What Would You Like To See In A Membership Site?

How much am I willing to pay? I guess it depends on how much cash rains from the sky every time I push this. If its available in nasty-green I'd probably pay more.

Quality content that drives along teaching step by step, hold hands sort of stuff, to enable one to get good at whatever the niche is about. With a short enough learning curve. And a clearly defined goal...

And priced affordably. Make it easier for folk to get better, quicker...

James

I am pretty sure lots of people still want to see naked women in a membership site.

Real life in human participation... so something that is online... and offline. Bingo.

Hey Vicky,

I'm doing something similar in the IM niche, I provide my members with software I've developed, PLR, scripts,wordpress themes and plugins etc for $20 a month.

I also have a Skype group where I have experts participating and have topics like copy, graphics, seo, programming,web design etc and it's going very well so far.

The skype group is very active and it's great seeing my members sharing their knowledge there, you might want to consider a similar model. I love the group because we have active participants and some of these people are making some really serious money online and boy do they know their stuff!

The next step is to deliver weekly webinars where experts share their knowledge and i'm really looking forward to introducing this.

I'm also keeping my membership exclusive by only allowing 100 members to join at this point.

I have not done much in the way of promoting the site (apart from sig links) and yet I have had 30 people sign up so far.

My philosophy is to build on the "community" aspect and to really add value, the "newbie" members of the group have been completely blown away by the information. With the software I've developed a few have gone on to starting their own Fiverr business and have excitedly reported that they have orders for their gigs.

I was inspired by Sean Donahoe's IM success center and I think if you follow a similar model, I really don't think that you can go wrong.

I hope that this helps.

Rob

You're an idiot.

I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Look, you can't ask people what they want and what they would pay. It never works. They want everything for nothing. That's what all of us want. You already know that.

You have to specify one or the other, and I strongly recommend price.

Start your market research from the standpoint of price. You have a membership site that costs, say, $97 a month to join. You will give everyone a single month free. What needs to be in that site for them to happily sign up to pay their $97 at the end of the month?

They'll overstate their requirements, so you'll have to scale it back a bit.

Alternately, you can give people access to a membership site that already has the features you can provide, and then ask them what they'll pay for it.

They'll understate their actual interest, so you'll have to scale it up a bit.

You have to start with one or the other. Whichever one you start with, the answers are going to be a negotiation to try and get your site closer to "everything for nothing." And most of the people who swear up and down they'll join your site will just plain not do it, so don't go making any income projections based on responses.

It's interesting that you see the "guru" products often touting this method as a way of finding out what the market wants but it clearly isn't working in this case!

Cdarklock has hit the problem in his albeit, unecessarily offensive post - it really is a way to open question to get answers to.

Perhaps it would get more response if you go in stages...if you really don't even know what sub niche to target maybe start by asking in what area of IM people are having most problems or having the hardest time finding answers etc. And then work from there?!