There are so many different ways that you can make money online but one of the most interesting ways is through building membership websites.  These websites can be on almost any subject and as long as you have enough information on that subject to offer something of use to your subscribers, it can become a membership website.  What are some of the benefits of building your websites to include a membership and how easy are they to maintain?

The benefits of owning a membership website are really easy to see once you understand the principle of recurring income.  If you have a product that you are going to sell, such as an e-book or perhaps some downloadable software, typically you make that sale and then you have to go about trying to make further sales on the backend.  If you have a membership website, as long as they remain a member of the website, you will receive a recurring income, month after month.  The great part about this is that you don’t even have to try to continue making money from your existing members, the money that they pay you is paid automatically, every month.

Another benefit of owning membership websites is that it can form a community which will help your membership to grow and to thrive.  You can do this by putting such things behind the membership area as an online forum or perhaps a blog which encourages members to comment.  By getting your members involved in the group, it will be a much easier thing for them to remain a part of the group.  If you simply have them come on board and then provide them with an article once or twice a month, it will be much easier for them to leave as they will not generally feel as though they are part of a community.

Membership websites are fairly easy to set up once you have the proper software in place.  There are plenty of membership website software programs available, many of which will fill various needs for your particular site.  Some of the things that you really need to look for, however, are ease-of-use, easy installation, security in the membership area and the ability to accept various forms of payment for the membership website.

As far as the payment on the website is concerned, there are several different options that you can choose from, even if you don’t have a merchant account of your own.  One of the most obvious that you can use is PayPal as it is almost universally used by many members on the Internet.  A person that has a PayPal account can also accept credit cards under certain circumstances.  Aside from PayPal, you can use ClickBank, Google Checkout and a wide variety of other online services.

Building a web empire around membership websites is an excellent way for you to reap the rewards of recurring income.  Not only that, as long as you can provide them with content and a community like atmosphere, you can keep that recurring income for a very long time.

Next Tuesday we will release a very new kind of membership site called GWM2. It was actually built for running giveaway events but we took it a step further and made a multi functional software out of it. Check it out: GWM2 Membership Site Script

Have a great day!

Guido Nussbaum

The Pre-Launch of Easy Viral Traffic is running pretty smooth. We are close to 500 signups and the upgrade rate is pretty good. The affiliate contest is wide open and everybody still has a chance to win the race and cash in on our contest prizes.

The Easy Viral Traffic website runs on the new Giveaway Manager 2 software. Usually we use this software to run Giveaway Events like the Easter Giveaway… but the software is very flexible and can be used for all kinds of membership sites, firesales or similar projects. I’ve personally experienced that those websites that I run on GWM2 are all doing much better in regards on signups, upgrade rates and sales than all the other membership site software that I’ve tested. I’m not telling you this to sell the GWM2 software (yes I’ve programmed it)… I’m telling you this because I’ve gone through so much trouble setting up my membership sites like the PLR-Niches. I had to fix all kinds of bugs and had to include new functionality in the scripts that I have tested. For me this is not a big problem because I know how to script PHP… but what will you do with such a script if you are not a programmer?

That’s why I started to program the GWM2 software in October 2007. It took me half a year to make it perfect and now I don’t use any other software anymore for running my membership sites. It was my goal to provide a perfect script for running giveaway events and membership sites. Those who will have the chance to get a copy of GWM2 will soon understand why I’m telling you this… It simply performs better and makes you more money!

Below I have posted a video. It’s a Sneak Preview of the Giveaway Manager 2 software. You can see how GWM2 performed in previous Giveaway Events and why the software is so powerful.