Membership sites are all the rage on the internet right now. If you want recurring monthly income, then having your own membership site is the way to go.

If you listen to all of the “gurus” on the internet right now, then you know that nearly all of them are preaching the message that you need to have your own membership site.

Creating and maintaining a membership site used to be a job for expert programmers, database administrators, and web developers, and the average “little guy” internet marketer was left out in the cold. Most could not afford to hire these experts and therefore owning a membership site was out of the question.

Those days are gone forever. Anyone now can afford to have their own membership site. You can easily learn what you need to know to create your own site quickly, easily, and at very low cost.

You can purchase a video tutorial at very low cost that shows you step-by-step how to create a membership site using WordPress (which is free), and a plugin, which varies in price from a free one on up to one that costs around $150, that will handle Paypal billing and keep up with your membership.

Some of the “big guys” in membership site ownership use the Joomla content management system to manage their membership sites. Again, there are low cost videos available that will teach you how to install and configure Joomla and use it to manage a membership site. Joomla is a powerful content management system. There is a large selection of professionally created templates available, so you can get the exact look and feel that you want for your site.

Instead of selling your products one at a time, why not consider putting them in a membership site? If you have a hobby, a passion for some subject, an expertise in some field, put it in a membership site. Imagine getting 10 people a month paying you $19.95 per month, month after month! What if you had 100 people paying you $19.95 per month? What if you had 500 or 1000 people paying you $19.95 per month?

Yes, membership sites are the way to go, and with the training and software now available, anyone can build their own membership site and have it up, running, and bringing in a monthly income in no time at all!

My very first membership site took me a total of about 4 days to build, and at a cost of less than $100.00. I knew exactly nothing when I started, so anyone can do it.

Video tutorials are available at TutorDaddy.com and they can speed up the process of getting your membership site up and running.

If you use WordPress to build a membership site, you will need a good membership site plugin to manage membership chores, and you can find information on a couple of good ones at Digital Access Pass and at YourMember.

Give it a try, I think you will find it enjoyable and rewarding.

What is a “blog”?

Can I use a “blog” to build a membership site?

What is the best “blogging” platform to use?

Good questions that may seem to have obvious answers to the “seasoned internet user”, but maybe not so obvious to the ones just starting out on their internet journeys.

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing supply of information and news.

A blog is a frequently updated personal (or business) website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles and/or other web sites.

Blogs range from the personal to the political, the sublime to the ridiculous, and they can focus on one narrow subject or a whole wide range of subjects.

Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as health, dating, dog training, web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology.

Some are more into just presenting links to all manner of other sites, mostly affiliate links that pay them when someone purchases a product after clicking one of the links..

And others are more like personal journals or diaries, presenting the author’s daily life and thoughts.

Whatever they are used for, blogs are ideally suited to building membership sites.

How does a person create a blog, you ask?

WordPress is probably the most popular and most powerful and versatile blogging software, and when I talk about blogging, I’m talking about using WordPress as the platform.

As far as using WordPress to build membership sites, I can say that it is definitely a very good way to get started. It is also a very low cost way to get started.

Membership sites are one of the hottest money makers on the web right now, and more and more people are creating an extra monthly pay check by building their own membership sites.

If you have a passion for a particular subject, almost any subject, chances are that a lot of other people have the same passion. Create a membership site where all of those people can mingle online with other like-minded people, and you are set to go.

If you have an expertise in a field, create a membership site, charge a monthly fee for others in the field to access your information, and you have money coming in every month, month after month.

You can find video tutorials that will guide you through all of the steps and show you exactly how to create membership sites using WordPress at TutorDaddy.com.

If you use WordPress to build a membership site, you will need a good membership site plugin to manage membership chores, and you can find information on a couple of good ones at Digital Access Pass and at YourMember.

Installing WordPress for the first time and getting it configured correctly can be a little intimidating, so watching a video tutorial on how to install WordPress can really give you a jump start on getting a membership site up and running.

In conclusion, if you want to build a membership site that costs almost no money, is easy to update and manage, and brings in a monthly recurring income, then I suggest you give WordPress a really close look.