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Here is an example of how to take advantage of a hot trend and get some traffic to your website fast … and probably for years in the future.

Michelle Obama Monkey Face Picture

This is a picture that is all over the news as being offensive (or funny) because it is the top search result in Google images.

All you need is a hot topic like this, create a blog page like that website has done, and monetize it in some manner.

In this example, the monetization on that page is a CPA offer at the bottom which is related to the Obama administration. A simple email submit.

And of course the additional traffic is likely to visit other web pages where there are additional monetization opportunities.

Could you do something like this? Sure. These hot topics pop up every day and many will have a shelf life for a long time.

What software package will work if you want:

- To control access to a membership site (as opposed to offering a downloadable ebook)
- Have an affiliate program
- Offer coupons

Amember
website
Amember will do all of the above with PayPal. It works great.
Downsides: Expensive at $180.
Has coupons by percent or dollar amount, and can limit how many times coupon is used.
Have to manually pay affiliates, and affiliate module has bare functionality and not always easy for affiliates to access.
Amember can work with ClickBank, which would offer a trusted 3rd party payment mechanism affiliates. However, there are the ClickBank fees, price restrictions, mandated return policy (which is incredible abuse for IM products), and the ClickBank TOS prohibit the use of coupons.

DL Guard
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Very disappointed as cannot get this software to work for membership sites. It’s primary focus seems to be protecting digital downloads.
No affiliate system.
$147 for two website install.

Rapid Action Profits
website
Expensive at $197 and appears to only protect downloads – not membership sites.
Has an affiliate system and coupons.
Extras such as split testing and one-time-offers.

MemberWing
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$100 WordPress membership plugin. Allows different membership levels and can drip content.
No affiliate system.
No coupons.

Simple Member Pro
website
$197, but license good for unlimited websites.
Has affiliate system.
Has coupons with dollar amounts, not percentage off.
Script not encrypted so you can must custom modifications.
CMS system.
One time offers and dime sales.
Only integrates with PayPal.
Drip content.
Free demo.

Instant Member
website
$147 for 1 site
Affiliate system
Coupons
Works with PayPal and ClickBank
Drip content.

Delavo
Purchased this when it had a different name – expensive, unbelievably complex and difficult to configure. Waste of money. Maybe it’s improved but not worth checking out again.

Easy Member Pro
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$97 for unlimited sites.
Has affiliate system, but not much else.