Strategy 1:
The Membership Site Strategy
The Plan
Do not make the payment recurring, it’s better to offer a onetime payment up front to avoid that too many people are leaving the site because of the monthly fee. You are collecting members mainly to build a list, the money is in the list ;)
Also having a onetime fee doesn’t require you to update the content week after week so it keeps your work burden down to a minimum.
Basically what you need to do is to collect a bundle of videos, articles, audios, maybe even software and any kind of content in your niche and stuff it inside the member’s area.
Setting Up the Site with an Affiliate Program
To setup a membership website I recommend using Wordpress with a plugin such as Optimizepress or Wishlist Member.
Wordpress can be found here:
Optimizepress can be purchased here:
Wishlist Member can be found here:
http://member.wishlistproducts.com/
To setup an affiliate program you need to list your membership website as a paid product on a digital market place such as Clickbank or JVZoo.
Click here to go to ClickBank:
Click here to go to JVZoo:
Create a Membership Upsell
Once your membership site is created, you need to contact other webmasters, so let’s talk about that.
How to Contact Other Membership Site Owners
What you need to do here is to start contacting other membership site owners in your niche and tell them that you as well has a paid membership website that sells and that you would be happy to let his customers get inside for free as a bonus to increase his/hers value to his customers.
It is very important here to remember that you need to think what’s in it for them.
Let them know that once their customers registers they will see an upgrade (a One Time Offer) and that the webmaster will get paid for every upgrade.
Let them know that they can put this bonus inside the member’s area and collect passive income. (Once again, that’s what’s in it for them!)
So where to find this site owners?
It’s pretty simple, just Google “your niche” +membership and contact them through e-mail or through their forms. Its way more easy to do this than you think, you just need to take action on it.