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		<title>Can You Really Make Money With a Membership Site?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most marketers decide to start selling information products online, they usually start selling ebooks.
But did you know that you can offer the same information in a slightly different format and actually make more money?
It&#8217;s true. And that&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;ll start learning how to do when you get our free membership marketing report &#38; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>When most marketers</strong> decide to start selling information products online, they usually start selling ebooks.</p>
<p>But did you know that you can offer the same information in a <strong>slightly different format </strong>and actually make more money?</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s true.</strong> And that&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;ll start learning how to do when you get our <strong>free membership marketing report &amp; video</strong> at:</p>
<p><strong>==&gt; </strong><a href="http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC</strong></a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s consider for a moment the <strong>different ways you can deliver content.</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;ll focus mainly on the online methods, although you certainly can deliver <strong>physical products</strong> such as books and home study courses and live events such as teleseminars.</p>
<p>Here are the main <strong>downloadable options</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>* Ebooks and reports</strong>. Almost everyone who sells information online offers ebooks and reports.</p>
<p>Usually, these are low-priced ($50 or less) and sometimes free. It&#8217;s a great choice for entry-level products to pull people into your sales funnel.</p>
<p><strong>* Audios.</strong> Audio interviews and audio ebooks have a slightly higher perceived value.</p>
<p>That means you can take the same information as an ebook, turn it into an audio and charge a higher price.</p>
<p><strong>* Videos.</strong> Videos are the next step up, meaning you can take the same information as offered in an ebook or audio, turn it into a video and people will consider it to be worth more.</p>
<p>Naturally, that means you can charge more.</p>
<p><strong>* Membership sites</strong>. The perceived value of a membership site largely depends on what you&#8217;re offering in the site. For example, an ebook-only membership site is going to have a lower perceived value than a site that includes videos.</p>
<p>Now, you may want to incorporate <strong>all four of these products into your sales funnel</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>For example:</strong> You can use your ebooks as entry-level products, your audios and videos as intermediate products, and your membership sites for your expert-level products.</p>
<p><strong>But here&#8217;s another idea&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Just skip all the other products and <strong>get people directly into your membership site</strong>.</p>
<p>Indeed, you can use your membership site as a sales funnel.</p>
<p>That means you can offer free &#8216;bronze&#8217; memberships and then upgrade your free members to paid memberships.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve spent any time studying membership site marketing, then you already know just how profitable it can be.</p>
<p>In fact, I bet you&#8217;ve even crunched the numbers before.</p>
<p>For example, if you get just 1000 members paying you $17 a month, you pull in a cool $17,000 every month.</p>
<p>Well &#8211; close but not quite.</p>
<p>You&#8217;d pull in $17,000 every month only IF you can keep all 100 of those members&#8230;</p>
<p>or if you can rapidly replace the members who are constantly quitting the site.</p>
<p><strong>Most marketers can&#8217;t do that.</strong></p>
<p>And so their sites eventually just make a couple hundred dollars a month.</p>
<p>You see, that&#8217;s because most membership site marketers don&#8217;t consider the churn rate (that&#8217;s the number of people who&#8217;ll drop out of your site every month).</p>
<p>Truth is, most customers who are paying a monthly fee in a recurring membership site cancel after just three, four or maybe five months (if you&#8217;re lucky).</p>
<p>And so you need to work hard all year around just to keep your membership numbers up.</p>
<p>Now before you toss out the idea of running a membership site, let me tell you that there is an<strong> easier and FAR more profitable way</strong> to do it.</p>
<p>And best of all, it&#8217;s easy to get members because you <strong>don&#8217;t even have to sell anything on the front end</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Sound a little too good to be true?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>And if you act right now, <strong>you can get all the details for free using this link:</strong></p>
<p><strong>==&gt; </strong><a href="http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC</strong></a></p>
<p>Go there now to find out how you can <strong>triple YOUR membership site profits</strong>!</p>
<p>To Your Success!</p>
<p>Warm Regards,<br />
Jeremy &amp; Simon<br />
MemberSpeed Inc</p>
<p>Follow Jeremy on Twitter at:<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/SureFireWealth" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b85b5a;">http://twitter.com/SureFireWealth</span></a></p>
<p>Follow Simon on Twitter at:<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/SimonHodgkinson" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b85b5a;">http://twitter.com/SimonHodgkinson</span></a></p>
<p>P.S. And if you haven&#8217;t yet started your own membership site, then you need to get your hands on these <strong>surprising secrets</strong> now!</p>
<p>That way you can make as much money as possible from Day One!</p>
<p>&#8230;Just use the link below:<br />
<a href="http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.memberspeed.com/go/MMC</strong></a></p>
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