This tip is goes really well with a tip I got from Jimmy D. Brown, which is to focus more of your affiliate  marketing efforts on membership sites that pay you a commission every  month.

If I was starting over with an online business, I would have built my  empire every differently, in anticipation of the days when I would be  unable to work.

First, I would have built  a better membership than the one I  have now, more like the one I used to have.

(Which is why I’m  completely revamping my membership site.)

Second, I would have joined  and found the most valuable memberships and shared them with my  audience.

If you really want to go into detail about this, you  should join Jimmy’s blog.

For now, all I’ll say is this. If you sell 200  memberships to a site that pays you a profit of even $10 a month, if  you’re like most people, you can quit your day job. If you do that in a  month, then do it again the next month, you’re not starting over, you’re  doubling your income.

But let’s get to the part about the traffic tip. What’s the perfect traffic tip to complement the membership site model?

Membership sites are a different animal to promote.  You can’t leverage the content to promote the site because the content  is what makes the site worth paying for access, and most of the great  social media and search methods for promotion are based on content. So  you can either pay for content, or do this.

As an affiliate,  you’ll want to use the micro-tip.

Build content around the topics of the  membership sites you want to promote. Find the gap between the  knowledge the membership is offering and the knowledge of the newbie,  and give pieces of that content away for free as bait to get them to  join your content stream.

Then leverage that content stream -  free membership site, daily tweets, newsletter, whatever – to introduce  them to different membership sites in that area, until they say yes to  one or more of them.

This doesn’t always mean a whole article,  or even a whole paragraph. Sometimes, a sentence is enough. If I was  selling a site with monthly personal development tips, I could pick an  expert for that month and quote them.

Mike Dooley says, Thoughts Become Things. I could pop the video about that into my blog with a link leading to his site. (If he had a membership site.)

It can be that simple.

Find a topic, find membership sites in that topic, find micro-tips to lead prospects to sign up to hear from you, then given them micro-tips matched to various membership sites until they join.

366 Ways to Get Web Visitors –

I have decided to release a list of 366 Traffic Methods all at once. So now, you can’t ask me how to get traffic for a WHOLE YEAR.

Go away!

Okay, I’m just kidding.

Really.

The great thing about this guide is that it’s rebrandable.

You can just put your own link on the front page, or you can do that AND join the free affiliate program and load affiliate links in it with the rebranding kit, a zip file you can find right here or on the last page of the guide. I have committed Mac treason and created a program that only runs on Windows, (XP or Vista). Please refrain from flogging me. I will do my best to help if you have a Mac that doesn’t run Windows, just reply below.

(And… btw… HOW DO YOU LIVE? I was without Windows on my MacBook Pro for two weeks and almost drown in my own tears. Anyway.)

(You can get your 366 Traffic Methods here if you are reading this via feed and can’t see the embed above. That’s a PDF link so don’t hurt yourself!)

If you own The Evergreen Traffic System or Traffic Reality and are signed up at my site, there’s an affiliate link in your member area that will give you an extra 10% bonus, so please use that one instead of signing up twice.

Oh, and of course I forgot to mention in the guide that the cookie the affiliate code drops is good for a Year.

That’s right, even if it takes a year for someone who signs up to our newsletter at the site to buy, or even if they don’t sign up but you were the first person to tell them, it will be a year before anyone else gets to make a sale through them.

So. Uh. You might want to grab the rebrand kit and get your copy out there before everyone else.

And if you need hints as to how you can do that?

It’s a guide to generating web traffic! So you can use the traffic generating guide to generate traffic to the traffic generating guide. Lots of the methods are free, too. (See what I did there?)