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September 15, 2008

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 2

The membership site has become an awesomely powerful tool for increasing my eBay profits, but not the "old" kind of member site that requires constant maintenance and effort. It's just too labor intensive for me. I prefer a newer kind of membership website that involves autoresponder emails on a regular basis.

1) Recruiting members:

I found my members from a Craigslist free ad so all I"paid" was some time.

2) What I offered my member site subscribers:

I offered them a free autoresponder series. Since I'm in experimental mode, I'd rather not share that series quite yet with the readers of this list (I don't want YOU to be guinea pigs! :-) but here's one that is just like it, except on a different subject and isn't advertising a member list:

http://metabolism-on-fire.com/loseweightfree.shtml

===> Why It's Almost IMPOSSIBLE To Fail With This Autoresponder Series ...

This autoresponder series is on weight loss and if you want to sign up for it, feel free - even if you're skinny! The point isn't the emails - it's how I use lots of autoresponder series as money makers. Every single message has an offer. Right now there are 34 messages but I have another 52 to add when I get around to it. It is mailed every week so that will be a total of 86 messages or almost two years of contact. Naturally, people will unsubscribe along the way or not read the messages and some people will never buy anything. However, I can COUNT ON sales from this autoresponder series and it's like a "free" membership site - once it's done, it's done and I don't have to do any more work on it.

{Continued in The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 3}

 

Posted by SydneyJohnston at September 15, 2008 10:52 AM