Simple Yet Lucrative Business Model

Membership marketing is one of the most lucrative business model in online marketing.

Here’s why…

• Easier to grow a large membership who are automatically affiliates than growing a list and finding affiliates
• Member love the information, services and community you provide. And they will tell their friends
• Regular steady income regardless of seasonality
• Continuity programs are the most profitable long term
• Make the sale once, but the income recurs every month after month…year after year…
• Better buyers - People who buy from you once are far more likely to purchase something else from you
• Ability to sell on backend where a lot of income will be derived from.
• Newsletter can get them back to the membership area.
• Fresh content are generated when members participate on the members’ forum. Search engine loves regularly updated site. Members will also come back again and again with little or no work on our part
• Membership sites are ideal for extra Adsense income, and affiliate sales

There loads of good membership software you can use such as Amember or Launch Formula Marketing.

10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies - Part 2

In the last issue, I came out with the first ever issue of ‘10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies’ series.

Got rather good feedbacks on it.

So let’s get straight to the point.

Here’s part 2!

Note: There are thousand and one ways to get traffic. What’s important is to take action and focus on the ones that work best for you.

1. Encourage your visitors to spread the word about you with a Tell-a-Friend script - in exchange for an incentive

2. Submit articles to article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles.

3. Look for sites related to your niche, and offer to do a banner/email exchange.

4. Place an add on Yahoo Classifieds.

5. Expose yourself with Craiglist.

6. Give away free reports/software/scripts that links back to your site.

7. Write a press release and submit to PRWeb.com

8. Answer people’s questions at Yahoo Answers, and get not just traffic, but credibility along the way.

9. Submit your RSS feeds to RSS directories.

10. Hold a contest among your readers and offer a lot of attractive incentives.