Hey guys, could anyone of you suggest niches where using subscription (membership) based model when you are running a site is popular? Personally I could recall only 3 niches and then I stuck: - dating - porn - web sites templates Thanks a lot for your attention.
I work at Bloomfire (which powers some membership sites) and our customers are making money in these niches: - social media tutorials - gambling tips - watercolor painting tutorials Hope that gives you some ideas.
Anything that offers long term value, for example Wall Street Journal the online version had almost 1 million people paying $119 a year for those who do not have access to the print edition to the news paper, lot of investors around the globe look to the WSJ to help them make investment decisions. The most important thing is to deliver value, you'll struggle to build up a membership site if you are not consistantly over delivering. It's much better to deliver $60 worth of value for $30 a month then deliver $20 worth of value for $30 a month.