Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Craig over at Castos

Never before has it been easier to make money in the creator economy.  Whether you’re running an online course, an exclusive membership site, or a digital community there are more tools available to you as a creator now than ever before. 

The ability for you to create unique, valuable content and charge real money for it is at the heart of what makes the creator economy tick.  Here are just a few examples of a few people just like you who are making tens of thousands of dollars a month only selling access to their membership sites: 

One of the most common forms of making money as a creator is to gate some of your content for it to be available only to select members on your website.  These can be paid memberships or free ones, but the idea is that you are trading your valuable content for some form of commitment from your members. This commitment can be financial in the form of a monthly membership fee, or just their email address in order to access your content. 

Either way, you are choosing to put some of your valuable content in an area that only your members can access.  

And many times, it is those members who raise their virtual hands and say “We want more!”.  More content, more insights, more behind the scenes info on what is going on in your world. It is this premium content, oftentimes driven by your audience, that makes the value of a membership site so compelling to your audience.