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Want Loads of Members Fast?

Monday, April 21st @ 7:17 PMpost viewed 918 times

Ok, here's a simple yet extremely powerful strategy for creating a flood of new members for your membership site, as soon as you launch. The best part is, this process will cost you nothing but a little bit of your time. Ready? Here it is....

First, go to Google and type in the top search terms for your site. For each term searched, copy and paste the top few urls that appear into your notepad. You want to make sure the sites you choose are directly related and/or complementary to the subject matter of your site.

Next, after you have your list of urls from the top search results. Go over to Quantcast.com . I think they make you create an account now in order to view their data, but it's free to do and just takes a second.

Now, one by one, add the urls from your Google results list into the search bar and hit Go.

Now scroll down the results page, and look at all the similar sites and pay special attention to the "US Reach" number. This is the amount of monthly visitors that site receives!

Click on the sites that have a large number of monthly searches and go check out the site to see if they are selling a product that is related to your membership site topic.

Also, when you click the link, you'll see another lising of "similar" sites on the bottom right hand column of the next page that you can also check out.

If they are selling a related product or service, then find the contact information for the site owner and write it down.

Make a list....the more the better, and then contact each site owner and tell them you'd like to offer them a valuable bonus for everyone who buys one of their products.

That valuable bonus is a 1 or 2 month FREE membership to your membership site!

Create an account for that site owner and give them an affiliate link with a coupon code for the free trial. Let them know that after the free trial, they will receive an affiliate commission (I suggest 70-80%) each month for as long as that referred customer continues their membership.

Why 70-80%? Because you want to stand out from every other offer they get, and make it utterly irresistable.

They will be thrilled!

You will be shocked at how many people take you up on your offer and how many new members will flock to your site.

One more thing you should take note of....(this will take a little cash, but will be well worth it)

You'll also notice on many of the sites that are returned on Quantcast, when hitting the "Go" button, have a green highlighted "$" in the column to the right.

These are sites that accept advertising on their site!

The PERFECT sites on which to advertise your membership site! So, if they don't take you up on the bonus offer for some insane reason....buy some super targeted ad space.

If you did nothing but this, I have no doubt that you could build a 6 figure or greater income.

Now, go get busy making your list of contacts!

 

Comments
TheMatt said on Monday, April 21st @ 7:25 PM:

Brilliant idea...!!!

The one twist is if there is a site out there that "isn't" selling a related product (not selling anything at all) and they have all of the targeted traffic that you want to capture you could always do this...

Write an e-book or report on-topic with your membership site, put up a sales-page and then approach the same exact way Don mentioned except this time suggest that they promote your info-product on their website...

Give them 100% of the profits from the info-product and then cut them in on a slice of the membership site action as well... (they will probably be happy with just the upfront profits - so this is your call)

Your membership site is the bonus, so you get the same result, but you now capture an audience that wasn't available to you since the site owner didn't have a product to sell...

win-win for everyone!!

The site owner makes $$$ (probably more than he/she has ever made off their site before), you build your customer base for free (minus product or report creation cost), and then you backend them with your membership site, so after 30 or 60 days you start getting paychecks!

 

TheMatt 

DonBethune said on Monday, April 21st @ 7:37 PM:

Awesome advice Matt....you nailed it!

Ideas like this are what this mastermind group is all about. 

FFJim said on Monday, April 21st @ 10:26 PM:

Outstanding.......I was wonder how to best use Quantcast.   Thank you both for the tips

 

jim 

Brendan said on Monday, April 21st @ 11:18 PM:

fantastic idea ...  is this what we can use the affiliate module within Igroops for?

does that tie in with vouchers you talk about?  

 cheers

 Brendan

DonBethune said on Monday, April 21st @ 11:54 PM:

Yes Brendan, absolutely.

You all have a built in affiliate module, and design package to get all your affiliate banners created for advertising.

You can either have the affiliate create their own free account in your site in order to get their affiliate link....OR even better, just get them on the phone and get all their information and create their account for them.

Don


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