It’s no secret that membership sites are a good way to make money online. They are the closest thing to having residual income from a website that is reliable month in and month out. However, there are a lot of hoops that people have to jump through in order to get a traditional membership site started. There are scripts to install, ways to make things interesting, the constant need to keep adding new content to the site, etc. For some, membership sites have become one of those “good in theory, not in practice” ideas.

However, the Membernaire course from Jimmy D. Brown turns that concept on its ear. This course, which is a membership site itself, is designed to teach a relative newbie how to get a membership site up and running within just a few hours – and just one article. It doesn’t seem possible, but here’s the key – Jimmy teaches members to use short reports delivered via autoresponder as the basis of the membership site content.

There are a few benefits to doing things this way.

1. There is no expensive membership site software to buy and install.
2. There is very little content that needs to be created initially.
3. The lessons only have to stay one step ahead of the first subscriber, so you could take a whole year to create the program.
4. The lessons are there for future subscribers to use and you’ll only have to create content once.

In Membernaire, Jimmy teaches about using a “fixed term membership” site (and Membernaire itself is one of these). A fixed term membership site is only run for a fixed period of time – three months, six months, one year, etc. There are enough lessons for one lesson to be delivered each week. Once you create the lessons for the fixed period of time, you’re done with the content creation and just have to focus on getting new members. You don’t have to come up with ways to keep a forum active or make blog posts indefinitely. It’s pretty much as “set it and forget it” as you can get.

Membernaire follows its own advice and delivers a short report every week that will help you move forward with your business one step at a time. The training is fluff-free and very actionable. You just have to do that week’s assignment to build your site.

There are some drawbacks to Membernaire, but only if you are intimidated by setting up a few technical necessities. If you’ve never set up a sales letter, an autoresponder, hosting account or recurring payments with Paypal, there can be a bit of a learning curve. These can either be easily learned (like using Paypal) or can be outsourced (sales letter creation).

The cost for Membernaire is $27 per month, which is for four lessons. There are also special incentives for members who stay for the entire length of the 52 week course. There are additional costs involved (hosting, a domain and an autoresponder service) but those are very low considering the amount of money you could make with a membership site.