Is A Membership Part Of Your Online Business System?

Wouldn't it be great if your online business could easily provide you with a steady monthly income – whether you're promoting it or on vacation? With a well set up business system, you should be bringing in sales on autopilot, but there is a way to make sure your monthly income is even more automatic.

Membership sites are a fantastic way of bringing in monthly income – recurring income. In fact, there are a lot of marketers making a lot of money with membership sites. Shouldn't you be considering this business model for your online business?

How Does A Membership Site Work?

You can set up a special website that can only be visited by those who have a password. You sell them the access, and receive a monthly fee. As long as the member keeps their membership going, you'll automatically get the fee deposited in your account.

There are all kinds of scripts that run membership sites for you. In some cases, you can even pick up pre-made membership sites.

What Is In A Membership Site?

People will pay you a membership fee, if they can get access to something special. You can fill your site with great content (like informative articles, reviews, tutorial videos, interviews), services (like mentoring, coaching), or provide a place where like-minded people can get together in a well-run forum.

Pick The Right Topic For You?

Since you're going to have to put new, fresh content in your site every month, be sure it's something you're passionate about. Whether it's your hobby or your profession, if you're passionate about it, you'll always have great ideas for new content.

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Building An Online Business System For An Easy-Going Lifestyle

Imagine this: You wake up slowly, feeling great after the day you spent sailing your catamaran and having a gourmet picnic at sea. You pad across the cool tiles of your kitchen floor, fire up the Lavazza espresso maker, and sit down at your computer.

For the next hour, you sip coffee and go through some e-mails. There are a few questions and a lady in England who had her computer crash before she could download her e-book. You answer the mail and blast a file off to the lady.

With your "grueling" morning chores done, it's time to reward yourself by opening the other inbox – the one where you receive your PayPal notices. Ever since you moved across the world to these tropical shores, most of your money comes pouring in while you sleep. It makes for great mornings.

Now that your "work" is done, you're ready for a big breakfast, and then a day of scuba diving with your friends. Life couldn't be any better!

Is This All A Dream?

For some it will only be a dream – for others it will become a reality.

You can have this kind of lifestyle, but it doesn't happen overnight. The free and easy lifestyle enjoyed by many infopreneurs comes from concerted effort and perseverance during the early stages of their online business. You must first build a good, solid online business system – a system that runs automatically 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Design Your System Well From The Beginning

Your system needs to be properly set up with a well-oiled sales process, automated payment processing, instant product delivery, and a good follow-up e-mail series.

Your whole online system needs to be designed to easily bring new customers into your business' sales funnel. A low-priced report, and/or a free report, brings new people onto your mailing list, where a strong series of follow-up e-mails goes into action to move them further into the sales funnel – where they buy your higher-priced back-end products.

After creating an initial front-end sales system, you need to concentrate on creating a whole line of related products to keep feeding your customers. Give your customers more of the information they want.

Big Effort Pays Off In The End

Setting up a solid online business system does take a lot of work, but once you have all your processes in place you'll no longer simply dream the easy-going infopreneur lifestyle – you'll actually live it.


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Using PLR Articles To Build Your Online Business

As you're building your online business, you can take advantage of some time-savers such as PLR articles. Private Label Rights articles allow you to put your own name on somebody else's writing, but to be truly effective it takes a little more than that.

How PLR Articles Can Be Used In Your Online Business

You can use the material in PLR articles for submissions to the article sites – like Ezine Articles – to increase your exposure on the Internet, build your reputation, and generate traffic to your online sales system.

Chopped into smaller bits, this material can also be used in blog posts. While bundled together, a number of articles can be used to create a report or e-book. You could even turn the material into videos or audio recordings.

Modify Your PLR Articles

You cannot simply use PLR material "as is". This will make your material the same as others who have gone the "easy" route, and you'll be penalized for duplicate content. To get the most out of these articles, you need to do some modifications.

Before you start your modifications, decide what keyword phrase you are going to target. Do some keyword research. You'll want a keyword phrase that you stand a good chance of dominating in the search engines, so dig deep for a longer phrase. Instead of "stop smoking" – which has 368,000 competing websites – go after something like "stop smoking naturally", which has a lot less competition.

A New Title

Change the title of your article. Get that keyword phrase in there. Keep it in the same word order as your keyword research uncovered, but wrap it in some other words that turn it into the kind of title people would want to click on.

For example: If your keyword phrase is "get rid of in-laws", then you could create titles like "101 Legal Ways To Get Rid Of In-Laws" or "How To Get Rid Of In-Laws And Still Keep Your Wife".

Modify The Main Text

Although some people just change the introduction and conclusion, for a truly good article you need to rewrite the whole thing. Put your PLR article beside you and use it as the inspiration for your new article. Change the wording, change the style, mix it up a bit. Within about 10 minutes, you should have a totally unique article.

As you're writing, be sure to get your keyword phrase into the body text 2-3 times. Don't just stuff the phrase in - make it relevant to what your writing.

The Rest Of Your Business

To create good blog posts, you can take a PLR article and chop it into 2 or 3 pieces. These can either be rewritten as standalone posts, or written as a continuing long post. By putting the beginning of an interesting post on your blog, you'll bring readers back to read the next part.

