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Rethinking the basics of membership site success as the economy appears to cool

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The success of your membership site is, ultimately, based on your target market’s desire for change. The same way that nonfiction books are purchased out of necessity, to solve pressing problems or achieve desired goals, membership site owners will achieve success to the extent that their site’s marketing appeals to their market’s desire for change and site content truly helps members achieve the desired change.

The more urgent the desired change, and the better a job the site does in delivering resources and tools for change, the more indispensable site membership becomes.

As the changing economy forces people to use more discretion in their purchases, those sites that successfully position themselves as agents of change will thrive, while less effectively positioned sites will likely lose members to sites that offer a more effective value proposition.

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