Turning Your Service Into A Product That Can Scale w/ Greg Hickman!
Today’s guest on the Shane Sams Show is Greg Hickman of AltAgency! For years, Greg was in the mobile and text message marketing space, but then he transitioned into building funnels and automation for entrepreneurs.
Shane Sams and Greg Hickman go way back. In this episode, they dig into Greg’s journey into entrepreneurship and how he was one of the first people that Shane and Jocelyn paid to help with their online business!
They talk about how focusing one doing one thing for a specific group of people helps to move the needle faster than being a generalist. Specialization is what gets you paying clients and customers to move your business forward. Just because you’re doing a lot of things in your business, that doesn’t mean that you’re making progress. It’s better to be the glacier than the prairie fire!
Find out more about Greg Hickman at AltAgency.com!
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
- The...
Kathy Martin On Saying NOPE To Imposter Syndrome!
Today’s guest on the Membership Masters Podcast is Kathy Martin of prealgebrateachers.com!
Over the years Shane Sams has helped thousands of family-focused entrepreneurs start, build, and grow online businesses of their own.
Several years ago Kathy joined the Flipped Lifestyle Community and started her online journey. She struggled her first year and after getting her first members - they quit. Kathy was relentless, prolific, and consistent. Now, she leads and amazing online community of over 500 members!
In today’s episode we talk about:
- How desire was critical in the beginning of Kathy’s online business journey
- Overcoming mindset issues that entrepreneurs face every step in their journey
- How Kathy says “NOPE” when fear creeps into her mind to try to stop her growth
Show Notes
What triggered you to start your own membership? (8:00)
Kathy Martin had taught elementary school for a few years....
John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneurs On Fire Shows Us The Path To Uncommon Success!
Shane Sams is excited to welcome back our first repeat guest on the Membership Masters Podcast: John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneurs On Fire! Now, John has written an amazing book called The Common Path To Uncommon Success. And Shane was lucky enough to get an advanced copy before it was released and was so pumped up about it we had to have him on the podcast today!
In today’s podcast Shane and John talk about:
- What Uncommon Success looks like for you.
- How you can achieve the exact dream you want to go after.
- How you can find amazing mentors to shorten that runway to success and avoid pitfalls along the way.
- The importance of masterminds and how you can find the people for your mastermind group.
- The content strategy John Lee Dumas used to create his multi-million dollar empire.
Show Notes
On March 23rd John Lee Dumas’ new book, The Common Path To Uncommon Success, will be available! Don’t wait until the...
Seth Buechley On How To Have Ambition + Gratitude!
Today’s guest is Seth Buechley, author of Ambition: Leading With Gratitude and he drops some amazing value in this interview!
In my conversation with Seth Buechley today we covered a wide range of topics! On today’s podcast you’re going to learn:
- All of the lessons Seth Buechley figured out while building a $60M company
- Seth Beuchley’s framework for establishing and setting core values in your company that can be the guiding principles you need to take it to the next level and break through plateaus
- Seth Buechley’s 4-point framework for finding and becoming a great mentor
- How to reach your potential, impact the world around you, and leave a legacy for your family
Show Notes
Satisfaction doesn’t live on the other side of achievement. (12:00)
Seth has a great quote on his website that says, “satisfaction doesn’t live on the other side of achievement - it...
Ivy + Chris Newport On Growing Your Business Despite Outside Circumstances!
Today on the Membership Masters Podcast Shane Sams is talking to Ivy + Chris Newport of ivynewport.com!
Not only are they creating an amazing business/membership site, Shane has had the privilege of watching their journey from the very beginning. Chris + Ivy joined the Flipped Lifestyle Community to learn how to start, build, and grow membership sites. We had the privilege of being a part of their first membership site and we watched them grow up to hundreds of members in that first month and they have been growing ever since - which is why we had to have them on Membership Masters!
Show Notes
About 14 years ago, Ivy Newport created a blog as a new mom. Ivy just wanted to get online and share her creativity with others. Through that process, she discovered a need for women to connect so they could be inspired by each other. From there, Ivy began getting into online art-focused classes and fell in love. This is...
