Step by step Guide to your Membership Site

Excerpt from Membernaire
by Jimmy D. Brown

One of the biggest problems that membership site owners face is getting content. No question about it, it’s a struggle for some people to keep cranking out quality information, while others find even getting started a challenge.

What I want to share with you today are some different WAYS to get information to share each week.

Before I share these with you, let me quickly talk about the “4 pillars” of information…

- You can WRITE IT YOURSELF. The obvious primary source of your content is that which you write yourself.

- You can INTERVIEW SOMEONE. Another option for one or more lessons is to interview other people in your field, both “experts” and “non-experts” alike.

- You can HIRE A GHOSTWRITER. You may also want to outsource the creation of some or all of your lessons to a professional ghostwriter who will anonymously write the lessons which you can then claim ownership and authorship to.

- You can PURCHASE PLR CONTENT. A final major pillar is to purchase a “private label license” to existing content which you may thereby alter and publish as your own.

In the future, I will have a COMPLETE LESSON on *each* of these four pillars to share lots of keys to success, vendor resources and other insights into using these sources for developing your content.

But today I’ll be going over some “other” options that few people really use (if they’ve even heard of them!)...

7 S.O.U.R.C.E.S™ For First-Rate Content

As the so-called “King of Acronyms”, I use

S - STANDALONES
O - OUTLINES
U - UNIONS
R - RESOURCES
C - COLLECTIONS
E - EXCERPTS
S - SERIES

Let’s take a look at each of these in greater detail…

S.O.U.R.C.E.™ #1 S – Standalones.

There are a variety of different kinds of “standalones” that you can offer in exchange for a “regular” lesson.

These are usually materials that are related to the topic of your FTM site and are used to enhance the content for a better understanding and application of your lessons.

A few examples include…

• Worksheets
• Templates
• Quizzes
• Calendars
• Checklists
• Planners
• Illustrations
• Mindmaps
• Tools
• Vendor List
• Documents (Legal, Business, Etc.)
• Forms
• Charts

And so forth. Anything that can be created to improve upon your existing content is an idea option here.
I recommend that you use one of these as a substitution for your regular lesson at least once every other month.

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If that's two pages of the course -- imagine how much you'll learn over the entire year's worth of lessons.

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I Love Affiliate Marketing

NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite
internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing - Part 1
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"

Do you find yourself "starting" to create your own product
to sell online, but never "finishing" it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is --

** You don't need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to
be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

* I don't have any good ideas!
* I'm not a writer!
* There's too much competition!
* I don't know how to set everything up!
* I can't figure out where to start!
* It's too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give
when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.
I'm sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come
up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don't need your own products.
You simply promote someone else's already proven successful
offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have
lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out...

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don't know everything! Why try
to create a product on every topic imaginable in your
market when you can earn just as much money by simply
promoting someone else's really good offer as one of your
profit streams?

That's why I love affiliate marketing.

You don't need to create your own products.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
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Complementing my EBAY Bookstores - E-Books

Where does the knowledge to make this start begin? For me it started by Clicking on a site - MyScribeWeb. Half way around the globe this person in Australia offered a website that she created and suggested that with a few changes you can make this site yours.

What an idea! Looked at the context and realized here was a new library of books. A new source of merchandise to educate and entertain others -
E Books. The name of my site was selected way back when I started on EBAY relating "Digests" with "Books". People were experimenting with electronic items to read without buying a real book. Both seem to have a place and I wanted to make these available quickly. MyScribeWeb made this possible.


Guidance from this site toward a Free Website, with my alterations a Website Builder Free, some resources to bring my desires to the site and inventory and we were flying.

Books are a staple to me but marketing is what comes to light on the Internet. Didn't hurt that others want to share their wares and promote through others. I think it is great and embraced it heavily. Hope you don't mind.


Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups. Numerous e-book formats emerged and proliferated and supported by Adobe's PDF format. Sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information by this means to the public.

I am doing the same on several pages - Using this link takes you to 1000's of titles Large Source of E-Book Titles for You. Library Pages go into more history regarding this source of entertainment. We also have our OWN index of E-Books listed on my site My Library of E-Books. Something for everyone.

View the e-book Quicklink or View by Catagory Index.
All can also be seen at Digests411.

My Guide to a LOVE for Internet Marketing

Where it all Began: EBAY made me believe in marketing on the computer. I was starting when few were actually there. Combining the feedback
of four EBAY stores brings the Positive Feedback in the thousands. For someone that sells one book at a time, packaging and gaining inventory to keep it a cottage business, it's a job made easier because of the Internet.

I wanted a website to emphasize the marketing - but being older in age - found the use of a staple like EBAY the easy route. I think back to when I was in college and an early job where the introduction to Computer Science and the World Wide Web sounded like science fiction.


When you take the time to see what knowledge is on THE INTERNET you realize even I can be creative. Hope this doesn't sound like success, but it was in my eyes a great start. This is what my website became - My Great Start.

Let me know what you think. Reminder Quicklink or Main Site.

My LOVE for Books and Media

Where it all Began: Book sales and Garage sales all over the Minneapolis- St. Paul area. Many of the larger and smaller churches here have one or two sales to raise funds each year. In this area many, many people line up and wait for the sale to open just to compete for decent merchandise. It started as a small hobby and mushroomed to a volume of merchandise that moved well on the auction site - EBAY!

It started as one store that easily reached hundreds of books - when it reached a 1000 titles decided to expand to store two. I felt it was overwhelming for someone to search hundreds of books to select one or two that they would buy. By creating two stores, which eventually became four, found more and more buyers through the various storefronts and uniqueness.

I didn't do this to confuse. I kept the idea that too many books in one store was like opening a mega-store on the internet.

As I see more and more repeat customers through one or more sites - I realize the time had come to let everyone know four stores existed. Proud of the magnitude of books being offered and wanting everyone to benefit from the price structure that I have been promoting. Most are highly reasonable and combination of Media is practical because of the Media Mail Postage Option. After the first selection I ship any additional book without adding to the shipping rate. Note: Internationally this does NOT work - just U.S. addresses.

Visit My Web Site or use the Quicklink

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