Starting a Paid Community: The Five Decisions That Set Your Ceiling
Before you pick a platform, five decisions set the ceiling on what your community can earn. Here is what each one is worth, with the arithmetic attached.
Before you pick a platform, five decisions set the ceiling on what your community can earn. Here is what each one is worth, with the arithmetic attached.
Annual billing saves $3.30 per member per year in fees, which is not the reason to do it. The real case is churn, and there is a break-even rate you can calculate for yourself.
A hundred members at $50 isn’t $5,000. Here’s what you actually keep across six platforms, and why your price point moves the number about ten times more than your platform does.
Three layers of cost, six platforms, three revenue levels. Including the exact monthly revenue at which each platform’s cheap plan stops being the cheap one.
The sticker price is almost never what you pay. A comparison of Skool, Circle, Mighty Networks, Heartbeat, Podia and Kajabi, built on what each one actually costs.