Membership Site Teasers

One way to keep your membership site members longer is to tease them with upcoming content.

No, not in a bad way.  Just in a way that lets members know what is coming up next month.  You want it to be good enough that those people that are thinking about cancelling say to themselves, I will hang in there for one more month to get that.

And the next month maybe they will say it again.

The Membership site teaser is really about quality information and good copywriting with the teaser.  For example, you would not want to write a teaser for next month and then not deliver on it, as that is a sure way to get a flood of unsubscribes as soon as the information becomes available.

You’d be more likely to stay in a membership site if you wanted next months content, such as:

Next Month:  50 tips to make more money with membership sites in 10 minutes or less.

Next Month: 30 Weight Loss Tips you have NOT heard about already

You get the idea.  Just one sentence like that can increase the length of time you retain members in your membership site and increase your membership site profits.

Membership Site Ideas

Here are some membership site ideas that may be profitable if you have time to do a little research and develop the membership site.

• Parenting the Middle School Years
• HR
• Online Training
• Local Internet Marketing
• Book Keeping & Financials for the Small Business Owner
• Write your first book.

These are just some membership site ideas off the top of my head.  A couple of these membership sites I would probably join if they were resonably priced.

Membership Site Participation

If you are just setting up a membership site, your challenges are technology, payment, hosting and membership site setup.

Once you get past that, and by no means is that easy for new people, you have a couple of additional issues.

Marketing a Membership Site

Marketing your membership site is essential to your success.  You may feel proud of finally launching your membership site – but if no one finds out about it, you will not be proud for long because you will be the only member of your membership site.

• Do not assume that your marketing site, no matter how good, will create members.  You need a membership site marketing plan.
• Promote your membership site every day.  There are a lot of ways to promote your membership site online.
• Don’t assume 3% of china will buy your membership site.  If you are a new entrepreneur, this is for you.  A common error people make in a marketing plan for membership sites or any other product is that they will look at the big market and then say, “I just want 1%” – Come on and get real.  Look at your market and ask yourself – “how many of these people in this market can I reach 5 times with my marketing budget?”   That is a more realistic number.

Membership Site Participation

This is the other thing that will annoy you the first time you start a membership site.  Many of the members of your membership site will not participate, or even use the membership site.

• Know that it is coming and don’t be dissapointed.  People join because they like the idea, but they sometime do not take action.  For that reason they stay in but do not use it.
• Members may hit a stumbling block in your membership site.  You might need to find out where people get stuck and create better content to get around it.
• You need to participate to get other people to participate.

Membership Site Reality

The simple membership site reality is that even when you launch, you will have a lot of new, ongoing issues around membership site marketing and membership site participation.  Be ready for them.

7 Things your Membership Website Should Have

Every membership website should have certain things.  These things will help people find your membership site and help you retain more members in your website.

1. Public Blog – I always have part of my content in a public blog to give visitors a taste of the content and get search engine traffic.
2. Monthly High Value Item – Every month your members should feel like they got one piece of knowledge that is of very high value and can be used immediately.
3. Regular interaction – your membership should not forget the member site exists.
4. Multi-media – If you are only producing text and images, you are not addressing the needs of all your members.  Some learn better with audio or video.
5. Testimonials - Your sales page should have testimonials with your website membership members.
6. Tools - If possible, provide tools and downloads as well as information.  You can often purchase resale rights of a tool or ebook and then give it away to members.
7. Automation – If you want to run a profitable membership website, you need to automate your monthly reoccurring charges and account set up.  I use 1ShoppingCart because I value a robust affiliate program, but it can also be done in paypal.

Setting up your membership site takes a lot of attention to detail and adding constant value for your membership.

iLearningGlobal

iLearningGlobal is the top membership site available to today’s professionals.  iLearningGlobal is also an MLM that allows everyone to market it and earn income.

If you are looking for a quality membership site that will take care of everything and all you have to do it market it, then iLearningGlobal is the product for you.

iLearningGlobal has taught me a lot about how to market membership sites.  One of the first things I did when I signed up to sell iLearningGlobal was to use the Wordpress Wishlist plugin to set up a private, membership marketing membership site that is only for my downline.  You can see the public blog and parts of the private training at my ilearningGlobal site.

If you are starting your own membership site, it is a good idea to also seriously consider iLearningGlobal – purchase it here.  Here are the reasons you should join iLearningGlobal.

1. The information in iLearningGlobal will give you ideas for your own membership site.
2. You will see what is being done in top-of-the-line membership sites.
3. You can develop an additional income stream with iLearningGlobal.
4. You can hone your membership marketing skills by aggressively growing your iLearningGlobal downline.
5. Some people you meet via iLearningGlobal may become your affiliates or partners.
6. You will be working with and learning from some of the greatest minds in business.

To find out about how to join iLearningGlobal you should visit:  Join iLearning Global and read all about it.

Membership Professional Website

Just about anyone can put up a membership website.  What is the difference between a membership professional website and a membership website that people do not take seriously?

A professional membership website does not mean you had to spend a lot on it.  It does mean that you need to have some technical know-how or hire someone to help you.  If you want a membership professional website, you are going to need some core features.

#1 Integrated Account Building – When someone signs up for your membership site – it will not seem professional unless you give them instant access.  If you send them a message that it will take a day to set up thier account, you are in not going to look professional.  Use Wordpress Wishlist with 1ShoppingCart to achieve this.

#2 Choose a Great Theme – You need to carefully consider your membership site theme for your membership professional website.  If you choose the Middle Earth theme, don’t expect most lawyers to want to join your professional membership site.

#3 Updates – Your membership professional website will not seem very good if it shows no activity.  Make sure it has updates and new information regularly.

#4 Professional Offer – If you want your membership professional website to seem as professional as possible, be sure to add a guarantee, lists of associations, and anything else to give it a stronger appeal.

#5 Professional Testimonials - Solicit testimonials from professional have used your membership site and benefited from it.  Publish them on the membership professional website.

Lastly, if you expect professionals to join your membership site, you need to have the highest value information that will help your members professionally.

Marketing your Membership Site

Marketing your Membership Site – Tip #1

This is a series of marketing tips to use to promote your memberhip website.

Marketing Tip #1 – Pay Attention to Analytics

On on of my membership sites, I had a search term that was occasionally showing up in my Google analytics.

I took a look at the team and my placement in Google, and found that by adding a few words and getting 2-3 links from other websites, I was able to go from 2-3 visitors per week via that search term to 50+ per day.

The public content on your membership site is an important part of your marketing strategy.  If you have keywords that are already perfoming ok, it is often very easy to make them perform very well.

But measure and track everything – you could also damage great ranking if you are not careful.  Marketing your membership site takes a constant effort