The MemberPad blog
Practical guides on pricing, moderation, and growth, and news of what just shipped in MemberPad.
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Same revenue, wildly different lives. The size of your community is not the goal. Here is the case for going small and premium instead of big and cheap.
8 min readPricing paralysis kills more memberships than bad pricing ever does. Here is a calm way to land on a number you can defend and actually charge.
8 min readReflexively offering a discount to anyone who tries to cancel trains your best members to threaten leaving and devalues your community. Here is a healthier way to handle the moment someone heads for the door.
8 min readAnnual plans look like a win because cash arrives up front, but they can hide real problems and hurt your community if you lean on them for the wrong reasons. Here is how to think about them honestly.
8 min readGive away too little and nobody trusts you enough to buy. Give away too much and nobody needs to. Here is a clear way to think about the line between free and paid that actually grows your community.
8 min readMore tiers are not always better. Sometimes they confuse buyers and exhaust you. Here is a grounded way to decide how many pricing options your community actually needs.
8 min readBig launches feel thrilling and leave you exhausted and broke a month later. Recurring revenue is boring, steady, and quietly life changing. Here is the math nobody romanticizes but every founder should understand.
8 min readMost creators set their membership price from fear, and end up with a room full of the wrong people. Your price isn't a number on a checkout page; it's the single most powerful filter you have for deciding who joins, how they behave, and whether your membership becomes a business or a burden. Here's how to price like it matters, because it does.
1 min readRaising your price is not greedy. Done right, it attracts better members, reduces your stress, and makes your community stronger. Here is the honest case for charging what you are worth.
8 min readSelling additional products to your community members is one of the easiest ways to increase revenue and one of the easiest ways to wreck trust. Here is a clear framework for doing it in a way that feels genuinely helpful.
8 min readThe first person most community founders forget to pay is themselves. Here is a practical, unglamorous guide to structuring owner pay, taxes, and reserves so you can keep creating for years instead of months.
8 min readMost creators panic about churn without understanding what healthy churn actually looks like. A plain-English guide to the number that matters most.
7 min readStart a community on MemberPad. Free to create, and we only earn when you do.