The Digital Course Assistant Podcast

#024 - In this second of three-episode series, Julie chats with Mario Barrett from Cratejoy to talk about the pitfalls of overcomplicating your subscription box product.

Mario currently leads Seller Success at Cratejoy. Before Cratejoy, Mario spent time in management consulting and has experience starting, operating, scaling and selling subscription box businesses.

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Cratejoy

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#023 - In this first of three-episode series, Julie chats with Mario Barrett from Cratejoy to talk about pricing strategies for your subscription box business.

Mario currently leads Seller Success at Cratejoy. Before Cratejoy, Mario spent time in management consulting and has experience starting, operating, scaling and selling subscription box businesses.

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Cratejoy
Free Subscription Commerce Tools
How to price your subscription box
Tips on pricing your subscription

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#022 -  In this episode, Julie talks about thriving in community and how you can use community to grow your subscription box business. When you build a community around your subscription box, it can do so many things for you as a business owner and provide extra value for your subscribers.

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📌 HEADS UP! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED EPISODE OF SUBSCRIPTION BOX BASICS. SOME OF THE OFFERS & LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE.

Julie chats with one of her mentors, Stu McLaren, to talk about recurring revenue from subscription and membership business.

Stu McLaren helps experts transform their knowledge and influence into recurring revenue by launching, growing and scaling six, seven and eight-figure membership sites. In 2008 he co-founded the world's most popular membership platform for WordPress called WishList Member. When he sold his interest in October, 2014 they were powering over 58,000 online communities and membership sites. And now you may know Stu through TRIBE, which is pretty much the go-to program for starting a membership.

You’re listening to an archived episode from my Subscription Box Basics days. While these tips are still gold for subscription box owners, things have evolved! I’m now helping course creators launch faster, market better, and stress less with my new show, the Digital Course Assistant Podcast. So if you have a course or may launch one in the future, stay subscribed for binge-worthy seasons full of practical, AI-powered strategies to grow your course business smarter and simpler.

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#020 - It is said that it is easier to keep a happier customer than to find a new one. In this episode, Julie chats Samantha Forrest to talk about how to improve your churn.

Samantha is a Retention Engine Product Lead at Bellwethr. Bellwethr uses intelligent interventions to increase retention and revenue at the cancellation point in your customer journey.

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Bellwethr Retention Engine

#019 - A lot of businesses experience a decrease in sales through the summer months. It's called the summer slump. In this episode, Julie outlines some of her ideas to help you prepare for the summer slump.

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Sparkle Hustle Grow
Bellwethr Retention Engine
KingSumo
A Year of Boxes
My Subscription Addiction
Impacting Millions

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#018 - In this episode, Julie shares her top factors that impact the perceived value of your subscription boxes.

Julie Ball is a subscription box business coach. She runs Sparkle Hustle Grow, a multi six-figure subscription box and online community for female entrepreneurs.

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📌 HEADS UP! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED EPISODE OF SUBSCRIPTION BOX BASICS. SOME OF THE OFFERS & LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE.

In this episode, Julie shares her Shark Tank fail story and then how she turned it into a win.

 
Shark Tank is an American business reality TV series on ABC showing hopeful entrepreneurs making business presentation to a panel of five investors or what they call sharks, who decide whether to invest in their company or not.

You’re listening to an archived episode from my Subscription Box Basics days. While these tips are still gold for subscription box owners, things have evolved! I’m now helping course creators launch faster, market better, and stress less with my new show, the Digital Course Assistant Podcast. So if you have a course or may launch one in the future, stay subscribed for binge-worthy seasons full of practical, AI-powered strategies to grow your course business smarter and simpler.

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#016 - Julie chats with Selena Soo, a publicity and marketing strategist who helps experts, authors and coaches go from hidden gems to admired industry leaders. They talk about how you can grow your business a.k.a. sell more boxes through publicity.

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Sparkle Hustle Grow
Subscription Box Bootcamp
Impacting Millions Publicity Checklist

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#015 - If you've been listening to this podcast since our launch last December or if you've just binged them all last weekend, you may be curious about Julie's group coaching program Subscription Box Bootcamp. It is an online coaching program where Julie guides aspiring subscription box entrepreneurs step by step from concept to launch.

At the beginning of this episode, Julie talks a little bit more about Subscription Box Bootcamp-what you'll be getting, step-by-step roadmap plus BONUSES! And then in the second half of the episode, you'll be inspired to hear feedback and success stories of some of her students especially this 16-year old boss babe who's not only killing it but also making a big difference in the world.

Subscription Box Bootcamp is opening enrollment for 48 hours only on March 4th & 5th 2020. You can sign up at SubscriptionBoxBootcamp.com.

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Sparkle Hustle Grow
Subscription Box Bootcamp

If you are looking for your people, an amazing support systems and you want to grow your business while having fun, you need to take a look at our new small group coaching program.  Get all the details and join at BoxBesties.com.