Creative Ways To Profit With Your Membership Site

Charging a monthly fee for access is not the only way to make money from your membership site. Check out these additional ways below.

1. Sell resell rights to individual components.

You created the membership site content so that means you can do whatever you want with it. That includes selling off the rights not to the entire membership site but to individual products in pieces. You can charge 10 times what an individual component of your site cost to give others the ability to use it in their own products. This also has the extra advantage of getting your name out there and putting you on the map inside other people’s products and their membership sites.

2. Sell off the entire membership site to a new owner.

If you can show that your membership site has been making money for the last few months and has ways of making money in the future for example, consistent sources of traffic you can price the membership site at one or two years worth of income and get rid of it and work on your next project. For example, if your membership site makes you $1,000 per month, a fair price depending on the traffic, the track record, the members inside, the amount of content already made and so on, you could sell that $1,000 membership site for $12-24,000 for a one time fee.

3. Sell resell rights to blocks of licenses.

This is a little bit of a spin on the sell resell rights individual components idea. Wouldn’t it be cool to allow some of your affiliates to give away or even sell a few slots of the membership site as a bonus? Wouldn’t it be cool if other marketers could pay you a one time fee and then sell a recurring payment offer? They pay you one time but then they collect the payments for these monthly transactions. You can take a certain number of slots and sell the rights of them to individual people.

For example, let’s say you have a $50 per month membership site. If you went to someone and said, “Here are 10 slots. You can do whatever you want with them. Charge any amount per month,” and they paid let’s say $200 for 10 slots. This means that if they sold all 10 slots, they’re going to be making $500 per month.

If anybody drops out of the membership site, they could assign that slot to somebody else. It works out great for them because it’s your site, you created the content and they only have to promote it. But then you get these new people on your own mailing list. It’s great for lead generation.

4. Sell ad space.

Most people when they think about ad space, they think of offering advertisements on their blog or on their free content site. But if you have enough people inside your paid membership site, there’s nothing stopping you from selling space on it, selling ads. Although it’s a less number of people, these are all proven buyers in a particular niche and many marketers would kill to have paid advertisements inside a paid blog.

5. Cross-sell a second membership site.

Do you have more than one membership site? Could somebody finishing membership site number one logically transition to membership site number two? If not, could you find somebody else with a similar membership site as you?

The answer to at least one of those questions should be yes. If someone finishes your membership site or even has just joined it, there’s nothing to say that they can’t afford another membership site. Look into promoting another membership site once you’re in because they’ve already shown to you that they can afford some kind of a recurring monthly payment.

Those are some creative ways to profit from your very own membership site. Sell resell rights to individual components, sell off the entire site, sell blocks of licenses, sell ad space, and cross-sell a second membership site.