1.0 An Overview on Membership Sites

1.1 Why Start a Membership Site? 

1.2 The Different Types of Membership Sites 
2.0 Starting Your Membership Site 
2.1 Choosing Your Theme 

2.2 Membership Software and Scripts

2.3 Deciding what Content to Use

2.4 Choosing Your Publishing Schedule 
3.0 The Free Membership Model 
3.1 Free Memberships in a Nutshell 

3.2 How to Make Money 
4.0 The Paid Membership Model
4.1 Paid Memberships in a Nutshell 

4.2 The Pros

4.3 The Cons 

4.4 How to Make Money 
5.0 Content For Your Membership Site 
5.1 Using Your Own Written Content 

5.2 Leveraging on Resell Rights 

5.3 Engaging Ghostwriters To Write Your Content
6.0 Getting Members with Affiliate Programs 

6.1 The Importance of an Affiliate Program to Membership Sites

6.2 How Much & How to Pay Your Affiliates? 
7.0 Other Marketing Methods
7.1 Viral Marketing with E-Books

7.2 Joint Ventures 

7.3 Other Notable Marketing Methods 
8.0 Managing Your Growing Membership Site
8.1 The Main Focus of Your Membership Site 

8.2 How to Manage Your Growing Members
9.0 In Closing
9.1 Top Examples of Membership Sites 

9.2 Is Starting a Membership Site for You? 

9.3 Last Words and in Conclusion 

9.4 Recommended Resources

 

1.1 Why Should You Start a Membership Site?
 

Membership sites are one of the hottest revenue models in the internet today. Everyday more and more people are willing to pay for online content. Business content, personals/match making, entertainment and internet marketing are one of the hottest niches. But even smaller niches like sports coaching, marketing services, and dieting are producing profits too.
 

The market is wide open for the savvy entrepreneur and anyone can sell subscriptions for online content with their own membership site! Not only it is fast to set up, but the start-up and running costs are minimal.
Those who dive in the market first in a carefully chosen niche will have the obvious advantage.
 

The great things about starting a membership site is that if you have a specialized knowledge or a certain hobby, you can turn it into a profitable business! The only challenge is to provide exclusive content for your members. You can start it small but gradually it will develop into a full time business.

 

1.2 The Different Types of Membership Sites
 

Basically, there are two types of membership sites. These are free membership sites and paid membership sites. The only one thing common in these two types of memberships are members share common interest and/or needs.
 

The free membership sites usually generate revenues in various ways after members/users have joined or registered.

 

2.1 Choosing Your Theme
 

Choosing the theme or subject for your members-only website is a matter of personal choice and preference. The theme needs to be something that you are passionate about or something that you have a great depth of knowledge about in order for people to be willing to pay for access to your site.
 

There are thousands of little guys making big bucks off membership sites. There are such topics as “short people, music lessons, paintball, dating services, financial, fitness, marketing, and work-at-home directories. There really isn’t any subject that somewhere in the world there aren’t people who would be eager to join a site to learn more about.

 

The key to getting people to pay for access to a website, is to provide specialized information, coaching, teaching, instruction, data, or a service that is hard to find anywhere else, or would be time consuming for them to find on their own.
 

The bottom line is that you should choose a theme or subject for your paid-for membership website that is something you are proficient at or that you are passionate about.

 

And much more...

 

Master Resell Rights License
 

[YES] Can sell and keep 100% of the sales.
[YES] Can edit the sales letter and graphics.
[YES] Can be bundled into another paid package and sell at a higher price.
[YES] Can be used as a bonus to another product you are selling.
[YES] Can be added into a membership site.
[YES] Can pass on the Resell Rights privilege to your customers.
[YES] Can pass on the Master Resell Rights privilege to your customers.
[YES] Can be given away for free.
[NO] Contents of the product can be edited, modified or altered.
[NO] CANNOT be sold with private label rights