Basically, your members want to know that you haven't just taken their money and made a run for it! Source : Cai-illinois. Strengthening the relationship with your existing members should be an ongoing and worthwhile effort. Your member retention rates should be at the top of your priority list as a membership site owner. A great way to get some inspiration to kick off your own membership site is to look at some examples of successful membership sites:.
Source : FoodBloggerPro. Food Blogger Pro is a membership website created to help people monetize their food blogs. Food Blogger is successful because it appeals to a specific and profitable niche and provides valuable content to its members. With Food Blogger, members learn how to monetize their site using brand sponsorships, ads, and affiliate marketing.
The membership site offers a free trial version, monthly recurring subscription, and a once-off yearly payment. The membership site has a community hub feature , where members can interact, ask questions, and share opinions on food blogging.
Source : Dribbble. Dribbble Pro is a membership site that lends its services to designers and creatives. There are millions of freelance designers that need a platform to promote their work, as well as a community to share ideas with. Picking a good platform for your membership site can be a tad overwhelming , with so many options to choose from. With systeme. Our all-in-one tool will also take care of the finer details , like email marketing and funnel building.
All of our plans, including the Freemium plan , offer these features :. Did we mention all our plans allow you to have unlimited members on your membership sites? Creating a membership site is a fulfilling venture, as it allows you to share some of your skills and experience with the online world.
Building a loyal community, picking a profitable niche, and providing content that helps people to solve a problem is the formula to a successful membership site. Join our affiliate program.
Terms and conditions. Contact us. Features Pricing Login Free trial. Start for free. Your Complete Guide to Membership Sites for Table of contents. What is a membership site? Advantages of membership sites 3. How to build a membership site 3. Identify your niche and target audience 3. Decide what content you'll offer 3. Determine how you'll attract members 3. Set up your membership site 4. Member engagement 4. How to get more members 4.
How to keep your existing members engaged 5. Membership site examples 5. Food Blogger Pro 5. Dribbble Pro 6. Create your membership site with systeme. Pricing plans 7. Great advice. I like the idea of having a limited time membership site. I agree with most of what you said. It is true that no subscription site can hold its subscribers forever with the same old boring stuff.
But when you have a good number of subscriptions… Selling that site for a good profit is the option that I would take. I have noticed that when you have a subscription site and you go to sell it, it is usually worth more. That is the only time I saw success in this type of business model though. If you keep the site eventually and surely you will go down and you will end up in a loss.
Your early adopters who are arguably your best customers had the option to continue giving you money even past the 6 months for new information on a new topic, which allowed you to get paid to create another 6 month course and to work out all the bugs with folks that know you and love what you give them and will be less critical of any hiccups.
Hey Yaro, it looks like your cloaking your affiliate links sorry if I am wrong perhaps you could go over this in a future post?
I will however always remember this post, and if the urge to do a membership site grabs me, I know where to go for the best advice! The continuous need to produce more content for a membership can be a tough deal unless you are outsourcing everything. For me, I will prefer Yaro membership method which ends within a certain period of time and all I need is to provide new update to the course once in a while.
The last few weeks these exact questions have been in my mind! Thanks Yaro — excellent post and one I needed to read again! Enjoying MSM — fascinating!! I am thinking of starting a membership program that would allow members to receive free recipes and techniques each month and a business referral listing on our website for professional vendors along with private web site page access to tips, tricks, product updates, etc.
It would also allow for members to receive a small discount on product and workshop purchases. I had thought to do an annual membership so that the member is making an up front committment entitling them to the discount during their membership year along with the other services as listed above. This would be more about a loyalty buying program and retention of customers for repeat purchases than about making money off the membership fees. Do you think this is something that would work for a niche market?
I strongly recommend it to anyone thinking of building a membership, continuity or micro continuity site. However, as things currently stand, the store model is truly passive income for us.
We do update content, but only about once every 6 months. So, in other words, the work involved is purely the work up front building the site and posting the products with descriptions.
Now, if we were to go the plr membership route, we can already imagine the need for a lot of steady work providing updated products a few times a week, not to mention the research and acquisition costs finding and buying products on a steady, continual basis.
I have an idea for a membership site that would be incredibly profitable. I have been looking for a way to get it started. It combines two things everyone wants at an incredible low cost and generates a steady income for every member. Not just those joining first. So far no one has believed the low cost. My primary issues are finding someone to help me set it up and the distribution of income since it is a significant distribution of funds.
