A steady source of revenue, engaged customers… Membership business models can be a great way to grow a business—but is it for everyone? From Amazon Prime to Sam’s Club, membership business models calling for customers to pay recurring fees have proven powerful forces for growth. The membership ...

By Grant Miller, Sun your Buns Be obsessed with your EFT revenue. If you don’t know how important your EFT revenues should be to your business by now, I’m not sure there is time to save you! A healthy, lucrative EFT model is the backbone of your business success. It would be very difficult f...

By Brenda Wooley Some spray tanning technicians don’t believe they can offer a EFT membership to their tanners. I took the plunge and to my surprised, it worked for my sunless tanning business! EFT memberships have worked for years. I’m sure many of you have signed a contract for a gym that ...

By Jenny Backman, Carolina Tan Factory It’s true that “it’s never too late.” Let me go on record and be one of many that will tell you that if you aren’t selling memberships in your salon, do not wait another minute to make this change! The reasons we must sell memberships are very si...

By John Warrillow, Founder, The Value Builder System The subscription business model has been around for centuries. The aristocracy in sixteenth century Britain used to subscribe to cartographers so they received the very latest maps of the world as the borders of the British Empire were being ...

Apple Music: The online music streaming service has managed to lure in more than 10 million paying subscribers since its launch in June 2015, as recently reported by the Financial Times. That means in just six months, Apple has attracted as many users as it took Spotify six years to reach. Gu...

Is it just me, or has every industry moved to a subscription/membership model for their services and products? This seems to be a new form of business model innovation, especially when it is married with online services. Of course the concept of memberships or subscriptions is not new. Gym and...

You can turn occasional buyers into loyal customers with a membership program for your business. Here’s how. Not long ago my wife and I closed down a bank account that we had not used in many years. I had tried to persuade my wife for many years that we needed to close the account because […]...

Want to sell more EFT memberships? Try paying your sales team a commission on each one they sell. It works! Nothing motivates people more than self-interest, which is why offering salon staff a commission on EFT membership sales is a good idea. Just ask Daniel Mann, Jr., co-owner of the Tropical ...