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Alright, I am creating a membership website. Would you as a product creator be willing to give one free object to put into it in hopes of generating more sales? I am thinking possible one free thing a week with a full interview section with a link back to a website/blog of your choice.

Now, this is strictly a thinking process right now. I am not asking for anything currently. Just looking at getting some feedback and suggestions on this as well as possibly build up a list of people interested in doing this.

So what do you think? Anything I could do/change to get people that may want to do this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek Allen
    I would possibly be interested in submitting a small free course. One free thing a week might be pushing it but submitting a small course and contributing to the site as much as possible is doable.

    I would have to know that the site has members before committing to anything.

    You have to offer other product creators something in return for contributing to your site. EX: The chance to sell a product to your list, have a banner ad for the product, lifetime memberships, etc...

    This is just my 2 cents. I am not a full time product creator. I just put out a few products here and there to help others. I have been getting approached a lot lately with offers just like yours.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    I planned on giving them access to my membership site for free, they would be signed up such as an admin however it wouldn't exactly be that. I also planned on using a link of their choice in my interview section. So, they add some quality content for free to my site and they get recognition through an interview, an in article link, as well as free membership. I am also toying around with giving out special boards in our built in forum for members that contribute to the membership site.

    As for the once a week thing, what I meant by that is every week I would be doing one interview, over a different person. I feel this would give a little more recognition as it will allow a wider time period of being noticed for those that may be less active in the community.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Gillum
    Just thinking...IF...i created one product a week...why would I not just put in on my own site.....?
    I think your idea is sound....but.....you could just buy products....could end up being the same old same old...
    just a thought...
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Well, how often do you find a product that you could give away, (PLR,MRR?) That is any good from great marketers? Not to mention, I thought this might be a way for some small time marketers to get some recognition for their work if they are placed up there with some well know marketers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Gillum
    When the "great marketers" give away a product...it is normally bait....or full of affiliate links....
    Not saying that is bad....
    But that is how it is done......
    In the past ten years I have noticed that more than once....
    In fact some of them teach that method......give it free and attach a hook....
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    • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
      Jim and skid_roe,


      Originally Posted by Jim Gillum View Post

      Just thinking...IF...i created one product a week...why would I not just put in on my own site.....?
      I think your idea is sound....but.....you could just buy products....could end up being the same old same old...
      just a thought...
      I agree 100%, especially when the OP offers what he has. That really isn't much of an offer Skid considering you keep the list and the customers that you can sell time and time again.

      One would be foolish to give you their products instead of putting them on their own site, building a list, and marketing to that list.

      Skid, now if you offered to allow contributors to put up a subscription page so the person downloading the products have to sign up to the product owners list, that makes it a whole different ballgame. Then you will be offering much more value to the contributors, and you would probably get more in the long run.

      Originally Posted by Jim Gillum View Post

      When the "great marketers" give away a product...it is normally bait....or full of affiliate links....
      Not saying that is bad....
      But that is how it is done......
      In the past ten years I have noticed that more than once....
      In fact some of them teach that method......give it free and attach a hook....
      Jim,

      Yes you are right. The great marketers keep their own products unless they are using one for bait. That's the only time I've ever seen them give something out for free. If they give a product away during a giveaway or something like that (and sometimes bonuses that are bundled with other people's products), they usually do as I mentioned above - at least get the sign up from the person downloading.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Where to go though... That's the question...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Gillum
    Skid _Roe...
    I am not suggesting your idea is bad........
    The net is big...you do not have to get all the business...just a small bite....
    A piece of a really big pie.....
    When you think about it, all the big burger stores are across the street from each other....everybody gets some...
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Jim, I didn't think you were suggesting that at all. It did however give me something to think about. I don't want the products offered in this membership just a report given away to try and sell(suggest) other things from that creator. What I am looking for is quality products that will actually sell themselves so to speak. Does anyone get what I am saying regarding this? The point of the membership site is a lot like the war room for those who are involved in it. It will be a special place where they can join to get free things to use full of quality information not someplace to go to get something that forces you to opt in to a mailing list or that basically say's go buy this or go buy that. If their product is as good as what we are looking for or they think it is, the product will sell all of their other stuff. Which is where your one page in the article body will come from. This page is meant to be taken to a site where their other products are listed or a current product they are selling. I would prefer if the creators kept it to their personal blogs but I am not going to say no to them taking it to a product sales page of theirs.


