Would your life change if 500 people paid you £9.95 a month, until they want to stop?

What about if 4000 people paid you 29.99 a month, every month, for the rest of your life?

How about 1000 people paying you £1000 every 4 months?

It's certainly a different payment structure than a traditional 9-5 job, wouldn't you say?

Well, this is the awesome power of a business built around a membership website.

What is a membership website you ask and how can anyone start one?

Let me tell you that whether you know it or not you presently belong to a group, an association, a fraternity, a society& and that's whether you have done so by deliberate choice, or by default.

Let me explain.

If you are a man, you automatically belong to the 'man club. If you're a woman, you belong to the& woman club. Whether you have a family with children, you belong to that club. Whether you're divorced, you belong to that club. Whatever hobbies you have, there are others who have it also. If you own a particular type of business, there are others who are also in that 'club'.

Whatever your religion, your colour, height, weight, occupation& you name it, YOU'RE IN IT!

And then, there are paid clubs and memberships you may belong, or want to belong to.

You see, people are desperate to belong. They want to be part of something. They want to rub shoulders with other like minded people who share the same interests and have the same traits as they do. They want to share experiences and stories. They want to be heard and share a point of view.

And that's why people will literally do anything to become part of a closed shop fraternity and where creating memberships for these people can be the most lucrative and liberating thing you can do.

Okay, So Here Then Are 7 Reasons Why Creating A Membership Website Can Be The Most Lucrative Business You Can Own

1. You can earn what you want and get paid like clockwork, month after month after month!

There's nothing like starting the beginning of each month with a specific amount of income in your bank account. That's the exhilarating feeling you can experience when you have a membership website delivering hot, relevant, timely and specific information to your target audience.

Whilst other types of business depends on continually selling various products on a day in day out basis, trying to sell and resell a new customer, the pure beauty of a membership continuity business, ensures that you get paid, up front BEFORE you have even delivered the product!

And& once you sell a customer into the membership, and if you do things right, they'll be happy to pay you& forever!

Now that's cool, really cool!

2. You don't need any sophisticated overhead.

I know a number of business owners who have garages, full of product and merchandise they simply cannot sell. It's depressing. And, it's a sure road to frustration, bitterness and bankruptcy.

The power of a membership style business is that it can be information that's entirely driven by the Internet, driven online and carrying NO physical overhead!

Now isn't that remarkable?

Who would have thought ten years ago that someone could create a business from their own home, having a laptop as the key overhead and bit of membership software to run their membership business. I mean, they would have sent you to the funny farm and loaded you up with a bottle full of pills!

But, today, it's a beautiful truth that the sheer power of creating a membership business has come alive for those who have embraced the simple technology and the simple idea of creating a business out of thin air. And that too, without the headaches and crushing overheads of a traditional online or offline business.

3. You can take your membership business wherever you go, to any part of the world

Not many businesses allow you to pick it up, throw it into a box and TAKE IT WITH YOU! A membership business really does allow you to do that. Recently, I've recently been to various parts of the world and guess what? I've taken my laptop with me and have conducted my membership business right from whatever country I've visited! Quite frankly, it all blew me away the first time I experienced it. There's nothing like it!

Can you imagine it? Rolling out of a hammock by the beach, sipping a glass of pineapple juice, open my laptop and connect to the world with my membership business. For me, nothing on earth comes close to creating a business like this, NOTHING!

You may not want to conduct your business in different parts of the world, or even, within the very country you live in right now. Though, you may want to have the freedom to know that you can do exactly that if you so choose. Now that's liberation and control, right at your very fingertips.

4. You can create multiple memberships sites creating multiple streams of continuing income

Once you get one membership website business running, producing revenue and profits, you may want to start another, and another and another. You see, once you experience the taste of success of what a membership business can do for you, you'll want more of it. And, I'm not saying that your life will be swamped with all the hassle of various membership website businesses clogging up your mind and your life, I'm saying that once you get the SYSTEM going, you'll be able to replicate that very process to other membership websites that you're thinking about.

As with anything in life, being able to manage the process of anything is key. Being able to manage 2-5 membership websites is all a matter being skilful in exactly that -- managing the process.

If you do it right, you can enjoy a lifestyle and income that's hard to beat.

5. You don't have to be an expert -- you can get others to work alongside you and provide the content

Many people fear the idea of creating ALL THAT CONTENT for their membership website business idea. The truth of the matter is that you can hire people to carry out certain tasks of your membership business. Creating special reports, and writing informational based input can be delegated out. Of course, you have to stay in complete control and have to guide and manage the whole process.

When developing informational products, you can interview experts that your core membership will find intriguing, compelling and irresistible. Harnessing the power of others means you can gain incredible leverage.

And, something else that many people fear is that they feel they have to be an EXPERT in order to share information with others through a subscription based website.

Do you know what -- the world is full of experts. You and I are experts in what it is we know. Of course, we do need to be knowledgeable in whatever discipline or subject matter we're looking people to buy and subscribe into. Though, it's not necessary that we have an encyclopaedic knowledge of our subject. It's true to say that we can learn a lot about a subject when we start up the idea of a membership based website and we pick up more valuable insights into the subject as we go along.

Let's say that if we take it one level deeper in that we really want to create a membership web based business on a subject matter that we really have no knowledge or expertise in, how do we go about making that happen, to make it come alive?

Well, all we do is simply go to a person who has the knowledge we want to share and promote, and strike up an arrangement where he or she provides the 'expertise' and knowledge, and we create the 'business' around it.

Say if I really like the idea of creating a website based business to share and promote do with SPORTS ICONS OF THE 70'S AND 80'S and I have a little knowledge about it, all I need to is go to the relevant forums, read the specific ezines and publications where the type of people who I'm looking for who have expertise in the subject matter are, and either post a simple advertisement or, send articles that indirectly focus in on a specific type of person you're looking for.

6. You can sell your business for a fortune

If you were to buy a business, the main area to look -- to see if it's a viable proposition -- would be in the customers, in their ability to buy, their frequency of purchases. Essentially, in their lifetime customer value -- i.e. how much they would be worth to you in financial terms over the life of the customer.

With a membership website the numbers are clear and specific. There's no way to cook the books. Steady, reliable, dependable income is the key to getting maximum money when selling a business.

7. You can spend the quality time you want because membership sites free up more time than you can imagine

Have you ever heard a business owner say, "I'm really swamped& there's just too much to do& "I thought running my own business would give me time off to enjoy with my family and how wrong I was!"& "I just can't see myself getting away from it all, and when I do go on holiday, I'm always thinking about what's happening back at the business!"

A membership business can stamp out all the above, just like a magician waving a magic wand.

I've found that those who own membership websites, love what they do. I mean, it's not like a business where you HAVE to start it because you feel there's no alternative.

A lot of business owners, self employed people, professionals, entrepreneurs, have let the main reason as to why they got into business in the first place, fizzle away. It's all lost in the debris of running their business.

Membership based websites are generally a joy for those who start them. I still pinch myself when I think that anyone can create an income stream by sharing with others information about a topic they love.

Amazing. Getting paid for doing what you love!

Creating a membership based web business has a lot going for it. Do you want to experience the thrill and joy of it owning a membership website also? If that's true, you should sit down with a note pad and pen and start writing out what your areas of interest are, what knowledge you have, or what knowledge you would like to have, and to start to think about creating a business around that.

There's more resources on Nick-James.com that'll help you get a membership website business going as quickly as you want to. And there's many more tools, articles and tips planned for the coming months so check back here often.