Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Membership Sites Are A Fantastic Business Model

By Erminia Rall


One of the best business models you can use, when launching a home business, is to have a membership website. No doubt you have came across membership sites, and possibly even belong to a couple. Generally these websites are devoted to a certain market niche, and could be based on a product or related information. It can be about affiliate marketing, stamp collecting, calligraphy - just about anything you can imagine. Membership web sites want you to join up before they're going to allow you to look at their information content. It will be a better membership website if the information you have, can't be easily found on the Internet absolutely free.

Whenever you are in a position to supply knowledge others are trying to find, you've got the basis for success with a membership site. Most membership sites have a free level, where there is only so much information. Having a free level on your membership site allows you to grow your subscriber list with the names and email addresses of the free members. If people believe that you are offering high quality information, they'll subscribe just to get your newsletter. What makes your membership website profitable is to have more than one level, where it costs money each month to get the better information. This can be in the form of free e-books, or other useful bonuses, products or services.

People like belonging to membership websites, where the information could be accessed using a user name and password. Think of belonging to Facebook or Twitter, since they are membership web sites. Think how rich you'd be if your membership website had as lots of members as one of them. The themes of membership websites are varied, and the only limitation is your creativity. Even if you were only charging $5 per month to belong to your membership website, and you had new people signing up every day, it won't take long to be making a good monthly income.

Society is brimful of things which people find desirable enough to buy. These things are what a membership website could be based on. You'll need something that people are trying to find, but not to the extent that the market is very competitive. Joining several membership websites would be a good way to learn more about them. See how they are set up, and discover what type of information is required to get people to sign up free of charge. Take a look at everything you get from them, including newsletters and emails. Figure out how much selling is done in the email messages and how often you get them. If anything at all makes you want to unsubscribe, learn not to do a similar thing in your own newsletter.

You should do the required research, but you cannot find a better business model to implement than membership web sites. Once you get it all created, it will virtually run itself. All you must do is generate traffic to your website.




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