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

• Say NO more!!!

• Advice Doesn’t Matter if you don’t take action.

• 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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