A "content club": is it a good idea?

[eddywebs]

Hi (pardon for the incorrect title couldn't edit that) , I was recently stumbled upon an content club which of course has an membership fee of about $97 / month and they said to close doors at 300 members sharp .
They provided some demo articles and they found out to be some what unique as searching the articles paragraph on Google didn't showed any exact match ( yeah it did showed up but for only one article ) .

Well I was wondering is it good idea to join those whats are the ROI good enough , the thing writing fresh articles ain't a easy task and it needs lots of devotion , motivation and time so how about going through the path of PLR articles are they a good choice .

and it would be great if someone suggests or sticky me any content forums out there helping user find fresh content .

Thanks

[wintercornuk]

Sounds like a scam to me. Articles can be re-written by machine, not well, but enough to get someone to part with $97. The "closing doors" bit sounds like a scam sales pitch. How would you know anyway?

Also, for $97 I'm sure a struggling writer would turn out a few unique articles for you.

Have a look around the article message boards for freelance writers.

Just my 2p

[LifeinAsia]

Also, the content may be "unique" now, but how unique will it be after 300 sites put up the exact same content?

[Syzygy]

I've just done a search for 'content clubs' and cannot believe the nonsense I've now read! These things are legal?

I'm sure there are better ways of spending the $1,164 it would cost for a year's membership...

Syzygy

[LifeinAsia]

Ouch, I missed the part where it's a monthly fee. You mean that when you stop paying the monthly fee, you're not allowed to use the content any more? Or can you signup for 1 month, grab all the content during that time, then cancel your membership?

Anyway, I definitely wouldn't waste mu money with it. Spend the money to hire someone to write real original content.

[Go60Guy]

Well, there are good ones and bad ones, as you might expect. Typically, a reliable content provider will set up membership groups and provide a set of articles monthly on a variety of topics to each group. A group might be limited to 200 so that there is a limit on duplication. Many who participate will spend some time rewriting the articles to some extent to sidestep complete duplication. This becomes a time saver.

Some content providers also furnish site builders with everything properly linked as well as a forum and other tools. All this said, there are some that basically are scams. These will not have multiple groups, and are relying mainly on a scarcity marketing business model.

If you're careful, you can find some very decent, revenue generating content. Lets say, for instance, that you get 400 articles per month for $97. That's about .24 cents per article. That ain't bad. On the other hand, if you can research and rattle off 400 articles per month, by all means save your $97.

In all probability, you won't be able to grab the entire articles archive. They'll provide articles to you only going forward.

[edited by: Go60Guy at 12:53 am (utc) on Jan. 11, 2007]

[gibbergibber]

There's no commercial reason to close your doors to new customers.

Legitimate content businesses serve as many customers as they can, they don't have "closing doors".

"Closing doors" sounds like a scam technique to panic you into making a decision quickly without thinking about it too much.