Month: July 2010

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

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Where Should I Look For Membership PLR And How Much Should I Pay

A great business model is to buy up the rights and that means the resale rights or master resale rights or even private label rights to products, then put them in your own membership site and sell access to that membership site sometimes passing along the rights to those products to your subscribers. It sounds like a great idea, but where do you go looking for resale rights materials? How much should you pay and how do you justify that kind of payment?

Look for resale rights on sites such as master-resale-rights.com or on tradebit.com. I do not own those sites. Those are my two go-to sources to acquire new resale rights. Both of those sites allow us to search based on keyword, browse by category, and see exactly what you’re getting. You can find out if you’re getting audio in an MP3 format or WAV or WMA, how long the audios are and so on. It’s a same deal with the video or even written material. You’ll find out if you’re getting a PDF, a word document, text files, whatever.

The overlooked source of PLR is Google. All you have to do is type in your niche keyword and the term PLR and usually, lots of results will show up. The more specific you can make your search request the better, and I use a service from Google called “Google Alerts” that sends me an e-mail when it finds new pages matching these keywords. For example, I have a Google Alert set up for the term “WordPress PLR.” If anybody posts a blog post or a webpage or a sales letter that contains the words “WordPress” and “PLR,” I will be notified and usually, there’s something I might want to buy.

Now you know where to find PLR, how much do you pay? Preferably, you want to pay $20 or higher because less people will have copies of these products. If you find a resale rights item on sale for a dollar, it’s probably not going to be very good and you’re going to have a lot of competition. Pay $20 or higher for private label rights because I have paid as much as $600 for some hard-to-find and exclusive resale rights. It’s okay to pay a little bit more than you would expect for rights because you can figure it out later. You can write it off against your business. You only just save a sale of certain number of copies of that product to make your money back. For example, if you spent a hundred dollars to get rights to a twenty-dollar eBook, you make five sales and you’ve broken even.

On top of that, if you buy let’s say rights to a video training course that’s three hours long and only cost you $20, you’ve paid $20 to save yourself three hours of the time that would have taken you to record those videos. Think of investing in PLR in that way that you can write it off against your business, you only do certain number of sales, and it saves you a set number of hours that you would have to make the content yourself.

When looking for PLR, look on master-resale-rights, tradebit, and Google Alerts to get new sources of PLR. When purchasing these rights, pay $20 or higher especially for video training if you can get a way with it, and think of it in terms of how many sales do I need to get my money back.

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How do I re purpose PLR materials ?

PLR or Private Label Rights content means that you can purchase content from somebody along the rights to make them your own. You can resell this content whether it is a video, audio or book. You can edit it, you can change the title or even put your own name on it. That’s is great but how do you use that content in a way that is totally unique that totally has your brand on it.

Three ways:
You can rewrite that content?
Add video or
save just the audio for that.

How do you rewrite PLR materials it is very easy?

Take the articles or the chapters of books that you bought, break it down and rewrite them again. What do I mean? I mean that if this chapter you are reading made 3 specific points. Write down those 3 points and rewrite them in your own words. For example if you purchased a right to a copywriting manual, a manual about how to write sales letters and it explained in the first chapter how to write your headline, your bullet points and your call to action.

And then you would write in your own words, how to craft headline? how to craft bullet points called action and now you have a totally unique product of your own. You can also buy video to the rights you have bought. You have bought rights to a copyrighting manual explaining then they would write in your words, How to craft a headline? How to craft bullet points? How to write down a call to action and now you have a totally unique product of your own. You can also add video to the rights you want.

Let us give you the same example you bought rights to a copywriting manual explaining how to write a headline bullet points and call to action just in the first shot. There is nothing stopping you from using a program like Camtasia and recording you doing that. Using the same exact steps to make your own headline, write your own bullet points and write your called to action just to show somebody the steps in practice and the great thing about video editing software is that you can save just the audio if you choose, this means you can save and it should be exact video recorded or simply save the audio and now you have an audio product along with it. I have also been known to dictate a book word for word that I bought.

So you open up the pdf report and record myself reading every word of every sentence of every page and then say the audio and now I have an audio book to go along with the regular book, those are 3 easy ways to repurpose private lablel rights materials, rewrite the content add a video or save just the audio.

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Five Ways To Launch Your Membership Site Quickly And Easily

If you want people to see your membership site and most of all join it, you can’t just put it out there and show something boring. Make your launch exciting using one of these five product launch methods.

