How much are you making from your membership sites?

$10 - no marketing gimmicks or weird numbers.


It's actually a very small part of a much bigger plan. This is just the first stage. There are actually over 400 members but many of them are on a free trial so I didn't count them. I fully expect over 1000 members in the next few months as I've done zero marketing yet.

I've created many membership sites over the years - some with fellow warriors and we've had much better results selling at much higher prices too.

My point isn't to say how well this new membership is doing (I'm actually very disappointed with the numbers), it's that people like to have others tell them what they're doing - but it's not actually useful to them.

A lot of people come here and don't have any experience in running a membership site and have just read something from someone else telling them it's a good way to make money - so they decide "hey - I want money, therefore I should make a membership site" but they have no real understanding of what works or why, so they ask others to tell them what they've done in the hopes that they'll get more confidence about their own plans.

It's all false - membership sites are a great way to make money - but then again, so can starting up a bakery - but we're not all out running bakeries.

That's because once you look at how to make a successful bakery - you realise there's a lot of time, effort, knowledge, skill and money involved.

The same goes for a membership site, but because people think they can skip around needing money to do it - it's a no-brainer.

But as with a successful bakery, it's not as simple as if you build it your customers will come - no matter how great your product is.

Success in IM is about how you market your business much less than it's about what your business is.

Membership sites are no different.

It doesn't matter if you create 1000 pages of excellent, unique, SEO'd content every month to give your members for $1 a year - you could still end up doing 1000 hours of work and only getting 10 members.

Equally (as you will have also seen), you can throw together some regurgitated crap and sell it to 100 newbie IMers as a WSO.

Your success is much less to do with your product than your business model and marketing strategies.

Don't let how easy it is to throw up a site fool you into thinking that means making money is easy. It can be easy, but not in the way most people think.