I have memberships on my brain this week because they are such a great way to add value and give yourself an income boost at the same time.
I already wrote about the pros and cons of memberships, but today I wanted to go over four different types of membership sites. This should get your brain pumping with lots of ideas!
PLR Based Memberships – This is where you provide content and give the rights away to it. An example, is my Health PLR Club. Each month members get a 20 page report, 10 product reviews, and 10 informative articles. There are many things you can do within this type of membership. You can create minisites, videos, reports, articles, blog posts, basically any type of content needed.
Service Based Memberships – In the past I ran a successful unique monthly content program. This was successful because I was providing something that people needed in order to run their business. I also ran a link building program where I provided the content and then I manually submitted the content to different article directories. Service based memberships are great because you are helping people save time and money. Also, subscribers tend to stay in longer because of the value provided to their business. Plus there are a lot of services you could provide.
Fixed Term Memberships – The fixed term membership is perfect for training. You could have 3, 6, 9, 12 month fixed memberships depending on how much material you need to cover. Think virtual classroom with this type of membership. You can easily set this up to where you drip feed the content over the course of the membership so that it is a little more hands off.
Community Based Memberships – This type of membership works well when the community is working on a common goal and people want to see others succeed. Members support one another to success! This can be really fun as I have discovered with the PLR Business Training Club. It actually makes me want to start another one in a more general topic of marketing and internet business! There is power in a network!
This is just an idea of what you could do. Having recurring income in my business has made a huge difference!
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Do you have any ideas for a membership site?
This is a good list Lisa and sounds like you use to have your hands full.
I remember learning about the different kinds of membership sites some time back and that we should create our own content driven sites. I just felt like that was a lot more overwhelming for me to handle though. I have no doubt that you had success with yours.
I’m not that knowledgeable about these so I definitely don’t have anything else to add to this already thorough list.
Thanks for sharing.
~Adrienne
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This is really a good list, Lisa.
I remember learning about membership sites and how they work. When I was first getting started in 2010, I spent few weeks learning how to set up a membership site.
-Dev
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Hey Adrienne, it can be as overwhelming as you make it! 🙂 You have a great following…maybe you should try one?
Hey Devesh! Did you ever start up one?
Yup, actually I created one at Blokube.com
-Dev
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Dev, that’s a great site! What membership software do you use?
Great Information Presented here, Lisa!
I have never started or worked on a membership site (but your post certainly gives me many ideas for the future of my blogging career). I guess I can start a services related membership site once I get good traffic numbers and start offering services.
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Sounds like a great idea! If you can work in a membership I would definitely do it! 🙂
It’s running on Pligg CMS.
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Hi Lisa, I think that membership sites are a great idea. I have thought about putting one up before. I think a health site is great idea as so many people are taking more intrest in their self now. I know and I have used your content on some of my blogs and I have been working in the health market for more than 25 years.
Yeah the health/weight loss/fitness is a great market! And it’s the kind of market that works well with membership sites (and community). So what are you waiting on? Get it started (25 years – you have all you need lol)!