Include A Membership Club As Part Of Your Web Site

To help increase your online income with your web site, along with selling products, consider starting a member only section for your site.

This is a section of your web site that you set up with a link from your home page that goes to a password page, which after they enter the password it directs them into the membership area.

You will want to charge a fee for the use of the membership area. You can charge a monthly fee, a yearly fee or a one-time fee.

From past experience, most people do not want to purchase a monthly fee to be part of your web site so your best bet is to offer them a yearly fee. This is a better option for you than just a one-time fee because each year you have the opportunity of having them sign up again.

Also do not make this an automatic renewal. In the terms of your membership policy let them know that after a year from that date the membership expires and it is up to them to re-new it.

Keep the fee small; 10 - 20 bucks for the year seems to be what people are willing to pay if you always offer great deals on products and software.

What To Offer In The Membership Area

This is a section where you need to spend a lot of time finding and offering a variety of products and software for your members.

By doing some extensive searching on the Internet, you will be able to find tons of free software programs, E-books and the like. You will even find some very inexpensive products that you can purchase and sell them to your members for a small profit.

You want to be sure to give your members real value, not just any old product but products and software that they can use for their own web businesses.

Create Special Opt-in List For Members

Your members need to be put into a separate opt-in list from your other opt-in subscribers.

You will want to invite them to write articles on your Blog and you will every week want to send them special emails about new products or software that you have added to the membership site.

Also encourage your members to give you feed back about your membership site, what they would like for products or software and try to provide as much quality that you can afford.

You also for a fee or a percentage, can set up an area in the member's only section for your members to be able to sell additional products or services.

Customer Service

When you are running a membership site there tends to be a lot more activity than just your regular web site. You will want to be sure and answer all emails promptly, offer money back guarantees on all your products and always provide good quality products and service so that you can maintain your members and income for long time.


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Casey Trillbar is the editor of makeawebsiteguide.com, which is a website aimed at supplying a step by step guide on how to make a website. http://www.makeawebsiteguide.com