The Making of Niche Site Club!
Posted by Brett McEllhiney on December 1, 2009
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In my last post I told you about my new membership site, Niche Site Club.
Well today I’m going to talk a little bit about how Niche Site Club came to be.
It all started when I got an email from a marketer that I have known of for quite some time. I had been a member of one of his membership sites for nearly 2 years and have been on his mailing list/newsletter for almost as long.
The person to whom I am referring to is Paul Evans and the email was about this new product he had just created called ‘Simple Six Figures‘. Now I honestly don’t know what really drew me to this one particular product, but I am glad that whatever it was did it’s thing.
I picked up Simple Six Figures and started going through the videos. Now anyone that knows Paul will immediately recognize the southern accent and his unique way of taking something that at times seems to be very difficult and making it seem, well, simple.
These videos are no different.
Paul takes the process of membership sites and takes you through a very simple process of setting up a membership site that will only take you a few hours (if that) per month to maintain. Now obviously the beauty of this is that you can create multiple membership sites and easily maintain them yourself.
Well anyway, as I was watching these videos, I began to get idea after idea with Niche Site Club being the first. I had just started selling complete niche website packages on a individual site basis and this seemed to fit perfectly with what I was already doing. So I followed along and set up my first membership site.
And I already have ideas for two more at least. My current plan is to set up a membership site every three months.
Why so long between sites?
This allows me to get the site built (which actually happens very quickly) and spend the rest of the time promoting the site and building up my member base. At that point the affiliate side of things will kind of take over and the current members will be promoting to others which in turn will keep my member base growing with just an occasional promotion from me.
OK, so I promised in my last post I would walk you through how the site is setup.
First of all it is done using Wordpress. Yup, it is running on a free content management platform, and one of the best and easiest to use at that.
All I needed to do was add in my content just by adding a few pages to my Wordpress blog.
OK, so I can hear you asking. “How do I protect my content”?
So here is where you will probably want to fork over a little bit of change. Now you don’t have to. Paul shows you a way to do a membership site just by using an autoresponder, but I wanted mine to be a little more flexible.
The product that Paul recommends and which is the one I used is Wishlist Member. This is nothing more than a Wordpress plug-in that takes a Wordpress blog and turns it into a full fledged membership site. It integrates with several payment processors, including Paypal, Clickbank, and several others. I am currently using Paypal, but am working on getting it moved over to Clickbank so that I can incorporate their affiliate capabilities.
Wishlist Member is a fantastic product and one that I am going to be using for all of my coming membership sites.
So there you have it, a full fledged membership site in no time.
In my next post I will give you a look inside WishList Member and how I am using it in my membership site Niche Site Club.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products. However, I will never recommend something that I don’t personally believe in and I welcome your questions and feedback.
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Wishlist membership plugin is one of the best to create robust membership sites using WordPress. And for me WordPress is always my first choice for any site
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Congrats on getting your fist membership site online, Brett – recurring income can certainly help during slow times, and free up time to work on more new projects. Looking forward to your next membership site!
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Congratulations on your site Brett, and thank you for sharing the how to. I’m looking forward to your future posts. I like the membership concept, but haven’t crystalized on a concept yet. Still, its great to see that you have and I hope to emulate your success.
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Best of skill in your endeavors!
Niche content/sites/building niche lists – it’s the way to go in 2010. Well, heck, it was the way to go in 2009 too.
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