1. Only open a set number of slots for your pilot’s group.

A great way to get people who are on the fence about buying to make a decision right now is with scarcity. What if you launch your membership site and only allowed 20 members in at the introductory low price and then closed it down and opened it in a few months? Anyone who did not jump on your offer right now would be stuck out in the cold for a few months.

The great thing about having a pilot test group is that if there’s something seriously wrong with your information or your website, you’re fine. You can use these 20 people as guinea pigs before opening up the site to the entire world.

2. The Seven Dollar Bump Strategy.

Here’s a great way to overcome price scaredy catness, to avoid being afraid of pricing too high

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When Do I Not Want To Reveal I Have A PLR-Based Membership Site

It’s true. Just because you filled up your membership site with resale rights or private label rights materials, you don’t always want to pass along the rights or even tell people that the products in your membership site are based of a resale rights. This is going to happen if your membership site is outside the internet marketing niche, if your membership site is not a resale rights club, or even if the book has renaming rights and you remixed the book yourself.

There is a way to make a membership site outside of internet marketing. There are many ways of making money outside of internet marketing and all you have to do is do a search on Google. A simple fact is that in most niches, in most of the world, on most of the internet, people have no idea what resale rights are so they’re not even going to care that you offer resale rights. Let’s say that you had a membership site in the golf niche, how to improve your golf game. Most golfers are not going to care if the guides you give them about golfing include resale rights. Just because you can pass along the rights doesn’t mean you should.

And that brings me to my next point. Even if your site does discuss internet marketing, even if your crowd does know what resale rights are, that still might not be the reason why they joined. There is a kind of membership site you can create called a “resale rights club” and the appeal of the club is that people get new rights every week or every month. But for most of the sites you create, you’re not going to want to pass along the rights because you get one more thing to explain and you get one more crowd you’re trying to appeal to.

If you have a site that’s all about giving away resale rights or selling resale rights, then fine. Talk about the rights they get. But if your membership site is filled with tutorials, isn’t that to teach people things you don’t want to be passed along the rights? Because it just comes distracting.

And finally, if you have redone the product and made it your own, there’s no reason to pass along the rights or even tell people that the product is based on resale rights because it is yours. You made it. You used the resale rights you purchased as a starting point for videos and for your reports, but it is now yours and there is no reason to pass along the rights.

Those are the three instances when I would not pass along the rights or even explain that the rights are included with the product. Those are when the membership site is in the non-internet marketing niche, when your membership site is not a resale rights club, and also when the products inside of that site have renaming rights and you have made it completely your own.

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Add These Bonuses Into Your Membership Site For Maximum Impact

People love getting bonuses. It’s awesome to pay for one thing and get this extra thing thrown in on top for free. Here are five awesome bonuses you can add to your membership site with little to know work at all.

1. Website critiques or personal responses.

Depending on your niche, you could examine your customers’ websites and tell them what to change. If you were teaching a class about blogging, copywriting, article writing, forum posting, AdWords, AdSense, real estate and so on, if they create any kind of content that can be viewed online, simply create a video of you looking at their website and showing and telling them what to change.

If this type of video does not apply to your niche then record a personal response. Ask people to ask you questions and instead of typing up the answer, record a three to five minute video explaining your answer. You’ll find that you can give a much more thorough answer and not work as hard typing all that stuff up.

2. Updated information or URL recommendations and reviews.

Most information becomes out of date after a little while. What if you spent 30 minutes per month for a year going through the URLs you recommend and updating them for the current year? That would be a great selling point because you could make your membership site go from version 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.2 and you can tell your members or even your prospects that it’s been updated a set number of times in the past 12 months. For example, “It’s been updated 35 times this year to make sure all the URLs are up-to-date and the things I recommend are brand new.”

3. Templates, worksheets and checklists.

This is all about hand holding. It’s one thing to show somebody how to do something step by step. But why not create a written down step-by-step checklist they can use to easily repeat the process later even if they forgot most of what was in your video?

For example, you can show somebody how to set up a WordPress blog and then create 10 step checklist of things like install a database, download WordPress, upload WordPress, add administrator account, add first blog post. That way, people can tell that they

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What Is The PLR Club Strip Mining Strategy

When you’re making your own membership site filled with resale rights content, you might be wondering, “Where am I going to find all of these products add to my site?” The good news is that there are other sites that exclusively deal out resale rights content. You can join these sites and basically strip mine them for resale rights materials, but they’re going to want it to take a few extra steps to ensure that your site is better than theirs. And these are the wheat-from-the-shaft strategy, the bonus-matching strategy, and the SEO-bait strategy.

