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!
What You'll Learn:
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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!
What You'll Learn:
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Join...
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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Robbie Baxter Author of The Membership Economy on Membership Site Pricing and Trials
Robbie Baxter is the OG evangelist of the membership model. Her book, The Membership Economy, predicted the rise of subscription services like Netflix. And, was literally our membership bible for growing our first membership site into a million dollar membership.
In today’s episode we dive deep into when and where you should use free trials, pricing your membership, and we discuss her new book, The Forever Transaction. We are going to talk about all things memberships with the person who literally wrote the book on the membership model.
What You’ll Learn:
- What the Membership Economy is all about
- The difference in headline benefits and engagement benefits
- “The Acquisition Schute”
- Why the free trial can help or hurt you
- Why friction is key to attracting quality members
- The Forever Transaction
- How to evolve your offerings
- The Membership Economy
- How to engage and retain your members
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James Schramko of SuperFastBusiness on How to Build a Membership Site with Trials
James Schramko is one of our own personal membership mentors. He helped us flesh out our own first online membership many moons ago, and is a true membership master himself in the subscription game. He is the founder of superfastbusiness.com, where he helps business owners make plenty more profit while working a whole lot less.
In this interview, we discuss the makings of a multi-million dollar membership, free trials, and how to make content areas your members will love.
What You’ll Learn:
- The ascension model. (8:30)
- How to get people to pay you, retain members that you’ve already gotten. (11:40)
- “Inbox Relief“ (13:50)
- How to set the culture. (17:30)
- Why you should use the membership model. (21:00)
- How to make recurring revenue. (31:00)
- You are worth it! (40:15)
- Why your membership is a supermarket. (42:00)
- How to work less and make more. (50:15)
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