Enhancing my membership site

Bluntly, what you have is almost the same as 99% of your competition.

And some of that competition offers the products on an individual sale basis.

What I have found with my own websites is that unless people are using the stuff and making money, they won't hang around long. Some will sign up just to get the products then quit.

One way around this is to offer unlimited access for 6 months at a set price, rather then recurring.

Alternatively, you gotta look for a unique angle... or give members the services they need to help them make money with the products.

Hope this helps.

Sal

Membership sites, in my experience, are hard to sustain because of people's psychological apprehension to monthly fees.

The only way to keep your members over the long run, again in my experience, is to go for the "uniqueness route" rather than the "value route". Trust me, people are willing to pay a premium for unique or exclusive stuff.

Thanks for the feedback. I will be planning to add "uniqueness" to my membership site too...Need to work out the structure as well as the service delivery portion.

Any other feedback?

You may want to consider simply making it a microcontinuity site. Tell members it's a 6 month membership, and if they stay for all six months, then they get lifetime access. Takes off the pressure to constantly create new content, and your members are more likely to stick around for six full months because they know it's not a forever thing. Just an idea.

You say you do Wordpress development, why not make a wordpress plugin that your audience would be interested in, and offer it free to members. Make it a "plugin service" that requires continuous membership to work.

Hey I have been doing membership sites for a long time. Lots of testing, lots of money made, but I have probably not made as much as I could have. I had problems like yours in the beginning and have some little tips that could help you out.

1) offer a trial, when they sign up make sure you say hi. Get them to know you are a real person and want to help their business.

2) Be different, chances are they are looking around at people and membership sites and they are all the same. Have a cool edge, or a persona that say "Its me you need to go with"

3) To keep people on you will have to come up with a good way to drip feed content. My drip feed content sites are good and keeps members on board. Yes some drop out and you cant help that....but you need to give them stuff that keeps them staying on with you. ANd my best goes at this is with the drip feed method. I have one site that drips feeds for 12 weeks, with 1 update a week. It has a high stick rate because the content is good, and people are urged onto the next week. It took many weeks to set that up but the retention rate is higher than all the rest of my membership sites.

So have something worthwhile, be different, and make sure you stuff is top notch. All commonsense here really. But hopefully that will help with some of your hassles. Just about testing and tweaking too. You will get to know your members soon enough and what they like and what turns them off. It will be obvious after a while of testing.

Hope that helps.

Celente.

Appreciate all the feedback from warriors here. It gave me alot of ideas on how I could improve my website. Thanks!!

Hi guys.

In terms of drip fed sites do you find that a membership area with updated content, tools, etc. works best or just a structured training program (type of thing) that gives people pre-produced content for a certain period of time?

I don't think people have a problem with monthly fees - but the perception has to be right.

Thoughts?

I think that you have both monthly fees and one time fee. People who registered for monthly fee, can upgrade their membership to lifetime after one month and in this case their fee for the first month will be returned to them. In this case more of your users will like to upgrade their membership to lifetime.

Hi Warriors,

Thanks for the inputs. I have some basic understanding of how I can enhance my site. Here are some ideas after looking at your inputs.

I will have 2 payment mode. The Basic and the Advance. The Basic members will receive a training course on how to use PLR products to make money online. The course will be stretch for 6 months hence the members will only pay up to 6 months.

They will also receive 50 PLR ebooks and 100 PLR articles. They will also be entitled to special services such as wordpress set up, article rewriting etc for additional charges.

The advance members will receive alot more of coz. Besides the training course, they will receive unlimited PLR products such as ebooks, videos, turnkey sites. On top of that, they will receive premium articles to enhance their learning.

The key USP is that as long as they see through the course, they will be entitled to a completion bonus, which could be a free lifetime membership....

Thoughts?