Whenever you join a membership site that contains resale rights, it comes with hundreds, if not thousands and thousands, of different products. And a lot of them just are not very good. But membership site owners tend to lead in sitting around even though they’re in the way and they’re making it difficult for people to find the good resale rights materials. Your job is to separate the wheat from the shaft and throw out the bad resale rights and keep the good ones so that your site is filled only with the high quality eBooks that aren’t filled with fuller content, that aren’t filled with wide margins, the videos that explain things instead of talking about theory and the products that have a clear beginning and end, and leave people at the end of the training actually having learned something and hopefully have accomplished something. Throw out the bad PLR. Keep the good PLR.

Next, you can match up the perfect bonus for your destined products. Let’s say you had some training about how to set up WordPress and you bought the rights to a video series that explains the best WordPress plugins. That would make a perfect bonus. You taught them how to set up WordPress and the videos you bought the rights to show them the plugins. Is anybody going to care that the voice on the bonus video is different than yours? Not a chance as long as the information is good.

And finally, when you set up all of these resale rights materials and partially protect the content so that the content is out in the open but people have to log in to get the download links. This means that you have all these new pages that show up in the Google search results and that means you have lots of linkbacks and a higher chance of somebody finding your site when they type in a search query.

Those are the three things I want you to consider when mining other PLR sites for resale rights to add to your own. Separate the wheat from the shaft, match up the perfect bonus, and keep in mind all the new search engine optimization content that you’re setting up.

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The Five Best Types Of Video For Your Membership Site

Let’s say you already have topic for you membership site picked out, maybe you’re even close to setting it up. Now it’s time to create the content. I prefer to make video content but what kinds of videos should you create? You’re in luck, I’m going to tell you my five best kinds of videos to create for a membership site.

1. How-to instructions or webinar recording.

There’s no better kind of video you can create than just showing people how you accomplish a task especially if you break it down into a repeatable step-by-step process. Nobody said you had to make a one hour video. Even a simple five to ten minute video showing a simple task that you usually take for granted can be extremely helpful for your members.

Also, the easiest type of video for me to create is a webinar recording. Simply get on the live call, demonstrate the step-by-step process and if people have questions along the way, simply address them. This way, your members are doing most of the work for you, you’re simply showing them something right in front of them.

2. Recap of another video.

I’ve made several videos where the members of my sites simply did not watch the videos all the way through or they watched the videos but didn’t really pay too much attention. So if your membership site depends on a very important set of instructions early on, it doesn’t hurt to make a recap going over the same steps but faster or slower or the abridged version.

For example, let’s say you made a 20 minute video on your membership site showing people how to set up a WordPress blog including the content. But then later you made a recap video showing just the technical setup, none of the content, none of the changing of the theme, just how to get it just barely set up. There’s nothing wrong with having a recap of the same information.

3. What’s coming this week or what you will learn this week?

I know from personal experience having been in a few membership sites that during some weeks I pay closer attention than on other weeks. Also, when somebody joins your membership site it’s usually only for a couple of reasons. That part of the training, that reason that got them to join might be a few weeks or a few months in so it can’t hurt to tell people what kind of videos to expect throughout the week so that they’ll be ready for them.

Also, just in case they missed a few videos, make a final video at the end of the week showing them or telling them what they learned that week. You don’t need to over think this. Simply make a PowerPoint with bullets explaining each video or even show screenshots of each video so they have a nice recap, not just of one video in particular but of the entire week.

4. Question or challenge video.

Ironically, usually my members tell me that the best part of the class was when I answered questions. The easiest kind of post you can make is one that asks people a simple question and directs them to answer it on the blog below.

For example, if you are not sure where to head in your training, you could ask them. Maybe you had a class about how to set up a WordPress blog and you weren’t sure if you should go the content generation route or the technical plugin route, if you should explain the technical part or the content.

Have them vote. Ask them, “Do you want the technical or the content?” and explain why. That way, it’s not just a simple poll, people have to justify their answers and be accountable to their responses. Likewise, you could explain to people how to set up WordPress blog then tell them, “Now it’s your turn. Go set up your WordPress blog and come back here and post the URL of the completed blog so you can brag.”

5. Interview with note slides.

You might have noticed that I keep telling you that the easiest kinds of videos to create are ones where you don’t have to do all the work. So an interview is fantastic because you’re simply having a conversation. If you take notes of that interview, there’s nothing wrong with putting those notes into a PowerPoint slide show and then dubbing in the interview as you play the PowerPoint. That way, people can not just listen to the interview but also get step-by-step notes as well.

