The Power of Membership Programs
by Peter Dobler
Published on this site: August 30th, 2005 - See
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Membership programs are the best way to create residual
income. You know the kind of income that is coming in month
after month for years to come or at least as long as the referral
remains a member of the service you sold.
There is no difference in how you advertise for this programs
compared to how you advertise for one time sales like ebooks
or software. There are membership programs available for almost
every thing you can imagine. It would take weeks for you to
sort through all the possibilities.
In my opinion membership programs are the best products to
advertise for. Even if you only sell one membership per month.
Doesn't sound much, doesn't it? But it's probably more realistic
than the high flying promises of the membership program owners.
Focus for just a minute and follow my math.
1 membership sale per month. Let's say your commission is
$5, this is a realistic amount not a fantasy commission nobody
ever gets. After selling this program for 1 year you have
12 paid memberships, which now totals $60 per month. Plus
the commission from all the other members as well. You will
earn $390 in your first year. Hmm, not quite enough to quit
my job.
Let's continue. The second year you already start with 12
members and $60. By the end of the second year you have 24
members and $120 residual income per month, which is $1110
per year. If you continue this for the period of 5 years your monthly residual income will be $300.
Ok, still not exited. I don't blame you. Here's what you
can do. Run free classified ads and slightly increase your
sales rate to let's say 1 membership sales per week. You just
shortened to length of time to get $300 a month from 5 years
to 1 year. Now let's further assume that you promote more
than 1 program. Promoting 5 membership programs at the same
time is no big deal to do and it will increase your monthly
income from $300 to $1,500.
Of course these are all just numbers and speculations. To
make my point. Selling on the internet is a numbers game.
To make the numbers work you need to sell a lot and often.
Membership programs are a perfect product to get the most
out of your advertising efforts. Remember: The income potential
is too low to run massive paid advertising. Stick to free
classified ads and use the method "set and forget".
The less attention you pay the more effective your campaign will be.
This is my list of membership programs that are free to join
as an affiliate. They never will cost you any money to promote
their membership program. Remember, the subscribers are making
you money not the program.
- Search Engine Blaster - Search engine submission
service for a monthly fee.
- The Secret To Their Success - Corey Rudl's membership
program for power affiliates.
- Guru Mailer - This is the premium email list builder.
Solid performance and quality leads.
- Convert More Traffic - This is the premium membership
site that offers proven tactics and strategies to improve
your traffic conversion rates. You can have all the traffic
in the world as long as you can't get any profit out of
it it's useless.
If you like to learn more about the power of membership sites
visit my web sites or send me an email.
Sincerely,
Peter Dobler
Peter Dobler is a 20+ year veteran in the IT business.
He is an active Real Estate Investor and a successful Internet
business owner. Learn more about how to write powerful sales
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