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5 Concierge Onboarding Ideas for Your Membership Site
Giving your new members a concierge onboarding experience to your membership site is a great way to make a first impression and “wow” them right from the beginning. But maybe you’re unsure of how to give your new members a greater connection to you without filling up your already crowded calendar. Here’s five ways to give custom, feel good onboarding in efficient bite-sized pieces: Use MemberVault’s native quiz question feature to gather detailed information ...
Avoid These 3 Biggest Marketing Mistakes
I don’t know about you, but when I built my first course, I built first and thought, I will build it and they will come. Boy, was I delusional! I spent two full weeks pulling together my entire mastercourse and then launched it to …..drumroll for effect ….. Noone! I had not built up any buzz or interested people online around my magnificent topic. And I was so defeated. It took another year and a half to get back up again and try another way. Well, I don’t want ...
Create a Curriculum Map for your Membership Site, Course or Coaching Program
Your signature course and Membership site sales are directly proportional to your ability to communicate where you are taking your audience on their journey. And even better, you need to communicate that visually! Here are several examples of member journey maps (or what I call course curriculum graphics) to help people visually see where you are taking them, should they choose to follow. Here is a women’s coaching program journey map I created for my friend, Corri: Here’s a ...
Top Membership Site Retention Strategies
Did your mom teach you to never show off? Mine did. Totally forbidden. Whether you have an online course, membership site or coaching program, one of the best ways to retain your audience is to showcase their wins (and indirectly show off your amazing skills of helping other people win!). And this time, even your mom might approve! So here’s 7 simple ways to showcase your student’s, member’s or client’s wins and in the meantime create devoted followers of your ...
Helping Teens Monetize Their Talents Using MemberVault
My daughter, Michaela, has been a digital artist since she was 14 years old (now almost 20), drawing avatars, printable merchandise and My Little Pony caricatures on her Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 digital drawing pen computer. She primarily finds customers on the DeviantArt site who commission her for custom drawings from $25 - $100 each and then rate her turnaround services (currently at a 5-star rating). With her customers’ blessing, she streams her drawing sessions live on Picarto.TV ...
5 Types of Industry Experts Who Could Benefit from Having an Online Course
As service providers like Coaches and Counselors, your practice can quickly become maxed out, leaving you with limited options to scale your business beyond your time. By adding an online course to your suite of offerings, you can better leverage your time to serve high-end clients while also expanding your clientele worldwide with online availability 24/7/365. End Result: more capacity to help more people! For Consultants who are subject matter experts, developing perceived expertise is so ...
5 Retention Strategies for Membership Sites to Create Recurring Income
Need some steady, recurring income? Did you know it can cost 7-10 times as much to recruit a new member than to just retain your current ones? Think of the time and effort you put into your marketing activities, discovery calls, training videos, social media graphics and moderating your Facebook groups. Instead, I want you to focus your energies on retention strategies to keep your current members coming back for more! It's 7xs Easier to Retain Than Recruit Members for Your Membership ...
3 Little Known Side Benefits of Adding a Course to Your Service Offerings
If you’re an entrepreneur with a flourishing online service-based or agency business, have you ever thought about offering your area of specialization in an online course format? If not, here’s three key, but little-known benefits of adding a course to your service-based biz offerings: Increases Your Perceived Expertise Just like book authors garner a high level of perceived expertise once they commit their knowledge into a book format, so do course creators. When you take the time ...
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WHO AM I: Iām an IRL professor and instructional designer turned entrepreneur. I love all things teaching, training, tech and creating learning experiences to engage your audience, build your brand and boost your business. I teach college-level courses on business technology, criminal justice and leadership development on a variety of topics.
WHO I HELP: I have worked with doctors, surgeons, podcasters, social media influencers, event planners, churches, professors turned entrepreneurs, online VA training schools, licensed therapists, book authors, dog trainers, career transition specialists and both fitness and business coaches. Regardless of your niche or expertise, I most love to work with overwhelmed entrepreneurs like you who delight in letting me do the heavy lifting of setting up your MV site branding, Actions, integrations and content so you preserve your time and focus on what you do best! Check out my MV Portfolio.
HOW I HELP: I help you narrow down your focus, outline the essentials, strategize for converting browsers to buyers and then rapidly build out your project as a course, coaching program or membership site. But what I most enjoy is hearing all the wonderfully unique and brilliant ideas my clients have and then leveraging all the features of MemberVault to make it become a profitable business reality.Ā
And as a MemberVault Certified Partner, I have learned how to rapidly set-up an amazing looking MemberVault Marketplace so you can do what you do best and leave the rest to me!
WHERE YOU ARE IN THE PROCESS: Youāre an expert at what you do best, but maybe thatās not teaching or tech. Youāre feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to organize your digital products. In fact, youāre drowning in details, time-consuming to-doās and donāt even know where to start or how to begin organizing your project. Iāve got you!
Whether youāre just brainstorming your offer or converting a fully built course or membership from another platform, Iāll help walk you through all the ways to leverage MemberVault for quick results.
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