Those are the five best kinds of videos you can make for your membership site. How-to instructions, recap of a video, recap of this week, a question or challenge, and an interview turned into note slides.

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How do I keep my queue of products in my private label rights membership site full?

The concept behind a PLR club is very simple, you have a membership site and you load it up with products you have purchased the rights to, this means you don’t have to spend any time generating content. Only focus on the fun part promoting it, but how to do you prevent your resale rights membership from becoming a chore. It is easy, follow a monthly routine, have a schedule and use my special fill in the calendar strategy. Believe it or not you don’t need any special software, other than membership software, to manage a PLR site all you need to do is use WordPress’s special scheduling feature and all you need to do for that is change the date on a post to appear in the future and add-in new resale rights.

But how do you make it so you aren’t distracted every single day piling in rights?
It is easy. Dedicate one date per month to loading in sites and scheduling them, it might take up half a day or a full day every single month but you only get to keep that one date towards scheduling new content and you don’t have to worry about it for a whole other month.

Simply schedule 30 products, set the dates of the them, set the categories and you’re done. Just dedicate the one day out of the month to buying new rights to products and scheduling them on your blog. Another easy way to make it tolerable to set up membership site content is know ahead of time what kind of schedule you will have on your membership site?

For example I have run membership where on Monday, my visitors were given a video. On wednesday they were given an audio and on thursday there were given a piece of software, this makes it a lot easier to schedule content than you think because if you do have an audio you have bought the rights to you know that you just schedule it on the next tuesday of the month.

Again you don’t need any special software just to know what kind of content will be available on what day of the month and finally my fill in the calendar strategy will make sure that you always have something ready for your members even if you send out the content at a slow pace. Here is what I mean if you only have 12 videos and you want your site to last one year, schedule one video per month.

If you make more videos later fill in the gaps, you might have 12 videos scheduled, you make 12 more videos then scheduled it so people get 2 videos per month. Make another video make it so people get a video almost every week but instead of cramming all your videos at the beginning, space them out evenly for as long as you want your membership site to last and as you create more videos, sandwich them in between what you already have that way you can still launch your membership at any time.

But you will never run out of content, the content might be a little slow coming at first but people will not have the problem of getting 20 videos at once and then nothing, schedule out your content monthly then add enough so it is weekly and maybe even get it almost to a daily re-occurrence and that is how you keep your cube of PLR membership products full, have a monthly routine where you have one day where you buy and schedule resale rights. Schedule out your dates have video Monday or audio Wednesdays that way it is brain dead simple where your content should go and set your post to drip out on a monthly basis then make them weekly and then make them even more frequently than that.

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Which Plugins Will Help Me Set Up A Site Filled With PLR Materials

WordPress is a great way to host your membership site, but the only problem with it is that there are so many choices about which plugins you can add to it. If you have a large number of resale rights or private label rights materials sitting on your hard drive, a great way to put them to use is by putting them into a membership site. But when you set up this membership site, what plugins are right for you? I’m going to share with you three that helped me get these online and saved me hours, if not days, of work. They are the article importer plugin, video embed plugin, and the drip plugin.

Have you ever tried to post 50 or even 100 articles onto a blog? It’s very tedious, isn’t it? You have to copy the title. You have to copy the post contents. You have to categorize it. It’s a big pain.

Fortunately, there are WordPress plugins out there that allow you to upload a ZIP file filled with text articles and will cut them up and schedule them all in a blog. This makes it very easy to post 50, 100, or even 500, even a year or two worth of blog content in just one single click.

What does a video embedding plugin do? A video is a great and fast way to generate content for your membership site. You just talk and show people things and that’s your content. No writing required. No editing stuff around. You just make a video and post it. Sounds easy right? But you have the same problem you had with importing the articles. If you had 50 videos, you have to copy and paste the special code to post in 50 videos. The plugin that really helped me post a lot of videos is a video embed plugin that allows me to simply type in the filename of the video and the plugin figures out the rest and knows the exact code to drop to make the video play properly.

Finally, the drip plugin allows me to arrange these articles and these videos in such a way that when somebody joins a site, they only get fed this content as they stay in the membership site for a longer. I give a big chunk upfront but they get something new every few days and they have a real reason to stay in the membership site because they don’t get everything delivered at once. It’s slowly dripped out as they remain in the membership site for a longer.

The plugins that helped me the most to get a membership site filled up with private label rights materials is an article-importing plugin, a video embed plugin, and a drip plugin to make the membership site behave like an autoresponder.

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