Membership Marketing: Profitable Topics And Ideas For Membership Sites

Making money from membership sites is a fantastic way to earn a living online. If your subscriber numbers reach a large enough number, you could be earning several thousand dollars per month. Many people have replaced their full time jobs just by running one or more successful membership tasks.

The first step to making money from membership sites is to think of a topic to build the site around. This must be a niche that has people interested enough to come back regularly for more information or products.

Some topics naturally lend themselves to regular information while others only require a one-time purchase for the visitor to gather the information they require.

For example, a person searching for a remedy for sunburn will find what they need and then move on. These people are not good candidates for a membership site.

On the other hand, cat lovers, for example, love to soak up information on cats and are perfect candidates for a membership site.

Here are some great ideas for membership site niches:

Dating
Fishing
Travel
Cars
Bodybuilding
Weight Loss
Pets
Religion
Photography
Music
Gardening
Poker
Self-Help
Video Games
Private Label Rights Products
Resell Rights Products

The above are just a selection of ideas that would be ideal for membership site topics. Ultimately you would want to break any of the above topics down into a sub-topic to make it a more tightly focused membership.

For example, gardening may be broken down several levels as in the following example:
Gardening > Organic Gardening > Organic Vegetable Gardening

The tighter the focus of your site is, the easier it is to find highly targeted leads, and the easier it is to make your membership appealing to people with specific interests. Of course, there is no reason why you cannot open multiple membership sites in multiple sub-niches.

A membership site does not have to be overly technical. In fact, some of the best memberships consist only of a forum. This forum is an exclusive club and the best part is that you do little to add content to it - most of the content comes from members themselves.

Ideally, you would provide a free general forum with certain sub-forums being a paid only member access area. Regular members will wonder what goes on in the paid forum and once curiosity gets the better of them, they too will join up.

Forums can get very large, so you only need to charge a small amount or even a one-time fee for people to access it, and you can still earn huge amounts of money.

Once you have built up a targeted member base, you will start to form relationships with them. From this relationship comes a sense of trust, in that they will often trust that the product recommendations you make to them are honest and helpful, so they are likely to buy.

Incorporating a bit of affiliate marketing into your membership site can never hurt and only serves to increase your profits.

Choosing a profitable and popular topic is an essential prerequisite to make money from membership sites. Don’t underestimate this process.