subject: Discover What It Takes To Build A Membership Website For Profit [print this page] Do you want to sell online content with your own membership site and do the work required to earn an ongoing recurring income from subscribers? Do you have an online MLM business and need to supply your members with content? Well it can be done when you understand just what is required of a membership web site?
Essentially, a membership site is when anyone pays to access information you publish in a password protected area on your site. You can offer exclusive articles, information, or even a service (like software, games, ebooks, or music).The key is to define the type of content that your prospective customers want and will pay for. But before you get to content, you also need to know what components you need to get started.
To get started on building your free membership website you are going to need some tools. Depending on the tools you pick some things can be made a lot easier down the line when operating.
Web Hosting: The first thing that you will need to secure is a web hosting service. This is the place where you will host all your software, administrative information and of course your membership content. There are actually few top web hosting services that are excellent, reasonably priced and effective. You will have choices to make when you select your web hosts.
Domain Names: This is your address and how people will find you. Not all domain names are the same and you need to know why you don't always store your domain and web host at the same vendor.
Membership Software: This becomes the heart of what you do. This becomes a crucial piece because ou want to start cheap and prove your idea. However you need to guard against making fatal early setup mistakes when you get started so you lessen the pain of change later.
Theme and Content: This is all about the look and feel and how people will navigate around your site. This is simple to establish but there are tweaks you can make to make your site more socialable and friendly for your users.
Blogs or Forums: When it comes to getting the word out noting beats the tools that everyone uses and are familiar with. Blogs and forums contain the users who can become your members. You need to learn how to use them to pull your customers into your membership site.
Help Desk: You can consider your support desk as making your customer happy, period. It allows you to quickly answer your customer's needs via support tickets and the faster you do it the happier your customers are. To do this fatser you need to start developing predefined replies and a self service knowledgebase based on history.
