If you’ve been digging into the 24 Simple and Profitable Membership Site Ideas and Examples You Can Use to Build your Own Lucrative Membership Site guide from Ron and Alice, you may have some ideas for your own recurring income product.
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Before you jump in to building, let’s a take a look at some of the common membership site mistakes….
Mistake #1: Not Planning for Ongoing Content
A lot of membership site owners, start strong out of the gate, but then their ideas fizzle as they run out of content to provide their members. They key to this is to plan a membership strategically where your members need your ongoing support. The free guide highlights a number of those ideas for you.
Mistake #2: Not Having a Continuous Marketing Plan
This is a big one. You see a lot of people launch their membership site with a big bang. They get a ton of new members and they work hard on delivering content, but suddenly, as members drop off, the income dries up.
The good news is, Ron and Alice have a unique “Member Site Live Marketing Method” to show you to bring new members without a lot of hard work, so you can truly experience consistent and reliable income. More on that soon, but the key here is, that content creation AND marketing are both important parts of having a successful membership site.
Mistake #3: No Member Retention Plan
It’s true that not every member will stay with you forever. But there are things you can do to encourage people to stay on…and you have to plan that strategically.
You can grandfather your charter members at a lower rate they can keep as long as they stay active. You can boost the value of the membership as you grow, so your long-time members will see tremendous value in staying with you. You can also work to grow a community that your members love being part of and would hate to leave.
Those are just a few thoughts for you today to get you on the right track. By the way if you haven’t downloaded the free guide full of profitable membership site ideas and examples yet, pick it up now.