Membership sites are a great way to make recurring income online. If you’re thinking of starting your own site or you already have one going, here are a few quick tips for success with your membership site. They will help you simplify your content creation process, get affiliates to promote your site and get new members.

1. Outsource content creation

Your membership site’s success depends on the new content that you deliver each month, every month. If you want to cut down on your content creation time, consider hiring a ghostwriter to provide your site with articles, reports and blog posts. When you use a ghostwriter you’ll be able to concentrate on your strengths (like promotion) rather than struggling with the writing. When you outsource, you don’t have to worry about being a good writer or knowing a lot about your topic. You can have professional content that gives the site value without writing it yourself.

2. Get professional graphics

Studies have shown that outstanding graphics can compensate for average content. Of course, this isn’t an excuse to produce lackluster content. But if your site looks good, people will want to be part of it! Your site’s graphics don’t have to be overly fancy, but they do need to look good. If you’re not a pro at graphics, you should find a website designer to give you the professional look that you need to draw in customers. You may be able to barter with a designer for free graphics by offering a free membership to your site.

3. Have two or more levels of membership

Creating two levels of membership or more can help you draw in a wider customer base. You can help people join the site who might not be able to if the price is higher, but you still have the opportunity to get a higher monthly fee from those who want the added benefits of being in the top tier. To encourage more sign ups, you can have a free membership level, a silver level and a gold level.

4. Use a blog to promote your membership site

Create and maintain a blog outside of the gates of your membership site in order to build traffic and increase your presence within the niche. You can maintain your blog as part of your main website or create it on a completely different domain. Blog about popular topics in the membership site’s forum and give teasers about the content that members are receiving. When you give quality content and mix in references to your membership site, you’ll create credibility and get new members for your sites.

5. Add video to your membership site for major impact

Video marketing is the next evolutionary step on the Internet. You can be part of this growing movement by adding video to your membership site. Most anything that can be expressed in writing can be made into a video. Whether you use traditional video where you talk in front of the camera or screen capture video technology, you can offer top quality content for your members through this media.

By using these 5 tips you’ll raise the level of your membership site and add more content your members will enjoy. For more ways to expand your membership site check out this simple membership site creation plan.

There are a LOT of reasons why you may want to outsource your membership site. Here are the top ten:

1. You want to take a vacation but not work all night before you leave – outsource this month’s content!
2. You want to add a bonus for your members – outsource it!
3. You don’t want to take the time to set it up yourself – outsource it!
4. You’re not the expert in the field you’ve identified as a profitable niche – outsource it!
5. You hate writing sales letters – outsource it!
6. You need some “start-up” content for new members – outsource it!
7. Your graphic skills are limited to clip-art and stick figures – outsource it!
8. You need a strong autoresponder sequence for those who optin – outsource it!
9. You need a new member’s course written – outsource it!
10. You need a followup sequence for people who cancel their membership – outsource it!

And those are just the first ten I thought of! There are so many more reasons to Outsource Your Membership Site. Put your thinking cap on and share even more reasons with us below!

When considering setting up a membership site, you want to choose the model that works best for you and your prospective members. So what are the choices?

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Download site – that’s right. You can set up your information product in a member site, instead of just a download page. There are numerous advantages to this and once you’ve done it the first time, you’ll never look back.

Teaching site – Do you offer courses? Do you sell course recordings after you’ve taught it live? If so, you want to offer a teaching member site. It’s not much harder to set up than a download member site – but you DO need to recognize the differences. Plus when you change the model from teaching it live to “pre-recorded” there are several changes you need to make to the site.

Library site – If you want to offer a traditional membership site, it’s most likely a “library” model. It comes with tons of content to start – then builds regularly from there. The “gotcha” comes with multiple levels. But if you don’t use multiple levels, you’re leaving a lot of revenue on the table.

Interview site – While it sounds like a library site, it generally has one big difference – disappearing content. After all, someone who joins in month 12 shouldn’t have access to all of the interviews that others have been paying for for the past 12 months.

There you have it – the four major models of Membership Sites. Which one will YOU set up next?

I’ll be showing you how to set up each one of those sites – in ONE HOUR or less in

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