If you already have a membership site and you just take one payment, you might be wondering how to get it so people will pay you every single month for your content or it’s possible that you don’t even have a membership site set up yet but you will soon and you want to know what’s the easiest way to schedule a bunch of content and set up your membership site so that people will pay you month after month. Here’s exactly what to do.
You start off with the single payment membership site, split it into two payments and let those early buyers into the additional content for free and then split it up into even more payments. Why should you start with a single payment membership site? Because it’s the easiest and fastest for you to finish.
Most people who start a membership sites simply do not finish them. You are better than that. So make your site, make the first week or two worth of content and put it in a site where people pay one single payment.
I know it sounds scary and daunting to make a $20 per month membership site but what about a site that only cost $20 one time to join? Now the pressure’s off, now it’s pretty easy to make a site like that. So all you have to do is take that $20 site and add more to it. Add enough into it so that it would be worth $40 to join. It would be worth twice as much to join so if you already have four videos in there, now you have eight videos, now you have doubled the stuff, now the price is doubled.
But because you’re a nice guy, you’re not going to be charging $40. You’re going to be charging two payments of $20 spaced one month apart and you’re going to post half of the content for month one then half of the content during month two. That way, people get $40 worth of information and they pay two payments of $20.
Now, what you’re going to do is allow those initial buyers who just paid you the $20 for the entire access, give them access to the second month for free. That way, you were rewarding the people who joined early. Then simply repeat the process add in month three, add in month four. Anyone who’s already bought in get access to that but anybody who is brand new has to pay the four payments of $20 to get to month four, the six payments of $20 to get to month six and so on.
What this does is it allows you to start off and test the market and finish and keep what you have shippable. That way, you can launch the simplest membership site possible, add to it, add to it, add to it while you are rewarding people who bought early and always be increasing the price.
That’s how you turn a single payment site into a recurring site. Start with the single payment site, turn it into a two pay site and then change it over to a two, four, six or even an eight month membership site and now you have a new recurring stream of income.