How to grow members

This is a good suggestion, but it comes with severe headaches. In theory it's excellent, but in practice you open yourself up to a lot of extra headaches and work. The trick is to get good, trustworthy affiliates. Unfortunately, these are hard to come by 100% of the time. Certainly a suggestion the OP should consider, though.

GRM

What is Leverage? -- Leverage is what helps you get bigger results with the least amount of effort in the shortest amount of time.

How to find JV Partners in your niche...

1. Tap into your existing network. Your subscribers, customers and site visitors (even if they are few) should be the first contacts you make in recruiting affiliates for your program.

2. Submit your program to affiliate directories. You'll want to get your program listed in as many of the affiliate program directories as possible.

3. Use an affiliate program announcement service. If you have the budget to support it, an easy way to speed up the affiliate program submission process is to use an affiliate program announcement service to make the submissions on your behalf.

4. Post to an affiliate program announcement forum. There are affiliate program forums where you can "announce" your affiliate program for all visiting affiliates to see.

5. Search ezine article directories. You'll find that ezine article writers can be great affiliates because usually they are marketers. That's the primary reason why people write and distribute ezine articles.

6. Look in blog directories for active bloggers. Look for active bloggers who have blogs related to your product topic and approach them for potential affiliate partnership.

7. Attend conferences to make personal contact. You'll find that some of your best affiliates come from personal introductions at these conferences.

8. Interact at affiliate marketing forums. There are dozens of affiliate marketing forums - many of them with a lot of traffic - where you can interact

9. Join available partner networks. One I can think of right off the top of my head is JVNotifyPro.com.

10. Buy advertisements in affiliate newsletters. Look for high quality affiliate newsletters (Ex. AssociatePrograms.com) and purchase classified ads (and/or solo mailings, if available) in these publications to advertise your affiliate program.

Here are just 10 ideas on where or how you can find affiliates to promote your product. I'm sure I could come up with more ideas.

Do you have any personal experience at this?

I have been doing Joint Ventures and building lists since 2002. Just about all my websites have a sales funnel that eventually leads to a membership area.

Also based on my low pricing do you think this ads enough value for a JV. I think it would if they have enough targeted potential members that could convert.

I read that your business model was a membership, so I'm assuming that it would have monthly recurring payments to be a member. If that is the case you have a product that with no upsells if only selling for $10 a month could mean it is a $120 product per member per year if your membership is one that has a smaller drop out rate.

Remember you don't have to be the only person that creates the content for the membership site as you might have a partner or partners that can also contribute. This could be as easy as doing webinars with other people.

These other marketers would probably like to promote the webinar, so when they do they will also be promoting your membership. This is just one example of getting other people to supply content with out giving away part of the membership other than affiliate payments.

I hope this has been helpful,
Steve Yakim