Online Business Ideas for Making Money

Membership Sites can help in many ways and they are relatively easy and inexpensive to
set up. 

Here is a short guide to completing these steps. 

Building a membership site is basically like building any other kind of website with a few
additions. 

1. Choose the topic for your membership site. 

This topic should be one that will attract the specific group of people in which you want
to market your products or services to. In most cases you would be advised to narrow
your topic but in the case of building a membership site, it is better to make your topic a
bit broader. 

2. The next step is to register a domain name that reflects the subject of your free
membership site. It is recommended to keep your domain name under 20 characters if
possible. Here is the top registrar I use to register your domain name: 

Cheap Names - http://www.namecheap.com 

Find a domain name that is available and secure it for two years. 

3. When registering your domain name, you will also need a web hosting
service. You will need a web host that will allow you to have as many domains as you
want on the same server. Go to: 

Fireball Internet - http://www.fireballinternet.com  

4. You will need a membership software for your membership site. You can
find the EASIEST and SIMPLEST software here: 

http://Memberfire.com

5. You may also want to add a "Refer A Friend" button. Here are two sites
where you can get this program: 

http://fireball2.com/ViralFriendGenerator

6. You should also include a helpdesk on your membership site. Check out 
http://fireball2.com/3PillarsHelpDesk/

7. You will need content for your membership site. 

The most important part of any website including membership sites is content. There
are many ways to obtain content for your membership site. You can use reprint articles
from article directories or join a PLR website and get articles that you can edit and call
your own. This will help you to avoid the duplicate content problem. 

Other options for your membership content is writing it yourself or hiring a ghost writer
to write them for you. Here are a few sites that you can hire a ghost writer: 

Elance - http://www.elance.com 
Guru.com - http://www.guru.com 

The above information and tools are needed to build a membership. Now you can either
build your site or have someone else build it for you. 

As with any other type of website the most important part to making it successful is to
market it. 

Here are a few ways to get you started: 

- Writing articles with a link back to your membership site in the resource box. Then
submitting your articles to articles directories such as: 

http://www.ezinearticles.com 
http://www.goarticles.com 
http://www.articlecity.com 

- Post to comments to related blogs and forums, again including your resource box or
signature file with a link back to your membership site. 

- Find partners to exchange links with. An excellent source to find link partners is
http://www.linkmetro.com 
You can also submit your links at http://fireballplanet.com/links/ 

These are just a few ways to promote you membership site for free. There are many
other free and paid ways to generate traffic to your membership site. 

I do hope you get some good ideas from the above article, if you would like some more ideas, training and products which will help you succeed online, take a look at http:be-yourtrueself.com
You will not be disapointed with what you find.

Regards

Trevor Ford