The internet is a growing community and people are looking for sites where they can share their passions and have their questions answered by other members who have similar interests.
It makes sense to build community driven sites or membership sites for many reasons:
-Members of your site are drawn to come back to your site as they are participating in its development and are benefiting from their repeated visits.
-Existing members when happy with what the site has to offer are likely to refer their friends interested in the same niche, who, in fact, will be happy to refer their friends interested in the same niche.
-Members by participating in forums and creating their profiles are building your content as you just have to sit back and relax.
There will of course be spammers and you will need to "clean" your site once in a while.
-Many membership sites charge good money to be a member and people are happy to pay the fees if they are getting good value from their membership.
-The growth potential of such community sites is incredible and a thriving membership site is worth great amount of money if you are considering selling it on the long term. You only have to look at the amount of money spent to buy such a site as YouTube and see how much My space is worth to realize that building such a strong community site can be your way to financial freedom.
There are some great new interface and programs especially designed to help a person build a community site. The most common ones are Joomla, Drupal and Mambo. There are tutorials to teach you how to set them up and create your community/ membership sites. These are open source content management which means they are FREE. There are webmasters specializing in installing and creating sites using these programs. You can then start your community sites.
There are also many plug-ins that you can install that virtually allow you to do almost anything on your site. The problem I have heard is that these plug-ins can be an open door for hackers to steel the content of your site or to gain back door access to your siteÖand we donít want that!
In short, having a good membership or community site can be a great ever-growing asset which requires little work once set-up.
Ken Evoy has built such a thriving community site: Site BuildIt! SBI! is the only all-in-1 package of process, software, guidance, and help that enables anyone to create web sites that build profitable businesses at unmatched rates of success... I invite you to read the full details by Clicking Here
As Ken explains on his website: SBIers build businesses, not mere sites or blogs. There are hundreds of faster ways than SBI! to put up yet another ineffective site or blog. But there is no better way to build an "e-business" than SBI!.
If you decide to continue, I encourage you to really go through as much as you can and implement what he is teaching and see if his business model is valuable to you. If you can build a strong community site, maybe you will get an appealing offer and can retire early.
HERE IS YOUR CALL TO ACTION:
-Browse the Internet and search for such programs as Joomla, Drupal or Mambo and see all the features they are offering. Decide if you want your site to be community based.
-Visit the Site BuildIt! website and decide if you want to join the SBI community. Click here to visit the site NOW
See you on the next square!
Nathalie
The Big Internet Marketing Game - Membership Sites
HERE IS YOUR CALL TO ACTION: