Podcasts about memberspace

Welcome back, babes! Today I am excited to have our first guest of the season, Emily Gertenbach.Emily has been writing SEO content for over a decade. In that time, she's worked with everyone from local agencies to internationally-recognized software companies including Upwork, Figma, MemberSpace, and more.Together, we talk about Search Engine Optimization — what it is, how it works, and how you can make it work for your business in a mindful way. We also get into what it means that search engines are implementing more AI. And we have a candid chat about data privacy online.Tune in to hear more about: SEO for beginners & pros Emily's 3-step process for optimizing your site Demystifying keywords & getting your site to rank Why Emily stopped using Google Analytics AI's potential impact on the future of SEO (spoiler: no need to be scared) More from Emily: Visit Emily's Website Read her blog post, “Why I'm Not using Google Analytics Anymore” Additional resources from this episode: Get the free Leaving Social Media Toolkit! Get Business Success Without Social Media for only $44

Sales tax compliance: nobody in SaaS wants to talk about it. Jon and Justin tried to do something about it and it turned into a nightmare. According to Stripe Tax, there are about 90 different regions that software companies may have to register in, and then calculate, collect, and remit sales tax on their behalf. But in North America, many SaaS companies don't seem to care: many that we looked at weren't collecting sales tax at all, while a few had just started collecting in the US states. (00:13) - Welcome (01:54) - Benefits of podcasting for a small business (03:44) - New Year's update (05:59) - Patreon integration feature (10:23) - Dear listener... a request! (10:50) - Exciting! Sales Tax! Discussion! (29:01) - What have we tried (40:12) - A new issue that we can't make progress on (47:00) - Thanks to our Patreon supporters If you've been wondering about how sales tax applies to SaaS, listen to this episode.Thanks to our monthly supporters Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af Oleg Kulyk Ethan Gunderson Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com Bill Condo (@mavrck) Alex Payne Ward from MemberSpace.com Russell Brown from Photivo.com Evandro Sasse Austin Loveless Michael Sitver Fathom Analytics Dan Buda Colin Gray Darby Frey Dave Giunta Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: transistor.fm/justin ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We about how any business can build a membership program into their product offering to provide recurring revenue.  Ward also shares how MemberSpace came to being, how they've bootstrapped it and grown like mad. About Ward Sandler Ward Sandler is the CEO of MemberSpace - a software as a service (SaaS) company that enables creators to turn any part of their website into members-only with just a few clicks. MemberSpace's mission is to help entrepreneurs build a sustainable membership business (without coding) anywhere on the internet. Ward and his cofounder Ryan started MemberSpace in 2015. They have helped thousands of people around the world generate tens of millions of dollars from their members. Prior to starting MemberSpace, Ward did website and software consulting for four years while teaching himself how to code. He helped design everything from simple websites on Squarespace to custom software applications with Ruby on Rails. Prior to consulting, Ward was a top sales account manager at Thomson Reuters selling enterprise tax software to Fortune 1,000 companies He graduated with a B.S. in Business and Technology from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and currently resides in Honolulu, HI. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE!Over 17,200 listeners and counting EPISODE LINKS: MemberSpace PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: EDGE on Apple Podcasts Spotify: EDGE on Spotify  YouTube Channel: EDGE on YouTube Website: EDGE Podcast RSS Feed: EDGE's RSS Feed SUPPORT & CONNECT EDGE's Weekly NewsletterJoin over 17,200 listeners and sign up to receive bonus content. It's free.  Sign up here >>> Please Support this Podcast by checking out our Sponsors: Mad River Botanicals 100% certified organic CBD products. The product is controlled from seed to end product by it's owners. Use code: EDGE22 to get 10% off all your orders. Shop here>>> EDGE Podcast. A top podcast for entrepreneurs!

Curious how you can address your burnout, boost your income, and help more customers? Listen to Ward Sandler, CEO of MemberSpace, discuss the foundations of building a membership business that creates consistent recurring revenue at an accessible price for your customers.

