How to build a membership website

There are several broad areas that you must consider if you are going to build a membership website.

#1 – You must pick your market.  While it is great if you know a lot about a market, you also have to assess if it is a market that will buy your product and can be effectively marketed to.

#2 – Pick your membership site software.  Do some serious research on membership site software before you buy one or choose a free membership site software solution.  Don’t let free be your number one priority when for less than $100 you can get a solution that is better and will greatly help you improve your product.

#3 – Design your base content – You need to lauch it and then improve it.  What is the base content that you will need to write and what is your publishing schedule?

#4 – Set up your offer.  Get some people into your membership site and then solicit feedback.

Obviously there are a lot of steps in these points, but this is basically how you build a membership site.