A fixed term membership site is a site which the owner has fixed a date on which all services will be terminated. I would recommend anyone wishing to open a fixed membership site to follow this model because there is a higher chance that the content generated will be better organized and of a higher quality. The maintenance required will also be less. This is a system which the sales and delivery can be tweaked.
In affixed term membership ship site, you require very little set up. The important thing is to content that can last six months, rearrange and schedule its delivery and you are done. Not much is required from you in terms making sure that the content is up to date once the site is already established. Once the stage in which you wanted to generate content is over, the only thing you have to do is to concentrate all your efforts in marketing the membership site.
The content for such a site is almost always fresh since you aren’t always in a rush to beat deadlines and the time you are afforded can be utilized in creating new things for each month. If your site is a six month training course, you can divide the six months into six different lessons and start by administering the basic lessons first and getting into the harder stuff as you advance. This is very much unlike a regular membership site where you aren’t even sure in which order to give the lessons to the members; this problem is even compounded by the presence of members who joined late. With a fixed term site you operate more like a college course, you start with the easiest things advance to harder things and at the end of it all, you graduate. Moreover for someone about to get finished with the seethe/she ha more reason to see it out because it wouldn’t make economic sense to drop out.
Lastly set up your site such that it would be easier to make changes to it later on. When you have arranged all your content systematically and you create an extra audio or video, you should be able to know were in the sequence this material will flawlessly fit. In the continuous membership site this new content is very likely to be put at the end of the sequence without giving due deliberation to its relevance in the program.
If you intend to make many changes and arrange your lessons in order of appearance, lengthen the life of your membership site, just make sure that you have affixed term membership site to begin with. Even advertisement and sales letters have to be scheduled so that you can leave it on for say ones month and introduce the next one in the sequence at the end of this period.
In short, the reasons that should push you into making you membership site a fixed term site re that the content will be of a higher quality, not a lot of setup is required and they are generally low maintenance sites. Free membership software to help you set up a fixed term site can be found at: http://www.membershipcube.com