Welcome back, a couple of days ago we discussed about the use of free membership sites, well today we will be discussing the paid membership model.

Whatever you call them – member only, membership, subscription, or mentor websites, the “normal” membership sites all have one thing in common.

They are bringing in steady and constant cash flow for their owners, month after month, from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. The array of the topics of these websites is endless. Examples are articles, eBooks, iPod Movies, Audio Books and mixed models. Read the rest of this entry

Today we continue our Membership Riches series and I like to discuss the importance of offering regular publishing schedules.

The people who have paid to join your membership site depend on you to provide relevant and timely information. It is their right to expect that information to be updated on a regular basis because they may be depending upon it to make decisions. When a person joins your membership site they should be told what your publishing schedule will be so that they know when they can expect to get fresh information. Adhering to that announced schedule is vitally important.

Deciding what your publishing schedule will be for your website is important. Keep in mind the kind of information you will be supplying to your membership. Information that changes hourly will require a RSS feed. Information that needs to up-dated on a daily basis will most likely require a content management system. For weekly publishing of content, you can do that yourself but a content management system can make it a lot easier. Read the rest of this entry

Hello my friends,

I want to let you know about an amazing website I just found.

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=> It’ll cost you nothing.

=> It’ll take just 15 minutes of your time.

=> It’s so easy that even a 10 year child could do it.

Just Imagine – You have a website, You join a free system, copy a small piece of code and paste to your site and immediately start making an extra $50, 100 or even $200 a day.

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Even though I am not a great lover of OTO’s, they are must have for every successful internet marketer, as they are good income spinners and this concept is a very unique one!

To Your Success!

Cheers,

Bert

I am excited to share with you my experience with Push Button Marketing. When you take the time to reach this review about Push Button Marketing you will be more willing to spend money on it.

It truly amazed me the first time I saw it in action. I admit, I love when things are automated, which is why I love technology so much. But, the Push Button Marketer has gone way beyond what I expected

The area of Internet Marketing has been improved with the introduction of the time saving Push Button Marketing so see what it can offer you If you want to learn more about Push Button Marketing avoid the marketing about it and do your own homework. The internet offers plenty of great information about it. Read the rest of this entry

I don’t usually write subject lines as controversial as you see in the post today but I did it for good reason!

If you’ve been stressing about starting a REAL and sustainable business on the Internet, you’re going to want to listen up to today’s message.

Anybody that needs good quality PLR products should really check out this brand new PLR membership site, it’s only $1 and it’s truly a phenomenal offering.

Get and Get Naked PLR Membership Read the rest of this entry

Hello my friends,

The modern variation of the practice of paying finder’s-fees for the introduction of new clients to a business is a popular method of promoting Internet businesses called affiliate marketing.

An affiliate marketer is paid for every visitor, subscriber, or customer provided to an Internet business because of his efforts. The affiliate marketer earns compensation based on a certain value for each visit (Pay per click), registrant (Pay per lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay per Sale), or any combination.

You can see where an affiliate marketer would be sorely tempted to send out email advertising the products he makes money on for promoting. This resulted in so much SPAM being generated that anti-spam laws were enacted.

Spammers are severely fined and the newest twist in the anti-spam laws are that the merchants whose affiliates spam are being held responsible for the spamming as well. So caution is well advised to merchants.

Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to their online sales channel should research the different technological solutions available to them.

As affiliate marketing has matured many affiliate merchants have refined their terms and conditions to prohibit affiliates from spamming. Some types of affiliate management solutions include: standalone software, hosted services, shopping carts with affiliate features, and third party affiliate networks for for instance autoresponders with so-called “double-opt-in” features.

Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately creating web pages which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine
results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned.

Right now there is a lot of debate about the affiliate practice of Spamdexing and many affiliates have converted from sending email spam to creating large volumes of
automatically generated web pages each devoted to different niche keywords as a way of search engine optimizing their sites.

This is sometimes referred to as spamming the search engine results. Spam is the biggest threat to organic Search Engines whose goal is to provide quality search results for keywords or phrases entered by their users.

