{"id":15555,"date":"2012-05-21T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/?p=15555"},"modified":"2012-05-21T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:00:23","slug":"how-to-create-a-membership-site-to-generate-passive-income-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/how-to-create-a-membership-site-to-generate-passive-income-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Membership Site to Generate Passive Income #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Simple<\/a>Quick, what is it about a running a membership site that makes you NOT<\/em> want to run one? If you\u2019re like most marketers, the idea of being chained to your computer week after week delivering content is a major downside.<\/p>\n

When you first got online, you probably had dreams of living the \u201cInternet lifestyle.\u201d You couldn\u2019t wait to get away from the daily grind and job responsibilities. And yet if you run a membership site<\/a>, it can feel like a job. You can\u2019t see yourself running off to play on some exotic beach when you need to upload content at least once a week or more.<\/p>\n

One alternative is to outsource this task. That is, you hire someone else to upload the content every week when you\u2019re not available. But outsourcing comes with it\u2019s own problems \u2013 namely, you need to 100% trust your freelancer to upload the content on time.<\/p>\n

So if you haven\u2019t yet developed a relationship with a freelancer, you probably won\u2019t feel comfortable leaving your business (and your customers\u2019 satisfaction) in a stranger\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Now before you toss aside the idea of ever having a vacation while running a membership site, let me give you two game-changing words: Autoresponder delivery.<\/p>\n

You see, with a traditional membership site (like a PLR site), all members get the exact same content. So the person who just joined today is going to get the same content this month as the person who\u2019s been a member for a year. Next month, everyone gets the same content again.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this doesn\u2019t make sense if you\u2019re running a training site. That is, you want everyone to start with lesson #1 and get the lessons in order. So the person who joins today gets lesson #1. Meanwhile, the longtime member may be getting lesson #50.<\/p>\n

The solution? A true \u201cset it and forget it\u201d model, which you can achieve by delivering all the content using an autoresponder.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works\u2026<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>You create content for your entire course<\/strong>. So if you have a yearlong course with weekly lessons, you\u2019d create 52 lessons. If you have a three month course with weekly lessons, you\u2019d create 12 lessons.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Load your course into your autoresponder.<\/strong> Next, you need to get an autoresponder through a service like Aweber.com<\/a> or GetResponse.com<\/a>. Simply load up your messages into your autoresponder. Set the first lesson to go out immediately after the customer joins the course. Set each subsequent message to go out on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Create a sales letter.<\/strong> Now create your sales letter and insert your order button (from a payment processor that accepts recurring billing, such as PayPal).<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Drive traffic to your site.<\/strong> Here you can use all the usual methods of driving traffic, such as affiliate and joint venture partners, content marketing, pay per click marketing, social media marketing and similar.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Play golf (or whatever).<\/strong> Now the members roll in and your autoresponder takes care of the rest, leaving you free to do what you want!<\/p>\n

Just imagine<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong> You could set up multiple autoresponder-based, fixed-term membership sites. Just set one up, drive traffic and move on to setting up the next one. Rinse and repeat until you\u2019re making as much money as you want!<\/p>\n

In part 4 of the 5 part series on “How to Create a Membership Site to Generate Passive Income” we are going to focus in on creating real passive income by having Back End Offers.<\/p>\n

If you missed the first two parts of this series you can find them by click on this link for part #1 <\/a>and this link for part #2.<\/a><\/p>\n

Until the next one to your success,<\/p>\n

Dave<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick, what is it about a running a membership site that makes you NOT want to run one? If you\u2019re like most marketers, the idea of being chained to your computer week after week delivering content is a major downside. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[647,2785,2782,2787,571,2786,887,2783,1128,2688,2784,2240,2206,2788,196,1052,2780,1237,2246],"class_list":["post-15555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-autoresponder","tag-computer-week","tag-customers-satisfaction","tag-downside","tag-dreams","tag-freelancer","tag-game","tag-internet-lifestyle","tag-job","tag-lesson-1","tag-longtime-member","tag-marketers","tag-members","tag-outsource","tag-passive-income","tag-relationship","tag-running-training","tag-stranger","tag-upload"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15558,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions\/15558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davemcgarry.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}