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Today's guest is Madalena Sanchez Zampaulo. Madalena lives in Southern California and owns a boutique translation agency called Accessible Translation Solutions, which she opened in 2010. She continues to do freelance translation work as well, specializing in medicine and life sciences. Madalena shares her knowledge and years of research to help freelance translators and interpreters improve their online presence—from their websites and LinkedIn profiles to SEO and copywriting. She does this through her blog, as well as courses, webinars and coaching and as co-host of the podcast Smart Habits for Translators. I asked Madalena to come on the podcast after I saw how she revamped her website earlier this year. I was impressed with all the services and products she offers other freelancers and how she organized them all into a Resource Library. Today, Madalena talks about blogging, creating courses and becoming a coach for other freelancers.   Madalena translates from Spanish and Portuguese to English. She explains the difference between a translator (written) and an interpreter (spoken). Madalena is a six-figure freelancer. She offers two ways to get there: Diversify your services and work with the right clients—those who see you as a partner and pay well. Madalena started marketing her services through a blog and then created an email list to send out new blog posts and other content. She commits to posting on her blog every other week—weekly seemed too cumbersome—but she also takes breaks and vacations when she needs to. Three areas that have helped her market her business are her email list, social media and word-of-mouth. In fact, the latter is probably the biggest driver for her business. Public speaking also drives a lot of people to her blog, email list and social media. Madalena breaks down the type of courses she has offered to freelance business owners and how that has evolved over the past few years. She now offers monthly office hour for her course students over Zoom, modeled after a professor's “office hours.” She sets a block of time she's always available and students can hop on Zoom to ask any questions. She also has a community for her course students in Slack. Before you start creating courses, consider what you can offer that fills a need in the space. What are the motivations people have for taking your course? What is the transformation your students want from your course? When creating your course think about how to relay complex information in a logical way.  When considering coaching, Madalena said: “I listened to what people were asking me for and decided ‘is this something I can offer well and offer successfully?'” With coaching, you don't have to have all the answers or offer advice. Coaching often means offering people a new perspective and new ideas they didn't think of. You are helping them figure out how to get unstuck or providing encouragement or reassurance. Before you offer coaching, consider what you can offer that fills a gap for people. There are coaches for every topic. What is it that you can provide that people really need and how can you meet them where they are? How can you be different from what's already available? Delivery of coaching is important. Consider whether you want to coach—or your clients want coaching—that is face-to-face, via Zoom, or via phone, text or email. Giving people options can be helpful. If you're going to become a coach, think it through. Take the pulse of the people who will actually pay for your services. Try it out. Once you commit to coaching someone, it may be long-term. You can't just quit it immediately. People are expecting you to show up. Creating is exhausting. You can be more productive if you give yourself a break. Go for a walk. Do some chores and just let yourself think. That's part of the creation process—giving yourself enough space to think something through.   Biz Bite: Do something today that your tomorrow self will thank you for.   Resources: Madalenazampaulo.com Accessible Translation Solutions  Madalena on Twitter Madalena on Instagram Smart Habits for Translators podcast MemberSpace for courses Loom for video messaging Vimeo for videos Contentstudio for social media management Subscribe to the Deliberate Freelancer newsletter.