The best membership site software packages provide the possibility of including standard third party autoresponders.

I personally never use the build-in emailing facilities before as in general they are not using “double-opt-in”. Using those build-in facilities expose you to spam-complaints.

But now we have the just released Easy Member Pro which is a ready made fully customizable Membership Site with build-in “double-opt-in” autoresponder and header and footer graphics. I highly recommend you check it out as this is the best membership program on the market available right now!

To your success!

Cheers,

Bert

There are basically two types of membership sites. There are fr.ee sites and there are paid for sites. The two types of membership sites have one thing is common. Their memberships are made up of people who share a common interest or have a common need.

You can, of course, buy a domain, set up a website and not charge for memberships but choose who to admit and who not to admit. This is done when the profit is intended to come from sales to members after they join the site. There are fr.ee network sites that might be used for your purposes. Two examples of fr.ee membership sites are Group sites on MSN and groups on Yahoo. It costs nothing to set these sites up and there is no-charge at all for a person to join. There are no paid administrators or moderators. Read the rest of this entry

I just got this email from my friend Jon!

Bert,

I admit it. I’m not an expert. I know almost nothing about Kitchen Remodeling, Home Schooling, Home Theater Systems and Dog Training.

But EzineArticles.com and their HUMAN EDITORS think I’m an EXPERT on all of those subjects!

Read the rest of this entry

Let’s talk today, about starting a Paid Membership Site. Whatever you call them – member only, membership, subscription, or mentor websites, the “normal” membership sites all have one thing in common.

They are bringing in steady and constant cash flow for their owners, month after month, from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. The array of the topics of these websites is endless. Examples are articles, eBooks, iPod Movies, Audio Books and mixed models.

Some of these paid membership sites provide mentoring or coaching, others publish useful articles or information in a particular field, product or niche. Read the rest of this entry

Hello my friends,

You may have been wondering why things at my site may have slowed down at bit! As always I am working and slaving away at my sites and building up my internet business.

But also there are times when one must take stock and see how things going around us and in your business. As there has been so much hype and information overload this year, and this really has become a joke, I thought it was a good time for a change in direction. Maybe not so much for the newcomers, but most definitely for guys like us.

So I have been analyzing all this and thinking about where this market is really heading too.

I believe the most disturbing trend has been by those so-called marketers over hyping the Butterfly Marketing OTO (One Time Offer) script. I mean it really has gone out of control.

Let’s have a look at this scenario, I came to your site because I was interested in your free or paid offer, but first of all you want to capture my name and email, why? Secondly, once you’ve got it, I then need to confirm it, and then am send to the OTO page, why? Instead of taking me to the product I was interested in I get those, “Hey Sir, just before we take you to your product have a look at this incredible offer”.

Well guess what, get lost because I am not interested in those 50-100 products for a $xxxx or whatever etc. And then when I decide to move on the product page, I get slapped in my face another pop-up, well Sir, maybe $xxxx is a little too much for, look we cut it in half and you can get the package it for $xxxx. Sorry, I am not interested, just take me to my product. And guess what, if that was not enough I get slapped another pop-up telling that they can even cut it back to $xxxx to suit my budget. My question is why are these guys so desperate, they are putting in your face marketing to shame!

And then those grandiose Free Give Aways to capture those leads, so that the JV partners can make back-end sales, yeah they must be dreaming!

So I have come to this conclusion, that I must start to control my own destiny and build a real internet estate. It is important that I can totally control this , not being dependent on the wimps of JV’s, Google, Affiliate Programs etc. and can continue to make money for years to come.

I strongly believe the traditional internet business opportunity is on the way out.

Let me explain and show you why!

1) One Time Offers are on the way out, to survive they must give interested visitors a straight offer, if the visitor likes it they buy, if not give them the courtesy to leave. Believe me those internet shoppers are getting smarter! The minute they see, the OTO page they go, I know I do!

