If you have never started a membership site before, starting one now can be a scary thought.

It’s tempting to stick to the familiar, the safe, the well known choices. Create Adsense sites. Write affiliate reviews. Put up sales pages for products to sell.

When you do one of these, you pretty much know how to proceed. It’s familiar territory, after all. It makes you feel safe and comfortable. Especially since all these things are tried and tested. And they work, no doubt about that.

But where does this familiarity come from?

We have all been to Adsense sites. In fact, most sites we visit,  have Adsense or other forms of advertising on them.

We have also read a lot of blog posts that were affiliate reviews, or web pages that contained affiliate links embedded in them.

We have also been exposed to sales pages. Most of us have even bought several products from these sales pages.

So we have seen several examples of each. We know what the final outcome looks like, what the best practices are, and so on. On the other hand…

Very few of us are subscribers of paid membership sites

As a result, we don’t have a lot of examples to draw from, when planning our own membership sites.

We don’t know what the internal workings are, we don’t know how to keep things updated, we don’t even know what a membership site LOOKS like from the inside!

And then there is the technical stuff to overcome. And there is the problem of coming up with new content regularly to keep subscribers happy.

We don’t even know how or where to outsource this stuff! Nor do we see a lot of oursourcing providers advertising a service to set up membership sites.

No wonder we don’t think about membership sites or continuity systems when planning our next venture.

But memberships and continuity systems are good for us!

Creating and launching membership sites is good, for the following reasons:

1. It’s truly a set and forget system. Once you set everything up, it continues to work for you, day in and day out. And the money keeps coming in like clockwork.
2. As long as you can keep adding subscribers, your income will keep rising. Just one sale a day can generate thousands of dollars in income after just a few months.
3. The income is  mostly passive. Who doesn’t love passive income?
4. Affiliates love to promote membership sites and continuity systems, because of recurring commissions paid to them.
5. It’s as close as you can come to a virtually guaranteed income. You get paid for sales that you generated this month, as well as for sales that you generated in the PAST! This is the biggest reason why your income skyrockets after just a few months.

Clearly, membership sites can make you a LOT of money

So then why do most of us try to earn money via other methods?

Ah, that same question that brought us here.

The answer is simple, though, and by now, you know it too.

In a battle between the familiar, the safe choice, and the unfamiliar one, the familiar choice always wins. Hands down.

In fact, I am guilty of this myself! I have this HUGE collection of PLR and MRR products that I could easily sell as a membership, and I have been meaning to, for a long time. But for some reason, I keep postponing it. (In fact, this is a great time for you to buy it, because once it turns into a membership, it will cost you more money overall to own all the products in the package.)

So yes, creating a membership site is scary alright.

And that is why all the familiar stuff kicks membership site creation’s ass

Every single time. We just don’t do it!

But does that mean we should always let membership sites and continuity systems take the backseat? Make them the secondary choice that never gets implemented in practice?

Of course not! All we need to do is actually take the first step and get started!

I urge you to take the first step now

Come on, do it. This could change your life.

Here are two options that I think will make it easiest for you, especially if you are on a tight budget. There are other options, but they are costly.

Option 1: This membership software has everything a high priced software would give you, at at affordable cost. It has features like multiple membership levels, build in affiliate management system, drip content system, different payment modes (free, free trial, one-time, recurring), supports several payment gateways including PayPal, and integrates with most major email marketing systems such as Aweber and GetResponse, etc. Click here to check it out.

Option 2: I like this even better than the previous one. It has all the features of the previous membership software, plus it allows you to install the script on as many domains as you want. So if you plan to install it on more than one site,  you should definitely get this one. Click here to get it.

Both membership scripts I mentioned above are good, so  you can use the one you want, but as I said, if you want to launch more that one membership site, you should consider getting the second one above.

Before I dig into the meat of this post, I invite you to check out this collection of 200,000+ PLR articles to help build your Adsense empire.

Private label right articles are all the rage at the moment. Why? And how can they help you build an Adsense empire and increase your Adsense revenues?

PLR articles are articles you can call your own, and put your name on them as the author (hence the term private label).

This usually mean you can reword them, repackage them into an ebook or audio book and sell them, you can use them as is on your site and sign as if you wrote it yourself, etc. The only thing you can’t do is to submit it to various article directories for backlinks.

Overall, PLR articles are great for webmasters because they can save a whole lot of time and money with them!

Think about this for a moment: ONE good article can cost you anywhere from $10 to $20. If you are heavily into building Adsense sites, you probably create a few new Adsense websites each month, and you pay big bucks for fresh optimized content that will bring you in decent Adsense revenues. The cost of these articles can quickly add up!

By using PLR articles instead, you can pay a fraction of the price and get tons of content for new sites.

There is a trick though. If you just take PLR content and publish it AS IS, you will not be able to get good rankings in the search engines for it. But, if you modify them just a bit, you can get fresh content for pennies.

Now, how do you use it to create a little Adsense Empire?

