What is the membership method created by Chris Luck? It’s a course that teaches how to make money online with membership websites.
I’ll write a comprehensive review of the method here. I’m glad that after reviewing some scams and low quality products and courses I found the product that it’s of good quality and it’s definitely not a scam.
Before I’ll write this review, I’d like to invite you, if you haven’t yet, to watch Chris Luck’s 90 minute video presentation of the Membership Method.
The presentation can be accessed here. You will have to leave your email to get access to it, but it’s a free presentation, from which you can learn a lot about the Chris Luck’s method. It’s really worth watching whether you decide or not, to buy Chris Luck’s course.
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Comprehensive Review of the Membership Method
Before we look in depth into the Membership Method Course, let’s see who’s the creator of the course.
Who Is Chris Luck?
Chris Luck is a well-known and very successful entrepreneur and online marketer who, like most of the successful online marketers, started with affiliate marketing.
In my opinion, affiliate marketing is the best and the easiest way for a newbie to learn how to make money online. Chris Luck would probably disagree and said that the membership sites is the better and easier way.
Whichever is true, one thing is certain – you need a mentor to learn how to be successful, either in affiliate marketing or the membership websites.
Chris Luck, was very successful as the Amazon affiliate marketer. After that he became one of the best affiliates for many top companies, like eBay, Walmart, Ticketmaster and many more, which you can see below.
After he became very rich in a small American town, people wanted to know how he did it. He created the course teaching affiliate marketing, but he wasn’t successful at selling it. This helped him realize that it’s much easier to give free information online and create paid membership sites, to make money, than to sell products.
After that he created many different membership sites and calling him the king of the membership websites, wouldn’t be an exaggeration, I think.
Here’s Chris Luck with his wife and daughters.
Why the Membership Sites?
Chris Luck discovered that people are looking, and will always look for the information on the internet. Whether someone needs to learn how to use excel in marketing, how to learn affiliate marketing, how to lose weight, the first place to find the answers and help is the internet, nowadays.
The problem is that there’s often overload of the information on the internet, and it’s easy to be lost. I experienced this myself a few years ago, when my online business was going down, and I decided to improve my affiliate marketing skills.
I went to Google and searched for the internet marketing courses, books and tutorials. I found a lot. So, my choice was to buy and try many of them to learn a little bit from each one of them or to find one place where I can find all the help and tools I need.
That’s how I found Wealthy Affiliate, where I signed up for free, to start learning affiliate marketing. Later, I upgraded to the Premium Membership, and I am the paid member till today. I am very happy with the membership and I have no plans to leave WA.
WA makes money from the members like me, but we continue to pay them because we are very happy with what we get for our money. It’s a win-win relationship.
Chris Luck is right, by creating the membership sites, or even just one of them, you can become very rich. Chris Luck has made an average of $11,000 per day for 6 years in this way. You might think that the numbers are exaggerated, but they are not. Some membership sites make much more. You can read about them here. All those membership sites make over $100,000 per year.
The Membership Method in 4 Steps
Chris Luck teaches how to create very successful membership sites in 4 steps.
Step 1 – People
The first step is people. He teaches how to find what people are looking for. Once you find people that need help and offer them that help, they’ll be happy to join your membership website. Chris Luck teaches exactly how to do it, and where to find people and what they are looking for.
Step 2 – Product
Step 2 is about creating the product for the membership site. Chris teaches how to find the product that people will subscribe for and that will stay evergreen. It means you won’t need to worry, that people won’t be interested in it anymore.
Some products, like for example, some fad diets, are popular only for some time, like a few years. You should have the product that people will be interested in for many years.
Chris Luck also teaches how to create a product. His favorite products are info articles, which you can write yourself, buy PLR articles or books or pay someone to write them for you.
Step 3 – Process
Step 3 is the process. After you have your product, you must create a membership website, where people can find your product and subscribe to.
There are many aspects of that. You need a web hosting, a domain, you need to choose the platform for your business, the payment methods, etc.
It’s all very easy now thanks to different platforms like WordPress, Kajabi and many others. According to Chris, the Kajabi platform is by far the best for the membership websites. He has tested many platforms. Although I personally use WordPress, in case of the membership sites, I’d follow the Chris’ advice.