2) Building lists is becoming harder and harder, people already know the purpose, and that is for you to get a sale. So they won’t subscribe, even if you give something for free, which is crap anyway! And they know that, just have close look at your own lists that you subscribe, most of them are time wasters! I now only subscribe to a half a dozen list, so I know what is going on. The others I only use one time with a throw away email to see what they got on offer, and only will subscribe with my real email address if the information is of use to me and will then later unsubscribe.

3) Email is getting harder and harder to send, even with auto responders 30% bounces and rejects are not uncommon(and not to mention that spamming is on the rise)

4) People are not reading emails anymore, they are becoming blind to it(the unsubscribe or email delete button is only one click away)

5) Information overload is epidemic, there is so much stuff out there, I mean where the hell do you start? Plus most products and software are of low standard and are poor quality, I don’t even mention customer service or support is often non-existent.

6) Installing products is becoming harder for the average buyer, I mean how many people know about Chmod, cPanel, how to set permissions, sub domains, how to upload etc. And if something goes wrong what you do? Try to get your money back? Forget it!(For example, I just bought and installed 4 Adsense sites, which without my skills I could not have done, and I can assure you I am not a novice! So people are becoming more reluctant to buy. Even two of the membership sites installed got never resolved!

7) Trends of products, I mean some of the products that have come and gone, you remember blog and ping, tag and ping, mass blog builders, Adsense in a Box, eBooks, Affiliates sites (I mean they not dead per se, but I can tell you they now require a lot more work for less cash)

And you may say what about eBay, MySpace, I tell you what they are saturated with buyers and sellers!

I ask you, can you really believe that the Search Engines, your ISP’s will warn you about system changes. Can you really trust Google(remember Google Slap) and MSM and Yahoo?

And what about the cost of emailing, what about if the governments get their act together and start charging you 25c for every email you send? I hate to think what that cost you if you mail every to your list of 25,000 people! Trust me, this will only be a matter of time as this will be the only way to stop spam!

Yes I make money online, but from now on, I am just restructuring the way I do business on the Internet.

Let’s put it this way, there are only 24 hours in a day, let’s say 12 hours @ 5 days per week that is 60 hours per week for the online business. Even that is too much, I work to live, not live to work!

Let me give you one example, to look at the hours you need to spend on to make money on Adsense Sites. The most important thing to make money on Adsense is fresh daily content as you will need traffic, lost of it as these clicks needs to be clicked on to make you money.

This means that you need fresh content at least every other day, that means at least 1-2 fresh articles either new, rewritten or re-hatched. To find, prepare, write and post will take about 1 hour, you then need to submit your article to the article directories, you need to bookmark it on social bookmark sites, write snippets to announcements blogs, that’s another 1 hour.

Here is the bad news, you need at least a 100 of those to make a living out of it, and then be happy if they make you 50c per site per day on average. Work out the hours 100 sites @ 15 articles each is 1,500 articles @ 1 hour per article = 1,500 hours! The bad news is I only have 250 hours per month and don’t let anybody fool you that RSS feeds helps, Google and people want real content not feeds! As you can see Adsense is dealing with constant change and I know hard work!

And I have even not talked about Newsletters, Email Lists, building and uploading and tweaking sites etc. So, I have decided to stop being a slave to my business. I am letting my Adsense sites go and they will be put on auto pilot, I put in an opt-in box on each with an eight article autosponder series and an eBook. I also and have put RSS feeds and Auto Pings on them. I scrapped my membership site project and will work only on few of my popular sites. Yes, you can outsource some of the work, but that is a lot of time and work too!

I have decided to start a new project, which I for now will keep under wraps. My plan is to build brand new simple mini sites that once it is build I only need to drive traffic to it, needs minor maintenance and tweaking, and no I am not talking about building Niche Sites! One thing I know is that this site can possibly make in one day what one Adsense site does in weeek, and that very little ongoing work!

So I suggest have a look at your own business and program, are you getting the returns on your investment and time, is your income dropping, look at it, unsubscribe from those time wasters, check it maybe it’s time for a change for you too!

The solution is to stay focussed on one program, here is a very nice reminder on this! I recommend you have a look at this video on how to  Stay Focussed!

To your success!

Cheers,

Bert