Creating a Member based Website
Since the dawn of the Internet, many online businessmen have
tried to capitalize on a variety of aspects that they hoped
would become profitable. They have tried diversity in the form
of purchasing resale rights; superiority of numbers in the form
of affiliate programs; consistency in the form of mailing lists;
and subterfuge in the form o back links and back doors.
One of the more profitable aspects that have yet to be fully
exploited is exclusivity, through paid membership sites. The
reason why not that many Internet marketers have jumped into
this particular bandwagon is because of the impression that paid
membership sites are pretty difficult to build. This is not
entirely true. This article would teach you how to create your
own paid membership site and how to win as many members as
possible.
Preliminary Considerations
It goes without saying that the first thing that you would need
is a concept. What kind of paid membership site would you want
to establish? What exclusive products or services would you wish
to distribute?
To give you an idea about what concepts you could employ, here
are some examples of successful paid membership sites in
existence today:
Paid membership sites that offer information product packages,
inclusive of eBooks, sales pages, headers and other graphics,
promotional articles, and keyword lists. New packages are
offered every month, with each package designed to cater to a
specific niche.
Paid membership sites that offer keyword lists of the most
profitable AdSense keywords. New keyword lists would also be
given every month.
Paid membership sites that offer content article packages. The
ownership of these packages would be limited to how many members
there are in the site. New packages are also offered every month.
Paid membership sites that offer total solutions packages. These
include web hosting, web templates, products to sell with
corresponding sales pages, auxiliary scripts, and many more. The
member would continue enjoying these for as long he maintains
his membership.
Paid membership sites that offer turnkey, or ready-to-make-money
packages. The most profitable paid membership site would depend
on the niche you will settle on. If the market is hungry for
your products, there is no reason why you will experience a
drought of members.
Calculate Projected Profit
The problem with paid membership sites is that their selling
point, which is exclusivity, can easily be abused. If you would
offer the same products or services to 2,000 members, for
example, your paid membership site won't be as inviting as a
program that restricts its subscriber's base to 200 members.
The rule to follow is this: the higher the number of members you
will accept, the lower your monthly price should be. Accepting a
maximum number of 1,000 members, for example, should fetch a
lower rate compared to a membership site limited to 100 members.
Adjusting the price in accordance with these variables is key in
determining the sustainable profitability of your paid
membership site.
Creating Your Paid Membership Website
There are many ways by which you could build your own paid
membership website. In some of these, you don't even have to be
an expert with web programming. There are quite a number of
third party software in the market which would allow you to
integrate them and start accepting members almost immediately
thereafter.
If you wish to have something a little more costly, but a lot
more powerful, you could opt for total management systems that
would give you absolute control over the operations of your paid
membership site. You could customize every facet of the said
website, schedule updates, automate payment processing and
deliveries, and the likes. Since your paid membership website is
expected to rake in some monumental earnings for you, taking
this route would be an investment worth the expenses.