Debi Asks:

What’s the best way to promote/advertise our site – www.themagicofscotland.com?

We took our inspiration from a third party site called www.xxxxxxx.com (removed for privacy reasons) which has some 4,500 members who access a database of truck pictures and details. Our reasoning was that if a niche would pay to look at still images of trucks then a bigger pool of worldwide potential customers would pay a similar amount of money to view audio-visual clips of beautiful Scottish scenery amongst other benefits.

We are presently receiving an average of 60 unique visitors per day but aren’t converting any. We seem to be stuck at this traffic level and need more people visiting and some actually joining. Read the rest of this entry

Vinden Asks: How can I get well-known internet marketing people to promote my membership site as a JV / affiliate?

Great question and one that I’m sure many people do wonder about, I know I sure did when I was starting out.

I’ve seen people come out of nowhere and suddenly they have every well-known marketer scrambling to promote their newest product while at the same time I’ve seen people who have been around for years but hardly ever or never get well-known marketers to promote their stuff. Why? Interesting isn’t it. Well, there are many ‘deep’ reasons which we shall go over.  Read the rest of this entry

Question:  I’m working on my first membership idea. I plan to test and track everything I do and would really like a benchmark to aim for so I know when I’m doing well…what are your typical conversion rates (salespage and free to paid member upgrades)? Also, what are the best strategies to retain members?

First of all let me say how happy I am you plan to test and track everything – Not doing that is where too many marketers and site owners go wrong… 

Unfortunately it’s hard to say what a typical conversion rate is (I don’t know the market you’re in and that can make a sizeable difference for a start)

But let’s look at a typical funnel in the “Internet Marketing” niche – Where you’d be asking a visitor to opt-in to a free site and then upgrade to a paid membership… Read the rest of this entry

Question:  How Can I Consistently And Easily Add Affordable Quality Content To My Membership Sites?

One thing many people worry about when they first consider running a recurring billing membership site is whether they’ll be able to think up fresh, new content every month for the life of their site. But relax because I’ll share with you some killer ways to quickly and easily brainstorm new content ideas.  Read the rest of this entry

Question:  How Much “Stuff” Should You Have In The Site Before You “Open”.  And How Do You Set The Price For Your Membership Site?

I get asked this question a lot and it always reminds me of one of my favourite quotes Read the rest of this entry