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Why Membership Sites Are Perfect For Passive Income?
If you’re interested in making money online, then it’s probably because you like the idea of having more freedom to live and work wherever and however you want. The benefits of working online are many and varied and
extend into every aspect of your life.
But in order for you to make the very most from this way of working, you also need to make sure you choose the perfect business model. Working online on its own does not necessarily equate to an ideal lifestyle; rather
the benefits come when you work online in the right way. And let me tell you: creating a membership site is definitely the right way.
Working online is easy. If you are in a job that’s fairly flexible, then you should be able to ask your employer if you can work from home and simply log into the company’s network whenever you start working. And sure, this will bring some benefits: you’ll be able to stay in bed longer and stop commuting and you’ll have the luxury of being able to drink tea, listen to music and generally create a comfortable environment.
But you’re still ultimately a slave to your job. You’re still trading ‘time for hours’ and you’ll still need to be available for the hours between 9am-5pm.
You’ll probably also need to be near the phone and you’ll be expected to output a certain amount of work every day. That means you probably can’t leave the house and work outdoors in case you lose your internet connection. And it means you can decide to stop working for the day and visit a friend instead. Worst of all, you can still be ‘told off’ by your boss – reprimanded like a child!
The same goes for creating your own online business. If you’re a web designer for example, then you have the freedom to decide when you work on projects. But you probably still have deadlines and to all extents and purposes, your clients are your bosses. If you fail to complete
This is why so many people find the idea of blogging desirable. All you have to do is to create and manage a website that you hopefully find fascinating and really enjoy writing about. You’ll get to experience a lot of the satisfaction that comes from running your own business. And you get passive income, meaning that you’ll earn money while you sleep. But even this isn’t perfect. Because one day, you might earn $200 and the next day you might earn $10.
It only takes a change to Google’s search algorithm and you can lose all of your progress. What’s more, is that it takes actually a huge amount of time to build up the amount of traffic that you need to make a big profit from a blog. This is especially true if you are planning to use pay-per-click advertising but it’s equally the case if you are selling your own product.
Think about it: how often do you click ads on other websites? This is why it typically takes 1K visitors for you to generate just one or two clicks and the same goes for sales of products. It’s a huge amount of work before you start earning anything and there’s no guarantee it will ever get to the point where it can provide a livable salary.
Enter: Recurring, Passive Income
This is where membership site come in and offer an incredibly appealing alternative. Essentially, a membership website is a site that users pay to subscribe to. This normally works by first enticing the reader with some free content and showing them the kind of entertainment/information/value that you’re capable of providing. Once they’re hooked, you then make sure they know that they need to subscribe in order to gain access to your very best content and to get frequently updated.
So what’s so different about this? Well for starters, it means that you can much more easily convert visitors to paying customers seeing as they’re not having to put down a large amount of money and seeing as they know what they’re getting right away.
More importantly, though, it means that the money is recurring and much more predictable. Unlike a regular blog that can very much fluctuate, having subscribers means you probably have some kind of agreement or standing order set up. This means that you can practically guarantee that you’ll be able to earn a set amount of money each week, month or quarter.
And that very quickly starts to add up…
So say you currently have people subscribing for $5 membership a month. If your content is good, then you could realistically convince one in every 1-10,000 people to sign up. But it’s very possible the very first person who visits might sign up! There’s an element of luck but as soon as you get that first membership you’re in business – and $5 membership a month quickly adds up to $60 a year.
Eventually, you can work whenever you like and add as much content as you like (we’ll look at how later on) and still know for sure that you’ll be able to earn X amount of money per month and per year. This is very much living the dream – all the freedom of passive incomes but with all the security of a well-paid job!
Can people unsubscribe? Sure they can! But the likelihood of everyone unsubscribing all at once is incredibly slim and in most cases you’ll have more new visitors signing up than old visitors leaving.
What You Will Learn
This course is going to explain in great detail exactly how you go about creating your own membership website.
We’ll see how to build a membership website, how to make sure that people want to subscribe, how to implement a recurring fee and how to thrive in this market space.
What we’ll also see is that there are multiple membership business models that can work online when you know how.
We’ll look at a selection so that you can decide on the perfect type of membership site/content for you.
Ultimately, we’re going to give you the tools to take the subjects that you love and then turn them into a stable source of income that will pay out even while you’re sleeping.
