31. Membership Q+A: Why Your Membership Isn’t Growing, How to Fix Slow Sign-Ups & What to Do When Members Start at Different Levels

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https://paigevandy.com/million-dollar-memberships-club Other Episodes referred to in this episode: 

4 Essential Retention Strategies

 

In this episode, Paige dives into your questions — submitted all month long — for our Monthly Q+A Episode.

 

We get into everything from content organization to member engagement, sales psychology, visibility, and how often you should open your doors depending on where your membership is at.

 

You’ll discover:

✔️ How to organize your membership content when people join at all different stages

— Why clarity on your overall transformation matters

— How to build a success path with levels, milestones, and checkpoints

— The Build Mode → Culture Mode → Million Dollar Mode structure we use inside MDMC

✔️ Why your audience seems “interested” but still isn’t signing up

— The real meaning behind “I don’t have time,” “later,” and “too expensive”

— Essential vs luxury value in your transformation

— How to dial in a specific, niche transformation that feels like a now priority

✔️ How to make your membership a place people actually want to be

— The 4 R’s of Retention: Retention, Relation, Reflection, Reason

— How to keep members excited, connected, celebrated, and moving forward

— Examples of community rituals, perks, and loyalty builders that work

✔️ What to do when your audience feels burnt out and your visibility is flat

— The Build / Borrow / Buy visibility strategy

— The messaging you must refine before trying to grow

✔️ How often you should open your doors (and how long you’ve had your membership actually matters)

— When to use open/close vs evergreen

— How your member count and first revenue target determine launch frequency

— Why urgency increases sales and decreases cancellations

— Nuances for niche-specific memberships (pregnancy, cohort-based, etc.)

 

PLUS — a sneak peek of what’s coming next quarter inside MDMC:

✔️ The Membership Founders Manual — your weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly rhythms as a membership founder

✔️ Launch schedules for different stages

✔️ Retention surveys, workshop cadence, team meetings, and more

✔️ Templates for everything covered in this episode

 

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All annual members receive the Million Dollar Memberships Gift Kit — Paige’s personal morning ritual, delivered to your doorstep.

 

PLUS — join us December 31st for our cozy, casual Membership Vision Board Party (inside MDMC only).

 

We’ll plan your 2026 membership goals, metrics, and growth strategy together, then vision board in real time before NYE festivities. It’s the perfect grounded, powerful energy to end your year and walk into your best year yet.

 

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This podcast is for coaches, service providers, and online entrepreneurs who want to build highly successful online membership communities and scale to multiple 6 and 7 figures on autopilot.

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