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The Advantage of Purchasing a Membership Site Instead of Building Your Own

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Membership SiteI’d like you to use your “internet business calculator” for just a few minutes to add up some totals that are going to shock you.

Huh . . . !? What’s that? An “Internet business calculator” is a fancy way of saying “add these up in your head” 🙂

How long do you think it would take you to . . .

  • Research and choose a profitable niche
  • Determine an “in-demand” topic for a membership site
  • Write a professional sales letter
  • Research topics for member content
  • Write an entire YEAR’s worth of member content
  • Develop your marketing materials (presell report, articles, solos, etc.)
  • Create accessory pages for downloading, auto responder messages, etc.

Okay. Add the hours up and click the = button. What’s your total? How long would it take you to do the work?

Conservatively you’re looking at 100 hours. I mean, if you spent just TWO hours per week creating member content you’re on the hook for 104 hours for the year’s worth of member content.

So, let’s just say on the low end that you spend 100 hours. It’s probably going to be more than that, but we’ll keep it conservative.

Now, that’s 100 hours of WORK. That doesn’t include writer’s block, delays, mistakes, fine-tuning, your day job, etc. It will likely take WEEKS (if not months) to actually get those 100 hours of work DONE.

BUILDING a membership site SOUNDS GREAT, but it often isn’t anything but great.

For a lot of people it’s a frustrating, never-ending endeavor that they simply don’t complete. The idea of regular, monthly residual income is wonderful. Getting those automatic rebills to the account each month gives you stable income and a sense of security among other things.

But getting the darn thing “live” and taking orders can be a chore!

That’s why BUYING a membership site is a nice alternative to BUILDING one. That’s why I’m super excited to tell you about Jimmy D. Brown’s new Membership To Go package!

Membership To Go is exactly what it sounds like: a complete “ready-go-to” membership site that you slap your name on and setup at your site. You get private label rights to a year’s worth of membership content, a professionally written sales letter, presell report, articles and other marketing materials, etc. Everything you need to get started immediately!

That’s right, you get “private label rights” (PLR) to the entire package so you can put your own name on it and sell it as your own!

And Yessss . . . there will be bonuses, but HURRY because Jimmy isn’t offering them for long. He is offering a “fast action” bonus that THOUSANDS of other people have paid $324 to buy from him, and he’ll be including them for free if you’re among the first to order.

Get the details now at: http://tinyurl.com/membership-to-go

All the training you need to setup the Membership To Go package is included – but only if you order quickly to qualify for the fast action bonus. If you miss out on the bonus you’ll be responsible for learning how to set everything up on your own.

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Effective List Building Techniques For Publishers & Authors

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mail3-100-100Method #2 – Paid eZine Advertising

Let’s discuss List Building Method #2 – Paid eZine Advertising. This method, if properly implemented can be an effective way to help generate traffic to your website.

Building a comprehensive email list is not only a beneficial technique for webmasters & online business owners but also for publishers and authors seeking to convert subscribers, readers, fans and potential customers into buying customers.

There is perhaps no better way to establish a massive database of potential clients than through an email list that contains the names and email addresses of many who have passed through your website, blog or membership site.

However, the problem remains that people must first visit your website/blog before they are able to sign up to your email list, and even the most novice of us know that driving an abundant amount of unique traffic to our website can be a daunting task!

Luckily enough, there are many ways of getting the traffic that we all desire. Some of these ways are free but may take a bit longer to amass hordes of people while other methods require you to pay a fee up front but seem to work a bit faster.

Whichever you decide is totally up to how much you feel you can make in your business as a publisher or author and how much you are willing to spend in an attempt to gain as much traffic – and as big of a mailing list, as you possibly can.

Paid Advertising Explained

Of the paid for methods of building your own email list and bringing gobs of traffic to your website, possibly the most successful is through paid eZine advertising techniques. The eZine is a relatively obscure topic for most people, and chances are that unless you are really into marketing and advertising you have never heard the name “eZine” mentioned before now.

Essentially an eZine is basically an electronic magazine that is published by a particular website. Different than a mailing list, an eZine is usually tightly linked to a particular topic or subject, so that everyone who has access to a particular eZine is interested in that one topic.

There are unique eZines for just about anything out there from how to build a successful website to how to find the best shoes to where are some of the best destinations for people who like to travel by boat. The possibilities for different types of eZines are endless, so the first step in any paid eZine advertising plan should be to find and research the different types of eZines that will fit into your site’s niche.

Sourcing Out For The Best Paid eZine Advertising

Once you find a particular eZine that you feel is the right media for your advertisements, you should contact the owner of the eZine and see if he is open to the idea of you sticking your advertisements in the eZine itself.

If the eZine owner is open to the idea of paid advertising, then you are good to go and you should start creating some advertisements immediately.

On the other hand, if for some reason the owner of the eZine is not interested in sticking your advertisements in (for any price) then you should simply move on to another eZine that is also well suited to your business.

My favorite all-time eZine resource is Directory of eZines. Use them, you will not be disappointed! http://www.DirectoryofeZines.com

Creating Your Own Advertisments

Now comes the tricky part for any potential paid eZine advertiser looking to enhance the membership of their budding email list – creating the advertisements themselves. The ads you make will have to be more than simple content if you want to unleash the full power of a paid eZine advertisement.

