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4 Reasons A Traditional Membership Site is NOT a Great Idea!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

(What?!! I thought they were a good idea?”, I hear you say!!)
1.     Traditional membership sites require too much work setting up initial setup. When you are writing a dozen or so original pieces of content to “stockpile” in your member’s area, getting training materials in place, setting up a forum, installing scripts, assembling a “library” of materials and other things most membership sites include, it’s just too time-consuming for the average person to ever get in place.
2.     Traditional membership sites have built-in pressures to create content.  The demands of updating your site 3-5 times per week with new content requires discipline that most of us just don’t possess.
3.     Traditional membership sites require pricey and complicated scripts. You have to manage passwords, protect your member’s area, keep up with who’s active and who’s stopped paying you, manage your content and at least two dozen other things. This requires a membership site “script”. Inexpensive ones are either inadequate or incompatible; others with all the extras are way too expensive (thousands of $$$$)

4.     Traditional membership sites demand a large investment of time. You have a forum to moderate, cancellations to process, content to add, technical problems to troubleshoot, password problems to fix, and a variety of other tasks that usually get left out of the “salesletter” for a product or service trying to convince you to start a membership site.
BUT The Easiest Way To Create Residual Wealth Is To Start A “Fixed-Term Membership” Site

There is a much easier, more effective - just as profitable – way to start and run your own membership site that *will* be the “next big thing” because of its results. I call this kind of subscription program a “fixed-term membership” (FTM) site. Let me quickly explain what it is…

A “fixed-term membership site” (FTM) consists of weekly content shared via autoresponder to paid members for a specified period of time.

In a nutshell, here’s what you’d do in running your own Fixed Term Membership Site…

1. Write ONE 2-3 page article lesson every week.
2. Load this article to an autoresponder for subscribers to access.
3. Sell access to the series, which would last 3 – 6 – 9 or 12 months.

It’s that simple.

And the benefits are the exact opposite of the barriers for traditional membership sites…
1.     Fixed-Term Membership (FTM) sites can be setup in 48 hours or less! All you need to get started is one sales page, one article, one recurring billing processor (I.E. Clickbank or Paypal) and one autoresponder. Do you see how this can REALLY happen for you! Not “sometime in the future” … but, quickly! That can be this week, already taking orders.
2.     Fixed-Term Membership (FTM) sites are easy to maintain! Instead of struggling to keep up with 3-5 fresh articles to your membership site week after week after week … all you need to do is write ONE new article every week for a short amount of time. And, here’s the best part, once you have your articles written … it’s evergreen! That means, long after you’ve moved on to other projects, you can still add new customers to the membership site to access the series you’ve already completed!
3.     Fixed-Term Membership (FTM) sites require noscripts to get an FTM site up and running. All it takes to actually “run” the technical side of your site is an autoresponder account and recurring billing (Clickbank or Paypal) and that’s it. It is so simple that anyone can set this up within hours.
4.     Fixed-Term Membership (FTM) sites require very little time! The  only real investment of time you’ll have each week is to write one simple article to add to your autoresponder for members to receive.

While the process is very simple and you could get started right now on your own, wouldn’t you rather learn some amazing methods of turning this idea into a thriving money-maker for you?

I thought so.

That’s why I’m going to ask you a simple question …

Who wants to be a Membernaire?!

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How JV Partners Can Maximize Your Sales

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Its no secret that JVs (joint ventures) and cross promotions are one of the most productive ways to make high volumes of sales on the Internet.

Why do they work so well? And how you can make the most of them to explode your online income?

Traditionally, JVs are most common between two people who have created a product and are selling it online. But that needn’t be the case and I will tell you shortly of a way in which you can get all the benefits, traffic and sales of a JV without even having a product of your own.

But first lets look at the principals of it: What actually happens in a JV cross-promotion?

Webites promote other websites for two main reasons:

1. To earn income from commission sales.

2. To pay, or earn, favors.

The first of these you might expect, the second is more intricate.

You see, when you’re running an online business, your options and your growth are restricted if you try doing it all on your own.

Sure, there’s pay-per-click advertising, article marketing, traffic exchangers, and a variety of ways you can draw traffic to your site by paying for it.

But nothing beats personal recommendation.

Its human nature: We all prefer to buy through personal recommendation than by enticing
advertisements.

And JV’s, or cross-promotions are all about personal recommendation.

The only thing is – as every super-affiliate knows – even if you’re offering attractive commission rates, the site that’s getting promoted always gets more out of the deal than the JV partner who’s doing the promoting. Look
at this comparision:

The JV partner doing the promotion gets:

1. A ‘notional’ favour from the site it promotes.
2. Commission payments, hopefully paid in good time but always at the discretion of the site owner.

The site being promoted gets:

1. Lots of new list members
2. Lots of Sales
3. Lots of recognition

Which would you rather?

Can you see now why the benefit isn’t split evenly in a JV deal?

This is one of the reasons why it is more difficult than many people think to get JV partners promoting for you.

No matter how attractive your commission percentages are, you will always be getting more out of the deal than your JV partner. Especially if your landing page is a list-building squeeze page.

But there is an option available. Especially if your aim is to build a list.

You could run a MyViralSpiral site.

MyViralSpiral is a webserver script that gives you a complete solution for building a list and a business online.

One of its features is that it turns the above JV example on its head to provide more of a win-win for both parties. Here’s what you can do with it:

As a listbuilder, you can offer a squeeze page for your JV partner to promote. He then sends his list to the squeeze page, where they sign up to your list. Then, this is when it gets interesting:

Your JV partner can decide which offer page his signups are directed to after signup.

Gone is the traditional method whereby once his leads have signed up to you they’re yours, to direct wherever you like. With MVS, your JV partner can choose what to show them *after* they’ve joined your list…

It might be to his own product, or an affiliate link somewhere else – or he may choose to use his affiliate link for your product (in keeping with the normal method).

The point is, your JV partner has more say about who benefits from his promotion and how. And that kind of power makes all the difference when it comes to getting others to promote for you, and build your list.

This is one of many characterisics of MyViralSpiral that make it well worth a good look if you want to start building JV relationships.

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