You want a website that will bring in a regular monthly income with a reasonable amount of up keep after the momentum has been built. You’ve heard that owning and operating a membership site will bring you just that and more if you really apply yourself. Before jumping headlong into such a prospect, consider which of the seven types of membership sites is best suited for you.

Listed Below you will find the seven styles of membership sites:

1. Coaching/ Mentoring Sites. A coaching site will provide members with assistance, support and guidance with regards to a particular theme or topic. You will find sites offering coaching in life issues, business, occupational categories – the range is limitless. The advantage of this kind of site is that it allows you to offer your expertise to hundreds, even thousands, of members at one time, rather than on an individual basis.

2. Private Label Rights. PLR sites usually serve several topic specific articles to its subscribers each month written specifically around a particular key word or phrase. These articles can be re-written as the members sees fit before placing them on their own website. Subscribers are usually webmasters who need to add fresh new information and content to their website or blog on a regular basis.

3. Social Site. This type of site has seen incredible growth recently along with match making sites. Social sites create a means for enthusiasts to meet and interact. Typically, they are topic specific to personalities, interests, or lifestyles. An example of a popular social site is myspace, of course.

4. Content Sites. One of the most marketable kind of membership sites, in that it presents its members with up-to-date information and resources with regard to a specific topic. This is customarily a highly specialized area in which the information provided would not be so readily available from other sources. Members will pay a regular subscription fee so that they can have immediate access to this site and its updated information.

5. Paid Newsletters. This is another subscription site in which subscribers are provided with exclusive up-dated information related to specific themes. The site owner will regularly assemble relevant news stories, information, gossip or data from various media outlets and provide it to subscribers in one package, thus saving them considerable time and ensuring they are kept informed.

6. Message Boards or Forums. Some message boards and forums are offered free of charge but usually potential posters or visitors looking for information will be required to pay what is usually a low membership fee in order to have access to certain parts of the site. Obviously, you need to ensure that, if you want people to subscribe, you are providing them with material that they could not find on a different site without having to pay for it.

7. Content Delivered by Video or Audio. Sites with video or audio files are being made available as additional content on other types of membership sites, similar in a way to business to business marketing.

Hopefully you can see that owning a membership site still fits the usual business model of supply and demand. Regardless of the type of membership site you start, it is important to provide quality information that people are willing to pay for.

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