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What are your top Membership Site tips?

by Markus Nimocks
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Howdy Warriors,

I'm setting up my first membership site. If you have already done this, can you share any tips or secrets? What mistakes should I avoid? What do you wish you had known back when you were setting your site up, or what would you have done differently?

Alternately, if you know of a product or eBook that talks about this subject, please make a recommendation! (I'm not really looking for a script etc...I've already settled on that...just general layout / how to tips).

Thanks!

Rich
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Hi Rich,

    What model are you using for your membership site?

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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Ng
    You can start out by thinking of hungry market that people will bonus continuously from you. On the other word, you membership site could continuously solve other people problems, month after month, for example: an privately label resell rights membership site
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  • Profile picture of the author Markus Nimocks
    Sorry, I guess I should provide a little more details. :-)

    I'm using XSitepro, and DLGuard. And the content will be computer tips and tricks - not IM. There will be lots of Camtasia videos actually demonstrating the various tips and recommendations I make in my eBook, plus sort of a weekly "video magazine", which will be a video with a featured website, a new piece of software, etc...just different, changing, weekly content that I hope my subscribers will find valuable. And, I will take requests from premium subscribers for additional content. In other words, they can ask how to do something, and I'll create a video on how and then post it for everyone to see.

    Thoughts and suggestions are welcomed!

    Cheers, Rich
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  • Profile picture of the author jrailsback
    Is it a forum? If not, you should add one. People love to engage in conversation with eachother and if you build a community that people want to be a part of, it will give them more incentive to stick around. Offer to let a few people in for free if they help you moderate and contribute to the forums.
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    • Profile picture of the author Blondmoo
      How hard are membership sites to set up??
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve Sanchez
        What do you do about member area security. Is it a script on the web page or on the server?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sam Rodrigo
    Rich,

    I think you have the software --DLG to manage it. You can also try a trial period of 7 or 30 days. Then set a price.

    There's not much more to add for a membership site --just let the idea fly and see what happens. Just keep enhancing stuff monthly.

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    • Profile picture of the author Kyle Tully
      My number one tip is to plug it into an already existing marketing funnel.

      You can have a membership site as your one and only product, but unless you're building a simple site like I teach in my Overnight Membership Site course, it's usually easier if you've got low-ticket lead generation products filling your funnel and dumping them into the continuity program on the backend.

      This way you can test the market with extremely low risk before you commit yourself to anything ongoing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Markus Nimocks
    Yes, I do plan to implement a forum. It seems like a good way to build interaction between my members and myself. If I hang out there and interact with them, then they will get some value and hopefully stay subscribers.

    Kyle, I do already have a funnel...I've sold a bunch of copies of my eBook and am going to relaunch it (bigger, updated, and better) and then have the membership site as an upsell. Wish I had an extra $97 right now to check out your product but I've invested quite a bit in tools for this project already.

    Any other advice out there?

    Thanks, Rich
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony Hull
    How about this...

    Contact all the websites related to your membership site topic and offer to let them sell your membership on their back-ends for a reduced price?

    That way you can get a flood of extra members without much effort.

    Cheers,

    Anthony
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