Membership Sites

One method that many internet marketers use to make a boatload of cash is to turn their blogs into paid monthly membership sites. This is a great way to make residual, auto-pilot income. You only have to convince them to sign up once and yet you get paid every month like clockwork.

It's really quite simple: All you have to do is make some of your blog's content “confidential”, only accessible to members. Obviously, you'll want to make this confidential information something that your readers will CRAVE.

For instance, if you have a blog about piano sheet music, allow the readers to access only the first page of each song. If they want the rest, they have to become a member at $5/mo (or whatever you decide to charge).

There are many different membership site models, and what you choose to do depends on your particular niche. Many popular internet marketers turn their blogs into membership sites so they can offer their readers their particular “secrets for success”.

Others choose to run PLR (Private Label Rights) Membership sites, in which they offer PLR content in the form of articles, eBooks, graphics, and even videos on a monthly basis.

I'm willing to bet that with enough research, you could even start a membership site based around fly fishing and different kinds of fly fishing rods.

Membership sites will take a lot of hard work in the beginning, but after you've mastered the initial set-up, you have the potential to make a full-time income for a comparatively small amount of effort.

However, you must be committed to providing your members with steady, consistent, valuable content, because they're not paying you for nothing.

I won't get into the technical aspects, but there's a lot of (paid) software out there that makes it quite simple and straightforward to set up a membership site.

Before you try this method, I would recommend waiting until your blog has an active readership and you've started making some money through affiliate sales or Adsense