This model will make all current sites in two industries obsolete. I would appreciate your input. Or are you an affiliate with them? Oh that was a long time ago Sarah. I studied their training way back in Thanks for such article. I want to add membership to my existing blog creation site. Thanks a lot for this information. It really helped me a lot. Please keep on helping. Guess, what I was doing this moement? I had your masterplan ebook in I tried to find on the Internet but failed.
I ended up accidentally by reaching your website and subscribed to download masterplan and once I opened it, it was a shocking moment.. My success in subscriptions came from offering software-as-a-service which has been running since Some we keep, some we lose to competitors or go out of business or change their models or sell out that happened to Zappos.. There are lots of ways to keep customers, members, subscribers — perhaps the title of a blog post and another conversation!
SAAS is definitely a great model Tom, although software has its own challenges as I am sure you know about. So yes strictly speaking one is a course with an end date and one is an ongoing membership.
How you position each product and what it includes very much dictates with pricing model works best. For example in my first experience with a membership site it actually ended up being better and more profitable as a course, so I actually changed it. In hindsight that should have been obvious to me, but that was when I was very new to online products.
Love the article! An important part of the process is selecting the right software to run the site. There are a ton of commercial options out there, but I personally love Zenbership www. I swear by it! Thanks for this post. I have an animation and cartoon business, but have been contemplating starting a subscription based site that offers digital media content for use online such as gifs, emotes, characters, comic strips, animated videos, etc.
Not sure. I know the comic book giants offer monthly subscriptions, but with that, you are emailed digital comic books every month. How can i use my skill set to break into the subscription based website business? How can I find a coach!? Thank you! Wow,very interesting read. I hope I can get the chance to talk with you about this a bit more at some point! Hey bro, great article man. Would you recommend creating a membership site and launching it with the power of Facebook ads or some sort of group?
I owned a membership site for almost 6 months and it was difficult to attract new paid members. Was your membership for just a 6-month plan? Was the price to low at first but a higher price made it look more worthy? Hello Yaro, I came across this post yesterday when I was in Starbucks and suddenly I got a little concerned..
I too will have an educational type of website smazzit. But I found myself thinking I may have to set an 6-month expiration date as well, but give my content the rest of the year. But then I thought, I would be working hard for nothing cause I am planning to provide continious content..
React To The Market I decided that it would be smart to change my membership site to have an end date. Make Smart Changes There are no hard rules regarding how to run a membership site, but you have to realize the reality of your situation and adjust things based on how your members react.
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Maik Jaeckle on at. David Eedle on at. Yaro on at. Hey David, Thanks for sharing another membership site success story — especially one of somebody selling out and making a killing. You have to choose the right model for what you are offering and what your goals are. Yaro Your points are well made. David on at. Yaro, Thanks for the timely post and the high quality discussion between you and David above.
Her site boasts lots of free content. But the premium content and one-to-one access to her advice is behind the paid gates of her online course. The unique traits of this membership site are the ongoing and endless drip-feed of readings and charts offered through a tiered membership model.
Natal charts and astrological weather seem to be high value in this magical niche. The trouble is, they all overlap in a blur of confused boundaries that leave you wondering exactly what would work for you. To help, there are two distinct levels of difference you need to be aware of… the membership organization models and the variables.
Fix model membership sites are focused on one thing — they solve a distinct problem. The problem can be a specific fix, such as how to grow a healthy succulent or how to write a novel. Or, they can fix a longer-term problem such as how to scale a business — often solved through three, six or twelve-month programs. Paid access to challenges that have motivational communities to share struggles in are perfect for this membership model.
Otherwise known as the community model, this type of membership site offers people a place to connect and belong.
Members are often united towards a common cause or passion such as gardening, cooking or freelance writing. Once you know which model suits you best you can customize your membership site by deciding from the following variables and membership features. If you choose the Fixed model then a fixed fee works well. The hangout model is perfect for a monthly fee recurring payment structure as people will pay to stay as long as you continue to provide regular high-value new content.
Depending on your model, you can use video live or you talking to slides , worksheets, workbooks, photos and mock-up illustrations, photography, quizzes, charts, graphs, interactive spreadsheets, Facebook live videos, podcasts, webinars, and so on. See, even mind-maps work as membership site content. Deciding when your members will get access to all of their content immediately or not is a personal preference.
You can choose to drip feed content to members daily, weekly or monthly to protect your content. Drip-fed content is perfect if you offer a free membership trial or want to build excitement and suspension. Or, you can throw members into the deep end with full immersion access on day one and let them work as fast, or as slow as they choose. There are no hard and fast rules here. This works well for bigger, more detailed courses that take a long time to complete.
Fixed-term access is perfect to create a sense of urgency to encourage new members to complete the course.
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