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In this episode Matt and Craig talk through the fundraising round that Castos has recently completed. Castos, a leader in podcast hosting and analytics, has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by Automattic, Joost de Valk of Yoast SEO, and individual investors, Castos will use this additional capital to fuel its advance into the Private Podcasting market. With podcasting, and audio content in general, showing no signs of slowing now that the worst of the pandemic seems to be behind us, Castos believes that the future of podcasting is in tools that allow creators to own their own content and distribution channels through Private Podcasting. Castos’ roots in the open source community through their Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress along with the investment from Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) further strengthens the ability for WordPress users to own their content, the platform that it’s built on, and the control they have over how it is distributed. WordPress with Seriously Simple Podcasting and Castos as the hosting engine means that podcasters can own their content and data, and the ability to manage Private Podcasts right from WordPress just enhances that ability. Castos’ founder and CEO, Craig Hewitt, recounted “We have seen a significant increase in interest from customers with online courses, membership sites, and digital communities wanting to provide exclusive podcast content to those members, as well as companies wanting to provide private podcast content for their employees. We see this as an area of the podcasting market that’s at a tipping point, starting to explode in popularity.” With Castos’ existing Zapier integration, REST API, and direct integrations with tools like Elementor, Descript, MemberSpace, AdBarker, and Alitu, the company will continue to give podcasters the tools and extensibility they need to harness the power of audio to grow their brand...whether that’s externally with customers, or internally with their teams. Hewitt said that “We hear from companies over and over again that they’re looking for the ‘Step Away Experience' where employees can engage with their internal content without having to be glued to a screen. Something that is remote first, asynchronous, audio-based, on demand….and of course, hyper secure. Private podcasting fits the bill perfectly for these companies, and that’s what we’re delivering to brands across the globe.” Castos has been, to this point, a mostly self-funded company, taking only a small investment when joining the TinySeed startup accelerator in 2019. Today they are a team of 13 located in 4 continents, serving thousands of passionate podcasters all across the world. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to put this investment to work in furthering our product offering, continuing to build out our team, and provide podcasters with the solutions they need to better connect with their audiences.” Hewitt said. The majority of the funds will be used to build out their sales and marketing teams, and on designers and developers to accelerate work on their suite of products.

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Oliver Bridge is the CMO at Bonjoro, an app for sending personalized videos to welcome and onboard new customers. In this episode, he joins Ward to discuss steps and best tips to create a great converting video without spending hours recording it.

Oliver Bridge is the CMO at Bonjoro, an app for sending personalized videos to welcome and onboard new customers. In this episode, he joins Ward to discuss the top 3 places in your memberships funnel where you should use videos to increase your conversions.

Joanna Auburn is the Co-founder and CPO at Trace, a company that helps people to take climate action by offsetting their carbon footprint. In this episode, she joins Ward to discuss how you can get really far by maximizing your members's satisfaction.

Joanna Auburn is the Co-founder and CPO at Trace, a company that helps people to take climate action by offsetting their carbon footprint. In this episode, she joins Ward to discuss how to combine no-code tools to create your dream membership.

Joanna Auburn is the Co-founder and CPO at Trace, a company that helps people to take climate action by offsetting their carbon footprint. In this episode, she joins Ward to discuss how they got their first members and effective ways to attract and grow a subscriber list.

If you recently shifted your business to an online platform and you’re having trouble keeping your brand values alive, here’s what Aaron De Jong did to stay true to himself and his customers. Aaron is the owner of Movement 108, a successful online fitness membership that reinvented itself in a year of major change.

Starting a website for your membership from scratch can be challenging. In this episode, Aaron De Jong, Founder of Movement108, joins us to explain why he chose MemberSpace to convert his fitness business into an online membership site.

Readapting a business from an in-person experience into an online membership is not for everyone. Aaron De Jong, Founder of Movement108, a boutique fitness gym that has completely reinvented itself in a year of major change, joins us to explain how he converted a live experience into a digital membership while increasing the value of his brand.

Andrew Guttormsen, the CEO & Co-founder at Circle.so, the modern community platform for creators, joins us to explain why if you own a membership-based business, creating a community should be your next step.

Andrew Guttormsen, the CEO & Co-founder at Circle.so, the modern community platform for creators, joins us to explain the different types of communities out there and which could be the most appropriate for a membership business.

Andrew Guttormsen, the CEO & Co-founder at Circle.so, joins us for a compelling discussion about the most effective strategies for growing a strong community.

