Very WAHM 2.0: Membership Sites

As a work at home mom, you are the keeper of some very cool information aren’t you?

Moms love to share their advice and skills with others. Most do so freely on the web via blogs and forums. Some realize that their experiences and wisdom has true value and create information products or offer specialized coaching and consulting services.

The next step after that, one that only a few have taken is to launch a paid membership site where information is shared on an ongoing basis.

I have been co-coach in a membership site since the summer of 2004, it’s called Mom Masterminds. (In fact, we’re celebrating our fourth birthday this week!) MM has been an awesome experience for me and most importantly, very profitable.

Several internet marketing mom friends of mine have launched paid membership sites for a variety of niche topics, products and services:

• Alice Seba & Mila Sidman launched All Private Label Content
• Alice Seba launched Outsourcing Sweetie and the Sweetie Saturday Report Club
• Michelle Waters launched Product Sellers Club
• Melody Spier and Kit Singleton launched Virtual Assistants Mavens
• Lynette Chandler & I launched Easy Internet Survey
• Vera Raposo launched ScrapventurePro.
• Crissy Heron Gipson launched Quick and Easy Newsletters
• Alice Seba launched
• Melissa Ingold turned Special Report Club into a paid membership site.
• Jenn Cangelosi & Heidi Marshall own Toy Auction Profits and Boutique Bargains
• Nicole Dean & Darina Loakman launched Shelancers
• Arika Liddiard launched Yummy PLR

If you’re interested in exploring ideas for creating your own paid membership website, I have two recommendations.

First, Lynette Chandler and I have just released Membership Site Intensive as a self study product.

Second, Jimmy D. Brown has just re-opened doors on his Membernaire program.

I adore Membernaire. Even though I’ve been running a successful membership site for four years and have helped other launch their sites, I signed up for Jimmy’s course because he’s so freakin’ awesome and I knew I’d learn more from him.

He teaches a ‘fixed term membership’ program that anyone can take an use to develop a membership program of their own. I’m so enamored with it that I have used his teachings to launch me latest membership site: Blog Evangelists.

Blog Evangelists is a 12 month membership program that will teach members how to launch a local blog design company and teach local small business owners how to make use of Web 2.0 tactics.