Anyone doing good with a member site?

I charged a recurring payment, That's where the concept of recurring income comes in, Before you do that tho you need to be sure you have enough content to justify the recurring payments

Also had a one time payment membership that did quite well

Kim

Steve,

could you be so kind and give us a little bit more feedback (don't have to
give specific names...) -- I'd love to hear why you thought it failed you as a consumer.

then, if everybody who is member of a membership site/continuity program
adds their input, we'll have some fantastic market research here for all of us.

I'll give it a go:

joined

- Rich Schefren's founder's club: started off with fantastic content, however:
too much content, couldn't consume it all. Then they quickly
changed from the initial 'wow'-factor webinar to having 'just' teleseminars
(sometimes with handouts). I'm still in there because I like to
study their model (they keep changing on a regular basis and there
is actually good content (from my perspective of course, so even the stuff
I don't like, is probably very good for others). The KEY idea I like about
their model is that they sell each piece of content as a lead-gen low-ticket
item (very similar to Ryan Deiss)

- Jimmy D Brown's listandtraffic. At only $10 a month, it's the kind of "ah well,
might as well stay, because I "might" use the content at some point.
Sometimes it's really good, most of the time it's definitely ok, but have
I taken 'real', measurable action on a specific report? No. And I'm still in it,
2 years in....

- Ryan Deiss' TAC: was a free member for a month, total overwhelm.
absolutely terrific content though -- and you get most of the stuff he sells as
premium products (between $97 and $197 when they launch it) for free.

almost any upsell "hey, buy this product for cheap and get 1 month for free" I take, test-drive for a month, then cancel. I even set my outlook to
remind me to cancel on time. And usually, because it's free and not super-
relevant, I don't even look into it.

if you want to set up something in this direction, and need more specific
feedback from me, PM me (or, if it's relevant to everybody, ask here and I'll
respond here)

I'd love to hear from anyone who may be in a health/beauty/weight related
continuity program.

Cheers

Veit