Five Unique Membership Sites

You might not realize it yet but there are many different kinds of membership sites. Which is right for you? Find out here.

1. Unique monthly resell rights.

Probably the easiest way to create a membership site is to take all the resell rights materials you have sitting around on your hard drive, pile them into one site and offer as a monthly access to the people who joined the site, get new resell rights given to them every month. This is especially valuable if you can find high ticket or a hard to find resell rights to pass along.

2. Software as a service.

If you can provide some kind of an automatic service that runs on your web servers, people will need to pay you every month to get access to it. Easy examples of these are web hosting or email autoresponder services. But a really unique kind of service is the video submission sites.

There are sites where you can upload one single video to the site and will broadcast the video on two sites like YouTube, Revver, Dailymotion. But the key to this is that the submission software runs inside a membership site. If you stop paying the monthly fee for that membership site, you’ll no longer be able to submit videos.

3. A coaching, freelancing or accountability blog.

Provide one on one training to people. Do you write articles or create graphics? Why not create a user account for each person you work for. That way, they can see all the drafts you work on for them. If you’re writing a sales letter, they can see the sales letter in progress. If you are designing a logo, they can see the five markups you’ve created. This way, they have a permanent record of all the things that you’ve done for them. You have a portfolio and they never lose a file from you ever again.

4. Social networking or forum.

There are WordPress plugins such as BuddyPress that make your WordPress blog look like Facebook. What does this mean for a membership site? It means that you can create your own miniature Facebook that you charge people to have access to or use a forum plugin such as SimplePress so that when people join your membership site, they automatically have a place where they can converse with other members.

5. The vault.

Anytime you do some kind of work for somebody whether it’s article writing, a website critique, even website testing if only one person sees that then you’re throwing money away. Why not take all those critiques or tools you use or software and bundle them up into one single membership site?

For example, let’s say you were a logo designer. Every time you made a logo instead of just simply making it, record a video of you doing it and explain why you’re doing what you’re doing. If you could find a free alternative to Photoshop and there are a few, link to those. If you could find an affiliate link to promote Photoshop, link to that. If you could find a discount for Photoshop or you could make additional Photoshop videos, link to those.

That way, when somebody joins your membership site, it’s filled with real world examples and it is automatically the best training site in your niche because there’s no theory. It’s all things that you do. In addition, you can effectively double your coaching fee because you can give people one of two offers, your normal coaching rate and the recording where you place inside your vault safe for others or the confidential coaching rate which is double the price of your standard coaching rate.

Those are five unique types of membership sites that I hope got you pointed in the right direction for what you want to do with your membership. Those were the monthly resell rights access, software as a service, coaching blog, social networking blog or the vault.