People currently doing membership sites

thanks.

who else here on the forum is doing this?

Hey Bill,

Cool, what is making you go the membership route over something else?(such as ebooks, etc)

I wouldn't mind sharing any advice I have. I don't know if it's the type of advice people are looking for here though because I'm not an internet marketing expert.(I actually know very little about SEO, building lists and all that type of stuff) This was my first internet project and I didn't do anything the way people here were doing it. I was referred to this site a couple days ago so I could learn some things on the 'internet marketing' side of things.

The one thing I've noticed from spending a few days reading a lot of things on here, is everyone seems to be selling a lot of the same stuff, and it doesn't seem that it is that much better than the next guy's stuff. So I assume it would be hard to grow a big membership site in the same niche everyone here is trying to do.

I made sure what I put out was hands down better than the content of current people in the market, and used creative marketing to make sure people knew about the product. Fwiw I didn't have the site seo'd or use ppc or anything to get traffic. I used creative methods because I didn't have a list built up or anything like that because I don't come from internet marketing. I just knew the niche really well and put out a great product. I think if you put out a GREAT product, people will buy it. It seems(and this is just an assumption since I'm not that familiar yet) that a lot of people here are just putting out products to put out products. They might have good content, but maybe not great content, so I imagine it'd be tough to get subscribers. Seems to me a better model for a lot of people here would be to try and dominate a smaller niche rather than just put out 'good' content in a huge/ultra competitive niche.

For me I really only want to go for a big site, so I set it up where I had that possibility. I think a lot of people aim for a small site that might get them an extra bit of money each month, but for me I'd rather go for something that's going to make me a lot of money, or no money at all so I can start over and focus on something that will. I guess it depends on your goals and what you want to achieve income wise, but if you have high income goals and are spending time putting out content for a site making you $1k/month, a better use of your time would be forgetting about that(selling it or whatever) and go back to square one with an idea that can make you that high level of income you desire. Your loss of time on a mini site if you have high income goals actually costs you much more than the $1k/month you'd be making.

The best advice I can give is put out a product because it will benefit people. If you put out a product because you want to make money, you're doing it wrong. That seems to be the goal of the majority, is they are putting out X, Y or Z because they want to try and make money. I think many people are forgetting that the reason someone's going to buy something is if it helps them. If you can produce something that will make someone else more money, you in turn will make a lot of money.

Sweet collar on the dog Ty. Blings a bit.

How many members have you built up? What makes them stay on with you(pay each month) as opposed to buying a dvd series or something?

Thanks, anyway you can tell me which ones? I don't know who's who here yet and am only getting PMs from random people trying to sell stuff about membership sites.

why did you stop if it was doing well?

what's a "micro-membership" site? Are you expected 2k members at the same price point?($99)