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Practical guides on pricing, moderation, and growth, and news of what just shipped in MemberPad.
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A member referral program can be the cheapest growth you will ever get or a fast way to make your community feel like a sales floor. Here is how to pick the model, what to reward instead of cash, the math to run first, and the disclosure rules you cannot skip.
9 min readEveryone in your inbox is discounting in November, and a recurring subscription is the worst possible thing to put on sale. Here is the arithmetic of a membership discount, why it damages retention, and six offers that capture the season without cutting your price.
9 min readMembers will happily pay for direct access to you, and unlimited direct access will end you. Here are five ways to sell one to one time inside a membership with a hard ceiling on hours, plus how to price it and how to end it if it stops working.
8 min readSelling something physical to your community is the most emotionally rewarding and least profitable idea you will have this year. Here is the honest arithmetic, the three formats that actually work, and how to test one without ordering three hundred units.
9 min readGuest sessions are the cheapest way to add real value to a membership, and the way most creators book them is quietly exploitative. Here is how to price a guest slot, what to put in the one page brief, and how to make the session earn its keep for months.
9 min readRevenue concentration is the quietest risk in a creator business. If one client, sponsor, or top tier member could take a huge bite out of your income by leaving, here is how to spot it early and rebalance without blowing up a relationship you value.
8 min readSliding scale pricing and scholarship seats can widen your community without wrecking your income, but only if you build the structure first. Here is how to set the tiers, what to say, what never to ask for, and how to keep it from becoming a second job.
8 min readAsking what your community would be worth to somebody else is an uncomfortable question that makes the business better whether or not you ever sell. What transfers, what does not, and why a member list is never yours to hand over.
9 min readBefore you promise your first members a price locked in forever, understand what you are signing. Three ways to structure founding member pricing, and how to handle grandfathered rates years down the line without becoming the villain.
8 min readStacking everything you have made into one discounted bundle feels like generosity and usually reads as a clearance sale. Why bundle offers underperform for community creators, and the simpler thing that works better.
9 min readA membership pricing method that starts with the hours you can actually give. Build a labour budget, find your real member capacity, and let the arithmetic tell you the number instead of guessing from someone else's join page.
8 min readBefore you build the whole membership, run a small paid pilot. How to price a beta round, who to invite, and what preselling a community teaches you that no survey ever will.
10 min readStart a community on MemberPad. Free to create, and we only earn when you do.