Step 4 – Profit
In this step Chris explains how to make money with the membership sites and how much you can make.
Is the Membership Method Course for You?
As you can see the 4 steps aren’t the secret, and many people know about them. The problem is in the details. If you don’t know how to do everything right, in each of the steps above, you’ll probably fail.
If someone who did it many times, like Chris Luck, guides you step by step, then you’ll most likely succeed.
You won’t succeed just by buying the Membership Method Course. You won’t succeed simply because you learn everything he teaches.
So, you should first watch the Chris Luck’s video presentation, and decide if this course is for you.
Chris states it right away that his course is not for:
- People who want to make money quickly. This isn’t make-money-quick course. It’ll take some time to learn what to do, to create the product, and to set it all up. It’ll require some work first, and then some patience before you start making money.
- People who are not able to follow his step-by-step method. He teaches everything in detail, step-by-step and knows exactly what to do to be successful in this business. He has been doing it for 20 years. He knows that if you can’t follow his method, then it’s unlikely that you succeed.
- People who have no money to invest in the business. The membership website is a business. It’s an online business, and as every business it requires some money to invest. If you start a brick and mortar business you must invest a lot of money to start. When you start an online business, you can start it with much less money, but you still need some money to start. You need money to buy a domain, web hosting, to pay for a business platform like Kajabi and maybe to create the product too. So, you should not go into it, if don’t have any money to invest.
Are You an Entrepreneur or Wantpreneur?
I really like this example and the comparison of an entrepreneur and wantpreneur from Chris Luck’s video, so I decided to show it here:
The entrepreneur builds a solid foundation for his business first. The wantpreneur wants to make money quick, so he does not invest time and money to build the solid foundation first.
5 Week Course
The Membership Method Course is taught step-by-step in 5 week modules. You can obviously do it faster or slower, but 5 weeks is the recommended time to start making money as soon as possible
Week 1 – Roadmap
- You’ll learn
- How to choose your market
- How to find 7 figure idea
- How to guarantee your success
- How to name your membership site
Week 2 – Content
- How to plan your “no fail strategy”
- Find out what your market wants
- Learn about all the cutting edge research tools
Week 3 – Development
- How to model $10M – $100M membership sites
- How to set everything up in less than 25 minutes
- How to clone Chris Luck’s templates in less than 3 minutes
- How to get paying members without selling
- How to get money deposited into your bank
- How to have a membership site ready in 21 days
Week 4 – Marketing
- How to find and help people asking for help
- How to download, copy and paste Chris Luck’s scripts
- How to get new members via email
- How to funnel people from YouTube videos
Week 5 – Advertising
- How to get traffic from paid advertising via Google Ads and YouTube Ads
- How to do retargeting
- How to do direct response emails
- How to get affiliates (this advanced method is optional)
Week 6 – Automation
- How to outsource some of the work
- How to hire a team that will work for you
There’s more in the course, that comes with bonuses like, Traffic Bonus, Template Bonus, Workshop Bonus and Mastermind Bonus.
The Cost, What You Get and Profit Guarantee
The course can be bought now for $1,497. It’s quite expensive, but you’ll also get a lot, plus Chris gives a guarantee that if you aren’t successful after applying everything he teaches in 1 year, then he’ll personally work with you to guarantee your success.
You can see below everything you’ll get if you buy the course:
How Does It Look from the Inside?
You can watch the video below to see how the Membership Method looks from the members’ side
The Pros of the Membership Method
- You’ll learn from the best in this kind of business
- The method works
- The training is very good and step-by-step
- You’ll get all the training you need in one place
The Cons
- The course is quite expensive, although worth the money
- You’ll need more money to invest in the business
- You’ll need to add more and more content to your membership site to keep people from unsubscribing
Summary
To summarize, the Membership Method Course is not a scam. It’s a genuine course and one of the best there is about making money with membership websites.
If you can barely afford the course, it’s not for you, because you’ll need some more money to invest in this business.