Remember that hundreds, thousands or sometimes millions of people will be viewing the eZine with your advertisement in it, and if you want a decent majority of those people to actually click your link, visit your website and subsequently sign up for your email list, then you will have to be especially clever with your advertisements. Even more so if you find that there are multiple advertisers competing with you in the same eZine issue.

Many people at this point will probably think that their best shot for successful paid eZine advertisements will be to advertise exactly what their website does, and why someone should pay any attention to it. Unfortunately, while this may be decent for some people, it is a practice that has proven to be unsuccessful for those looking to build an email list.

After all, if a person knows exactly what they are getting from your web service, then why would they want to visit your advertisement if they weren’t interested in your services?

That is all well and good if you are selling only one particular product, but you want to craft an email list.

So instead you need an ad that will piquĂ© their interest in what you offer – something that will make them want to visit your website, sign up for your email list and come back for more again and again. This is the only way that you will find yourself able to maximize the payout from a paid eZine advertisement if you are trying to create your own email list.

The Maximum Opt-In Conversion Rate Solution

The solution to maximizing email list subscriptions through the use of a paid eZine advertisement is to give the people what they want – something for free or your services in a risk-free offer.

Whatever it is that you offer them for free is totally up to you, and in all honesty it does not really matter so long as you give only a rough idea of what your potential customers are getting for free in the advertisement.

You can give away anything from a free article to free research to a free one week subscription to whatever services you are trying to peddle. Just make sure that you let everyone reading the advertisement that if they visit your website they will be entitled to something cool totally free of charge.

Now, just make sure that the eZine advertisement you have created points directly to your email list sign-up page, tell your visitors that they have to enroll in your eMail list to receive the free gift and you are all set.

Oh, and be sure that at some point you do actually follow through with giving the people who sign up for your mailing list or you may have a few angry people in the following days. And there you have it, the start of your brand new eMail list as only paid eZine advertising can provide!

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7 Ways To Find Profitable Membership Site Ideas

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Jimmy-D-BrownGuest Article written by Jimmy D. Brown

Some ideas burst into the air like a rocket . . . others quickly fizzle off into the night like a bottle rocket.

There’s a big difference between an “idea” and a “great idea”, right? Fortunately, there’s also a simple process that you can follow to get great ideas for your membership site. If you’re unsure how to begin and are stuck for ideas, try out these tips. Your next membership site may not be that far away.

  1. Personal. Begin by brainstorming your own life. Get personal! Creating your membership site is going to be much easier if you know a little bit about the market. That’s why it’s a great idea to start your ideas list with hobbies, interests and activities from your own life. Write down everything that you and your family members are passionate about or interested in. This list could be a goldmine for your membership site.
  2. Products. Ebook and video course creators have done a lot of niche market research in order to create their products. You can piggyback on this research specifically by keeping an eye on “product launches”. For example, if you see a lot of products being produced on article marketing you can safely assume that a membership site on the same topic would do well. Subscribe to email lists in your potential market to watch for product launches and get ideas for your site.
  3. Peruse. Peruse means “to examine in detail”. It also begins with “p” so it fits my outline. If you want a comprehensive list of existing electronic products that are selling well, Clickbank.com/marketplace is the place to go. Search through the marketplace to find out what topics your market is interested in learning about. You’ll be able to find new market ideas, content to fill your site as well as affiliate offers to create some backend sales.
  4. Popularity. Visit Amazon.com’s best-seller list. Amazon is the top bookseller online so it makes sense to search their marketplace for membership site ideas. The bestseller lists in various categories will help you see what topics are popular. You can easily gather membership site ideas from these lists. Hint: Go with the topics that are popular.
  5. Pulse. Forums are the pulse of your market. You can be sure that a market has members that would be willing to pay if there is an active forum dedicated to that topic. Track down some popular forums in your potential market and spend some time browsing through the topics. See what the market is talking about. Pay close attention to the FAQs section and the threads that have a lot of activity. These are indicators of the kinds of topics which might serve as a topic for your next membership site.
  6. Periodicals. You gotta go to Magazines.com! This website is full of membership site ideas. If a market has a buying audience, there is probably a magazine out there dedicated to it. Magazines don’t get started without advertising dollars to back them up. If advertisers are paying to get to a market, it’s a safe bet that you can create a membership site for the same market. On Magazines.com you can search by category to find membership site ideas. I love this place!
  7. Problems. The final stop I want to mention is Yahoo groups. These free e-mail discussion lists cover a wide variety of topics. Subscribe to a few groups in your potential market to look for ideas. The benefit of using groups like these is that you’ll often be able to see problems in the market that aren’t currently being met by other products. By going through these simple outlets you are sure to find a great idea for your next membership site.

If you’d like a shortcut for finding a great idea – and an even bigger shortcut to getting a membership site setup and taking orders, grab a copy of the Membership To Go package. This is a complete, one-year membership site that you can license for your own use. This has never been offered before and it includes EVERYTHING you need to get started, including private label rights to the membership content, its sales letter, presell report, articles and other marketing materials.

