| Creating products is great. It's not a lot of hard work and with a decent ad campaign, you can make a killing. The problem is, especially in the "make money online" niche, products have a very limited life span and in order to keep being profitable, you have to keep creating them every few months or so. www.social-marketing-secret.com However, with membership sites, this isn't the case. You can do the work one time and make a residual income for many months depending on how long you can retain your members. This article is going to explore this option in some detail, covering the basics.
A membership site is one where a person signs up for a service and each month they get access to that service. A great example of this in the IM niche is Aweber. This is an autoresponder service. Members have access to unlimited autoresponders where they can send out messages to the lists that they build. Personally, I have about 10 or so lists with Aweber and I can honestly say their service is top notch. I pay a monthly fee for this service and all they have to do is simply keep providing it. No monthly products to have to create to continue to build income.
Now don't get me wrong...life is not all roses with membership sites. The manpower needed to run a site like Aweber is incredible. With all the members they have and all the emails that get sent on a daily basis, they have to have lots of server power behind an operation like this. Plus, with the problem with spam, they have to constantly keep on top of the spam lists to make sure they are not on them, otherwise their members' emails don't get delivered. So there can be a lot of work involved with a membership site.
Of course you don't have to have an operation as massive as Aweber. There are many small membership sites on the Internet that make a nice residual income of $2,000 to $3,000 a month for very little work at all. www.website-convertion-secrets.com You could set up a private membership to access online training tools. Once the tools are in place, the only thing you need to do is maybe add a few each month. This shouldn't take much time at all.
There is a lot of money to be made with membership sites if you have the right model.
It's certainly something to consider for your next Internet marketing project. |
