The term membership sites refer to the fact that it is exclusively restricted for the use among the members. A membership site only allows its members to surf and view the inside contents of that particular site. Most of these membership sites are paid sites. The paid membership sites charge a nominal fee from the viewers who wish to be a member of that particular site. These fees are usually charged on a monthly basis. But there are sites, which have six months’ subscription offer. It depends up on the regulation of the websites.

Membership sites offer various kinds of quality information to its subscribers. It also provides information, which the members cannot find elsewhere and will also search anything on the web if the topic for research is provided. There are innumerable membership sites, which offer variety of services to its members.

Some of these membership sites contain useful articles or information in a particular field or product or service and some publish the results of various tests and studies, while some membership sites provide access to web libraries or online libraries and other sites reference information. There are also some sites, which contain reviews, and there are some membership sites that act as a meeting place for like-minded people like the dating sites.

The question may arise to some people that why should one pay for one of these site. Well, the reason for paying is getting the best of all information. These websites provide specialized information, which the user would not be able to find anywhere on the web. There are users who pay for magazines, newspapers, books, clubs, and various other entertainment sites. So, users can also subscribe to these membership sites, which offer unique services and products and specialized information.

Membership sites make great business models for an entrepreneur. While thinking of building up a membership site the entrepreneur must decide if he wants to build up a free membership site or a paid one. Paid membership sites are most usually limited to a specific number of members. But the information and services remain special in these sites and thus it is necessary to limit the members. But free membership sites are easy to set up and easy to operate as well.

While setting up a membership site the entrepreneur must provide the viewers with timely fresh contents. If it is a free site then there should be the option of upgrade from free membership to a paid membership. A free membership site guarantees a long list of potential members. The site can earn through advertisements, as it will be available to everyone. Free membership sites are easy to run as they cost almost nothing to run, and yet the entrepreneur will have an almost unlimited number of customers and potential customers to market all kinds of products and services.

On the other hand, paid membership sites are a great way to generate passive income. Entrepreneurs who are looking for prospective customers for their products or services can set up paid sites, which will generate income and as well build up a list of prospective customers. Since it will be a paid site there will be the best group of the customers. And thus it will be easier to market products to these customers, whereas, in a free site the group may not contain the best customers.

Google AdSense has been talked about, hyped about and even criticized over the past year. At the same time, WordPress has emerged as one of the leading blogging platforms used by almost all A-list bloggers. What do these two have in common?

I just came across Gobala Krishnan’s “WordPress AdSense System” course that combines the two, showing you how to create “autopilot sites” that make money from AdSense:

Here’s my review of the product, and why you should get yourself a copy.

(1) Overall Impression

When I read that this product has been selling well since 2006, I was pretty relieved. That’s because most ebook guides fizzle out and get outdated within six months. Gobala actually updates this guide from time to time to keep current with all the changes taking place in the blogging world. In fact according to Gobala the only changes he makes are the screenshots and URLs – the tactics and strategies he mentions in the book don’t need to be updates are they are time-tested and will work for anyone, for the foreseeable future.

(2) The E-book Guide and Tips

Flipping through the main e-book guide (over 150 pages), I find that the earlier sections are perfect for the absolute newbie. It explains in detail common blogging terms, how blogging works, and what to expect when starting a blog. Then Gobala goes into more technical, advanced stuff including how to transform a WordPress blog into a static website, how to optimize your blog, and also how to get traffic to your blog.

Even if you’re not new to Google AdSense or WordPress, you can find a lot of useful information in here.

(3) AdSense-ready WordPress Themes

This was what actually caught my eye in the first place – 30 super-cool looking WordPress themes that are “AdSense ready”. This means that the AdSense codes have already been placed in the theme in strategic locations. All you need to do is enter your AdSense publisher IDs and you’re done.

I think the theme alone are worth more than what the entire system costs, and by looking at them I’m sure they can generate quite decent click-throughs for your blog if you were using them. After all with Google AdSense you make more money when you (1) get more traffic or (2) get more clicks.

(4) Keyword Research Tools

A simple but useful keyword research tool is also included in WordPress AdSense System. Keyword research is extremely important if you’re trying to build auto-pilot AdSense blogs since most of your traffic will be from search engines like Google. You need to make sure you’re targeting the correct keywords before you write your first blog post!