Here are the steps to build an Adsense empire using Private Label Rights articles

1. Find a profitable Adsense niche by doing some good keyword research on the Google External Keywords Tool.

2. Select the highest paying keywords in the niche you found (by looking at the advertiser cost data).

3. Select the best SEO keywords in this niche (the easiest words you can get good ranking for).

4. Find optimized PLR articles for your keyword list (you can choose from this collection of 200,000+ PLR articles in over 650 niches).

5. Build the site (or use the PLR Articles Toolkit software to build your web pages automatically for you).

6. Submit the site to directories for backlinks.

7. Publish articles for reprint on other sites to get tons of backlinks.

8. Add a few articles each month in order to grow your site with fresh content.

9. Start a new site and start the whole process all over again!

And if you have access to a good collection of private label rights and master resell rights products, you can use them to do exactly that: build new Adsense sites each month! You will save a lot of time.

To get the best out of the PLR articles, you must at least do some minimum amount of modifications to make them your own. That way, you will be able to get the best of both worlds — optimized content for your Adsense sites and unique content that will allow you to rank well in the search engines!

A private label rights membership (PLR membership) is more than just a place where you get access to private label rights content (ebooks, articles, videos, audios, templates, and other stuff).

Usually, these memberships provide a huge collection of tools and strategies to help you make the most of your membership. Well, the good ones, anyway!

For this reason, it’s always a good idea to take some time reviewing the instructions and any helpful tips and guidelines provided in the private label rights membership site you have joined or are considering joining. The more time you spend learning, the more money you can make.

In addition to the tips and strategies you get inside the membership area, here are a few basic guidelines to help you make the most of your private label rights membership.

What rights do you get with your PLR membership?

It’s important to familiarize yourself with the rights you get with the PLR products. These rights should be something along these lines (but check with the individual programs to make sure, as they vary a lot):

With private label rights, you have the right to make the content unique to you by editing, revising or altering the original content. You can claim authorship after you have altered the original works. Often, it’s a requirement to make the content unique in at least some ways.

Again, do check with your program to learn about specific requirements. Some ask you to revise a certain percentage. And others may have additional rules like not selling the packages for under a certain price or on eBay. When in doubt, ask questions so you know exactly what rights you have.

Tackling your private label rights projects

Break your private label rights projects up into small action steps, noting them on paper or a document on your computer. Once that is done, tackle each step one by one. This will help you complete each project with success.

Work on just one project at a time.

If your membership site gives you more than one ebook package for example, only work on one at a time until it’s completely finished and loaded, ready for sale, and your marketing materials are in place.

Working on more than one project at a time means you will delay your results for each project significantly. Completing projects one at a time ensure you start getting results for each project as you finish them, not at the end when you have finished working on all of them.

And this is assuming you do manage to finish all of them and don’t get bored and give up half-way!

Break each private label project into small, manageable steps

Breaking each project into small steps and writing them down will help you create a system that works for you.

You will also be able to replicate this system again and again for each PLR project. You just need to follow the plan that has proven to work for the first product, the next one, and so on.

This is the single best thing you can do to get the most results out of your PLR membership.

Example steps-breakdown for your PLR products/projects

Rewrite your product and marketing content

Edit for spelling & grammar errors as needed. Insert graphics/digital photos. Insert other articles or paragraphs into the content. Rewrite some sentences and paragraphs. After rewriting the sales copy, insert audio/video, links, images, etc. Maybe change chapter order or orders of sections and headings in the ebook too.

Brand everything

Add your contact information and especially URL to the product header / footer of each page, the sales copy, articles, autoresponder series, etc.

Insert monetization

Find as many ways as you can to monetize your product, website and marketing materials: Google Adsense ads, affiliate links, banners, product images for back-end sales, sponsor and classified ads, etc.

Load everything in place

Add autoresponder messages and lead capture form code into the sales page or as its own web page, main product website, product and bonus download files, audio/video files, etc. Of course, don’t forget to create your thank you page/download page and upload your product somewhere so your customers can download it.

Start marketing

Marketing is something that needs to be done daily! Set up a daily Task in your Outlook or other calendar and spend a little time each day for promotions: submitting articles with your byline & URL, post on forums and send out emails with your URL in your signature (sig) file.

Just by following the above guidelines and tips, you can stay ahead of most folks that join private label rights membership sites. By taking consistent and systematic actions, you can produce incredible results.

There are just a few things you need to keep in mind before submitting your private label rights (PLR) articles to online article directories.

Take a look at the quality of the PLR articles you have

Of course, the first thing to do is to make sure that the content you provide is well written and informative.

Grammatical or other kinds of mistakes that come from poor writing skills are going to drive readers (and thus your traffic) away faster than anything else you might do.

So go through your PLR articles, revise them to fit your marketing needs and edit them as needed. Make sure you correct all grammatical errors, fix all the typos, and rewrite where necessary.

Long article or short?

One question that plagues more article writers is whether they should submit long articles or short ones.

Article directories themselves insist on long articles. Long articles also help you rank well in the search engines, because search engines LOVE content.

