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There are many ways to make money with your membership site. One of the reasons membership sites are built is to make residual, ongoing income from the different membership levels. The obvious way is by having different paid levels at which members can join. But, beyond that one idea, are many, many more.

There are several search engine listings where you can find this type of information, but after looking into many of them, they were simply incomplete. Comparing a typical website to a membership site doesn’t always work, but I did find a a site that had compiled a list of ways to make money online, which most, if not all of these methods could be incorporated into making more money with membership sites.

There is a difference between making money and making more money. There are methods that help you to increase your traffic or click-through rate, but they don’t actually represent a method of making money per se.

The list of direct and indirect methods is excerpted below, but for a more detailed description on each point on this list, you will want to visit DailyBloggingTips.com.  A lot of great ideas are behind the list below and DailyBloggingTips did a superb job on this list.

Direct Methods

1. PPC Advertising Networks
2. CPM Advertising Networks
3. Direct Banner Advertising
4. Text Link Ads
5. Affiliate Marketing
6. Monetization Widgets
7. Sponsored Reviews
8. RSS Feed Ads
9. Sponsors for Single Columns or Events
10. Premium Content
11. Private Forums
12. Job Boards
13. Marketplaces
14. Paid Surveys and Polls
15. Selling or Renting Internal Pages
16. Highlighted Posts from Sponsors
17. Donations
18. In-text Adverting
19. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
20. Audio Ads
21. Selling the Website

Indirect Methods

22. Selling an Ebook
23. Selling a Hardcover Book
24. Selling Templates or WordPress Themes
25. Offering Consulting and Related Services
26. Creating an Email List or Newsletter
27. Mentoring programs
28. Creating a conference around the website

In essence, you really have a gold mine at your fingertips! When you purchase and use the right membership software, you are adding to the value of your membership site. Using membership software that is flexible will not only make it easier to manipulate or enhance your membership site, but, it also creates more value, especially when you can incorporate money making features like the ones listed above.

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