Kat Jarman On Customer Service For Memberships!
Today’s guest is my good friend, Kat Jarman! In this episode we are going to be talking about how to provide top-notch, world class customer service for your members in your membership website!
Kat is an amazing entrepreneur and she is an expert at building customer service teams for membership websites!
Today you’ll learn:
- How to get amazing systems in place so you can serve your members and keep them paying longer!
- How to build amazing customer service teams!
Show Notes
Why is community important? (8:00)
Kat Jarman has ran an online business management agency for around 3 years. She does high-level operations and has noticed that people with memberships tend to have the best results and biggest transformations.
Why? If you ask Kat, it all boils down to the community aspect (you don’t get that with other business models)! The goals are typically not on getting Ferrari but being able to...
How To Sell Your Online Business With Jason Yelowitz!
I love membership websites and I love SELLING membership websites - today’s guest is Jason Yelowitz, the guy that helped me sell one of my first membership websites for 7-figures!
Quiet Light is where Jason is the best in the business at selling subscription and membership-based businesses!
Today, Jason goes into the process of selling your membership business and why you should! If you’re just starting out - Jason tells you what you can do form the beginning to make it a business that would be attractive to buyers if you ever decided to sell!
Show Notes
Jason Yelowitz says the #1 thing to do in your business is to make it easily transferable.
- Transferability: Present a clear, easily transferable system. The business should be turn-key. Ready to hand off.
Know your metrics.
Spend the time, money and elbow grease to go backwards and separate everything out! The more buyers there are, the more pressure you have,...
Aaron Walker of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind Group On Marketing A Higher-Ticket Monthly Membership!
Today’s guest is Aaron Walker (viewfromthetop.com), the leader of the Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind Group!
Aaron is an amazing entrepreneur who has started 14 different business - all of the having success along the way! He has created an incredible membership where he charges $575/month. He has hundreds of members from 9 different countries!
In this episode you will learn:
- How an application process can build the membership that you want!
- How to sell and market a higher-ticket monthly membership.
- How to get customers into the top of your funnel!
Show Notes
Fall in love with helping others! (7:00)
Aaron started his first business 42 years ago and sold to a Fortune 500 Company at age 27! This man is a serial entrepreneur and 10 years ago he finally retired for the third and final time.
After a brief retirement Aaron got back into the game and starting coaching this time around! Fast forward 7 years later Aaron...
A Flipped Lifestyle Member Becomes A Membership Master!
Today’s episode is little different than our normal Membership Masters how! Sometime we forget that Membership Masters aren’t just the celebrities crushing it online - there are Membership Masters all around us including my guest, Bill Giovanetti!
Bill is a Flipped Lifestyle Member and today we get to watch Bill go from membership dreamer to Membership Master! Bill did exactly what the November edition of the Membership Masters Newsletter said and he had a promotion that generated over $33K in a single week!!!
Show Notes
Bill leads the Veritas School of Biblical Ministry, an unaccredited Master’s level program in theology. For him, the month of November was the breakthrough he needed to keep with his membership. At $33K in a single week - it’s pretty easy to understand how!
While Bill doesn’t like to talk about how much money he made it’s important to note: Bill has an important...
How Trey Stinnett of TheFlow.Coach Uses Wealth Dynamics To Get Your Team In Flow!
I am so excited for today’s guest - Trey Stinnett (theflow.coach)! I met Trey a couple months at a workshop in Colorado and he taught a concept called Wealth Dynamics that blew my mind and within weeks changed everything that we are doing in our online business!
The Wealth Dynamics system is designed to get you in flow - that timeless state where you sit down to do work that you love and you look up to realize hours have went by.
This system that Trey teaches allows you to identify who you are and what you should be doing in your business. But, it goes a step farther! It helps you identify all the people you need on your team! And get them in flow too!
If you’ve ever taken a personality test: Myers-Briggs or the Enneagram - you know that they’re great, but they don’t have any practical, tactical advice.
In today’s episode Trey takes you through the 8 profiles of Wealth Dynamics that will tell you exactly who...
