Storie of internet failures are everywhere. Setting up a jazzy site does not guarantee success. You need to deliver value. The Internet can help you to find prospects, however, the Internet by itself does not create the offering - the information you provide has to be special.

The most important step in setting up a paid membership site over the Internetchoosing the right niche.

The internet is a great sourse ofinformation. This includes software, books and eBooks, travel, and magazine subscriptions. You are seeing content subscription sites becoming more and more popular on the Internet.

These are several niche that you may wish to target.

Business information, research and content sites which give finance and investment advice or digital content used for business purposes, business tips, and other information about all kinds of businesses. There are also has local business listings, corporate information, stock market research, and industrial statistics and reports. Corporate information from the financial perspective is another sought after category. It is valuable for both, investors and analysts.

Community sites and directories for sport's leagues, Harley riders, Pet Owners.

Personal advice, motivation and self help sites acn offer tips, articles, advice and counseling on how to build self-esteem and self-confidence and reduce stress for a happier life. The market for personal advice and counseling, especially for students is very large. You can provide educational counseling through such sites.

Fitness and health, diets, weight loss sites acn Providing fitness and health guides, weight loss articles, tips and counseling for proper eating and exercising habits, the benefits of diet and exercise, fitness techniques, diet articles and diet tips, weight loss, as well as some of the popular diet plans. You could also include information of various nutritional and diet supplements, healthy and non-healthy foods,

Personals and Dating is one of the leading paid content categories. Personals and Dating is by far the most popular and visited category on the Internet. These sites include personal classifieds, chat rooms, messenger tools and cater to a global audience.

Your site could focus on everything automotive, including information on car buying, car reviews and crash test results, consumer rights under state lemon laws, and car complaint histories.

People search websites are a good way to find out addresses and other information on people. These sites are generally used to locate "lost" friends and relatives. For such sites, the site owner needs to purchase databases of public records from government and other agencies. Most people would be listed with such agencies making it easier to track them down.

Legal research websites are an effective source of all kinds of legal information. These include information many legal issues. You could also include a legal forms section.

Medical research websites can focus on medical issues and/or health insurance. You may also like to consider a site that provides information on health and medicine for the general public or for a specific target group. You could also provide information on alternate medicine. Sports news and information websites

Sport's news is one of the most popular categories of subscription websites. You Can provide the latest sports news, information on all kinds of sports, sporting personalities and sporting venues. You could also have chat rooms, message boards, and forums for the sports fanatics to interact with each other.

Online greeting cards are a great way to send wishes to loved ones all over the world as electronic greetings are far more convenient and cheaper than paper greetings.

Online gaming is a huge market allowing interactive online computer games. Many gaming websites also offer monthly prizes and sweepstakes to its members as a marketing strategy.

Entertainment websites include digital music and multimedia, humor, recipes and other content intended for amusement, leisure and diversion. This is probably one of the most visited website categories.

Gambling is another important market area amongst entertainment websites. Online Poker has become an industry of it's own.

eBooks and newsletters are a huge resource for information. You could start a paid content website offering an e book on a topic that is of interest to some segment of the public and where you have some expertise. You can have e books ghost written for you. Or you could have a site that offers several e books.

Credit Help websites are flourishing as our economy flounders. These sites offer access to consumer credit history records, or offer credit counseling and tips as well as credit consolidation services.

Celebrity fan clubs are on the rise. Fan club sites offer reasonably priced memberships. Such sites offer members a lot of information on a particular celebrity along with photos, news, and memorabilia.