Running a Membership Program: Four Years In

Membership programs thrive on “conversion events.”

I used ChatGPT to find role models who had tread this path before me. While I had feared that no one else had successfully combined being a writer with building a valuable business, I learned that I was wrong. Sam Harris, Bill Simmons, Kevin Espiritu, and several other creators had done exactly this—and well.

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I mean, you’re (Offscreen) probably not making a ton of money publishing an indie magazine, right? So why do you do it? Because you feel it in your bones. This must exist.