Membership Sites Bootcamp Coaching

Membership Sites Bootcamp

Let me ask you a simple question - would you like to be paid once or on a recurring basis? You can sell a typical product or service and get paid once, or sell a membership account and get paid for as long as they will stay members.

Tim Kerber and Ryan Lee, owners of several highly rewarding membership sites have agreed to coach YOU about all the inner secrets of successfully running membership sites. Some of these were shared at a bootcamp that got the attendees so excited that they demanded that the breaks be cut short so that they could devour more content. The attendees were particularly excited because there was virtually no pitching and only solid actionable content.

Now is your chance to get hold of the great ideas and tips by joining a special membership site. Get started with your own membership site here.

Update: If you use Adwords or any similar PPC program, you must not miss the very useful PPC classroom training which adds some very strong ideas and tools to your marketing program.

Why offer membership instead of a one-time sale?

The answer is very simple. Even a $17 per month income can outdo a $97 one time sale within 6 months. It is much easier to give continuous value to an existing customer and keep him/her satisfied than try and get a new sale all the time.

While you must try to attract new sales (as some people will leave anyhow), you can funnel much of the sales budget in providing good value for money to the present members.

And if you have a satisfied bunch of users, you can even offer them new products that you launch at a special discounted price.

They get good deals and you get some early adopters who will give you valuable feedback and testimonials.

This membership sites coaching will help you launch your membership site easily and run it professionally.

Membership Sites Case Study

Ongoing income of $15,000.00 per month by adding a simple checkbox to the form!

Andrew is a veterinarian up in British Columbia,
Canada. He takes care of all kinds of animals up
there, including dogs and cats.

He launched a guide on taking care of the pet cats and dogs. He was doing about $1000 per month by selling the guide on Clickbank.

Then he did something interesting.

He added a checkbox on the order form!

Well, that checkbox on Andrew's order form asked
people if they wanted to join his membership
program at $47 per month. That one checkbox has
driven an entirely new business. Hundreds of
people are now paying Andrew $47 per month.

And now, instead of selling $1000 per month, he is
doing $15,000.00 per month.

Want to master the entire model of running successful membership sites? It's easy!

Big names recommend the membership site bootcamp!

The membership site bootcamp has already received endorsement by several reputed Internet marketers like Jeff Walker, Frank Kern, John Reese, Rich Schefren, Mike Filsaime, Bill Glazer and Yanik Silver.

Want to join these people and get your membership sites off the ground, earning regular monthly cheques? Learn all the cool secrets and the full plan here.

Membership Riches Blog

Discussion about membership sites and how to make money out of them.

Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

Membership site ideas

You can create a membership on an endless number of topics. Here afew popular ones:

Autoresponders - people just can't afford to get off this subscription.
Keyword research - get them good results and they will always use your service for getting the next hot topic.
Book clubs - if you can come up with good books (self-written or contributed), they will just lap it up.
Forums - did you know that you can even charge a membership fee for premium content?
Templates - you can setup membership sites offering website templates, blog design templates, article templates, press release templates and so many other things.

Membership software: Manage your members accounts easily!

You need a powerful membership management software to manage your subscribers easily and customize their access rights.

Amember Pro: Quite popular membership management software.
Vision Gate Portal: Another software - preferred by membership site owners.
Member Gate: This is another software to manage the public or subscriber only content.

Member of a membership site? Please share your experience!

If you are a member of a paid or free membership site, please tell us what features of that site do you absolutely love. What new things you will like to see in your site?

angada

Membership Sites Bootcamp is a really exctiting service which will help you maintain a recurring income and help skyrocket your total income. You must try it out.

Posted October 10, 2007

shubhangam

Recurring income is really great, it sets on a good income and takes an overall lower effort. Also if you are unable to work for some time, the money keeps coming and you dont lose out.

Very good info, 5 stars

Posted October 10, 2007

zamhaziq

great idea and information, 5 star

Posted August 12, 2007

SalesPractice

Great information. Thumbs up! 5 Stars :)

Posted August 07, 2007

Abhishek

Membership sites can be an ideal business model for a professional who can share his knowledge and earn well at the same time. I wish I could do it.

Posted August 02, 2007

Hemantchabria

Software club is a cool idea. I also think a software users' club sharing usage tips and great techniques for getting more out of the software should work well. Thanks for referring me to this membership thing.

Posted August 02, 2007

Antonella

Fan clubs are also great membership sites - create a fan club for a celebrity (hint, hint) and get crazy fans to join it. You can make money by selling mementos and lots more.

Posted August 02, 2007

safestyle

The importance of recurring income from a selected fixed customers cannot be over-emphasized. It is really diffult to get new customers and membership sites offer a powerful alternative.

Posted July 28, 2007

articles-hub

This sounds very exciting. While I have been trying to get single sales, I can see how much more money I can make by signing them for a membership. Even at a low monthly fee, I can make more overall per customer. I am very interested to become a member :)

Posted July 25, 2007

rentablogger

I have been a member at several membership sites and I can tell you this - once you get the initial momentum, the thing can largely run on autopilot with members supporting each other. The community feeling is rather addictive and active members will rarely, if ever leave the place.

Posted July 24, 2007

Problems with membership sites?

Are membership sites the best thing since sliced bread? Do they have any problems too? Read on...

