Amy Tells Nathan he's Wrong on Membership Sites with Amy Schmittauer of SavvySexySocial.com

Ep 130 Amy Schmittauer of SavvySexySocial.com joins Nathan.

Amy Schmittauer is Founder of SavvySexySocial.com, a video blog empowering brands to embrace their amazing personality and share it with the world. Leading the charge in video blogging for business, Amy has grown a community of advocates who’ve helped the brand amass more than 2 million views in turn growing her social business coaching and speaking career.

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3 Key Points:

1. Say NO more!!!
2. Advice Doesn’t Matter if you don’t take action.
3. Unless you’re a content guru, membership sites are HARD.

Episode Notes:

• 01:03 – Nathan’s introduction to today’s show
• 01:30 – Amy Schmittauer joins the show
• 02:15 – YouTube is still the big dog on the block
• 02:34 – How Amy makes money
• 03:50 – Why she walked away from her consulting business
• 04:52 – Membership launched in May of 2015 and it costs $59/Month
• 05:12 – www.SocialAuthorityMembership.com
• 06:00 – October 2015, the membership site brought in $5K
• 06:45 – How Amy drives new clients
• 07:32 – The annual premium price is the “best-deal” for Amy’s clients
• 09:00 – Why set up a membership sites which require SO much work month-to-month
• 10:20 – Don’t join Amy’s group if you’re not going to do shit
• 10:40 – Keeping people in the group is more difficult than acquisition
• 11:00 – Members stay in her group for 3 months on average
• 12:12 – Getting paid for speakership–$5K per opportunity
• 14:05 – Say NO more
• 15:57 – Famous Five

Resources Mentioned:

• Growth Geeks – The way Nathan hires growth hackers on a per project basis for things like info graphics, blog posts, and other growth projects
• Social Authority – Amy Schmittauer’s membership site
• Savvy, Sexy, Social – Amy Schmittauer’s original video blog business
• Aaron Levie – CEO of Box
• Never Eat Alone – Amy’s favorite book
• ToDoist – Amy’s favorite Tool

Famous 5

• Favorite Book?— Never Eat Alone
• What CEO do you follow?— Aaron Levie
• What is your favorite online tool?— ToDoist
• Do you get 8 hours of sleep?—Yes
• If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?— The Marine was not a good guy, and there are a LOT of amazing things to look forward too

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