You can also bundle PLR articles into reports and e-books. Take material from a number of different packs and bring them together into a cohesive book.

Building Your Business Quicker

PLR articles will help you expand your business a lot quicker than writing all your content from scratch. Your business system will be fed the material it needs to operate efficiently.


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Create A Blueprint For A Successful Online Business

Ben Stein once stated, "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

It's the same with your online business – decide what you want your business to be. Make a blueprint for your Internet venture that charts your course into the future.

Before You Start Your Business

Sit down and decide what you want your business to be like in three years, five years, ten years. Have a plan in mind – a blueprint that outlines the design of your online business. This plan doesn't have to cover all those little details. In fact, it needs to be more of a general outline. It shows out what kind of business you're going to build.

In your blueprint, decide what kind of products you're going to market. Decide what kind of image you're going to project. Decide what kind of customers you want to attract to your business.

As Your Business Grows

Keep your blueprint by your side as you work on your business. Use it as a guide to make sure you keep going in the right direction.

As you see opportunities for creating hot new products, consider how they will fit into your blueprint. Will the product take your business closer to your goal, or will it take you out of your way to the goal of the kind of business you want to build? Does the product fit into the image you have been building for your business? Will it attract the type of customers you are building your business for?

Look at the sales letters you write ... the newsletters you produce ... the pricing you set – every component of your online system. How well do they match your blueprint?

Plan For Success

By having a blueprint in place from the beginning, you'll be sure that your online business becomes the business you actually want.


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For Online Business Success, Add The Human Touch

People want to buy from people, not from corporate entities or shadowy figures masked behind websites. Your online business needs the human touch to resonate with site visitors – and sell them your products.

Longing For The Good Old Days

Unfortunately, the days of walking into your neighbourhood General Store – where old Mrs. Perkins called you by name and knew which brand of fabric softener you preferred – have faded away. The small stores fell one by one, as large department stores – filled with a gaggle of young clerks who all looked the same – took over the commerce landscape.

The thing is, people still like dealing with the same face – someone who they know. We still like to know the person whose product or service we are buying. Why else would you drive 5 miles out of your way to buy produce from that nice family's roadside farm stand? Why else would you pay a little more to get your suits cleaned by that nice old gentleman on 57th Street, who always greets you with an authentic smile and a cheery "Hello"?

Bring Back The Human Touch

There is no reason that any of your websites, sales pages, or other parts of your online sales process have to be impersonal. Stop hiding behind your computer, and let your customers get to know you. Get up close and personal.

Show Your Face

Put your photo on everything in your online business. Greet visitors to your website with your portrait, and a small caption telling them who you are. Put your photo and a message fro the author in all your reports and e-books.

Inject Your Soul

Put your own personality on your sites and in your products. Don't write like a corporation – write like a human being. Be yourself. Write like you are talking to a friend.

On your blog, let your visitors get to really know you. Who are you? What makes you tick? Let your visitors see you as the person you are, not some cold corporation.

By bringing the human touch to your online business, you become Mrs. Perkins – greeting your visitors and steering them to the products that are best for them. No longer are visitors merely landing on a website, and clicking away – they're being pulled into a more personal space, where they can find a person to trust and buy from.

Get personal, and increase your sales.


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How To Set Up Your Follow-Up E-Mail Series To Get The Most Out Of Your Lists

Your online business system should have two separate mailing lists - your freebie list and your customer list. These lists are not the same, so don't treat them the same. If you want to get the most sales and long-term profits out of your list, you need to set up your follow-up systems properly.

Set And Forget

With a good autoresponder to take care of signing up subscribers and delivering your series of e-mails, you only need to do the work once. So, take the time to design your e-mail series well. Don't provide any time-sensitive information in your e-mail series, as you want to set it and forget it – let it keep sending out the same information for years to come.

For every new subscriber that joins your list, the information will be fresh and new. As long as you're delivering good information, there is no reason to change it.

Your Customer List

This is your most valuable asset and needs to be treated as such. Set up your follow-up e-mails to deliver a series of valuable tips. Since these are paying customers, make this some good "how to" information. Your series of tips should be so good that, if you bundled them together, you could sell them as a report.

Design your follow-up series around the main subject of your product line. If you create a series of tips that will be useful to any customer – no matter which of your products they buy – you will keep all your customers happy. Carry this same subject into your weekly newsletter, and you'll keep your customers on your list for a very long time.

With your customer list, give them a good amount of great content, to balance out the number of offers you place in their e-mails. You'll be selling more products to your customer list, but if you balance it well with the valuable information you're supplying, your customers won't feel that you are only selling to them.

Your Freebie List

The people on your freebie list have not yet qualified themselves to receive your best information – and it wouldn't be fair to your paying customers to give away the same information to this list. But, you do want to give good enough information to this list, so they'll see the value of buying one of your products. As you did with your free report, give them some great "what to do" information.

With your freebie list, you can also increase the frequency of mailing. Set up your autoresponder to send out an e-mail every day for the next 7-10 days. In each e-mail, you can use the "what to do" information to pre-sell one of your information products. In each and every e-mail, have a link and a call to action to buy one of your low-priced reports.

