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How to Choose a Business Model
September 6th, 2009 | 
Author: Internet marketing is full of choices and your first choice is deciding on which business model you are going to follow. If you don’t make this choice carefully, you’ll find yourself hopping from business model to business model, spending money on programs and “secrets,” and not making any profits at all. Trust me when I say that finding a business model that appeals to you and working with that model will go a long way toward helping you succeed online.
There are a few basic business models to choose from. Each of them have their advantages and disadvantages. By looking over this list and considering your strengths, you should know where you want to focus your business.
- Author
When you create your own product, you are in complete control of your stream of income. By writing a product, or hiring a ghostwriter to write one, you can set up a website and sell your product over and over again. You can set up an affiliate program so other people are selling the product for you. The only major downside is that you can spend a lot of time and money working on a niche product that may not pan out.
- Affiliate
Unlike being a product creator, with affiliate marketing you don’t have to spend time and money creating a product. You just need to be good at promoting the product. You’ll earn commissions for sending buyers to the product creator’s website. With the right promotional techniques, you can establish yourself in the niche and make affiliate commissions from several different programs all at once. On the other hand, you are at the whim of the product creator when you use this business model. You never know when a product creator will stop offering the product.
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Starting your own membership site is another option. With affiliate programs and information products, you’ll earn money from a one time sale. When you own a membership site, you’ll have an ongoing stream of income coming from one website. You can provide monthly reports on a niche topic, host a forum or offer coaching for a flat fee each month. You can even use an affiliate program with your membership site so that other people will send new members your way. The downside is that you need to keep providing fresh content each month to keep your members sticking around.
- Auctioner
eBay is one of the most frequently visited sites on the entire Internet. When you become an eBay seller, you’ll never have to worry about finding traffic for your offering. You can sell a variety of different things on eBay, including information products. Although there have been some recent changes to the way information products are sold on eBay, the amount of traffic and ease of setting up your offering make eBay a strong business model. The downside is that your business relies on a third party site who’s changing rules may negatively effect your business in the future.
As you can see, there are ups and downs to every business model available online. By looking at your own strengths and what you want to get out of your business, you should be able to find the right model for you.
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How to Choose a Membership Site Script
Running a membership site is one of the most profitable ways to make money online. The long term income potential for membership sites far outranks many other business forms. With just 100 people paying $20 per month, you’ve got $2K coming in automatically month after month!
The key to running a successful membership site is in find a good membership site script to work with. A script will make sure that your site is running smoothly. It will protect your membership content from public eyes and it will help you automatically process payments from your members so you can get paid each month.
Understandably, there are a lot of membership site scripts out there that promise to make owning a membership site easy that just don’t work. They are missing key components to successful membership site management. Look for a script with the following components and you’ll be well on your way to having an outstanding profit stream.
1. Automatic Payment.
When payments are automatically processed each month, your members are locked into their membership. If you have to manually send a payment request each month, you are giving them an option each month to leave the site. Even though membership site subscriptions can be canceled at any time, you don’t want to offer the option to leave each month – people just might take you up on it! Any membership site script worth it’s salt will coordinate with your payment processor so you
2. Automatic Activation.
Your new members should be automatically added to your database files and allowed to access the content in your website. We live in an instant gratification society. How do you think your new members would feel if they had to jump through a bunch of hoops in order to get the content they just paid for? You want to start out your new relationship on the right foot. Make sure your membership site script will automatically forward your new member to the member’s area so they can take advantage of your content.
3. Affiliate programs.
Smart membership site owners know that they can promote an affiliate program for the site to get even more members. Your membership site script should allow you to accept affiliates and handle the distribution of affiliate commissions accurately each month. An affiliate program will multiply the earnings from your membership site, so be sure to check out your membership site script’s affiliate capabilities.
Of course, you’ll also want to look at the ease of use of your membership site script. You shouldn’t have to pay someone else hundreds of dollars in order to have your membership site work properly. The installation should be very easy to handle, or the creator should offer help with installation for free. Getting a membership site up and running is work enough without having to worry about all the technical aspects.
These tips will help you evaluate a membership site script so that you can get the right one for your needs and get your membership site rolling!
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