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Amazon operates an associates program. Amazon Associates is an affiliate program focused on providing tools that allow website owners to refer their site visitors to purchase Amazon's own products.

So, up to now we have options to make money from website subscriptions, generate revenue from members, offer free content and add Google Adsense to may money from sponsored links and include products from Amazon to be sold on your site … that's what I call 'multiple streams of income'. There is more!

You can add an advanced shopping cart or use PayPal to sell other products and accept payment by all major credit cards. With this source of revenue you can fully control what you sell on your website. Click here to register with PayPal.

Banner links are also an excellent method of making money from a website and the more traffic you have coming through your site, the more money you can ask for banner links.
Affiliate programs have made internet fortunes for many. There are two opportunities for you here; the first is to develop a partnership with an affiliate partnership such as ClickBank, CLICK HERE to register with Click Bank

Clickbank has some 100,000 members worldwide, each promote other services and earn money from commissions. Lets say you enter into a partnership with Clickbank and they market your membership/subscription website to all its members who in turn add a link from their website to yours, each time someone joins your subscription website, Click Bank pay commission to your affiliates and pay you your fees each month.

To add to this stream of income, you too can add products from ClickBank members on your site! Thus adding even more possibilities of making money from your membership/subscription website.

Ensure you have Automatic Recurring Billing for an automated collection of monthly subscriptions … while you sleep. If you are accepting worldwide members go for multiple currencies option so that you can process payments in Sterling, Dollars and Euro.

Two more units that are worth looking at too; Content Syndication with RSS Feeds - Share some of your content and add a link to Email-a-Friend - make it extremely simple for your visitors to email an article to a friend and you can start a viral marketing campaign.

Always have headlines and teaser text that relate to each article on the home page to tempt people into becoming members.
Once you have become to build members, how do you manage them? A membership management system is essential.
SubHub have a turnkey system that allows you to have an automatic member sign-up system that provides an automatic password creation system and an online member database to store thousands of members details in a secure and searchable system.

You might want non-members to opt in to your mailing list, or operate two opt in mailing lists so that you can select groups of members in order to send them emails such as newsletters.

Be mindful that when hosting comes into the equation, you will need a good commercial strength SSL secure server. A cheaper option is to ask your website hosting company about shared SSL.

I'm pretty sure this information will be of great help to start a subscription or membership website

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