I have been doing some research lately on membership sites and how one can build a membership site to earn some good income from selling the memberships and then doing affiliate marketing to the community that you have already built.
I stumbled upon several available membership sites that look quite appealing and seems to offer great value. It would be great if I had loads of cash to actually join these sites and then provide a review on the sites and how they are faring with their current membership and the cool tools they have there. I will be doing that in the near future, I hope, but for now, suffice with these links of some cool sites that you might want to take a look at.
First up is Wealthy Affiliate membership site. This is a site that was built by two guys by the name of Kyle and Carson.
Frankly, I am quite impressed by what these 2 guys have to offer and this is one site that I would like to explore further by joining and finding out the real value that they are providing to the internet marketing and affiliate marketing community. This site also provides its members some cool tools for one to check on the best selling products on clickbank. It sure help affiliate marketers save some quality time here with just a few clicks of the mouse.
The second site that I would like to highlight is SureFireWealth with the tagline “Knowledge is Power”. This site promises to give you a whole load of contents for you to resell under your own brand name plus the information on how you can do it too! Isn’t that just great? I thought that this site looks so promising from the outside. Nevertheless, for you to have access to all the coolest stuff on this site, you need to sign up as a gold member and all the nuggets in internet marketing awaits you in there such as MP3s, movies, PLRs and the likes that any internet marketer would welcome with open arms. The interesting thing about this site is that it also promotes other membership sites and of course we know that there are commission payouts if there is a sale but there is quite a number that I recognise too.
If you want to join a membership site that promises to teach you how to create you own membership site, you might want to check out Membership Millionaire. This site at the moment is allowing anyone to join for free. I guess its just one of those tricks out there to get your email address. But with the loads of free information that they promise to give you for free, why not give it a try? You might just find something inside there that might just turn you into the next Internet Marketing Entrepreneur of the year. Well, thats my dream anyway…heh.
After going through all this sites, I was wondering whether I should take this route and start building my own membership site around a topic that I would be comfortable with. You see, I do have other interest besides internet marketing and that includes guppy breeding and education in general. I was just wondering then that there could be a huge potential with so many other topics that one can build a membership around and that it would definitely attract a sizable number of interested people to your site if you could just offer them something that they are looking for.
If building a membership site is your cup of tea, you might want to check out this software that has a name that resembles so closely a founding father of sociology and that software is non other but amember. This software alllows for integration to so many CMSes that I wonder what CMS it can’t integrate with. It is quite a versatile software and it claims to integrate well with the likes of Joomla and Drupal, 2 of my favorite CMSes.
I stumbled upon a video that teaches you how to build a membership site using Joomla and several Joomla components that are FREE! I wasn’t sure that building a membership site for free was possible until I saw this Build a Membership Site video at HowIDid.com and I would say that it is quite a nifty idea to start with Joomla as this beast keeps on growing and growing with components popping out every other day.
Ok. Before I end this post, I just want to share with you guys my findings when I did some research on the warrior forum on membership sites. I wanted to know what are some of the favorite membership sites that are being used by members of warrior forum whom I think are a bunch of great people. Well, without further delay, here is the result. I found out that there were quite a number of recommendations to Dennis Becker’s membership site called earn1kaday. Some warriors are saying that the information contained within that site is worth more than the cost of joining the site on a monthly basis and Dennis charge a sum of $39.95 a month. I would leave you guys to read what he offers on that site. I have read his sales letter and there are some irresistable offers in there which you wouldn’t want to miss.
I think joining membership sites is a good way for you to jump start your internet marketing career. You will be able to talk to people inside who have been at it for years and it would be great if you could get some of them to do Joint ventures with you.
I have realised that one of the secrets to success in internet marketing is actually doing JVs with other like minded people. If you can’t do it with the so called internet marketing gurus, don’t fret, get other people whom you have helped previously or who are just willing to help you to do a JV with you. Be nice. And be genuinely nice. That will more or less guarantee you a better chance for success in making money online. Its all possible and it will be made much easier with people supporting and helping you.
Well thats all for now regarding membership sites. I will update this post if I ever find something useful related to this topic.
Happy Surfing Marketers!
Ishykiel