In your membership website you want your members to be participating and becoming a part of the sites’ community. You also want to know that they understood the material that you taught them. How do you do this? No one likes homework! One good way to do this is to set up a membership challenge. This is a method where you challenge your members to answer a set of easy questions or follow some simple directions.
You might have to encourage people to complete the challenges at first but once they become accustomed to doing them they should enjoy the participation and want to keep on doing the challenges. This will have the added benefit of giving you material to use in marketing testimonials.
Setting up a challenge for your members is not difficult. Prepare a new area in the blog post that relates to the material that you want to challenge the members on. Then give them some questions that they need to answer. The questions should be on the material that you have recently taught to them. If you have recently been covering joint ventures, for example, challenge them with questions like; who are four people that you will get in touch with to offer a joint venture, what will you offer them and when will you do this by? Then you should give your members a deadline to respond to and post their answers before that time.
Sometimes people might not want to answer the challenge questions. If that happens you are going to need to keep after them and remind them by email that they need to do so. If they still haven’t responded by the deadline time then you should disable the challenge post and only allow people to comment after they have posted what their intentions are. This should have the effect of making them commit to answer the questions and help ensure that they will follow through and finish the task.
Once most of your members have done this you will have some testimonials that you will be able to put to use in an upcoming sales letter. Challenge questions also allow both the member and yourself to keep track of what they are learning and how well they are learning it. It will enable the member to see the value of what you have taught them when they finish the course.
If for some reason your members are reluctant to participate in the challenge questions you should try offering them a reward for doing so. A bonus video or a protected sign in live training session or re-sell rights are all examples of rewards that could be offered to your members in return for their participation. Go to http://www.membershipcube.com right now to discover more.