Findings from thirteen years working with the top membership sites in the world, each one grounded in a short video.
What separates growing membership businesses from plateaued ones.
Common membership-business assumptions, checked against the data.
Real questions, answered the way MembersIntel actually answers them.
Generic advice says engage your community and send win-back emails. Here's what an answer that actually knows your business looks like instead.
Generic pricing advice sends you straight to the dead zone. Here's what a real answer looks like when it knows your business.
Generic advice says test both. An answer that knows your business says neither, and here's what to do instead.
The money in a membership business sits at two price extremes, never the middle. Here's the pricing barbell, and how to pick a side.
Annual plans outnumber monthly three to one among mass-market membership winners. Here's why that ratio holds, and what to do about it.
A low-price entry tier doesn't just cover its costs. It spends a year qualifying buyers for something ten to forty times more expensive.
Hiding the price sounds like friction. For high-ticket memberships, it's actually the mechanism that does the qualifying.
Sites running a genuine free tool see 2x the upgrade rate. The catch: the tool has to reveal a gap it can't fully close.
Per-seat pricing isn't a B2B-only move. If your members have colleagues, you may have expansion revenue sitting uncaptured.
Community referrals are the #1 growth channel by volume, but they don't separate anyone. Owned media does.
Thirteen years of patterns say free tiers track with lower revenue. Free tools track with 2x. The gap is hard to ignore.
More content, more value, more retention: that's the standard advice. Thirteen years of patterns say it's wrong.