The package also includes “180 Profitable AdSense Niche Keywords”, which is a heavy MS Excel sheet containing thousands of keywords Gobala has researched before. Of course you cannot depend on this data alone, but it’s a good place to kickoff some ideas of your own. There are literally thousands of niche markets out there you can tap into that are probably easier to make money in that the niche you’re in right now.

(5) My Conclusion and Recommendation

I’m pretty satisfied with WordPress AdSense System by Gobala Krishnan. I’ve bought a few such courses before but Gobala’s course doesn’t disappoint. In fact I found it easy to read and follow. There are also a lot of video tutorials you can watch where Gobala shows you step-by-step, exactly what you need to do.

WordPress Adsense System – Make Money Blogging Now!

- Albert

A Review by Steve Pavlina

Because I’ve been running successful online businesses for many years, people always ask me how they can achieve a similar level of success. How can I build a high-traffic website? How can I make money online? What do I have to do to quit my day job? Will you mentor me?

These questions have always frustrated me.

The problem was that I couldn’t readily teach people to do what I do, at least not the way I do it. I’m too old school. I’ve been using the Internet since 1989, and I built my first income-generating website in 1995. Most of the money I’ve earned in my life has come from my online businesses. But my approach has been virtually unteachable. Believe me — I’ve tried. After delivering a few workshops on blogging, it became obvious to me that I couldn’t teach this. I was overwhelming people with more info than they could handle. People got excited by the ideas, but they couldn’t implement them. In truth there’s just way too much hidden complexity in my approach.

Another frustrating element was watching people who were inspired by my articles “How to Make Money From Your Blog,” “How to Build a High-Traffic Website,” and “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job.” The first article even clearly states that 99 out of 100 people won’t be able to do this, but that didn’t stop people from trying to duplicate (or surpass) my results anyway. Nearly all of them gave up within the first six months. We’re talking hundreds of people that I know of. Starting a blog is dead simple these days. Creating a highly profitable, high-traffic website from scratch is very, very hard if you’ve never done it before.

An Unexpected Solution

The reason I’m writing this article is that I finally found a practical solution for people who want to build a successful online business without getting lost in a sea of technical details, using essentially the same business model I used to build my site. I’ll explain the details in a moment.

When I started my site, I’d already been running a previous online business full-time for nearly a decade. My web site didn’t succeed because I was lucky or brilliant. It succeeded because I’d already invested thousands of hours and thousands of dollars in an earlier business. I paid my dues the hard way. The articles I wrote merely scratched the surface of the complex lessons to be learned.

Eventually I gave up trying to teach people how to build an online business. Recently I received two more invitations to do my blogging workshop, and I turned them both down. I’d rather invest my time and energy where I can be more effective.

Late last year I had an interesting phone call with a successful entrepreneur named Ken Evoy. A mutual contact put us in touch, suggesting that we definitely needed to work together. Ken founded an interesting business called Site Build It!, a fascinating service that helps people build income-generating web sites. They provide complete hosting as well as an extensive suite of tools to help you build traffic and generate meaningful income.

Well… Ken and I had such similar business philosophies that our phone call lasted more than 2-1/2 hours. This guy is really passionate about helping people build businesses online, and he found a way to succeed where I could not. Ken realized just as I did that the technological complexity required to build a successful online business is just way too high for most people.

At first he tried to teach people how to do it — even writing a book on the subject (it sold over 100,000 copies, so he knew what he was doing) — but he ran into the same frustrating problems I did. No matter how clearly you explain it, it’s just really hard for people to grasp the details, so they always screw it up. But instead of trying to teach people how to handle every little technical detail, Ken decided to build a service that would do it for them, automating as much as of the process as humanly possible. Ten years later Ken’s vision is a huge success, with thousands of “raving fan” customers who’ve built real income-generating websites via Site Build It!

Ken is an incredibly hands-on entrepreneur with a rare level of dedication to his customers. He’s extremely active in the Site Build It! members-only forums, with more than 4,700 posts of his own. That’s way more than I’ve made in my forums, and I thought I was pretty active. Ken makes a tremendous personal effort to help people succeed, and from talking to him myself, I could tell that his interest in people is authentic. Ken isn’t alone though — there are lots of highly active members in their forums who are passionate about helping each other. This definitely isn’t a take-your-money-and-run operation.

