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Membership Website Recommendations

by Tourmaline
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Hi Warriors!

I am looking to join good membership websites that teach atleast one
of the following (for NEWBIES) :
Affiliate Marketing, PPC, Mobile Marketing.

Monthly fee shouldn't be more than $60. Information should be up to
date. It should have enough info so that I can apply it and start
making money WITHOUT having to look elsewhere . I understand that it
takes a lot of learning and experience before one can get rich with
Internet Marketing. One membership site may not take one to that level.
But ALL I am looking for RIGHT NOW is to JUST START MAKING Money and
establish a base for a long term sustainable income.

Please don't recommend courses instead of membership sites. Cuz
one has to buy a lot of courses to cover enough aspects of Internet
Marketing to start making money. (Finding Niches, Products, Traffic,
Conversion, Content creation etc.) Also, the information they have may
be out of date. So I am not looking to buy courses.

Thanks for your Recommendations Warriors!!!
#membership #recommendations #website
  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    I would look into affilorama, they have a free part of the site that is full of great information and you can learn a lot from there. If you then want to go to the next level you can join.

    al
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  • Profile picture of the author CPABeyondNetwork
    Dojo, StackThatMoney are two best ones.


    Best regards,

    CPA Beyond
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    Save your money!

    Tell you why: there are plenty of free resources for the newbie. Some membership sites cover pretty much everything (no names) and some stick to specific areas, like domain flipping, or aspects of affiliate marketing. What I'd suggest you do is learn which area of IM truly appeals. Once you have it - find the best membership site to learn more.

    Tom
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    • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
      Thanks to Everyone above for their suggestions. Please do suggest some membership website for Mobile Marketing also!

      Originally Posted by Tom Addams View Post

      Save your money!
      What I'd suggest you do is learn which area of IM truly appeals. Once you have it - find the best membership site to learn more.
      Tom
      I am interested in Affiliate Marketing, Mobile Marketing and maybe PPC. The thing is that I don't know any site for Mobile Marketing. I was thinking of the following approach to start with :
      - Find a profitable niche
      - Find hot products for that niche
      - Set up a website with several pages for it
      - Tweak it for maximum conversion
      - Find and direct highly targeted traffic to those pages
      - Collect their e-mail addresses
      - Upsells etc if possible
      - Sell the products through that website.
      - Later on, expand in e-mail marketing to increase my affiliate income.
      - Do this, both for the Regular Web and Mobile Internet.

      Since I have an idea of what I want to do, I don't see how will I lose focus if I join a site which covers everything. I can learn more in the long run from such a site maybe. But you are much more experienced. You know better. Do let me know if that will create problems.

      At present, I will Not get into Product Creation. And I don't think creating Games and Apps for mobiles is a good idea to Start with, in IM, for beginners.
      For the 3rd time, Warriors, plz do suggest some awesome membership sites for Mobile Marketing!!!
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      • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
        I am looking for something that will start giving results in a Relatively short time and something that I can scale with the passage of time. As I start to make money, I can spend more and more in learning Internet Marketing, maybe get Private Coaching from an expert, reinvest into the business and keep growing!

        Not looking for something that will give results for a few months, then die out and have me looking for some other method in IM to make money.
        Please DO NOT suggest forums like the Warrior Forum, where I have to KEEP SEARCHING for information. I am looking for a membership site where everything is laid out clearly, guiding me all the way to the goals.
        To me there is no point in joining if I have to keep searching for info all over the website.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
          Originally Posted by Tourmaline View Post

          I am looking for something that will start giving results in a Relatively short time and something that I can scale with the passage of time. As I start to make money, I can spend more and more in learning Internet Marketing, maybe get Private Coaching from an expert, reinvest into the business and keep growing!

          Not looking for something that will give results for a few months, then die out and have me looking for some other method in IM to make money.
          Please DO NOT suggest forums like the Warrior Forum, where I have to KEEP SEARCHING for information. I am looking for a membership site where everything is laid out clearly, guiding me all the way to the goals.
          To me there is no point in joining if I have to keep searching for info all over the website.
          You have the right mindset, Tourmaline.

