Make Money with Paid Membership Site: How to Get Members (Part 1)

Paid membership sites are gold and can give a monthly guaranteed income. They are very easy to set up and just take a few hours of your time. Membership sites can be set up in various niches and in different price ranges. Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing a pile of cash in your Paypal account, without actually doing anything that day or even that week.

Today, people understand the importance of good content and they have no issue with paying to access a good membership site that provides that information. Getting members to a membership site begins with looking for a good niche for the site. It all depends on your target market.

Hot market
Selecting a hot market is the key to getting people. The first thing that needs to be done is research to find out what is selling. The best place to look for the top selling hot products is www.clickbank.com. Clickbank is the leading seller of ebooks and that would be a perfect place to find a niche market. Another place to get some ideas of great niches is www.43things.com and also www.amazon.com. Go to these places and see what is most popular and you should get several ideas. Getting members starts here, finding the right niche.

This is basically the initial research that needs to be done in order to attract people. Here we will not be going into how to create a paid membership site. Once you found your niche and have created a membership site, how do you get people to know that you have a site that you want them to join?

Affiliate programs
Finding some super affiliates that are looking for great affiliate programs to promote, is a wonderful way of promoting your membership site.

There are several paid membership sites that allow you to do joint ventures and look for joint venture partners. There are paid and free forums and sites where you will find such people. There are affiliate program directories through which you can find good affiliates, for example, http://lifetimecommissions.com. You don’t have to price it very high to attract top affiliates. Just ensuring that the sales page converts well will get it going and you can pay anywhere between $5 to $20 to your affiliates, depending on what you are charging for membership. If you have a few top affiliates promoting your membership site, you can see membership swell and earning you fat money month after month.

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