Secrets That Helped 10X Beachbody That Can Enable You to Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription Revenue

Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription Revenue

Would you like to discover the marketing secrets from the team that grew Beachbody from $100 million to more than $1 billion in revenue? Babak Azad was a leader within the marketing team that helped launch Beachbody into an iconic brand within the fitness industry.

Today, Babak Azad is the founder and CEO of Round Two Partners which works with other brands and subscription companies to help them do the same. I recently caught up with him for an interview for my podcast, Membership and Subscription Growth. While Babak and I discussed several breakthroughs on the podcast, here are two that can have an immediate impact on your subscription revenue growth.

Position Your Product as a Premium Product That Transforms

Your subscription product is more than a simple transaction and needs to be treated differently. Rather than selling that product, you need to be selling results. The results that your customers are going to personally experience by using or receiving your product are where the focus of your sales message should be.

Every time you mention your product, rather than talking about it, talk about the transformation or how that customer will feel because of your product. “You’ve got to be different from what everyone else is talking about,” suggests Babak. “I am talking so much more about brand and, really, the sense of experience, because that is one of the bigger things that I'm starting to see across pretty much every industry. That focus on creating an experience and creating a memory and stories around it is a big deal, but at the end of the day, it's, what's the promise? What is, whether it's the problem or solution, what is the thing that you're trying to either solve or help someone with? Are you delivering on it? Are you actually solving that? To what extent? How are you doing it? Things like that.”

Your customers don't care about what you're going to deliver, they only care about how it's going to improve their lives or help them.

Watch Your Membership KPIs to Discover Growth Opportunities

Few subscription businesses are spending enough time looking at their numbers. Running your subscription business without proper KPI’s is similar to taking your family on a road trip without seeing where you are going, having a speedometer or a compass. KPI’s are like having GPS navigation for your subscription revenue growth. They tell you exactly what to do for fastest growth.

Babak suggests you start with recording the lifespan of your subscribers’ activity. Measure how long your customers stay with you. How many billing cycles do they stay through before you lose them? Tracking this activity of each subscriber will reveal trends and opportunities to make changes to the subscription cycle at the point where you seem to be losing them. This data also helps you determine where to focus your time, staff functions, and dollars to promote growth.

“You don't need a statistical tool. You need Excel and a data dump, and you will at least start to get there. Then undoubtedly, it raises questions and there are things that will start to trickle up. You at least have a baseline. If that means that you don't even go and backfill for 2016 and 2015, fine. Just start with where you are. Then, you've got to create a bit of a process that every month or two months, whatever it is, you update it and then you are trying to test and optimize, to improve those metrics,” adds Babak.

Whether you are starting your subscription business or years deep in it, it is never too late to implement these practices of making your marketing message about your product’s results and then measuring the activity of your subscribers to find growth opportunities. You can discover more from the full interview with Babak Azad on the Membership and Subscription Growth podcast. Subscribe to the podcast to discover the keys to recurring revenue growth from successful entrepreneurs in the subscription economy. Previous and upcoming guests include Robbie Kellman Baxter (author of The Membership Economy), Amir Elaguizy (CEO of CrateJoy), Dustin McAdams (CEO of PupJoy), Perry Marshall (Founder of Perry Marshall & Associates), Liz Cadman (Founder of MySubscriptionAddiction.com), Deena Bronz (Co-founder and CEO of KitNipBox), Tim Broom (Founder of ITProTV), and Georg Richter (Founder of OceanX)!

Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription RevenueSecrets That Helped 10X Beachbody That Can Enable You to Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription RevenueSecrets That Helped 10X Beachbody That Can Enable You to Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription Revenue
Secrets That Helped 10X Beachbody That Can Enable You to Quickly Grow Your Monthly Recurring Subscription Revenue

About Robert Skrob

The problem with subscription membership programs is that members quit, I fix that problem. For more than 20-years I have specialized in direct response marketing for member recruitment, retention and ascension in diverse subscription members environments including non-profit associations, for-profit publishers/coaching, subscriptions and SAAS companies. For an evaluation of your current churn rate and how I can improve it, contact me here. I discover there are often two or three quick wins you can implement within a week to lower churn immediately, let’s talk about your quick wins.
10X Subscription Growth

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *