Perfectly suited to the innovative Problem Design Solution approach, ASP.NET MVC is a new development model that separates code for the data, look, and business processes of a Web site. This nuts-and-bolts guide thoroughly covers creating a Web site with MVC and discusses solving the most common problems that you may encounter when creating your first application or trying to upgrade a current application. The material is based on the highly praised and widely used TheBeerHouse ASP.NET Starter Kit that was developed in the bestselling ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: ProblemaDesignaSolution. Additional coverage includes registration and membership systems and user-selectable themes; content management systems for articles and photos; polls, mailing lists, and forums; e-commerce stores, shopping carts, and order management with real-time credit card processing, and more.

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You’ve probably heard that many marketers are excited about membership sites. Their dreams of earning huge income for very small amounts of work is hard not to appreciate! While this is not always a reality when you’re first starting out, you can certainly earn a full-time income with your site very quickly! YOU can be the one making money with a membership site.

It all has to do with the niche you choose and how well you plan. You need to plan everything from how much you’re going to charge, to how you are going to get members, to how you are going to ensure those members keep their membership.

The first step in earning a full-time income with your membership site is determining what you’re going to charge. One thing many membership owners do is charge a smaller fee at first, until they start getting feedback and testimonials. Once you have the social proof (this is especially important if you have a forum), you can increase your membership site’s price, so you can earn more money. It starts becoming like a snowball effect — the more members you have, the more members you are going to get!

Now, all you need to do is set a goal for how many members you want to get. You may want to work backwards. If you have a certain monthly goal you would like to reach for your income, figure out how many members you’ll need to get, based on what you are charging per month, in order to reach your goal. Whatever the number turns out to be, do not be scared of it! If your niche is large enough, there’s no reason why you can get enough members to reach your goal.

It all has to do with the strength of your sales page, but especially your offer. Basically, give people an offer they can’t refuse. Make them feel silly if they turn down a chance to join your membership site. This has a lot to do with the perceived value of what you are offering — so you’ll need to make sure the members will be thrilled with what they are getting.

Another component is driving enough traffic to the sales page. Without traffic, the chances of you making a full-time income are very small! Utilize as many traffic driving strategies as you possibly can, and you will likely get enough members to reach your goal.

Hopefully this has been inspirational for you so you can truly believe you can make a full-time income from membership sites. There are marketers from all over the world who do this, and there’s no reason why you can’t as well!