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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Anyone running a membership website knows that keeping your members engaged and active is a challenging and time consuming part of the business. Smart membership site owners come up with creative and new ways to engage members and […]

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There are several ways to get members to join your membership website and start paying you. You might recall that this is how you plan to make your money? One way that you can get members to your site is to offer some sort of a free trial membership. Free trial memberships […]

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After all of your hard work recruiting new members, it’s even more hard work to keep them. Most membership websites lose members faster than they can find them. Stopping that reverse flow is critical to your success.
So, how do you do actually convince your members to stay? Here are several ideas that […]

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Your website needs exposure to get traffic. Finding inexpensive ways to advertise your website, and gain exposure, is a high priority for any owner of a membership website. You invest a whole lot of your own blood, sweat, and tears into your website and you want to watch it turn a profit. […]

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Do you realize the true power of membership websites? Current estimates show that less than 9% of Internet users actually pay for any online content. That number is increasing exponentially, and growth is estimated at about 500% per year. Hello Entrepreneurs!! This is your wake-up call. This is where it’s […]

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The moral of the story is: Use your connections wisely. If you are running an online membership website, you have truly an endless supply of resources right at your fingertips. All of these members have the potential to recruit other new members, as well as help you keep your current members, and […]

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Anyone running a membership website knows that keeping your members engaged and active is a challenging and time consuming part of the business. Smart membership site owners come up with creative and new ways to engage members and keep interest alive. Online discussion forums are great places to hook people, and there are […]

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It used to be that you could design a website, throw some content up there, and eventually get some traffic flowing that would result in gaining members, or selling products, or whatever you were trying to accomplish. These days, traditional, or static websites, just don’t cut it. You need to know the social […]

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All memberships, including membership websites, have basically the same three kinds of members. You’re either going to be a regular member, an activist member, or a leader. No group, whether it’s a political party, business group, or basic neighborhood book club can really function without these three types of members.
Generating increases in membership […]

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If you run a membership website, you need to keep your members interested and eagerly awaiting your next wisdom. Any website administrator knows that you have to keep adding fresh content on a regular basis to keep your website running well. New content draws traffic and raises your page ranking. There are […]

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