It's A TRIBE Thing — Behind The Scenes of Successful Membership Sites

Wendy Batten spent years running a successful retail paint store - and discovered that she had a true gift for helping other entrepreneurs like her. This gradually led to her taking a step back from her retail operation in order to focus on coaching, and ultimately allowed her and her husband to make the decision to leave the city, sell their home and store, and move to a fishing village by the sea in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Her coaching work and gift for building communities extended to the online space as well. Despite her initial apprehension and lack of technological know-how to make it happen, she launched her first membership site, Paintrepreneurs Inner Circle. Now, she helps creative paint retailers all over the world manage the business side of their brick-and-mortar operations.

Today, Wendy joins the podcast to talk about how she runs a powerful business from a remote part of the world, how she was able to get the help she needed to launch from other entrepreneurs, and how she finds strength in moments of uncertainty.

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As a child, a lack of models in her size led Coach Tulin to struggle with body image - and ultimately helped her become a plus-sized model. Now, with a following of almost 400,000 people, Coach Tulin is showing others how to focus on getting healthier, stronger, and more mobile. Learn how she does it in today's episode!

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Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

Jamie Swanson helps other photographers grow their businesses. She launched her first membership site in 2011, and provided comprehensive resources for photographers in SEO, sales, planning, and more. However, she found herself doing everything at the last possible minute - and despite having a huge audience, she struggled to grow.

Then, her own search for a professional photographer led to a breakthrough that revolutionized her business forever. Now, she teaches personal brand photographers one thing: how to land their first 12 clients to build a reliable source of recurring revenue. With her new membership business, Jamie teaches photographers how to work with entrepreneurs and influencers to help them authentically connect with audiences - and share their stories in a split second.

Today, Jamie joins the podcast to talk about why niching down gave her the power to scale her business in less time, how she uses her course to prequalify and onboard prospects, and why becoming the face of your business can better serve your clients.

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FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

After 23 years in sales, Catherine Watkin left her corporate career in search of fulfillment. After years of retraining and many conversations with her friends, she found herself brought back to sales, but in a completely new way.

Now, Catherine is the UK's leading expert in authentic and heart-centered sales. She teaches gifted entrepreneurs who feel awkward about selling how to attract and enroll clients in a way that's in alignment with their values. Through her membership community, she helps people grow their businesses with integrity and stop saying, "I've got to grow this business."

Today, Catherine joins the podcast to talk about coming back to a career that you didn't love in a way that you do, transitioning from offering a high-end online course to a membership site, and why there is no one business model for everyone - no matter what the old pros have told you.

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FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

When she finished graduate school, Mary Gilkerson had a portfolio and an MFA — but not the experience, skills, or tools to support herself as a working artist. She spent the next 20 years teaching painting to women all over the world, but also found herself at a crossroads: she could either stay in academia or become more active as her art career picked up momentum.

She then started teaching painting online, but found herself challenged by launching multiple times per year. Now, at MaryGilkerson.com she takes a more holistic approach to teaching aspiring and working artists, including the skills you need to grow and run your artistic business.

Today, Mary joins the podcast to share her journey from aspiring fine artist in New York to where she is today, how her great grandfather taught her about entrepreneurship, and how the membership model allows her to offer more than just painting classes while giving her the freedom she needs to create.

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FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

When Janine Esbrand was growing up, she planned on becoming a lawyer, and she did just that. However, a legal mission trip to East Africa left her feeling like there was something missing when she worked on mergers and acquisitions. This led her on a journey of discovery — and into a new career as a coach. However, she struggled to work full-time in law, build her coaching business, and prepare for the birth of her son.

During her maternity leave, she realized what she wanted to do: help women figure out what their careers look like post-motherhood. At LightBOX Coaching, she helps women make both career and family work. She provides support to moms as they return from maternity leave to their previous jobs, start new companies, or change direction altogether.

Today, Janine joins the podcast to talk about combining your talents to find fulfillment, the different ways women juggle work and family life, and the unexpected gifts of running a membership site.

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FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

For seven years, Anna Saucier struggled with infertility. During that time, she became a practitioner in a natural charting method and medical treatment for restoring fertility, and began teaching this method to other clients. She built a business that she loved, but when she had two children of her own, she struggled to make time to see her clients one-on-one.

Out of this struggle came a realization: using the membership model, she could help her fellow practitioners build their own client base. At Inspired Fertility Pro, she helps Natural Family Planning (NFP) & Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABM) instructors ditch the overwhelm, reignite their passion, and turn it into profit.

Today, Anna joins the podcast to talk about how the membership model allows her to have a greater impact while giving her more time for her family. You'll also hear about how she got over her fear of being anything less than perfect, and why even the smallest niche can be a viable foundation for a successful membership business.

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FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

After working as a marketing director and helping for-profit companies for over a decade, Rianne Klein Geltink got an itch to take a year-long sabbatical and go on an epic road trip across Australia. When the road trip turned out not to be what she expected, she packed up and left for Bali, where she discovered two things that changed her life: digital nomadism and social entrepreneurship.

In the months that followed, Rianne explored how to launch her first online business. She created Impact Business Base — an online membership community for startup social impact entrepreneurs.

Today, she joins the podcast to talk about how she found her vision, why it's okay to adjust as you go, and why the world is up for people who want to do good.

FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

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When Dr. Mary Barbera's son was diagnosed with autism, she dove deep into the world of autism treatment - and quickly faced many unique challenges. She now provides online courses, community, and support for parents and professionals in over 60 countries using several membership sites - the first of which she launched by accident.

As she began her deep dive into treating autism, she quickly discovered that it could take months to get in to see specialists, and losing that critical time for young children severely impacted development and recovery. Now, she serves people in over 60 countries on her mission to turn autism around for 2 million kids by the year 2020.

Dr. Barbera joins the podcast to talk about her son's life-changing diagnosis, why the membership model is such a powerful way to address the serious lack of resources many parents are faced with, and the transformative results of her work.

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To get access to the full story and to all the resources mentioned during today's episode, visit TribeHub.com/08

FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

Kasey Hope is the owner of P'zazz Art Studio in Prattville, Alabama. After almost 12 years of teaching, her classes were maxed out beyond capacity. Furthermore, because her studio is located near a military base, many of her students were often moving away.

To reach a wider audience and keep in touch with families as they left, Kasey created Whatever Letter — a membership course that teaches hand lettering, fosters deep relationships, and builds community outside of her studio.

Today, Kasey joins the podcast to talk about the early versions of her membership site and what held her back, how TRIBE helped her to better serve her students, and how she uses Whatever Letter to collaborate, give to charity, and connect with people like never before.

FREE Guide – Launch & Grow a Profitable Membership Site

Ready to reclaim your time and attract more monthly paying customers? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to build a membership site that turns your passion into recurring profit. Visit GetTribeGuide.com to get your free guide today!

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To get access to the full story and to all the resources mentioned during today's episode, visit TribeHub.com/07