How to Build a Profitable Online Business

Site Build It! is designed around a simple formula, which they refer to as CTPM. This stands for Content -> Traffic -> Presell -> Monetize.

You may recognize that this is precisely the model I use. When done correctly this “content is king” approach can generate tons of traffic, in my case millions of page views per month. Preselling is the process of building a relationship with visitors, which essentially means treating visitors like human beings instead of sales targets. People visit this site looking for ideas to improve their lives, so that’s what I focus on providing. The final monetization step occurs when people click on ads or buy affiliated products that happen to be of interest to them.

The major limiting step in this formula is building traffic. If you can’t build decent traffic, you won’t succeed. But the overall formula is sound, and it works if you do it correctly. It just happens to be very difficult for human beings to apply it without screwing it up. The advantage of Site Build It! is that it provides technical solutions to help reduce your chances of making mistakes. Where it cannot provide a technical solution, it provides clear instructions and education to help you succeed.

Even with Site Build It!, there’s still no guarantee of success. This isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. It will still take commitment and effort to build a successful online business. But this robust suite of tools will definitely put the odds of success in your favor. You don’t have to become a technology expert to earn enough to quit your day job.

The key benefit of Site Build It! is that it provides tools, guidance, and coaching to help you stay focused on the correct actions. This begins with providing easy-to-use research tools to help you figure out what kind of site to create in the first place. A lot of people fail because they create sites that were doomed from the very beginning. It really saddens me when a blogger emails me to say that s/he is still getting no traffic even after writing 100+ articles. I don’t like telling people that they made their biggest mistake before the site was even launched by choosing a topic with virtually no demand… or one that’s oversaturated with entrenched competition. Site Build It! can help you avoid soul-crushing problems like this.

Why Use Site Build It?

If you already run a successful online business that generates thousands of dollars a month in income for you, you don’t necessarily need Site Build It! But if that’s your situation, I highly recommend you join their affiliate program, which will give you an extra passive income stream. (To learn more about their affiliate program, scroll to the bottom of this page, or visit their Affiliate Center directly.)

However, if you’re new to online business, or if you’ve tried and failed, or if you’re stuck trying to build traffic and generate income, then you should definitely take a look at Site Build It!

With Site Build It! you don’t have to build your web pages from scratch using HTML and CSS. They provide point-and-click tools and templates to generate your pages quickly and easily, including images. This allows you to focus on writing your content instead of wrestling with the underlying technology. Of course, if you’re already comfortable with tools like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Flash, knock yourself out. Site Build It! is compatible with other HTML editors, so you’re always free to fall back on your own tools if that’s your preference. This gives you maximum flexibility to create the look and feel you want.

All the Tools, Training, and Support You Need to Build Your Own Income-Generating Website

Site Build It! includes an extensive suite of tools to help you build a successful online business every step of the way, including:

- domain name registration
- web site hosting
- point-and-click page creation
- content management
- blogging
- market research
- traffic stats
- search engine optimization
- auto-responders
- form builder
- graphic manager
- customizable templates
- sitemaps
- RSS feeds
- web mail
- newsletter management

Seriously, this is only a small fraction of the tools they include. Many functions are completely automated, and some tools work for you in the background even when you aren’t aware of them. For example, if you update a page on your website, Site Build It! will automatically regenerate your Google and Yahoo sitemaps. If you don’t know what a sitemap is, with Site Build It! you don’t even need to worry about it. The technology will handle it for you. This means you can focus on creating content instead of worry about getting all the technical details right. Site Build It! will even suggest new topics you should write about to increase your traffic, based on its analysis of your current search traffic patterns.

Site Build It! provides unlimited customer support as well as private discussion forums where thousands of members share tips and advice. I browsed their forums myself and saw a lot of enthusiastic members helping each other. It’s an extremely active community with hundreds of thousands of posts. They also have a team of moderators and in-house editorial staff who glean the best pearls from their forums and turn them into articles — on everything from brainstorming to monetizing.

