum where members can chat with each other and share information.

 

Other membership sites focus on just one or the other. Your membership site could simply consist of a private forum where people swap information. In fact lots of such sites exist out there – consider for example JV clubs, adswap forums etc.

 

Whatever type of membership site you decide to set up, it can either be free or paid.

 

Some membership sites are free and make money through means such as advertising.

 

In this report we’re going to concentrate on paid membership sites – that is where people pay money to be a member, whether the fee is monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly etc – it’s really up to you.

 

The important thing is that your content more than justifies the membership fee!

 

Trust me, if your site provides content less valuable than the fee then people will start un-subscribing in their droves!

 

As we mentioned earlier, one of the big challenges of running a membership site is keeping people as members over the long term. Sure, people will always lapse their membership (that’s just the nature of this business, no matter how good your site is) but you obviously want to try to minimise the amount and maximize the lifetime revenue generated from each member.

 

Coming Up With Membership Site Ideas

 

If you want to start a membership site then one of the first things you’re going to need to do is generate some ideas.

 

You might already have an idea for a membership site. If you’re already established in a particular niche it might be that you want to effectively carry on what you are doing but instead charge people a monthly fee.

 

You might also be entering a new niche and already have a good idea for a membership site.

But what if you DON’T have any ideas?

 

Well, basically anyone can start a membership site and the ideas stage doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might imagine.

 

The first thing I would say is ‘don’t reinvent the wheel.’ I know this gets said a lot but most of the time it is absolutely true.

 

Listen – there are very few completely new ideas under the sun – and often the best methods and ideas are 

those that are tried and tested.

 

Starting Your First Ever Membership Site – Quickly and Easily

 

Ok so you’ve decided on the type of membership site you are going to create and the topic/subject/niche etc of your site.

 

Now it’s time to get to work! Here’s how to quickly and easily start your new membership site.

 

Getting a Domain Name

 

The first thing you need to start a membership website (or any other kind of website for that matter) is a domain name. Getting a domain name is not difficult and it certainly isn’t expensive...

 

You can go to any one of a thousand different websites to get and register your domain name. Some examples of sites are NameCheap, GoDaddy, Register, Networksolutions, etc. Getting and registering a domain name should cost you no more than $10 for a year.

 

 http://www.namecheap.com

 http://www.godaddy.com/

 http://www.register.com/

 http://www.networksolutions.com/

 

Try to register a .com name if you can. The reason for this is that .com names get taken more seriously and are generally seen as more international. This is essential if you are targeting people from across the globe rather than one specific country.

 

And much more...

 

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[YES] Can be edited and changed

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[YES] Can be packaged into another ebook

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