          While your mobile marketing and PPC ideas are good ones, I'd caution against going full steam into them at this point. Think instead of gravitating toward them, since both are fairly advanced areas of affiliate marketing.

          If I were in your shoes, this is the general approach I'd take:

          1. Identify a desperate problem.
          2. Put together a solution (free info' product: video courses work well).
          3. Squeeze page.
          4. Blog on the back-end (not linked on the squeeze).
          5. Use "content upgrades" to feed your squeeze.
          6. Grow traffic platforms on socials and elsewhere.
          7. Rank videos to "squeeze" and "specific articles" for content upgrades.
          8. Grow list. Grow followers.

          There's a lot more to it than that, but it's a great approach. I use it myself in one form or another. The trick is to get one site earning well and then duplicate the process with another problem and solution setup.

          Cheers,

          Tom
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          • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
            Originally Posted by Tom Addams View Post

            If I were in your shoes, this is the general approach I'd take:
            1) I understand adding content to a blog but what do you mean by
            --> "content upgrades" to feed your squeeze ?

            2) Don't I need to link the blog and the squeeze page somehow?
            Or how else do I benefit from the squeeze other than grow a list?
            Isn't it more profitable to build a small list of buyers rather than a huge
            list of free stuff seekers?
            I was thinking of building a list of people buying stuff that I market from
            my blog as compared to building a list from the squeeze.

            3) What do you mean by -->
            Rank videos to "squeeze" and "specific articles" for content upgrades ?
            Should I create one stream of traffic for the squeeze and one for the blog?
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            • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
              Originally Posted by Tourmaline View Post

              1) I understand adding content to a blog but what do you mean by
              --> "content upgrades" to feed your squeeze ?
              Take the MMO market. You might write a blog post that appeals to the target audience; folks looking to make money. A logical content upgrade would be to promote your newsletter from the post; a newsletter where they receive free help (a video course, free coaching, a free info' product of any kind) to help them make money. The objective is to grow a stable business for the purposes of marketing and re-marketing. Your "freebie" might promote affiliate links (marketing) or your "splash" could do the same. Re-marketing? Growing a list means having an audience. An audience - or a market pool - is necessary to promote (re-market) products and services.

              Originally Posted by Tourmaline View Post

              2) Don't I need to link the blog and the squeeze page somehow?
              Or how else do I benefit from the squeeze other than grow a list?
              Isn't it more profitable to build a small list of buyers rather than a huge
              list of free stuff seekers?
              I was thinking of building a list of people buying stuff that I market from
              my blog as compared to building a list from the squeeze.
              The best format is a squeeze-content hybrid. In essence: you link the blog to your squeeze, but not the other way around. The objective being to syndicate relevant content to a target market and employ content upgrades to grow your list. You can decide whichever type of subscriber you'd like. The key to opt-in quality isn't necessary to appeal to targets who have signaled a willingness to purchase (buyers). You merely need to finely target your audience (a combination of buyers and potential buyers). To answer your last question: you are building a list from your blog.

              Originally Posted by Tourmaline View Post

              3) What do you mean by -->
              Rank videos to "squeeze" and "specific articles" for content upgrades ?
              Should I create one stream of traffic for the squeeze and one for the blog?
              Create relevant videos, publish them on Youtube, and rank those videos in YT and in Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Direct traffic from those videos to your squeeze and also relevant articles. If you make a video about teaching your dog to sit, you might then link to a more expansive article, and in that article, you might promote your freebie that gives a wider array of dog training advice.

              Hope that helps! You ask great questions. Never stop. We all have to keep on learning.

              Tom
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              • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
                Thanks Tom! That was very helpful.

                WAITING FOR MEMBERSHIP WEBSITE SUGGETIONS, WARRIORS!!!