Your freebie follow-up series has one job – and only one job – to move your free report readers onto your customer list. The way for them to get onto the valued customer list is by buying a product. With a freebie list, your follow-up system must sell, sell, sell.

Two Lists

Treat your lists differently and you'll build a profitable online business. Take some time to design your freebie and customer lists. As you create more products for your product line, you can develop other free reports and freebie lists to feed prospects into your customer list. Above all else, treat your customer list as the valuable asset that it is.


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Build A Friendly Online Sales System And Sell More Information Products

"Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers." - Greek Proverb

With the vast size of our marketplace on the Internet, just about every customer you are ever going to get will be a complete stranger. But, there is no good reason to treat them as a stranger. Turn them from stranger into friend, with a few simple components in your sales system.

Show Your Face

The majority of people landing on your website the first time, don't know who you are or why they should buy from you. The first contact they have with you will be your words on a sales letter. It may convey to them why they should buy your product, but it doesn't say much about you.

This is where you can make things a bit more personal - and increase your sales. Place a photo of yourself on all your websites. Under the photo, place a caption with a short bio about yourself. Now, you've gone from a faceless stranger to someone they can at least see and get a little background on.

Be Yourself

The next contact will be your product. Whether it's a report, e-book, or video this is a place where they can get to know you more. Instead of writing in a dry style that simply gets the point across, develop your own style of writing. Inject a bit of yourself into the product. As your customer goes through your information product, you are becoming less of a stranger to them.

Now, you are not as much of a stranger, but they are still strangers to you.

Reach Out And Touch Someone

Obviously, you can't get to know all your customers - they'll number in the thousands. But, you can get to know a few of them. Some will interact with you - via e-mail, in the forums, on chat. This will give you a good idea of who your customer is. You can't put individual faces on the thousands, but you can put a few familiar faces on them.

When you write your newsletter, keep the known faces in mind. Don't write to a crowd of thousands of customers - write to that one face you can conjure up in your mind. Have a conversation, just as you would with a friend.

Now, you're no longer treating your customers as strangers. Even though you cannot actually meet every one of them, your words are reaching out and touching them.

Friends Do Buy From Each Other

When your customers become your friends, you can virtually eat and drink with them - but, you can also sell more products. Customers are more willing to buy from those they know and trust.

In your online business system, build in friendship and your business will flourish.


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How Can You Apply Colin Powell's Wisdom To Your Online Business Venture?

For all those who dream of success on the Internet ... for all those who see themselves sitting back while money pours into their bank account ... for all those who buy the latest book of secret tactics and hope to wake up rich tomorrow morning ... there is great wisdom in the words of Colin Powell.

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

Every day, thousands who wish to break away from the 9 to 5 rat race – and start making a good, solid living online – buy virtual stacks of e-books that promise to reveal the latest and greatest secrets. They add them to their large collections of underground interviews, secret seminars, and killer techniques that are collecting digital dust bunnies in the far corners of their hard drive.

What happens? You read the books ... you absorb the "secrets" ... but you don't get a single step closer to realizing your dream of financial independence.

Why? Because the secret isn't in knowing the "secrets". The secret to success is in applying those "secrets". And most of those "secrets"? They're not really secrets – just plain and simple, common-sense business practices. There are no real secrets.

To succeed – and build a great online business that produces a steady income for you – you need to follow Colin Powell's advice.

Preparation

Do your research. Find a niche where people are buying. Figure out what they're buying, and get set to sell them more. Plan a product that feeds their hunger.

Don't just plan on one product and hope for the best. Design a whole line of products. Have a goal in mind. You don't want to sell just one report – or e-book, or DVD, or audio recording – to each customer. You want to sell to them again and again. So plan a line of products where one product leads to another.

Plan your websites. Plan your follow-up e-mails. Plan your traffic generation campaigns.

Hard Work

Make no mistake – and don't be mislead by those who tell you otherwise – setting up a business is a lot of work. There is no way of shirking this. Just accept it – and do it. You're going to have to roll up your sleeves and put in some effort, if you want to reap the rewards at the other end.

There will be long nights. There will be obstacles to overcome. But, if you are determined, none of these will stand in your way. With hard work, you will overcome all.

Learning From Failure

Face the facts! There will be failures. There will be products that just don't sell. There will be traffic campaigns that bring no visitors. There will be hordes of visitors who merely come and leave.

Don't despair when failure rears it's ugly head. Learn from it.

If no one buys your report, is it the wrong subject for your market? Is it a poor title? Do some research and find out why. Turn the failure into a success.

If a certain traffic generation tactic is bringing you just a trickle of website visitors, is the tactic no good? Is it poor ad copy? Are you approaching it the wrong way? You may find that you're sitting on a goldmine, but digging in the wrong spot.

If you see many people visiting your website, but rarely sticking around long enough to buy something or even join your mailing list, is it your sales letter? Is your headline flat? Is your traffic campaign targeting the wrong people?

Success Is Just Waiting For You

Plan your moves, put in the effort, learn from your mistakes – before you know it success will be yours.

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