Make Money Online By Creating Your Own Membership Subscription Website
A membership subscription website is an exclusive space in which people pay you for the ability to access your content, which is usually articles, audio, video, eBooks, and other forms of digital media. Membership websites are generally built on social networking or blogging platforms so that you can either build a space for your members to interact among themselves or a space in which you can easily showcase frequently updated content.
Generally speaking, the kinds of membership subscription websites that are most successful are either highly entertaining or very informative. If you are going to create one, focus on connecting a specific target audience to valuable information that’s either hard for them to find via search engines or non-existent. If you can create a membership subscription website filled with valuable, in-demand content, people will pay you for the privilege of access.
There are a ton of different products and services online that you can use to build your own membership subscription website. The most popular product of them all is aMember Professional, a flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net and other payment systems. You can easily track your members and send them updates via email or auto-responders. Moreover, you and your members can easily modify their account settings using the automated payment systems. You can purchase aMember professional for less than $200, but if you’re on a very small budget, it’s not your own option.
You can also create your own membership subscription website on ‘build your own social network’ platforms like ning.com and socialgo.com. Both of these services allow you to easily create your own space, for free, without knowing html or needing programming skills. Each service also offers paid premium features that you can use to enhance your website, but only Socialgo.com has a built in subscription setup feature and ning.com does not. If you opted to use ning.com, you would have to manually create a subscription program by combining a payment system like (Paypal) with your Ning network. The downside of using a free platform like Ning is that you would have to manually update member cancellations and upgrades.
If you are interested in profitable ways to generate residual income online, creating your own membership subscription website is an opportunity worth looking into. Just keep in mind that if you do decide to build your own space, you have to focus on giving people what the pay for. Aside from making a profit, your first priority should always be building quality content and creating a loyal following online. That is the only way you’ll be able to effectively market and maintain a successful membership subscription website.
Example Membership Subscription Websites that I have created:
7 Comments
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Larissa Parks on August 28th, 2009
Very informative and tips that can be implemented right away. Thanks LaShanda! This will help me with the next phase in my business. I wasn’t aware of Social Go, will have to check it out.
Money Making Ragu on September 2nd, 2009
Anything that gives recurring income is good for our financial health.For this reason, I like this idea..thanks for the article..
AnneMarie on September 6th, 2009
Yes .. I too love membership sites and have set one up but I also love the fact of working just 60 mins a day on one specific area of IM … to generate enough while you are getting this going.
Dennis on February 20th, 2010
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Scott Brooks - Create Info Products on August 26th, 2009
Continuity programs such as membership sites are definitely the way to go for anyone who desires to make serious money online. They can be difficult to promote on the front-end, but if the content is good and somewhat unique, the profit potential is enormous.