                I am not just looking for help to know WHAT to do but also
                HOW to do it. I don't want to learn in the beginning through
                trial and error alone, and would like clear guidelines.

                Take any area of Affiliate Marketing. For eg. Getting Traffic.
                Where do I get it from? Let's say Google, Facebook, Youtube etc.
                Alright, now, HOW do I get targeted traffic from these websites to
                my site? I am looking for detailed guidelines to this 'How'. There
                are more effective methods which successful marketers use, and
                which beginners will take a veeeery long time to find out thru
                Trail and Error.
                I seek those effective methods for all the How's and What's from
                the membership website that I join.

                Given what I just mentioned, which site among these would suit me better :
                Affilorama Membership, Wealthy Affiliate, PPC-Coach or something else?

                Which one among those is better at teaching "How" to do things?
                A lot of sites tell you "What" needs to be done, but don't have detailed
                info on how to achieve it. I mean, the Technical Details and Methods to use.
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                • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
                  If anyone has other suggestions for starting in IM besides Affiliate
                  Marketing, I am open to them. The only thing is that it should be
                  possible to turn them into long term business models and they
                  should be scalable. They shouldn't become another day job!

                  I don't think that Selling items on E-bay and Flipping Domains
                  (when not used in conjunction with Affiliate Marketing somehow)
                  can become businesses with sustainable income.
                  CPA is not something where everyone is successful. I got the impression
                  that it is harder to succeed in it as compared to Affiliate Marketing.

                  I am open to methods besides Affiliate Marketing in which later
                  on, I can hire people to do most things and deal with the important
                  aspects myself. So that I can focus on growing rather than worry about
                  the simple repetitive tasks that don't require much thinking.

                  Let your recommendations roll in people!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author jbsmith
    Looks like you are already learning - great questions by the way.

    You can pull traffic via ads, social, your own content, affiliates/partners, or offline (these are the major methods). In terms of content, a blog is certainly one way to go and can facilitate linking out to other channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc...) if content marketing is to be one of your main traffic generation techniques.

    Yes - you want to have multiple and ongoing links from your blog to your squeeze page. In our case, we use (depending on the market, site and overall sales funnel strategy) - links in the side-bar, links in the header, links integrated into strategic blog posts (Ex blog posts that are highly related to the offer) - these tend to work the best and lightbox pop-ups, etc...

    What we do is we continually generate content (videos that get posted to the blog, blog posts, limited syndicated content, podcasts, etc...) that become the hub from which we derive additional traffic from spoke sites such as YouTube, Medium, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Forums, etc...

    From there, we pull people into a list on our blog from which we market various sales funnels for both our own offers and sometimes affiliate offers.

    On occasion (during launch for example) - we will change the links to pull everything directly into the launch for a period of a couple of weeks.

    Jeff
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  • Profile picture of the author elevatingyourbusiness
    I'm looking at
    valueaddin.com
    s2member.com
    digitalaccesspass.com/


    Would love to know other members experiences with these three and any others. Do you recommend monthly or purchase outright?
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    • Profile picture of the author Tourmaline
      The Technical Details and Methods of executing strategies (like the
      traffic example I gave in my previous post) Bother me,
      as I haven't been able to find them in the free e-books and articles that
      I have read. Also advanced and effective methods that give results these
      days are hard to come by in the free stuff that is available.

      Many techniques that used to work earlier, don't work anymore.
      Eg. depending solely on Google for free traffic won't give you the
      success you seek.

      Do Affilorama and other membership websites cover such things or
      do you have to discover them on your own?

      How expensive is 1 on 1 coaching BTW? I know some coaches charge
      $ 5K and higher. Tom Addams and others, what do you guys charge and do
      you help total newbies or only intermediate level marketers?
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  • Profile picture of the author selfdisciplineacademy
    Some great ones:

    DotComSecrets inner circle ($47/m)
    Clickbank University ($49/m)
    IMSC Inner Circle ($47/m)
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