3 Major Types of Membership Sites

A membership site is a great way to make money with Internet Marketing. You can make a lot of money from the actual sale of memberships and you can also make a lot of money by marketing other products and services to your members. Plus, depending on the type of membership site you have, you may not even have to put in a lot of work.

The three major types of membership sites are traditional, fixed term, and newsletter.

A traditional membership site is probably exactly what you guess it is. It is the type of membership site that is more popular. A person becomes a member by paying a reoccurring fee and they remain a member for as long as they want. The sites give them new content all the time. Being a member continues to cost them money but it also continues to give them value for their membership fee.

These types of sites are great for Internet Marketers because they continue to make you money from each and every month for a very long time. However, they are more work too because you have to continue to provide value. So while operating a traditional membership site can be the most profitable, it is also the most work to maintain.

The second of the major types of membership sites is the fixed term site. This is when a member joins a site for just a specified amount of time. So they might join a site for a year long (52 weeks) lesson on how to lose 50 pounds in a year. They might pay once or they might pay every week, every other week, or maybe every month. Once the 52nd lesson gets delivered then they are no longer charged a membership fee and they stop getting the content.

Fixed term sites are often the least time consuming to operate. This is because you just have to do the initial work of creating the site, getting up and running, and creating the content. Once all that is done then you just have to worry about marketing your site. So you will continue to make money without doing a lot of work. However, every member you have will only pay a specified amount of money. You can’t count on one person being a member far into the future.

The third type of membership site is a newsletter membership site (also known as an autoresponder membership site). A newsletter membership site can be either fixed or traditional. With this type of site you simply deliver all the content via email. So you would just send the content every week, month, or whenever you promised it would be. Then the members will just open their emails and click on the link you provide for them.

Obviously the newsletter membership site is really fast and easy to set-up. You don’t need to worry about a site with a member’s area or anything. All you have to do is set-up the site with a sales page, a thank you page, and an autoreponder. Then load the content into the autoresponder and you’re done.

The three major types of membership sites are a traditional site, a fixed term site, and a newsletter site. All three of these sites have the pros and cons. Choose the one that fits you, your niche, and your topic best and then market your site. In no time you will be making money.

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