How Jill + Josh Stanton of Screw The Nine To Five Re-Launched Their Membership After A 2 Year Break!
On this episode of the Membership Masters Podcast I welcome two of my favorite friends onto the show - none other than Jill and Josh Stanton of ScrewTheNineToFive.com. Many moons ago Jocelyn and I were in a mastermind with Jill and Josh. We talked almost every day as we were building our membership sites. We even combined forces by co-hosting real-life live events together.
I had a blast re-connecting with Jill and Josh on today’s show! We talked about how amazing it was watching them launch an epic membership community that grew into hundreds of members and made hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. But, the crazy things is out of nowhere Jill and Josh abruptly stopped their old membership site - they realized they had mades one huge mistakes when creating their business and it nearly crushed them. After circling back around they are launching their new community and creating the membership that is right for them!
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Author Dan Miller Explains Why A Membership Is The Perfect Compliment To Your Books!
My guest today is the author of 48 Days To The Work You Love, Dan Miller! I feel so fortunate to be able to connect with Dan today on the show.
Dan’s book was a key influence early on in my online journey. Dan has touched the lives of thousands upon thousands of people all over the world.
On today’s Membership Masters Podcast Dan and I have a conversation about his inspiring membership community, 48 Days Eagles. In this episode you will learn why a membership community is the perfect compliment for an author to combine with their books. How Dan leads and mentors the hundreds of members inside his community. And, how going through the pain of switching your membership platform could be the best thing for your community in the long term!
What You'll Learn:
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The natural evolution into membership. (18:00)
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How do you create community between live events? (26:00)
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Dan tell us about his new book! (40:00)
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How Pat Flynn Added A Membership To His Existing Course, Affiliate, and Coaching Business!
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My guest on this week’s Shane Sams Show is my good friend, the one and only Pat Flynn of the Smart Passive Income Podcast!
As many of you know Pat was a huge inspiration and early mentor in our quest to become online entrepreneurs. His story inspired me and my wife Jocelyn to launch our first online business. And, he even encouraged us to launch the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast.
I’ve had the great pleasure of getting to know Pat over the years and even appeared twice on the Smart Passive Income Podcast!
All the years I’ve known Pat I’ve asked him multiple times, “bro, when are you going to launch a membership site?” Well a few months ago I sent him that text and he replied back, “I have a secret - it’s coming soon!” I’m happy to report that that day has finally come and Pat Flynn has launched his first paid membership community - SPI...
Jennifer Bradley Explains How Her Membership Site Became the Market Leader in Her Niche!
On today’s episode we have Flip Your Life Community alumni Jennifer Bradley. Jennifer is a speech-language pathologist who built an amazing online membership of over 1,000 members in the speech-language community.
On today’s show we go deep into why you should hire slow and fire fast so you can build an amazing team around your membership site. We’re going to talk about how you can completely remove yourself from the day-to-day operation of your membership business so that you can focus on higher-level tasks to really make it grow. We’re going to teach you exactly how to say ‘yes’ to big opportunities and ‘no’ to all of the other opportunities that come your way. Finally, at the end of today’s show we are going to do a live marketing coaching session where Jennifer and I develop an actual promotion live on the air. And, I teach Jennifer my trailer park tornado strategy for evaluating...
Brian Dixon Of Hope Writers Talks Successful Business Partnerships + Lifetime Membership!
Today’s episode is going to be a great one! My guest today is Brian Dixon from hopewriters.com. Brian and his partners have built an incredible membership site where they help female writers their blogs and books out there into the world. Over the last couple of years they have built a 4,000 member membership site paying around $50/month, can you imagine that?
We are going to cover the value of business partnerships, actually having a business partner, business relationships, what happens when you burn a bridge, what happens when you let somebody down. How do you make that right? And, we’re also talking about how you can use lifetime membership to increase your bottom line and make big money fast!
What You'll Learn:
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“Here comes the ride" feelings. (9:25)
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Burn the boats. (19:00)
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Discovering your niche. (28:00)
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Feeling the pressures of your membership. (34:00)
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The perfect recipe of for a membership...