LaShonda Brown is the latest guest on the Brands that Book podcast and we're chatting all about how she uses MemberSpace and Flodesk to grow her email list and generate passive income. LaShonda is an award-winning corporate film producer and Squarespace expert based in Virginia. What I appreciate about LaShonda is how practical her advice is and how she shares exactly how she does things. If you visit her YouTube channel, you'll notice right away that she dives straight into the content. And if you're starting a business, or have a business, consider checking out LaShonda’s The Bootstrap Club, which you can find more details about in the show notes. For the show notes, visit https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-lashonda-brown-episode-110/

Joining us on the show today is returning guest Ward Sandler, the co-founder and CEO of MemberSpace. Ward runs a SaaS company that enables entrepreneurs and organizations to turn any part of their website into members only with just a few clicks. But we are not talking only about MemberSpace in this conversation but a new way to integrate an amazing community to your membership or products using a tool called Circle. While Circle isn’t affiliated with MemberSpace, they work together perfectly — which we love! Ward breaks down the features of Circle and how you can add-on a community to make a great experience for your members and customers.  We did an episode on Patreon and Mighty Networks a while ago (Episode 468), and this is yet another option for those who want to move their community away from social media platforms such as Facebook groups. Ward gives his take on Patreon and Mighty Networks, explaining how the pricing and features differ from MemberSpace and Circle and why he is a huge fan of picking the best tools for every need and then making them fit together seamlessly. Listeners will also get plenty of advice for setting up MemberSpace and Circle and learn how it can transform their membership engagement. Be sure to try it and check it out at bossproject.com/memberspace! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes go to thestrategyhour.com. To download the transcript of this episode head to: thestrategyhour.com.

Creating a traditional podcast that's available to the public isn't what you need for your premium content. It's public for anyone to hear, both paying members and anyone else who stumbles across the show. Instead, you need a private podcast where you can restrict who has access to the content. That's where Castos' latest integration with MemberSpace comes in. Check out this week's Audience episode where we sit down with Ward, the co-founder of MemberSpace. He fills us in on why podcasters should care about member-only websites for their premium content. And how these paywalls can help you monetize on your own terms.

This week we're discussing MemberStack vs. Memberspace vs. Firebase. We each use our different backgrounds and projects to share which one is our favorite and when you should Memberstack, Memberspace or Firebase in your projects!

Ryan Bennick and Ward Sandler are the co-founders of MemberSpace, a SaaS product that lets you easily add membership functionality to your existing website. Show Notes MemberSpace Member Maker Podcast Squarespace Ryan on Twitter Ward on Twitter Tyler Tringas Earnest Capital Rob Walling TinySeed Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

This week on the Growth Goal Podcast we have Kent Richardson of Phantom House Productions and Maximum Lawyer. In this episode we'll discuss tips on how to better use your video for marketing your services, tips on how to shoot better video on mobile, how to start or improve a podcast, and staying motivated and remembering your worth.   Contact Info: kent@phantomhouseproductions.com (Podcasting, Video Production) kent@maximumlawyer.com (Video Production for Law Firms)   Kent's Tip: A lot of people ask me what camera to buy. I say that if you aren't spending at least $2000 you should go buy the newest iPhone or Android with the best available camera.   If you're filming on smartphone, having an external smartphone mic is important, especially if the value of your content is primarily in the information being provided.   If you're self editing I recommend iMovie for Mac users and Premiere Rush (Windows users).   Don't be afraid to charge what its worth to others AND what it is worth to you.   Actionable Tip: Automate as much of your billing as possible. If you're on Squarespace you can use Memberspace to set up subscription purchasing on your website. It even integrates with Stripe.   Book Recommendation: Ego Is The Enemy-Ryan Holiday

I sat down with Ward to talk about the makings of Memberspace, how it's grown and what new entrepreneurs can learn from running a subscription based business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/squarespace-entrepreneurs/message