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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...