Archive for February, 2010

How to Pull in Huge Profits With Your Membership Site

When you first contemplated starting a membership site, you probably did a lot of number-crunching. And if your membership site is a paid site, then those numbers very likely revolved around how many members you’d get and how much money you’d make from selling memberships.

Sound familiar?

How many times have you tapped out calculations like, “If I have 500 members paying me $25 per month, I’ll make $12,500!”

But here’s the thing: Much of your profits are going to come on the backend of your site. And this is especially true if you’re using a one-time paid membership model or, obviously, a free membership site model.

Here are three tips to make more money on the backend of your membership site…

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Whether you’re running a monthly membership site, a free membership site or anything in between, one of the keys to your success is to reduce your churn rate. That is, you need to keep your members from canceling or just leaving the site.

You see, that’s because much of your membership site income is going to come from backend sales. As you’ve already discovered, each of your paying members are worth about $5 to you each month and your free members are worth about $1.50 in backend sales.

That means that the more members you have, the more money you make… effortlessly!

And that’s why you need to use membership retention methods like this:

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How to Make Money with a Fixed Term Membership Site

A fixed-term membership site is basically a forced continuity site for a limited time. That means that you charge your members a monthly fee for a set number of months, and you send them new material regularly for the same amount of time.

Here are five tips to make your fixed-term (micro-continuity) site a success:

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How to Get a Never-Ending Supply of Content Ideas for Your Membership Site

If you run a recurring (monthly) membership site, then you know just how much pressure there is to continually update your content. But you can be under this sort of pressure even if you’re running a free membership site. And that’s because you need to give your customers and members a reason to keep returning to your site.

If you have a lot of free time – or if you outsource – the actual creation of the content isn’t a problem.

Instead, the hard part is coming up with content ideas month after month after month… indefinitely!

Because let’s face it – the day you run out of content ideas is the day your membership site closes down and your income dries up!

With that in mind, here are seven tips and tricks to make sure you never run out of content ideas…

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Want to create a kick-ass PLR membership site?

First of all, you need to provide a “complete” turnkey package. Your members want everything to be as easy and as automatic as possible. That means giving them all the products, tools, techniques, and guidance they need; the only thing they have to do is follow the simple instructions in setting everything up and start making money.

Here’s 10 useful ideas on what you could offer your members to keep them satisfied: Read the rest of this entry