How Kate Ahl Uses Cold Traffic + Tripwires To Grow Her Pinterest Membership Site!
Today’s episode is going to be a great one! My guest today is Kate Ahl of Simple Pin Media. Kate is a great friend and is in a mastermind with my wife Jocelyn. She runs an incredible Pinterest agency and membership community of Pinterest marketers. I absolutely loved this conversion with Kate Ahl and I know that you will too.
In today’s Membership Masters Podcast you will learn how Kate built her Pinterest collective into an amazing membership community of people paying her nearly $100/month every single month. We’re going to talk about how you can use tripwires to convert more cold traffic into paying memberships. And, we develop a strategy live on air in true mastermind format for using order bumps to get more leads into your membership the day they opt into your email list!
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You can’t do it all. (7:30)
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Sometimes the secret is a system. (18:30)
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Don’t make course for...
How The Merrymaker Sisters of MerryBody Build Their Audience and Traffic
The Merrymaker Sisters are great friends of ours from all the way Australia! They have created an amazing incredible membership based around yoga and pilates. They’ve got a world-wide following, a world-wide community, and an amazing membership. In this episode we get deep into the weeds on the tech behind an amazing membership website, we talk all about branding, and most importantly about building an audience and traffic using social media like Instagram and Facebook. It’s an amazing conversation with literally two of the most amazing people I have ever met.
I know you’re going to get a lot out of this talk today with Carla and Emma the Merry Sisters and the founders of the MerryBody membership! It’s going to be amazing episode packed full of information and it’s going to help you get and keep more members right now. Are you ready to build a million dollar membership today? Alright, let’s go!
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How Jason Brown of The Brown Report Uses Join Fees To Drive His Membership Site
Jason is not only a great friend but he is also the founder of TheBrownReport.com. I’ve known Jason for many years and he is an amazing entrepreneur that has truly built an incredible online business. We’re going to talk all about memberships today and how he built his membership community around stock and options trading. We’re going to get into something we’ve never talked about on the Membership Masters Podcast before - having big join fees (up to $1K) to get into membership and high ticket membership prices ($199/month). We’re going to break down Jason’s team so that you can learn how to build a team that can grow your membership site. Jason talks about how you can use the powerful tool of a join fee to not only make more but to actually get more people to join your business. I learned a ton about how to get more members and make more money and I know you will too!
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How Jeff Twiddy Built a 3000 Member Site With Free Trials And Annual Upsells
Jeff Twiddy is one of my very own students from the Flip Your Life Community. Jeff is a former school teacher and football coach that started his own membership site in the education space a few years ago.
He has now built an incredible membership site with more than 3,000 members paying an average of $47/month. His resources are used in hundreds of schools all over the world.
In today’s episode we go deep into Jeff’s membership site and discuss how to up-sell free trials into annual members on your ‘Thank You’ page, the life-changing nature of creating your own monthly recurring revenue business, and how outsourcing content creation allowed Jeff to focus on building his million dollar membership.
What You’ll Learn:
- You can’t skip levels of success. (5:40)
- Your friend groups have to change as you progress. (11:15)
- Big things happen from small things. (18:00)
- The reason you should sell one thing....
Mike Morrison of Membership Guys (Passive Income + Paid Advertising to Grow Membership Sites)
Mike Morrison is not only a great friend of mine, he has been in the online business space for nearly 20 years. He has done this as both an online agency owner and has been at the forefront of the rise of online membership site businesses.
Each week Mike drops a new show where he gives membership advice, tips, and insights on planning, running, and growing a successful membership website.
This interview was awesome! We covered everything from the power of memberships as a passive income stream, using paid advertising to grow your membership, and even a little discussion about professional wrestling, something we are both huge fans of! And yes, we tie it to memberships. You’ve got to hear it to believe it!
What You'll Learn:
- The scary part of the online world. (1:30)
- The slowdown 4-1-1. (5:30)
- How to attract the right members. (8:45)
- How tojust keep stacking. (11:30)
- Subscriptions, subscriptions, subscriptions (21:00)
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