Let’s face it. A lot of people simply are not writers, and even the people who are writers, even the best writers get writer’s block from time to time. So, how do you create enough content to fill up a membership site without getting stuck, without getting bored, or without getting frustrated? I have three simple solutions for you.
[audio:A5-WriteContentForMe.mp3]First, promote user comments into full posts, look for a columnist and outsource your writing, outsource your content creation. The easiest way I create membership site content that’s free is to simply look at user comments. I host membership sites inside of blogs. I make a post, you just can comment. If a user leaves a particularly good comment or an important question or even if I post a video and they take notes in the form of a comment, I will copy their comment, paste it as a new post and set the author of that post to that person who left the comment.
What do I end up with? I end up with a review post that somebody else wrote, that I did not have to pay any money for, that someone else will probably find useful. I only do this sparingly, but every now and then, if you have a blog in a membership site and it usually leaves a really video response or takes really good notes or leaves a very insightful comment, consider molding that comment into an entire post. Now, if that person leaves you lots of content over time and they become a trust source of authority for you, consider making them a columnist, the person who leaves multiple posts on your blog. The cool thing about WordPress that a lot of people are not aware of is that you can set user access levels – meaning you can set some of your regular subscribers to be what are called “contributors.” If they want to make a new post, they go and they submit it for approval, you approve it, it becomes live. It’s a very easy way to allow users to write their own post on your blog, but they do not become live until maybe after you’ve edited them and finally put a stamp on it for approval.
And finally, if you’re really stuck for ways of getting content, simply outsource it. Hire an article writer if you found someone who’s writing they like, but what I prefer to do is record an audio about what I want to say, hand it off to a transcriptionist, and then they create the article for me. Not everybody can write but everybody knows how to at least talk on the telephone. If you can talk, you can write.
And those are my three favorite ways of getting other people to write membership site content or me. First, promote user comments in the posts. If there is a repeat user who leaves a lot of good comments, make him a columnist using the user access levels in WordPress. And finally, outsource your content into article writing or transcribing.
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