Scaling Deep: The Membership & Marketing Podcast

One of the members of the Scaling Deep Society asked me how much co-creation she should do with the first cohort in her new membership. My answer is inside this video. While I love co-creation as a cornerstone and benefit of the membership model, I firmly believe that as program guides and experts in our topic, we need to provide the foundational blueprint they can follow to get the results we're...

I first met Jessica Vazquez 7 years ago when she was bravely stepping away from corporate to venture into her own business of helping her people also shift away from corporate and overspending and now she is going even further in her membership, La Arena. She shared her full story with us including her own journey of depression, shat she helps people with in her membership, how she entices them in...

Do you identify more as a coach or a niche expert? Most of us are more comfortable in one space than another and each of those roles brings a unique trap that we get caught in which prevents us from creating a strong connection with our audience. Listen to this episode to find out which of these traps you fall in and what the remedy is to get out of it. This will also help you strengthen your rela...

My guest today is a true quickstart and a force to watch. A former primary school teacher, Yadsia decided to sell products, binged watched YouTube to teach herself how to do Facebook ads and eventually launched her membership, almost impulsivly, during a colleagues summit that she sponsored.  In just 4 months she's grown her membership to almost 300 people. We talked about everything from how she...

Do you think about starting a membership program but wonder if your idea is good enough? Or how you could create something that has enough substance to keep members excited to stay long-term? In this podcast I'm sharing 3 types of membership containers that all work and might be a better fit for you depending on what topic you're teaching or helping members develop better skills in.  I also talk a...

Meg Casebolt is one of those down to earth people you could spend hours talking to about everything under the sun. And we did just that, big time. She's an SEO expert who has & teaches good boundaries around social media and just launched a book called "Social Slowdow". We talk about how her membership emerged and has evolved to a hybrid type program where the cost to join has reduced over time. I...

This is a tell-all episode in which I share my story on recent changes to my membership as well as my recent epiphanies on membership pricing. I will share my ONE pricing rule, 3 common mistakes, and give an update on the pricing changes I've made for my own membership and why. I also announce that my special training "3 secrets for a wildly successful membership" is open for a few days and so is...

A couple of weeks ago I had a small, but slightly annoying new issue showing up in my business. It was arounds payments. Less people were paying in full, more monthly, and that was creating greater risk for failure. So I posed the question to my mastermind and ended up with insights that fixed a way bigger problem with how I was selling my programs. The thread in my group led me to two new options...

My guest today, Kimberly Costa had a membership called Designing Delightfully which was born out of her passion for illustrating https://kimberlycosta.com/. She's been a member of the Scaling Deep Society for the lsat 6 months and grown her membership through summits. She talks about her deliverables inside the membership, her pricing choice and why summits are working for her so well. If you have...

I'm long overdue putting out a podcast on membership retention. Retention is an important way to build profitability into your programs because we can get a higher return from keeping people in our world than by always have to find new people to welcome in. Plus your long-term member are your super-users, big fans and really just fun people to keep in your world. In this episode I've pulled out 3...

Just because we have recurring revenue through a membership, doesn't mean don't get in different cycles of growth. Some days I can't believe how well everything is going, while the next week I'm wondering what's going wrong. Getting used to these cycles of change are a good idea. We shouldn't overreact or pivot based on any short-term changes. Instead, let's figure out how to use our time to best...

Would you believe that the smallest of online businesses are the ones that need automation the most? In this episode I explain what it is, why it's so important for growth-oriented entrepreneurs and how to embrace it. We are far too small to have a big team but we still need to accomplish so really big things. Things that only we can do, which is why we have to leave the admin to someone or someth...

I'm on a quest to help all the expert service providers of the world get better at sales and sales funnels. I hear over and over again people telling me they have a visibility problem when they actually need to work on the sales part of their funnel more than getting in front of more people. Which is why I'm trying to get all of my clients and members fall in love with the F word. No not THAT f-wo...

In today's episode of the Scaling Deep podcast we have a special guest, Diann Wingert of the Driven Woman podcast https://www.diannwingertcoaching.com/ receives coaching from me on how she could add a membership to her business including who it's for and when in their customer journey she'd invite them to join. This is a perfect episode for those who are interested in adding a membership or group...

One of the questions that stumps people from starting memberships is how it fits within their other offers. What is the best offer to have alongside a membership program? How do you sell them both? I address that inside this episode and go over the details of my favourite offer, my one-on-one VIP packages and why I love them so much. Check out my VIP Business Design session here:   https://scaling...

Have you hesitated starting your membership because you don't have a big audience? Perhaps you only have 100 people on your list? Well, not everyone begins their membership journey with all the stars aligned perfectly. Lex Roman of Growth Trackers is a long-term member of the Scaling Deep Society and she was super excited about helping people through a membership model and didn't have a big list....

Do you have a membership idea and didn't launch it because you started to doubt it? Or maybe you already have a program and it's been harder to get sales than you predicted. Well, here are some ways to help you enhance the appeal of your membership offer. I share real ways to add irresistibility to your offer, using relatability and specificity so you can narrow it and create more compelling reaso...

I'm always telling people that memberships are super easily to run. Most of the confusion comes with figuring out the best design and deliverables and then getting more members. Maria Carras-Woollard loves running her Inner Circle for Virtual Assistants membership because of how much flexibility she's gets from having a structure that this type of offer provides. We talked about her journey, how s...

This is it my friends. The only thing that every one of us needs to have alongside our scaling journey. It's an objective mindset. Because from what I'm learning from my own my experiences lately plus those of my high 6 and 7 figure online business colleagues, it's not how perfect you get it the first time. It's all about how quickly you can recover from the fails and make the thing you want to ha...

Do you ever wonder how niched you can go? Very! Especially if you have a community based membership where people from all over the world can connect on something unique. Jenny Hughes has done this for trauma therapists. And she's been building this group alongside her other work. Have a listen to this episode to find out how simple it can be to run a membership group that doesn't take up a lot of...

Love to overdeliver? Then listen up because today I'm addressing the myth that you have to solve all your members problems inside the membership. I'm going to share why this isn't possible and what you can do instead to get your members the support they really need. I'm previewing my method for helping membership business owners gain confidence and see growth inside the Membership Method workshop....

This is a great episode if you want lessons from someone who started a membership that wasn't ultimately sustainable, closed it down and then started it again. Noelle D'Intino from the Directors Club shares her full membership journey from when she started her program in 2013 to now. We talked about how the idea was born, how she first got it started, why she was killing herself with content creat...

Have you put too much stock into how you're feeling about a result or even how you're feeling on a particular day? Our emotions can affect our decisions too much because we can grasp on to a tiny negative detail that influences our next step, instead of looking at the entire picture from an objective perspective. How do we do that? By tracking our numbers, we can paint a truer picture of how well...

I loved this conversation with Braden Drake who created ProfitRx, a membership that helps people manage their taxes. We flowed from transitioning from a course to a membership, pricing decisions to delivering a service inside and then wrapped up with Lifetime Value. It's all in here including the numbers. If you want to see what it's like to run a successful almost 6 figure membership, you'll love...

This month, I moved my membership from Slack to Heartbeat. People get so worried about choosing the perfect tech set up. But it doesn't have to be set in stone and you can make a change after your membership gets established, with one exception. In this episode I share my upcoming workshop, https://scalingdeep.com/high-ticket-membership/, how I made my tech choices, how I moved my community (https...