Membership Sites are Ultimate Recurring Profit Machines

Having a membership site or a continuity program website is perhaps one of the most profitable businesses you can run. Basically, people sign up to be members of the site in order to access information, videos, instructional material, PLR content, etc. for a monthly fee. This type of site is so profitable because you can produce the same amount of content that you would normally — no matter how many members you have.

Let me explain what I mean by that. If you have a site that offers a paid monthly membership (for let’s say a dating website or a PLR content website), your website functions the same as it would with 100 members as it would with 10,000, only you’d make a lot more money with 10,000 members!

There is also a difference in the amount of bandwidth you will need for your site if you have a lot of members. The amount of space you will need on your hosting plan will be the only thing you may have to upgrade.

Let’s say you offer a monthly report or newsletter and people pay $7 a month to be a member. Even if you have a million members, all you have to do is write that ONE newsletter every month and you would be earning $7 million dollars a month! That is of course if you had a million members. A thousand members or even ten thousand members is a very achievable goal especially on the internet, with a global reach.

The overhead is the upkeep and maintenance of your website as well as continuously providing quality content or services. Membership sites are profit machines and many of the big league internet marketers are going in that direction with their businesses. There are membership sites popping up everywhere, wonder why? Because they are extremely profitable and can even be monetized if you offer a FREE membership. Look at sites like Myspace and Facebook, they are multi-billion dollar companies and they both are membership sites that offer FREE memberships. The money they make is in the advertising revenue.

Remember what I am saying here… membership sites are ultimate profit machines.

The point of membership sites are to provide a specific service or type of content to people who agree to sign up and pay a monthly fee to access the members area. There are also membership sites that offer FREE access, but still make tons of money from advertising revenue, due to the immense amount of traffic they get to their website. An example of one such membership site would be Myspace.com. It is a multibillion dollar company and it offers a 100% free membership to anyone that wants a Myspace page.

They make their money from advertising revenue, by placing ads on their site that pay money every time someone clicks on the ad. Anybody can add these types of ads to their website, membership site or blog without having to be a super popular site. These ads are from Google, yes the Internet giant. It’s program is called AdSense and Yahoo and MSN also have their own similar programs.

Other examples of membership sites that are paid for are ones like Match.com; where you pay a monthly fee to have access to their database of single people who are looking for a mate in your town or abroad. There are many shapes, forms and sizes of membership sites and continuity programs out there like ones that charge a recurring fee for a tangible product like a CD home-study course that gets shipped once a month and the money is automatically deducted from a credit or debit card.

Membership sites are extremely profitable business models with very low overhead. They are easy to start up and you can have as many members as you can recruit over time, and the income is residual. Even with a $5 a month membership, you can make thousands of dollars a month if you have only 400 members, which would be $2,000 a month automatically, for producing the same amount of content you would if you had just 10 members. That means when a few years go by and the site has 10,000 members… it would be a $50,000 per month income generating business. Not bad, eh?

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