What you sell damn sure better live up to your sales promises. There’s no retention without fulfillment. I had a great discussion with a client today. We are creating a new onboarding product that will become a “gift with purchase” that we can offer to increase sales conversions. He asked me, “If this video is longer than a few minutes, … Continued
It’s Easy to Make Your Membership Complicated. Simplification Is Difficult and Important
Pointless. I was writing, printing, and mailing a 24-page full-color newsletter for 36 people. That’s all that signed up. It was so humiliating to write and preparing a newsletter for only 36 members. Expensive too — although each member paid $199.00 monthly, total dues collected was not enough to cover my production and fulfillment costs with so few members. Membership … Continued
Member Retention Secret for Getting More Lifers and Becoming the Membership That Doesn’t Get Canceled
“I can’t even get my member to return my call.” I’ve heard it a million times. This person has been a member for months, but now they’re getting canceled because their monthly charge didn’t go through. The team emails, calls, and even sends a letter … no response. In the beginning, there were just a few of these, but now, … Continued
In A Divided World, Those Who Unite Their Supporters Win
Your subscribers have several monthly charges on their credit card. How do you make your subscription a “must have” to avoid being canceled? When your member examines her credit card statement with the idea of cutting back on her monthly expenses, how can you avoid being one of the many services that’ll get canceled? She’s likely got cellphone, Netflix, Hulu, … Continued
Traveling the World to Fight Subscriber Churn
Every time one of your members quits, a piece of me dies. It is a relationship lost. A promise broken. Opportunity unfulfilled. It’s my mission to help you never let it happen again. I take it personally when one of your members quits. Can we ever make it stop completely? No. And, honestly, we want some churn. We need to … Continued
The Retention Point Accelerators that Grow Your Member Lifetime Value
These strategies form the key distinctions between people who are what I call “Membership Marketers” and those who are “Member Leaders.” Membership Marketers focus only on the hunt, acquiring new members. Member Leaders are as concerned with keeping the members they have as they are with getting new ones. Member Leaders implement systems to get their members to the Retention … Continued
3 SAAS Customer Success Mistakes When Onboarding New Members, and How You Can Avoid a Similar High Churn Rate
Is it easier to leap over a six-inch step or a 10-foot wall? The six-inch step is easier, duh. The more you are asking your new member to do within the first few hours or days of your membership, the more difficult it will be to get that new member to the Retention PointTM. Open an email and click a … Continued
How FabFitFun Delivers the Value That Gets Members Engaged and Retains Them for Years
“Exactly what should I deliver to my members to make more of them stop quitting my membership?” This a question I hear in various forms from my clients. “To help you understand the product, we want you to know why we chose that product and how that product is going to enhance your life,” said Leslie Emmons Burthey, vice president … Continued
Onboarding that Stops Members from Quitting
If your goal is to add 1000 new members this month but had 300 members cancel their membership, then 30 percent of your the marketing expense, your copywriting efforts and the efforts of your sales team were expended to replace members you once had. Think about that effort and expense for a moment. All just to try to stay even. … Continued
Illustrated: Before and After, Improve Conversion of Free Trial Members with a Better Member Welcome Screen
Are you afraid to send email to your members? Have you ever noticed that you get a spike in cancelations after you send a notice out to your members? I have spoken to many membership marketers who are hesitant to send emails to subscribers for fear that it’ll prompt them to cancel. This is similar logic I used to believe … Continued