Their near weekly newsletter keeps you up to date on the current best practices as well as additions and updates to their “Info HQ” knowledge base. They track what’s happening in the world of e-business (over 100 feeds, blogs, e-zines), so you don’t have to. This makes it easy for you to focus on your business without worrying that you’re missing important opportunities.

Site Build It! is basically an all-in-one solution for building a successful online business. They continue to add new tools and refine their existing tools to keep the service state-of-the-art.

Getting Started

I encourage you to look into Site Build It! to see if it makes sense for you. I recommend you start with the Site Build It! home page, watch the 2-1/2 minute video there, and follow whichever links interest you. The 30-minute video tour is a must — it will really clarify everything for you. The video tour starts out mostly motivational in tone (i.e. benefits of working from home), but later on it dives into the details of how the tools and monetization strategies work, using real web sites as examples. I think you’ll find it educational even if you have only a minor interest in making money online.

If what you see arouses your interest, but you’re skeptical about what to expect, you’ll definitely want to read my step-by-step Site Build It! walkthrough next. I explain exactly what to expect during the first 10 days, from the time you sign up until your new money-making website is online. I wrote this walkthrough myself from scratch — it wasn’t provided by the Site Build It! team. I also offer some additional thoughts about who should consider Site Build It! and who shouldn’t.

If you really want to do your homework, I suggest checking out some of the success story videos submitted by their customers as well as their in-depth case studies. If you have any questions about Site Build It!, you can submit them via the questions form, and you’ll get an answer from a real Site Build It! owner/user.

Of course Site Build It! comes with a money-back guarantee, so there’s no risk to try it for yourself. You can test drive it for 30 days and get a full refund if you don’t like it. If you register a domain name through Site Build It!, you can even keep your new domain for free if you later decide to quit. That’s a better than money-back guarantee, since you get a free domain name no matter what. Also, if you decide to quit after 30 days, you can get a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of your subscription… and of course still keep your new domain name too.

Become a Site Build It! Affiliate

Site Build It! has one of the most generous affiliate programs I’ve ever seen, so if you already have a website and are looking for new income sources, this one is very solid for several reasons. First, you continue to earn residual commissions when each referral you generate renews their annual subscription, so the earnings are ongoing. Secondly, Site Build It! has a two-tier affiliate program, meaning that you also earn commissions on sales generated by affiliates you refer. Thirdly, unlike some stingy programs, they have an extremely robust tracking system to make sure you’re fairly credited for your referrals. And fourthly, they support their affiliates with their 5 Pillar Club newsletter, detailed tracking tools, ad generators, members-only forums, and more. These people are serious about seeing their affiliates succeed.

I’ve seen generous affiliate programs before, but they’ve usually been for lousy products and overpriced ebooks I could never recommend. Site Build It! not only has a great affiliate program, but they back it up with a truly valuable service that actually works for those who work it. I’d have no qualms about recommending Site Build It! to my own family members. I joined their affiliate program myself because Site Build It! solves a key problem for me and many of my visitors. I finally have a place to refer people for the tools and practical education necessary to create their own online businesses.

You can become a Site Build It! affiliate even if you never purchase a Site Build It! subscription for yourself. This is great for people who already have a successful online business. And again, you also benefit from each new affiliate who joins from your affiliate links. Due to the generous commission structure, some affiliates earn more than $10,000 per month.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Site Build It! affiliate program, visit their Affiliate Center, and check out the commission structure. It’s free to sign-up as an affiliate.

If I hadn’t already learned how to build an online business the hard way, I’d use Site Build It! to get there much faster. It would have shaved years off my learning curve if this had been available when I created my first income-generating site back in 1995. I strongly recommend you look into Site Build It! if you want to successfully generate income online.

Ken Envoy has also written some excellent eBooks.
You can download them FREE clicking the following links:

The Getting Started Action Guide
Affiliate Masters Course
Make Your Net Auction Sell Masters Course
Make Your Price Sell Masters Course
The Netwriting Masters Course
The Service Sellers Masters Course
The Webmaster Business Masters Course
The Work-At-Home-Moms Masters Course

Happy readings!
Albert

Thanks to Steve Pavlina