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She Means Business Show

273: The Secret to Predictable Profits with Stu McLaren

She Means Business Show

Carrie Green

Womenledbusiness, Femaleceo, Entrepreneurship, Womanceo, Business, Femaleentrepreneur, Businesswomen, Womeninbusiness, Marketing, Womenentrepreneur, Womanentrepreneur

4.9628 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt trapped in a feast-or-famine cycle of income with your business, constantly chasing the next client or sale, this episode is for you.

Stu McLaren is the most amazing expert when it comes to creating stability, scalability and freedom through memberships.

He’s helped me so much over the years with growing my own membership, and he’s here to help you do the same!

In this episode we talk about:

00:00 Memberships: The Ultimate Business Model

00:31 Welcome, Stu McLaren!

00:48 Why Memberships = Predictable Profits

03:44 Surprising Membership Success Stories

06:33 Best Tech for Membership Growth

09:47 Signs Your Membership Will Succeed

22:14 How to Relaunch for Bigger Wins

22:53 Retention Secrets That Keep Members

23:31 The First 30 Days: Make or Break

27:39 How to Build Real Member Connections

31:59 The Magic of Belonging

37:30 Why Community = Membership Superpower

38:43 The Heart & Soul of Memberships

39:49 Small Wins, Big Growth

43:18 Recurring Revenue = Business Stability

43:43 Why You Need This Book

45:07 Final Tips for Membership Success

45:51 Your Next Steps!

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0:00.0

Having a membership for me hands down beats every other thing I've ever created by far.

0:05.0

You don't have to worry about where that next sale is going to come from because you know at the beginning of the month that you're going to get paid from all of those members that are part of the membership.

0:11.0

A membership gives us the space to be able to go and experiment and play and try different things without the worry that if those experiments don't pan out, then we're not going to

0:21.8

put our business in financial jeopardy.

0:23.7

Like, that's a huge deal.

0:29.5

I am so excited.

0:31.2

Stu McLaren, thank you so much for joining me on the streaming to this show.

0:34.4

I am so, so happy that you are here.

0:36.6

Buddy, we, uh, we, we almost chewed up all of our time because we were just catching up and jamming.

0:42.6

It's so good to be here. Literally chatting away for ages. I am so excited. Firstly, congratulations

0:49.1

on your book that's out, predictable profits. It's so exciting right there. Everyone grab a copy of predictable

0:56.2

profits if you want to learn how to generate recurring revenue, build your membership site,

1:00.9

which I highly, highly, highly recommend. And that is what I want to talk all about in this episode

1:05.7

because I mean, I've had my membership site now for, like, since 2013, a really long time.

1:13.8

And it has been such a blessing and so incredible, not only from the sense of, like,

1:20.6

creating community, building community, but also just like what your book's title,

1:25.0

predictable profits from the perspective of having predictable

1:27.7

revenue, especially with having when I had kids. I don't know where I would be if I hadn't

1:33.5

had that predictable revenue coming in. Like it was so, it was everything to me. And even now,

1:40.2

sometimes people say, because my membership is $97 a month and some people are like this like

1:44.8

I know for some people that's a lot but a lot of people like that's way too cheap you've got way too

1:48.2

much in there it's way too little you should focus on high ticket stuff and I'm like but no no thank

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