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    So your saying I would get a better turn out if I my members had to opt in to that mailing list? I do give the creators the option of where to send them to, whether it be a capture page, a sales page, or a personal blog of their own. Their is almost no restrictions as to what their link can lead to. Obviously nothing illogical or even remotely near pornographic material. However I don't think I will have to worry about that a whole lot considering what niche the site is going to be over.
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    • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
      Originally Posted by Skid_Roe View Post

      EDIT:

      So your saying I would get a better turn out if I my members had to opt in to that mailing list? I do give the creators the option of where to send them to, whether it be a capture page, a sales page, or a personal blog of their own. Their is almost no restrictions as to what their link can lead to. Obviously nothing illogical or even remotely near pornographic material. However I don't think I will have to worry about that a whole lot considering what niche the site is going to be over.
      Skid_roe,

      Yes, you would because you will be offering more value to the product owners. That's part of keeping the playing field a little more even - or I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine kind of thing. Gives them more incentive.

      Yes, you could do that in any niche. You can put some logical restrictions on the product owners such as realted sites/blogs/products, and things like no porn sites, gambling (if you wanted), hate sites, etc ...

      Even with these restrictions, you are being reasonable and offering greater value.

      We should offer our customers great value, but we should also offer marketers the same if they are helping to feeding us. You build better relationships, and a better network pool to draw from in the future.
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  • Profile picture of the author activetrader
    I would definitely do it if it was in my niches that I am interested in, and I am guessing it is not, so no
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Gillum
    OK...now my thoughts are pointed toward the money......
    If you are not selling the product...your cash would come from membership fees...

    Why would I pay you to let me but some else's product?
    Or did I miss something?
    Almost sounds like a paid review site.....

    I get a lot of emails that tell me about a free product "from my good friend"
    ...and then end up on an optin page....
    many of these are pre-sell ebooks...
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    • Profile picture of the author butters
      Why not list down all the ways you can think of which would be an incentive for people to give you there product. Once you come back with your nice list, post it here and go from there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    I have a community that I will be setting up for people to share knowledge. The best way I can fully describe this is a full scale War Room. Their will be a forum set up inside the blog as well as possibly getting a couple of social areas set up with maybe a chat room. I want people to come in and learn from others and learn from marketers through my interviews. I already have a collection of around 80 MRR right products that I have hand picked because of their quality. They will have access to those upon joining, I will continue searching to find more stuff to give away to them. I literally got the main concept for this membership site from the war room. The only difference their will be with my site and the war room itself is I will have a fully organized forum set up inside the site as well as a couple of social network/twitter like concept that. Everyone will be connected to everyone and the goal for this is to produce productive conversations with each other. Not to spam products.

    Butter's: Not a bad idea, will get started on that ASAP! I have sort of summed a little of it up here in the content above this section.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Will keep that in mind!

    Incentive list coming soon guy's! Subscribe to this thread and as soon as I get it built up I will post it as a new post to have everyone updated for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Sorry guy's, been really busy here lately and just got around to this list.... At any point, like I said here is the list of what I currently plan on having with it. Let me know what you think!

    What my membership site has to offer:

    A forum much like the war room. It will be organized into sub niche directories and be moderated by members and staff. If content is not worthy of being in their it will be moved to a archive board where members can still access it but will not be a clutter for better information.

    Starting out: I will have around 30 MRR and PLR products for members to download

    Updated content in lesson format for members to work with over a step by step process over a period of days.

    I will start writing products and outsourcing work. Silver and gold membership will get a 50% - 75% discount off origional price. Platinum membership will get the products for free.
    Note: I may decide to give Silver and Gold the products for free and then just charge them MRR or PLR depending on the product.

    Access to interviews with various people; I will give PLR to any audio or videos made to platinum members. Silver and Gold members can recive PLR for $5-$10 depending on who the interview is with.


    I will constantly be working with other marketers focusing on getting my membership site free products such as virtual books, software, wordpress themes/plugins, etc..

    At a later point in time I am looking at possibly setting up an affiliate program for certain level of people. EX: Silver get 25% Gold get 50% and platinum get 75% commissions. You will have to be a member in order to be an affiliate?
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