People are willing to pay for information. Anyone who has ever purchased a book from Barnes & Noble or an ebook on the internet knows this. If you can meet a market's desire for high quality information on a regular basis, you have the means of creating a membership site that can make you an ongoing income.
If you think this business model could be right for you, there are some things you need to determine first. The first thing you should do is figure out what topic or theme to create your membership site around. A good starting point would be anything that you are passionate about or at least have a good working knowledge of. Hobbies are one area that always has interested people who are eager for new information.
Once you have a theme or themes in mind, do a bit of research to see which one has the most potential. Use your favorite keyword tool to dig into how many searches are being performed in that niche. You obviously will want a topic that a lot of people are interested in.
Once you have your theme picked out, you can begin to get your membership site set up. To start with, you'll need a domain name and a hosting account. You will want a domain that is easily recognized by people who are searching for that topic. Once you have your domain registered and hosted, you will need to find the right software or script to take care of the technical aspects.
There are many types of software on the market, each with slightly different features. Some will allow you to set up a membership site within a blog format while others require a full-fledged website. Membership sites can be set up with different formats from a membership area that is password protected to a dripfeed system where members access new content each month.
The more features that are available to your members, the higher the retention rate of subscribers. It stands to reason that you will want to keep your members interested, right? One thing that can add interest could be a member's only forum where the members can not only get support questions answered but where they can get to know and interact with each other.
Once you have your membership site up and running, the next thing to do would be to get some members. There are almost endless ways to promote your site and they don't all have to cost a lot of money. If it's a hobby-related membership site, an easy way to find other members would be to participate in forums related to the hobby. Most forums allow a signature file where you can link to your membership site.
By providing great content that your members can't find anywhere else, you will keep them interested and subscribed for a long time. With a high retention rate, your membership site can provide a steady, passive income. Membership sites are an excellent way to build an online business that will create an ongoing revenue stream. The best part is that much of the work can be automated so that you can concentrate on offering super content that will keep your membership sites running strong.
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This is an opportunity for webmasters and bloggers to share in billions of dollars of new found advertising revenue that was formerly reserved for major television networks.
With the social boom caused by web 2.0 including social networks, online movies and video, social networks that cater to specialized interests' are booming. They are growing faster than the Internet itself. This trend is bad news for the television networks! The Internet offers television's viewing audience better entertainment because the audience can do, see and hear what they want, and when they want it.
The average person with Internet access is spending more time online than watching TV. The effectiveness of television advertising is dwindling! The truth is, people hate commercials. Most people have learned to ignore commercials, even if they are watching them!
Introducing Pay-Per-Play Audio Advertising...
Pay-Per-Play (PPP) advertising is an advertising program that is set to take the web by storm. PPP works on a bid management system similar to Google AdWords and will compensate publishers just like Google AdSense but with one critical difference? Publishers (website owners) will earn revenue on all of their traffic... no clicks necessary! When a visitor lands on a page with the PPP code, the ad plays and the publisher gets paid.
Once the audio ad has played, it won't play again for at least 3 minutes, so visitors are not bombarded with a continuous stream of audio ads. After 3 minutes if the visitor refreshes the page or lands on a new page that has the code, then another ad will play.
For webmasters and bloggers who host the ads, the audio ads do not take up any space on a webpage... They are just heard, not seen, and there is nothing to click on, the ad just plays when a visitor lands on a page that has the code inserted. The visitor never even leaves the page. Website owners are paid "Per-Play" not Per-Click. The ads don't affect Adsense or any other advertising.
The Super Bowl is Nothing Compared to This...
It costs 2.6 million dollars or more to run an ad spot on the Super Bowl. There has been no other media event that could capture an audience of 100 million people at the same time until now. 907 million people go online every day... 97% of those people have audio systems. This makes the Internet the world's largest listening device.
Pay-Per-Play offers a way for big advertisers to reach their audience through this massive listening network. This network is bigger than television, radio and all other forms of media combined! And the listeners are sitting at their computers, attentive, waiting for the page they just clicked on to load. They aren't in the bathroom or grabbing a snack from the kitchen. The listener is ?tuned in? mentally and receptive when the ad plays. The advertisers love it.
As a website owner you have the opportunity to earn 25% of the "per-play" revenue spent by the advertisers that play audio ads on your website. All you have to do is copy and paste a simple piece of code onto the web pages where you want the ads to play.
The other way you can earn is by simply referring other website owners and bloggers to run ads on their websites.
You will earn a healthy 5% of the total amount that the advertisers spend running ads on your referrals websites, and 5% of what the advertiser spends on ads played on the websites that your direct referrals bring on board. It is a 3 tiered program.
It costs nothing to join and it costs nothing for your referrals to join. Each time you refer a new website that places the PPP code, you have just added another piece of residual income to your bank account.
The ability to sign up new advertisers is a temporary situation, and once enough sites have signed up the opportunity will disappear. But once you sign up, and put the code on at least one page, you can then sign up advertisers for that 5% for life. I've already put my code up.
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