How to Bring People in through Membership Sites

 Membership sites are just what their name indicates

 – these are sites where you are asking people to become members of a site and in return you are providing them with a host of value-added services. 

These people are the members of the site, which is something of the sort of an Internet club where they enjoy special privileges. On most membership sites, the members are provided with some free offers and downloads and they get privileges on various affiliate sites too.

 Many social networking sites are also membership sites.

 There, you become a member so that you can gain access to network with other people. There are dozens of game membership sites too, where the reward of becoming a member is that you can play games – which could be free online versions or downloadable versions that you can get at a lower price. 

The basic concept of a membership site is that you keep your goodies hidden from the general Internet public and allow them access to it only when they have taken the membership action that you ask them to. 

This action could be filling up an online form, with or without payment, writing an email to you to express their desire to join the site and so on. 

Even if you don’t actively ask for a payment, you are building a relationship

 You are generating a list of leads, to which you can promote your other commercial efforts. However, you must know that membership sites do take a lot of effort. 

You have to have a unique concept to make your membership site a hit and you have to make constant efforts to provide high-quality stuff to your members.

 They are going to be disappointed otherwise and you are going to lose all the potential you have built up. 

A failed membership site is a big disgrace in the Internet marketing world. It can eat into your other prospects too. 

However, if you have the passion and the zeal for it, go right ahead and build a membership site. You will soon be hobnobbing with a lot of people having your similar tastes and interests. And, you will be making a good amount of money through it too.

What’s the best, most unique and special thing that you can sell and keep selling forever? Your own services, that’s what. You have a talent for something? Go right ahead and peddle it on the Internet. You will see the profits pouring in. 

 The Internet has a market for everything. Even for your own services. If you think you are good at something, the Internet could be the best place for you to vend your skills. There are people looking for all kinds of services on the Internet. 

The job sites have made the Internet a closer marketplace than any other.

 People are looking for services, and providers of these services are looking for people who they can sell the services to. The correct collaboration could mean a lot of money to you.

 Of course, it is understood that the kind of services that have a demand for the Internet are services that you can provide online. 

These are mostly services related to website building and marketing. 

The following services are much in demand:- 

→ Content creation

 → Blog management

 → Search engine optimization

 → Website creation

 → Social networking services such as Craigslist postings

 → Managing other virtual staff

 → Proofreading and editing

 If you feel you fit within any of these skills, you could make an amazing amount of money with them. Remember that the Internet allows you to reach out to a global level and you could liaise with people from all over the world to seek work.

 The following are some sites where you need to make an account quickly so that you start earning through this mode:

 → GetAFreelancer (http://www.getafreelancer.com/) 

→ ScriptLance (http://www.scriptlance.com/) 

→ Elance (http://www.elance.com/)

 → Guru (http://www.guru.com/)

 → EUFreelance (http://www.eufreelance.com/) 

…and many others. You have to just get started with this and see the vast potential that lies therein. These are all bidding sites. You find a job that meets your preferences and then make your bid and give an estimated time of completion.

 If the project poster finds that to be all right, they will select you. You are paid through online routes. The drawback here is that you have to spend time. 

You have to be at your desktop for all the time that you are generating money, which is a very different thing from other approaches such as affiliate marketing. 

You earn only as much as you work and there is no scope for residual income.