You have the option to set it up on your site, sell as many memberships as you want & keep 100% of every sale!

Get all the details at: Membership To Go

It’s important to note that this topic is related to one of the most popular niches in the world. A market that has had multiple million dollar launches, countless sales every single day and a huge marketplace of potential buyers.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the founder of the PLR industry and creator of Membership To Go, an “everything included” membership site package that you can setup at your site and keep 100% of every sale you make. Details here: Membership To Go

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Effective List Building Techniques For Publishers & Authors

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Article MarketingMethod #1 – Article Marketing

How many different email marketing lists do you belong to? If your mailbox is anything like mine, then you probably have subscribed yourself to quite a few during your browsing sessions online.

Whether the emails that you get are from other businesses that may be able to provide you with goods or services that you simply cannot get anywhere else for the price, for musicians who you like to keep an eye on in hopes that they will visit your city sometime soon or from bloggers who have great articles in your eyes – your email box is probably filled to the brim with notifications that you subscribed to at some point or another.

Now that you are considering moving into the realm of online marketing (more specific – online book marketing), it is high time that you learn to take advantage of the power of an email list and notification program. Potential clients and random visitors alike love notification lists, as it keeps them up to date on what you’ve got going on without them having to visit your website every moment of every day. People like things to be easy – and that is exactly what an email list is giving them – easy access to information on your website when they want it.

At this point in your career as a blossoming author/publisher, you probably do not know too much about the whole web design thing (or perhaps you do). However, even with your potential lack of experience, you have probably realized that it takes a well designed website with some killer content to draw people in and make them stick around.

While terms like article marketing and SEO may elude you, it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that you have got to have good, enjoyable, enlightening information on your website to make your guests, your readers and or your potential customers to stick around – and one of the best ways to do so is to be involved in an Article Marketing Program.

So What Exactly Is Article Marketing?

Quite simply it is just as it sounds – marketing your articles and taking advantage of articles written by other people to bring traffic to your own website. Because of the definition, there are two very different ways in which you can become a part of the article marketing phenomenon:

Submitting or Using.

Whichever method of article marketing your prefer is entirely up to you, although the former is much better way to attract traffic to your website and the latter should only be used in extreme situations.

Thanks to the wondrous power of the article marketing websites, there has never been a better time for you than now to become a better writer. Since you are probably already a writer, it shouldn’t be all that hard to do!

Writing Articles For Business Marketing

You see, in order to be able to take advantage of the amazing marketing potential of submitting to an article marketing website, you first have to be able to write your own articles.

For some of you who truly enjoy writing content all day long, this will not be a problem as you will be able to crank out great content in no time and flood the article marketing websites with lots of cool articles that everyone will want to have on their websites – easily getting your name out there so that you can start to establish a comprehensive email list of potential buying customers.

However, there is that problem that many people face who simply cannot draft an enjoyable document if their life depends on it. Perhaps you are tired of writing after completing your book, or you may have hired a ghost writer, if you are one of those types of people, the road to establishing an email list through article marketing will be long and arduous.

Eventually, you will be able to write an article that you deem worthy of submitting to an article marketing website. After some time you may even get a few hits on it and a few unique visitors to your website because of it.

But how much time are you willing to spend on something that may only net you a couple of people on your email list? Instead, why not try hiring a freelance writer (or ghost writer).

There are droves of them out there in cyberspace (check out http://www.Elance.com) who will work for relatively cheap rates and provide you with decent content (and if you don’t like what they have provided you with, you can always edit it).

Although many article marketing websites require that you write the articles yourself, if you have a ghostwriter do the dirty work for you, you can claim the article as your own and nobody will be the wiser.

Submitting To Article Directories

Once your article writing is finished, it is time to submit your work to an article marketing website. After it has been up there for awhile you will start to see people view it and you may even get a few downloads here or there. It is the downloads that you are really looking for, as it shows that someone found it interesting enough to put it on their website using your name, a link to your website/book, perhaps an email address and certainly some social media sites so that people will know who actually wrote the article in the first place. This will ultimately help a multitude of website visitors who may be interested in your content and also give them the opportunity to connect with you personally & ultimately bring your website more traffic.

Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of some of the better article sites on the Internet. There are literally hundreds of sites, but these are the ones you should start with.

List of Article Directories:

Now, you can also use other peoples’ articles on your own website (but keep in mind that you are trying to direct traffic to your own site), so you’ll have to provide plenty of links to the original author’s website. However, there is a risk using this technique because you’ll be possibly driving people away from your own website before they get the opportunity to sign up to your eMail Opt-in List.

Getting people into your eMail Opt-in List through an article marketing plan can be tricky and arduous, but for the most part it is one of the more successful methods for establishing a good client base.

A lot of work must be done before you even think about posting that first article on an article marketing site, but once you are through with that all you have to do is sit back and watch as it brings in more and more potential customers to your website.

With each unique visit, there is another chance that person could sign up to your email Opt-in List. And we all know that the more people on your email list at the end of the day, the more people you’ll have the opportunity to sell your books to & ultimately maximize your chance for profits.