Specifically, you will learn:
How to create a membership website or blog
How to turn your site into a membership site
How to make content that will make people want to subscribe
How to promote your membership site
How to price your membership site
How to add extra monetization to your offering
How to create a membership app
How to create membership video
The importance of building a community
How to use quizzes and other forms of media
What you can learn from the best membership sites
The strategies and tools you can learn to succeed even beyond those…
And much more!
Kindly note that this is a 100% informational guide, there are no “On-Screen how to steps”.
Tools of Trade!
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1Intro
Thank You for Investing Your Time and Money In Our Course
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2Must Read Intro
Important Introductory readings
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3Membership Empire
How To Start Your Very Own Recurring Membership Site And Get Paid Month After Month
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4Explaining the Membership Business Model
An Explanation of the Membership Business Model, and How to Get There.
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5Point-By-Point Checklist
View or print this handy checklist so that you can check off each point.
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6Resource Cheat Sheet
You'll also get access to a rolodex of top sites, blogs, forums, tools, apps and services to get you even further.
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7This is How You Earn Your CPD Accredited Certificate!
Types of Membership Site
Building Your Membership Site
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9Types of Membership Site
Several Types of Membership Sites
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10Alternatives to Websites
There are also several alternative methods to creating membership content which we touched on briefly in the introduction.
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11Examples of Successful Membership Sites
Let’s take a look now at some of the very most popular examples of membership sites so that you can see how they work and hopefully replicate some of their success.
Membership Strategies
Valuable Content = Retaining Members
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14Membership Plans, Structures
Membership Plans and Structures
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15Pricing and Payment Models
Your aim is to find a price that will bring in the maximum number of subscribers while also still giving you enough money to live off of.
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16Removing Risk
Assuring People Who Are Naturally Highly Risk-Averse.
Promotions and Maintenance
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17What to Offer
One way to make sure that your membership site seems worthwhile is to make sure that you are offering a lot of value. That means that in order to increase the amount you charge for your membership site, you need to increase the value on offer.
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18Retaining Members
Increasing the Value of Your Membership Site to Retain Members Longer
Wrapping Up
Over the Shoulder: How to Build A Membership With Your Chosen Platform
Ext: WP Membership Plugin
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23File and Content Hosting for Your Membership
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24Content Protection
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25Collecting Names and E-Mail Addresses
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26Video Streaming
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27Page and Content Protection Course Platforms
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28Page Protection WordPress
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29Page Protection From Shopping Carts
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30Recurring Payments - Affiliate Network
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31Recurring Payments - Affiliate Network
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32Recurring Payments - Course Platform
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33Recurring Payments - Shopping Cart System
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34Recurring Payments - Shopping Cart Integrations
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35Recurring Payments - Integrations with Member Area
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36Collecting the Contact E-Mail Address
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37Bundling Products for Your Members
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38Content Archiving in Wishlist Member
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39Independence of Process
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40Content Dripping Schedule
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41Membership Component Tagging
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42Components of a Membership
Extra Resources
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43The Right Mindset
How to get into the right mindset so that you can successfully implement everything that you have learned.
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44Mapping Out Your Product Menu
I know by now that you want to jump straight in to creating your WordPress membership site. But before you do that, we want to make sure that we set it up correctly, right? To do this, you will need to map out how your visitors will see your content, your video course, your eBook, your software, or whatever digital product you are trying to sell - first.
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45Mapping Out Your Membership Site Funnel
Once you have completed the task in video number two, you will finalize the mapping process in this particular video. We will map it out using flow-chart software, which will allow you to actually see what your site will look like. Once you have completed this process, you will be one step closer to success, and implementing and setting up your WordPress sites will become a whole lot faster.
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46Which WordPress Membership Plugin?
Now that you understand how your membership site looks, it's time to talk about different WordPress membership plug-ins that are available to you. This is in case you decide not to use the one that we have included. At the same time, we will discuss why we chose the one that is included and why we recommend that you use it as well.
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47Access, Install, and Getting Started
In this specific video and the rest until the end of this video course, you'll be shown how to access this WordPress plug-in, how to install it correctly, and how to get things configured correctly
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48Creating A Product/Membership Level
Once you have configured your settings, it's time to set up your membership levels. This is a crucial process because it allows you to set up the skeleton or structure of your whole site.
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49Content & File Protection
Next, this video will show you how to protect your content so that only paying customers will have access to it. Even more, you can also have it protected from people who have prying eyes.
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50Completion
This video will show you everything you need to know to finish up with your membership site and be in a position to receive recurring revenues on autopilot.