In the last post, we covered a few of the dangers you should avoid when trying to make a fast buck online.

In today’s post, we are going to go over a plan for making fast money and building your membership numbers quickly, using a proven to work strategy, and show you how to prepare for some upcoming opportunities in the months ahead.

Working online, information and opportunities present themselves 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in every time zone across both hemispheres so, you may not have taken the time to smell the roses and see what’s going on around you in the offline world and you know, we really need too.

While working on the Internet allows us to travel to any weather or season we wish, the rest of the world, for the most part, stays put, and are on a set schedule. So, if you have not noticed yet, in much of the northern hemisphere, summer has ended and kids are back to school.

The long lazy blur of summer days have been replaced with a tighter schedule of work and toil punctuated with a precious few holiday dates, which everyone marks on his or her calendar, look forward too, and essentially live for.

In the brick and mortar world, businesses are already preparing for these holiday dates by organizing humongous sales and so are some savvy online marketers.

This is what this post is about; leveraging the hype of the upcoming holidays to increase your membership numbers and make big sales, that will carry you through much of the year.

Clever online marketers have been leveraging the hype of the holidays and creating “mega-bundle” sales, focused on these special dates. While not so savvy marketers, have been jumping on the band wagon unprepared and end up losing their shirts.

We are going to cover one of the strategies you can implement this year to make the most of the holiday, opportunities.

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In the previous post, Simon gave you some great personal advice for making your membership site run super smoothly, retain members and build customer loyalty by turning even your “bloopers” into relationship building opportunities.

He also passed along some powerful tips on successfully pursuing the most difficult contacts that walk through the doors of a membership site. 

He covered simple yet concrete methods for building strong relationships and showing the Internet community that your membership is so much more than the usual membership site.

In this post, we are going to assume you have followed most of the advice we’ve given you in the past and that your membership site has proven real value to your customers and is chugging along making you a tidy profit every month.

Is that enough?

Hell no!  Like all entrepreneurs we strive for more, ourselves included, no matter how much we make, we’re all subject to our human desire to covet what’s on the horizon.

No matter how much money we make, it seems that there is always something that is just outside of our immediate income level that we just “gotta-have”!

It does not matter if it is a new faster car, bigger house, extended sabbatical leave, lavish vacation, or some new toy you just need to get your hands on, there is a right and a wrong way of getting it!

Don’t worry I’m not going to get on a soap box and rail against the evils of overspending with credit cards, that would be off topic.

Here, we are more interested in protecting your membership site’s revenue stream. As long as it keeps generating money, you can spend it however, you want (including credit card bills).

Therefore, in this post we will cover some of the dumb things that smart people have done that totally screwed up good membership sites.

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