Tag Archives: paid membership site
Are Free Membership Sites Still a Good Option?
Posted on 03. May, 2011 by Steve.
Over the past few years, the increase in low cost membership sites, especially continuity sites, has made many people wonder whether or not free membership sites are still a good option. Of course, there is always going to be more inherent appeal to generating income from paying members rather than hoping to monetize a free membership base. At the same time, there are still some very real benefits to creating a free membership site. This is especially true if you consider some of the ways that free memberships have evolved. The big question is whether or not these benefits are great enough to outweigh charging a small monthly fee. Here is a quick look at how free membership sites stack up. List Building Both paid and free membership sites are a great way to build your list. The question is what kind of list you want to build. In general, [...]
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How to Get Your Content In Order Before Your Launch
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Steve.
Getting you content ready to go before you launch your website is absolutely essential. There have the been a number of membership sites that looked promising, but didn’t succeed because they launched before they had enough content to keep their first set of members happy. On the other hand, there are membership sites that were full of fantastic content, but didn’t know when to quit adding content and actually launch their website. Here are some simple tips to helping you get your content in order before your launch. The first thing you need to do is make sure that you have enough content to ensure that your first wave of members are happy. They are going to be the first people who are telling others about your membership site and you definitely need them to be saying good things. It is impossible for most membership sites to recover from a [...]
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Top 5 Features Every Successful Membership Site Has
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Steve.
It doesn’t matter if you plan on creating a paid or free membership site, there are certain features that every person, in every niche, expect to see. Without these items, you are devaluing your membership site because may view it as shoddy or unprofessional. Fortunately, all 5 of these features are extremely easy to include, but terrible to forget. 1. Security This one should be obvious, but it is surprising how many people never really think about the security of their premium content. If you are leaking your content via an RSS feed or are not properly protecting your members area, you will quickly lose out. If people can get into your site for free, they definitely will never pay. 2. Password Abuse This sort of falls under security, however it is a different beast entirely. There is a good chance that multiple people will try to share a password [...]
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Leveraging the Power of Your Members
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Steve.
When you create a membership website, one of the biggest mistakes that webmasters make is not leveraging the power of their members. Aside from paying the subscription fees, members provide a number of additional benefits as well. It is important to understand how to leverage the power of your members to help take your income to the next level. One of the best ways to leverage the power of your members is to use their questions and feedback to create new products. The easiest way to do this is to have polls or open question and answer sessions to find out what your members need. Ideally, your members will represent the general views of buyers within your target niche. By finding out what common questions or needs that they have, you can continually create new information products that they would be interested in. Since your members represent the niche at [...]
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The Different Types of Membership Sites
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Steve.
There are basically two types of membership sites. There are free sites and there are paid for sites. The two types of membership sites have one thing is common. Their memberships are made up of people who share a common interest or have a common need. You can, of course, buy a domain, set up a website and not charge for memberships but choose who to admit and who not to admit. This is done when the profit is intended to come from sales to members after they join the site. There are free network sites that might be used for your purposes. Two examples of free membership sites are Group sites on MSN and groups on Yahoo. It costs nothing to set these sites up and there is no charge at all for a person to join. There are no paid administrators or moderators. Each site sets its own [...]
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Make Money Online With Your Own Paid Membership Site
Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by Steve.
Paid membership sites are one of the leading business models online today. This is mainly due to the fact that paid membership sites offers more advantages compare to other type of business. What are these advantages you ask? Well, there are three basic advantages and one is the steady stream of income. With paid membership site you can have the steady income of a CEO but without the tedious responsibilities that comes with it. You see, subscriptions to paid membership sites are set up for a certain amount of time usually about by month or by year. So for instance you have a hundred people subscribe to your site for $20 a month. That would give you a steady cash flow of $2,000 for months to come, so long as your members remain satisfied and subscribe to your site. In a year you could make $24,000. That is more than [...]
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