Simple Steps to Start a Profitable Member Only, Subscription Web Site

Written by Ron Ruiz


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The first place to look for potential topics should be within your own world. The list of potential topics could come from your interests, hobbies, vocation, business training, or even your location.

Find a topic that you are passionate about, andrepparttar odds are that enough other people are also passionate aboutrepparttar 108761 topic to make it a successful membership site. Since you are going to be spending time building and maintaining your membership site, why not choose a topic that you enjoy?

Note: If you are already a speaker, consultant, writer, or "expert" on almost any topic, then you are in a perfect position to create a membership or mentor type of website which could double or triple your income. You should start a membership site today! In just 3-4 months, one of my clients turned his existing expertise and client base into a member only site that generates $40,000/month!

You wouldn’t believe some ofrepparttar 108762 unusual ideas that people have turned into profitable paid membership websites. Topics include: unusual business ideas, fireworks, repairing guns, physical conditioning, marketing, specific makes and models of cars, digital cameras, dieting, dating, tall people, and 2nd wives clubs.

Setting Up and Running Your Member Only Website

Finally there are many tools to help you build and maintain your member only website. Atrepparttar 108763 most basic level, you can do much ofrepparttar 108764 website creation yourself and use 3rd party services to help you withrepparttar 108765 administration. However, a quicker and even better way is to use one ofrepparttar 108766 new all in one membership management software systems that helps you get your site set up quickly (even if you don’t know anything about programming) and automates almost allrepparttar 108767 administrative features. These membership software programs can reduce your workload by 75% as opposed to trying to do it all yourself.

Is There a Members Only Website in Your Future?

I hope this brief article has given you a glimpse intorepparttar 108768 tremendous potential that could await you with your own membership website.

All overrepparttar 108769 world, people are earning large sums of money online, on a regular predictable basis fromrepparttar 108770 comfort of home, because they hadrepparttar 108771 insight to start a paid membership site.

What are you waiting for?

Want more information on membership websites? You can receive a FREE mini course by email with more helpful information. Just to http://memberstar.net

Ron Ruiz is a product developer, marketer and newsletter publisher. He has extensive experience in all aspects of starting and running a membership/subscription/coaching website. His own membership website http://www.businessfastlane.com has been operating for several years and has members from over 26 countries. He has also developed his own all in one membership software system called Memberstar™ which makes it easy to set up and run a members only site.


Attracting traffic with banner ads

Written by Nowshade Kabir


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Banner ads could be a good source of high quality traffic for your website if you manage your banner ad campaign wisely. If your main purpose ofrepparttar campaign is to generate more sales by attracting traffic - which is any way should berepparttar 108760 main goal of any e-commerce site – you have to select sites to post banners where you target audience frequently visit. Pay per click search engines like Overture or Google Adwords are good options for your textual banner ads. Since repparttar 108761 visitors are already looking for a website like yours by searching forrepparttar 108762 keyword that you have selected to place your ad, you get highly targeted traffic from this.

There are no fixed rules of effective banner ads campaign. You have to learnrepparttar 108763 program works best for you by trial and error. The principal idea behind any advertisement is to grab viewers’ attention, ignite their curiosity and motivate them to act. For banner ads it is no different!

The following tips should help you getting better result from your banner advertisement campaign:

1. Choose an attention grabbing content. Space is so limited in a banner – same like newspaper headlines – you have to come up with something that really gets viewer’s attention. Since you have to do it in one or two sentences, try using something funny, outrageous but intriguing. You can also use pictures, which deliver similar effect.

2. Call to an action. Many people like to be guided. Tell them what to do such as “Click here” or “Go torepparttar 108764 website”.

3. Focus on one offer. Your banner ad should carry one single message. By including several offers in one ad, chances are you will confuse viewers rather than intrigue.

4. Make it readable. Even a greatly designed banner will fail to motivate a viewer ifrepparttar 108765 text on it is not readable.

5. Avoid information overload. Too many pictures, colors and texts make banners look clumsy. Viewers tend to ignore this type of banners. Animated banners should have less than four frames.

6. Don’t use heavy banners. Make sure that your banner file size is less than 5K. Bigger files take longer time to load.

7. Test your banners before publishing. Check how your banners will look with different browsers. Verify thatrepparttar 108766 banner link URL is correct and linked torepparttar 108767 right page on your website. Whenever, you make changes to your website, make sure to double check your banner ads.

Recent practice shows that a banner, which looks like a text has 4 times more click through rate than a conventional banner. So use text banners to increase efficiency of your banner ad program.

Since advertisement isrepparttar 108768 main source of income for many websites banner ads are here to stay. Although, there is no doubt that their look and use will constantly be evolved.

Nowshade Kabir is the founder, primary developer and present CEO of Rusbiz.com. A Ph. D. in Information Technology, he has wide experience in Business Consulting, International Trade and Web Marketing. Rusbiz is a Global B2B Emarketplace with solutions to start and run online business. You can contact him at mailto:nowshade[at]rusbiz.com, http://ezine.rusbiz.com


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