If you have the money for the course, to invest more and you’re ready to work hard, then the Membership Method is recommended. The membership websites are one of the best ways of making money online. Once you have your membership website bringing subscribers, you might be financially set for life.
Other Alternatives?
If you don’t have money for the Membership Method, the membership websites aren’t your kind of business, or for whatever other reason you’re not interested in it, then you should take a look at Wealthy Affiliate.
You can start with Wealthy Affiliate for free to test it or to stay as a free member as long as you want to. You can learn a lot as the free member and you can start making money online as the free member.
If you upgrade to the Premium Membership, you’ll get everything you need, to make money online.
Can I just say thank you for your refreshing article? Seriously. After too many of these make money online sites, this review was a breath of fresh air right now.
I’m not looking into a membership site at this time, but I was curious. Like most beginners, I’m starting with affiliate marketing. But I’m not ignorant and I have a lot of knowledge because I’m always learning. It’s implementing it that I’m a newbie at. So I love learning new things and I’m going to keep this idea on the backburner. I don’t know about this particular course for sure yet, but it’s given me an idea for a few years down the road, so THANK YOU!
Thank you for the comment!
Thank you for this great review. It really gets me excited to find valid, legitimate programs on the net.
Too many times, that’s not the case and what’s being pushed on you turns out to be a scam.
I’ve actually considered starting a membership site but never really knew how to go about it properly. I love to sail, scuba dive, operate drones, etc. Any of those would be a good base to build a membership site from.
The catch I have right now is funding. I know that $1500 is a steal when you look at all that you get but it’s still $1500 I don’t have at the moment. I’ll definitely keep this opportunity bookmarked and I’ll try to save up the funds to join but I’d jump on board now if there were some sort of monthly option. I understand this might not be feasible as someone could just join for a month, take all the info and then leave. Maybe a monthly payment plan for the total could be setup. Just to make it affordable to those of us who don’t have the lump sum upfront. I don’t know, just thinking out loud.
Damn, now I’m excited to have found a how-to platform and depressed that I can’t join it at the moment.
Anyway, thanks again for the great review,
Scott
Thank you for the comment. Yes, I agree, a monthly payment option would be nice.
Chris, I do thank you for this post about membership marketing. It’s one of the directions that I am considering and your review is a timely one for me.
My particular niche isn’t really geared for affiliate marketing…at least, at this stage of my development of it, I can’t see right now how it would hook up with that form of online marketing.
The Wealthy Affiliates training you mention continues to be an enormous help to me because it helps me develop the basic (and more advanced) knowledge about online marketing (about which I knew very little when I started) and has introduced me to a large group of helpful people who are also involved in doing what I am trying to do.
It has also helped me in developing at least some of the technical skills required to pursue this sort of marketing. (At least now I know the questions to ask the people who can help me! This is a big step forward, I think.)
Thank you for your detailed and thorough introduction and review of the Chris Luck Membership Method. As you say, an investment of both time and money is necessary for any kind of success in business. Your review makes me feel like it would be worthwhile to check out Luck’s offering.
Thank you for the comment.
Hi, I really love your review regarding Chris, yes you are right it is only affiliate marketing that can make us the boss we wanted to be, but most of the people wants get rich quick scheme, if we can invest our time and money as you have written in your website, affiliate marketing will give us what we want to be financially free, and I love something in your post because I use to hear about entrepreneur but it’s in your post that I came across wantpreneur who does not create a solid foundation for his business which make the business to collapse.
What most people don’t know is that the time that they don’t want to sacrifice for affiliate marketing business they will keep roaming around all business and they won’t achieve anything for like a year or more but if they stand with affiliate marketing and have a good mentor like Chris within 6 months they are boss.
My question about the course which cost $1497 by Chris is that like how much should I have apart from.the money to purchase the course?
I think you need about $100 for web hosting, domain and Kajabi, and other expenses to start, if you can write your own content. Actually, you can start with Kajabi free trial, but anyway, I think you should keep $100 for the expenses for the first 2-3 months.
Thank you for the comment.
Chris has created a wonderful method which totally differs from the one I knew! How perfect! Many thanks for posting this information!