On the other hand, long articles tend to lower your results in terms of getting click throughs from your article resource box. Very few people end up reaching the end of the article and reading your resource box, let alone click it.

So in the end it’s a balancing trick between trying to get higher search engine rankings and getting around people’s low attention spans.

Something like 300-400 words should keep both you and the article directories happy. If necessary, make changes to the article to get an optimum word count before you submit it to any article directory.

Rewrite the article before submitting

As you know, several people, sometimes even hundreds, have access to the same PLR article. Submitting them as-is to the article directories will get them rejected on account of duplicate content.

So all you need to do is rewrite the article a bit to make it unique. Here are a couple posts on this blog to help you with this task and achieve it quickly:

1. Turn old PLR articles into fresh, new content in 10 minutes
2. How to create unique content using PLR articles

Rewriting the articles will not only make them stand out, it will increase the chances of getting your article accepted in the article directories.

Add a resource box at the end

A byline or resource box is crucial to the success of your article marketing efforts.

Just add a few sentences about your website, and include a link back to it. Make sure the anchor text for the link uses keywords that are relevant to both the article and your website.

At a minimum, your resource box should contain these items:

1. Your name
2. Your website address
3. 1-3 sentences describing you and your offer
4. Your “call to action” (where you ask them to click on the link, or to buy, etc.)

The better your resource box is, the more results you will get out of your efforts.

Other tips and do’s and don’ts:

• Make sure you provide useful and accurate information in your articles.
• Your article should provide useful information, but not the “whole” information. It should only serve as a “teaser” to entice readers to click the link in your resource box and come to your website for the rest of the information.
• Avoid any hype or other useless information. This can only get your articles rejected by the article directory.
• After you’ve revised your PLR article and submitted it to article directories, look for ways to promote the article AND promote using the article to increase traffic to your web site.
• Look for other marketing means like using snippets of you articles on blogs and in forum posts, and tagging them in social networking sites as helpful resources for others.
• Don’t break the rules. Before you submit your PLR article to article directories, make sure that you meet their guidelines.
• Make sure that the articles you write are free of character errors (i.e. run your content through a text editor like Notepad first). This will make sure there are no funky or non-ASCII characters in your article text. This is important especially if the PLR article is in Word .doc format.

By taking these few steps, you’ll ensure that you are able to utilize all your PLR articles for your article marketing by submitting them to article directories. It pays to spend a little time to check these few things first when using PLR articles.

If you are like me, and your hard drive is full of PLR, membership sites are something you should definitely think about. In this post, we will talk about how to create a full-fledged membership site using PLR material, and only using free tools.

Why start your own membership site

The most important reason for starting your own membership site is that it can virtually guarantee your income from month to month. Each member pays you a fixed amount per month, and the more members you have, the more money you make.

The beauty of this setup is that you only have to sell each member once. Once you get a customer to join your membership site, you keep getting paid by that customer month after month, for as long as they stay a member.

So what this means is that you can have a very nice monthly income just by making a few new sales per month. This is because you keep getting paid each month for the sales you made in the past months, plus you also start getting paid for the new sales you made this month.

So as an example, let’s say you have a membership site that sells for $19/month, and you make just one sale per day. At this rate, you make $570 at the end of the first month. At the end of the second month, you make $1,140. At the end of the third month, you make $1,710. At the end of the sixth month, you make $3,420. And so on.

Do you see how it keeps increasing? Just one sale per day translates into a healthy monthly income after just a few months. And it goes up from there.

How to start your own membership site

In spite of what you may think or may have heard, it’s not hard to get started at all. And it doesn’t cost a whole lot of money either. In fact, you can get started in just a few minutes if you want.

And I will show you two methods, one of which will let you get started using just free tools, and the other will require you to invest just a few bucks per month to keep going. I suggest you take a look at both, and pick the one you like best.

I have personally used both methods to make money for myself (still do) and can vouch for their ease of use and low-tech setup.

Method 1: Start your membership site using free tools

This method is not just low cost, it’s also low tech, and takes just a few hours per month to maintain. It’s basically a set of videos that you can watch to learn the full details.

Just one thing: The video will show you how to get your membership site started in six minutes, but it will take you a little longer to put the content in place (of course). Just something I thought I should let you know before you dive into the full details.

More details are out of scope for this blog post, so if you are interested, you can click here to learn more.

Method 2: Start your membership site using low cost tools

Once again, this method is also pretty low tech, and employs a low cost tool to get going. The advantage of this method over the previous one is that you only need to do the work once as far as creating content is concerned. After that, as new members keep joining, they start at the beginning, and go through the rest of the content in a linear fashion.

You can get started in 48 hours or less.

Read more on this page.

Like I said, I have personally used both methods, and still use them to make money every single month. As different as the two methods are, they have one thing in common – make you money using your own membership sites, month after month.

You can use PLR content for these membership sites, or you can write your own if you want. A package of 200,000+ PLR articles is available here.

Do you know any other easy or low cost method to start your own PLR membership site? Please share in the comments below.