Promoting a Membership Site with Personality: Tim Sykes
Tim Sykes initially blogged about his penny stock trading and then decided to turn it into a membership site and a place where he could sell his educational DVD products as well. His proof to prospective members that he knew penny stocks: he turned $12,000 into $2,000,000.
Listen in as we talk about how he got started, how he promotes his membership site and information products and how he decided what to charge.
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Transcript:
MemberCon.com: Hi. This is Tim Bourquin. Thanks very much for joining me for another interview on membercon.com. We’re going to be talking with Tim Sykes today and he’s got a membership site and an investment site that I’ve been following for quite sometime. He does a great job of promoting that site and getting members. We’re going to talk to him about he got started in doing that and maybe some tips and tricks that’s he has gotten along the way for getting exposure and growing the members. So, Tim, thanks very much for joining me on the show today.
Tim Sykes: Thanks for having me, Tim.
MemberCon.com: Well, so I followed you now for a couple of years, I think. How long have you had your membership site?
Tim Sykes: I started in June of 2008, so just over a year.
MemberCon.com: At some point, were you doing your newsletter for free or was it always the intention to have a membership site?
Tim Sykes: Yeah, now, I started my blog in November of 2007 and I was just posting the results of my stock trade after the fact and it’s all verified by Covestor which actually taps into my brokerage account but people wanted, you know, real time trade alerts. So, I eventually came up with the idea of TIMalerts, which is just real time trade alerts and then that created a whole membership site. So, I basically just listened to what my audience wanted and then created it.
online entrepreneurs, selling content online, starting a membership site
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