Starting an Online Membership Business with Ward Sandler

Are you burnt out from endless private sessions, or worried that clients are going to stop booking in this economic downturn? Great news: we have a solution for you. Memberships, which are courses, communities, or group coaching programs accessible through a paid subscription, can address your burnout, boost your income, and actually help more people. Here at the Holistic Business Academy, we know that memberships are a rock solid way to use your unique expertise to serve your community with less work for you and lower prices for your customers.  So, how do you get started? On this week’s episode of The Holistic Business Podcast, we invited MemberSpace CEO Ward Sandler to share his expertise on how to successfully establish and run your online membership business. MemberSpace is a software as a service (SaaS) that enables creators to turn any part of their website into members-only with just a few clicks. Their mission is to help entrepreneurs build a sustainable membership business (without coding!) anywhere on the internet. Ward and his cofounder Ryan have helped thousands of people around the world generate tens of millions of dollars from their members since 2015. In this conversation, holistic business coach Sarah M. Chappell chats with Ward about the foundations of building a membership business model: how to know if you’re ready, what the biggest benefits and pitfalls are, and how to overcome perfectionism when you’re getting started. Tune in to learn how to build a sustainable and profitable membership business that creates consistent recurring revenue at an accessible price for your customers. TIME STAMPS 7:18—How to know if you’re ready to run a membership 9:30—The key benefit of running a membership 13:03–The biggest membership pitfalls 15:43—Why perfectionism is your enemy 22:41—How the membership model fits into economically challenging times CONNECT WITH WARD MemberSpace Resources MemberSpace’s Twitter Ward’s Twitter Listeners get TWO MONTHS FREE with the code “holistic”

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