Setting up and managing membership sites can have it's own problems. You need to be careful about these or your dreams of earning a recurring income can be quickly shattered. Here are some things to be aware of:

1. You might need an expensive software to run your membership site and it may take quite a while to offset this cost through the subscription money. Don't worry - there are quite a few low cost alternatives available.

2. You will have to provide good content on regular basis or the members will get bored and disappointed and cancel their subscription. I have seen some sites send a useful bonus or report just before the renewal is due to keep the members excited enough. Again, there are good content sources which you can tap easily.

The membership sites coaching program here discuses quite a few of these problems and explains ways to tackle these problems efficiently so that you can have a successful site and satisfied members for generating a large recurring revenue.

Cool Way To Sell Memberships

Here is a very cool way to sell the membership of your site - offer the first month or week FREE.

Give them a taste of what's on offer. If you have quality content in your site and are regularly adding more content, don't hesitate to let them check it out. Once they have been hooked, they will never cancel their membership.

Just remember that they have to sign-up to the membership first and while they will not be billed for the trial period, the payment should get collected automatically at the end of the trial period.

Paypal allows you to setup a FREE trial period (or even a $1 trial period) easily. Other membership software should also offer this facility.

Check out membership sites coaching for so many powerful tips to set and promote your membership offers.

Members' Satisfaction is Vital

What do your members think? What do they want? Are you just guessing or have you asked them?

You must run periodic surveys through the forum or a survey tool like Surveymonekey to find out what your members want or need and you should fulfil that want.

This will create a perception that you care about your members and will increase the average time a member stays active. After all, it is about them, not you - isn't it?

Would you like to know several such techniques to start and maintain a succesful membership site?

Membership Sites Poll - what do you say?

Loading poll. Please Wait...

Share New Developments With The Members

If you manage a membership site (or more), you must keep the members updated about all the new developments and features that you are introducing.

The best way to do this is through a blog. You should attach a blog to your site at say, www.domain.com/blog. This way, you can make a quick post referring to the new development or post a detailed note about using the new feature.

See my blog related to the online bookmarking service I offer (BTW, check it out - it's FREE and very useful).

Tip: Alert your members to new content

Some people will join your membership site and forget. Keep them aware of new content and increase renewals.

Some people join a membership site after reading an impressive sales letter and then forget to visit the site or forum regularly because they get busy with other things.

Then they get a note from the payment proessor when the renewal takes place. This is the time for buyer's remorse and the thought floating in his mind is "Why did I make this dud investment? Let's cancel this recurring expense." How do you avoid this?

A cool way is to send regular mails (once a week seems to be a good balance) alerting the members to the new content and a teaser about that. A few of the members will definitely sit up and take notice and visit the site enjoying and benefiting from the new content.

Some sites schedule sending of a notice of a big benefit just before the renewal is due. Or may be a bonus! This helps them to ovecome the buyers' remorse and keeps the membership account live.

What technique are you using? Share with us through the guestbook above.

If you want to get messages like "You have received a subscription payment" in your inbox, be sure to check out the Membership sites coaching program here.

Tease Your Prospective Members

Give them a sneak peek into what they may get when they will join and they will...join.

While most of the content in a membership site will be locked to the outsiders, you may plan to offer a sneak peek into some of it for the non-members to tease them into joining.

A $1 trial has been discussed above. You may also consider opening a few articles for view for the first 2 days after uploading it and then putting it behind the membership lock.

Similarly you can make available the first few pages of an ebook to the general public and whet their appetite. If they like it, they can get the full version when they join the site.

Check out this coaching program that has been changing lives of several Internet entrepreneurs and helping them earn a regular monthly income, that is ever growing.

Tip: Follow up Till They Buy or Die

I am sure you have heard about the importance of follow up. It is quite difficult to get a customer to buy your stuff in the first contact. So your preference should be to capture his/her email address so that you can continue a conversation with him.

Naturally if you keep asking him to buy, buy and buy, he will get bored quite soon and unsubscribe (never follow up without giving them a chance to stop your mailings).

Instead you should offer valuable information about some aspect of the customer's problem that your service can solve. You can drop a line at the end asking them to become paid members to get much more valuable and detailed advice.

You can also send them teaser information about what articles or information your paid members are getting this month (or week) and how it is changing their lives. Make it simple to order and you will ind that quite a few people placed their order because they did not want to miss out on that advice.

Learn several exciting ways to perk up your members here.

PPC Classroom: A very rewarding membership site

You must check it out if you want to earn a handsome income promoting affiliate programs.

Do you think PPC ads promoting the affiliate programs are a waste of your marketing dollars? They can be so if you use the brute force method and start to advertise some junk programs or bid high on non-converting generic terms.

There are some fine secrets to bidding on the right 'type' of terms and selecting well-converting progams. If you can master these secrets, your income can grow regularly and with minimal maintenance efforts by you.

PPC Classroom is one such membership site that teaches you these secrets. Check it out and never look back again!

Hostorix Offers Income Opportunity With Membership Site

Fail safe hosting service has monthly payment scheme and you can make money selling it.

Hostorix, a fail safe web hosting service with redundant servers. This service costs only $27 per month and if you promote this to your list, you can get a nice cut per member per month resulting in a cool residual income.

This is an ideal program to promote because people will not like to leave the service as that involves moving all the domains to another hosting and all the accompanied hassles.

Join the Hostorix affiliate program here.

Business

Membership Sites Bootcamp Coaching by rentablogger

Rate this Lens

Loading Workshop

Report this Lens