A person who have a membership or member, subscription, or mentor websites, they all have one thing in common. They are bringing in fixed and stable cash flow for their owners, month after month, from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. The selection of the topics of these websites is infinite.

A number of paid membership sites provide coaching or training, others issue helpful editorials or information in a particular field or product. Membership sites offer specialized service for the people with a common interest and then there are those that provide step-by-step directions for such things as painting or music. Also, these sites publish the result of tests or examinations, studies and product reviews.

All these have one thing in common, i.e., to access the website you have to pay for it. People buy information that they could possibly find for themselves if they looked long enough and hard enough, for the reason that they want to save time or because they think the information will be better or more concentrated or because the information just isn’t accessible to them if not they pay for it.

Presently a few short years ago it was almost unheard of to charge for access to a website and almost no one was doing it. Nowadays, nevertheless, it is the norm and not the exception. In fact we have Internet dating sites to thank for this enormous money making opportunity.

Internet dating industry began with free membership sites that were regularly occupied by nerds, weirdoes and perverts. It was speedily revealed that ordinary people would willingly pay to have access to lists where the posters had been screened even just a little. At present people actually anticipated to pay for access to valuable information.