General Monetizing With Premium Content

[Nomad]

I have not done this myself but I have seen a lot of websites, including the prestigious news website, monetize website with premium content. These websites will allow you to read a couple of articles for free but to continue reading more articles, you will have to pay them. There are also websites where you can access general information free but you need to pay to access to in-depth data. Have you used this method on your website? Do you make money with premium content?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have not done this myself but I have seen a lot of websites, including the prestigious news website, monetize website with premium content. These websites will allow you to read a couple of articles for free but to continue reading more articles, you will have to pay them. There are also websites where you can access general information free but you need to pay to access to in-depth data. Have you used this method on your website? Do you make money with premium content?

I think it's a good way to modernize forum-based premium membership features.

Offer premium content to those who upgrade their account.

But you have to be consistent about it. No one wants to pay monthly (or however) and get only a little bit and then nothing else after they have consumed that little bit.

So, you have to be consistent about the features you provide.

On Copyblogger, we provide monthly webinars for accountability. I host them. Members look forward to them and remain subscribed to keep attending them. We also release courses each year and post interesting discussions.

If you want to make the premium content system work, you need to ensure you can be consistent about it.

 

[Nomad]

You can of course offer webinars, ebooks, courses as premium content by charging fees. But to be able to actually generate revenue from premium content, your content should offer value and your website needs to have a lot of organic traffic. For small websites, generating sales with premium content can be really challenging.

 

[Heatman]

I've seen a lot of people doing this and it's something that is very effective when it comes to generating money for them. I have even seen a lot of people that have their Twitter/X account set up to offer premium contents to their subscribers who pay to access whatever they are tweeting on their account and they are actually getting subscribers.

 

[Ravenfreak]

This can be very effective if you offer something unique and informative. It won't work with every niche in my opinion, I feel like it could backfire depending on the niche. If it's based around specific gaming franchises I feel like people wouldn't be willing to pay for premium content unless you offered something for the player in the game.

 

[Heatman]

This can be very effective if you offer something unique and informative. It won't work with every niche in my opinion, I feel like it could backfire depending on the niche. If it's based around specific gaming franchises I feel like people wouldn't be willing to pay for premium content unless you offered something for the player in the game.

I agree with you on this! The nature of your niche and how valuable what you're going to be offering to your members is what will definitely decide if you're going to make it or break with trying to offer premium contents to them. If everything aligns perfect, it wouldn't be difficult for you to sell such contents.

 

[Nomad]

The main problem is creating a unique product. You see, anything you can think of is already being sold off, so it is less likely that you will be able to come up with unique product. If you are offering the same product that a lot of people are already offering, it might not generate any sales. Premium content needs to be very unique and offer a great value.