How To Get Members To Your Membership Site

Okay, you've bit the bullet. You've decided that you are going to create and run your own membership site. You've bought the software, you've got everything in place and now all you have to do is go out and get members. Yeah, you hadn't thought that far ahead yet have you. Let's face it, the greatest membership site in the world isn't going to get members if nobody knows that it exists. That's where this article comes in. We're going to give you some tips on how to build up your membership as quickly as possible. Put these few things into action and you should do just fine.

The first thing you want to do is come up with a great affiliate program. That means you have to pay better than 50%. The more you give your affiliates for each member they bring in, the more incentive they'll have to go out there and promote your site. A commission of about 60 to 70% should be more than enough to have an army of affiliates out there promoting your site.

The next thing you want to do is start your own promotional campaign. If you're short on funds, especially after springing for your membership software, you may want to start with some free forms of promotion just to get a few members quickly who you hope will eventually go out on their own and recruit members.

One great form of free advertising is article writing. Simply write a few articles on the topic that your membership site covers and submit them to article directories. Make sure you have a link to your site in the resource box. With enough article views, you should get quite a few people to actually check out your site and what it has to offer. If you make the benefits of membership attractive enough, you should start to slowly build up a membership base.

Another form of advertising that works very well is to hang out in forums. Now, while it's true that you can't directly advertise in forums, your participation should get interest to your site. You simply need to make sure you join forums in niches that are relevant to the site itself. You also want to join as many forums as you can. Yes, there are going to be some members that are cross forum members, but you'll run into a lot of different people by hanging out at different forums.

You might also want to consider issuing a press release announcing the launch of your new site. You have to be very careful with press releases as they are not meant as advertisements. You need to word them in such a way that they don't come off as promotional in nature. If you can pull this off, a press release will bring lots of people to at least check out your new site if nothing else.

These are just a few things you can do to get your membership site off the ground. By just putting these into action, you will slowly see your membership base build quite nicely.

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