The Membership Guys Podcast - Practical Advice For Membership Website Owners

It's very easy to fall into bad habits as a membership site owner when it comes to over-working and putting too much pressure on yourself. This often leads to burnout, which in turn adversely affects your membership site. In this episode, I give my tips on how membership site owners can avoid burning out.

In this episode I talk to Blair Williams - creator and founder of MemberPress - about the history of the plugin, essential features membership sites need to get ahead, the state of the WordPress membership plugin market and what the future holds for MemberPress.

In this episode I talk to renowned digital strategist and co-founder of AccessAlly, Nathalie Lussier. As well as discussing her transition from programmer to online marketer, Nathalie shares tips and insight into list building, creating compelling online courses and how to improve your member experience.

In this episode we're talking about churn - what is it and how do we reduce it? PLUS discover our top tips for improving member retention and reducing cancellations.

Discover the 5 questions you NEED to ask yourself in order to determine whether creating a membership site is actually the right move to make...

Find out where we stand on the idea of "passive income" when it comes to membership websites...

One question which comes up regularly is whether you should keep your membership site open all of the time, or whether limited joining periods are better. Find out what we think...

Discover the 7 essential elements every successful membership site has, and how you can make sure your own site is up to scratch

In the third and final part of our "launch diary", we discuss the big day of opening the Academy to the public, the approach we took, what worked, what didn't and what we'd do differently.

In the second part of our launch diary, we discuss the challenges faced and lessons learned in the final week before opening the doors to the Member Site Academy.

We recently opened the doors to the Member Site Academy - our very own membership site. In this series of episodes we're discussing the build up to launch, the challenges we faced, what worked, what didn't and a lot more.

Losing members is just part and parcel of operating a membership site. However there’s plenty that you can do to make sure that you’re not losing members for the wrong reasons...

In this episode we discuss how you can use offline marketing techniques, including business networking, to promote and enhance your membership website.

In this episode I discuss the benefits of offering a trial period for your membership site, and why risk reversal can be the key to increasing your sales

In this episode we discuss the pitfalls of using a private Facebook group for your paid membership community, and why an on-site forum is a better option.

What do you do if you need to get your membership website or online course up and running in just a few days? In this episode we're talking about how you can bootstrap the creation and launch of your membership site.

It's every prospective membership site owners' nightmare - months of toiling over your product, only for it to fall flat when it finally launches. In this episode, we look at what you can do if the worst happens.

With so many options for membership site plugins, asking for advice from others can be a total crap shoot. In this episode, we look at why most advice on plugins is useless, and how you can make sure you're getting the right recommendations.

In the first episode of The Membership Guys podcast we discuss why it's important for membership site owners to build authority and leverage this for their business.