Don’t Believe The Hype
The fact is that there are some wonderful sales pages out there telling you how this membership site and that membership site is going to make you a huge income. Don’t believe what you read on a sales page. Period. Before you join ANY membership site, do a search for reviews and visit internet marketing forums. Ask if anyone knows about the membership site you are interested in.
One For The Bums (Bum Marketing)
Have you heard about ‘Bum Marketing’? It is one of the latest Internet marketing buzz words. Bum Marketing is all about building your business without spending a whole lot of money. It is best explained at www.bummarketingmethod.com. The label ‘bum marketing’ came about when the wife of Travis, owner of the aforementioned site, suggested that his method was so simple that you could take any bum off the street and teach him/her how to build a good income. I’ve just recently joined The Bum Marketers Alliance, a new site created by Noah Fleming, and will be providing a review in the coming months. It’s a little early at the moment as the site hasn’t been officially launched. If it is anything like Noah’s RJ Alliance it will be another of the most actively updated marketing sites on the ‘net. If you would like to find out more about The Bum Marketers Alliance click right HERE.
John Delavera’s Turbo Membership
A membership site blog would be incomplete without mentioning John Delavera’s Turbo Membership. I tend to think of Turbo Membership as the ‘grand-daddy’ of membership sites. That’s no reflection on John’s age 
but rather that it has been around for quite some time and it is what I like to call a ‘full service’ membership site. I’ll do a full review soon, but to cut a long story short, it’s one of those sites where you need to set aside at least a couple of weeks just to pore over the material and work your way through John’s ‘Blue Workbook’. I won’t say too much..I’ll leave that for the review, but if you want to take a look at Turbo Membership click right HERE.
New Review - Automatic Niche Profits
AutomaticNicheProfits is one of the ‘new breed’ of membership sites providing monthly pre-built private label website ‘packages’. You may have seen some sales pages for these types of memberships which provide the web templates, articles for content, e-books, auto-responders … pretty much everything you would need for a niche site.
New Review - Portal Labs
Portal Labs is a secure delivery service. A secure delivery service provides a means for you to deliver electronic products without having to set up the payment processing on your own site. You still need to have an account with one of the supported processors, but it saves you the hassle of having to set up a method to deliver the product after payment is made.
New Site - The Marketing WebSite
Video, Audio and tools for marketing needs. Link is in the Internet Marketing category.
New Site - Home Biz Niche
Not Just resell niche products, but a Niche help center as well. Link is in the Niche category.
What Makes A Good Membership Site?
There are a few things I always look for in membership sites. The first is always who the owner of the site is and whether they have an established reputation in their niche. A good example is Jimmy D Brown’s ‘List And Traffic‘. Whenever anyone asks on the Warrior Forums about good information and resources for building lists and traffic, Jimmy’s site is always one of the first to be mentioned. Recommendations from other marketers are always a good way of finding high quality membership sites.
One of the best suggestions I can make is to take your time. Take a good look around at what is available before you make your choice. In some niches there is a fairly high percentage of duplication. You will find that certain products appear on most sites, particularly in the Internet marketing ‘re-sell’ niche.
Once you have found a membership site that you want to join, make yourself a plan and stick to it! Too often, people join sites and then don’t make full use of the membership. Always keep in mind that you can’t just join a site, put a few sites or links around the Internet and expect to see the dollars come rolling in. Regardless of the membership site, you WILL need to do a fair amount of work before you see a good return. Some make it easier than others but all require a certain degree of time and commitment on your part.
If you don’t make a plan you will find that you are joining more and more sites which will do little more than leave a hole in your wallet! If you do feel that you aren’t making enough from a membership, take some time to review what YOU are doing. Are you taking full advantage of all aspects of the membership? Have you done everything you can to sell the products, refer other members etc? If not, then joining another site isn’t going to help you at all. You will find yourself in a cycle of joining new sites every month or two and then moving on. Stop, focus and leverage everything you possibly can out of your membership.
Other indicators I look for are things like how often the site is updated with new products. Does the site have forums and is the owner active in those forums? Are the products complete with sales materials such as sales pages, banner ads, sample emails etc? I’ve seen some very good sites that are updated regularly and have an active ownership. I’ve seen others that aren’t really membership sites in that they are just a collection of products and no new products are ever added. these are more accurately classified as ‘firesale’ sites.
Whatever your choice, I think you will find that with nearly all membership sites, if you are prepared to put a reasonable amount of work in you will build yourself a reasonable income.
New Site - ResellRightsForNewbies
Complete system to teach people to profit with resell rights products. FREE! Link is in Resell Rights category.
New Site - PLR City
100% PLR ebooks, reports, software, graphics, and more. Lifetime Access to unique and popular private label products. Link is in Private label Rights category.
