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Membership Growth Comes From Retention, Not From Getting New MembersMy name is Robert Skrob, I help membership and subscriptions grow by stopping members from quitting. I do that by getting more of your members to the Retention Point faster. You know those members who love you, buy everything you offer and tell all their friends about you? Those members have made it to the Retention Point. And, when you do what I show you how to do in the book, you’ll get MORE of your members to the Retention Point so you can keep them longer and your recurring revenue will grow. Membership is a great business model in concept. You get a customer and each time your customer renews you get recurring revenue. But, even though I’d become a membership marketing expert I soon discovered it doesn’t matter how many new members you get if your members quit as fast as new members join. I just got off the phone with a prospective client for the first time. His team is generating more than 10,000 new members a month. That’s awesome, a great effort and commendable result that’s getting his company featured in many subscription industry profiles. What isn’t getting featured is this same company is losing 9500 members each month. This means they spend 95% of all of their marketing efforts replacing members that quit. Twenty-seven days of each month are spent replacing canceled members. Their marketing department has thirty days of monthly expenses but delivers only three days of growth.If you know of anyone that’s in this position, or if you are in this position, I’m revealing more than 25 years of membership growth experience in this new book called Retention Point, The Single Biggest Secret to Membership and Subscription Growth for Associations, SAAS, Publishers, Digital Access, Subscription Boxes and all Membership and Subscription-Based Businesses.When you get your hands on this book you'll discover: • The five fallacies of membership retention that most subscription businesses implement that actually INCREASE member churn rates. • Five case studies of subscription business turnarounds (or successful launches) including a publisher, a subscription box, SAAS, an association and a charity/nonprofit. • The 10 Retention Point Accelerators that transform your new members from Quitters into Lifers. • How to achieve 90% to 98% annual renewal percentages, even if you believe this is completely impossible for your business. • The single biggest misunderstanding subscription companies believe that kills membership growth. Plus a whole lot more, when you get Retention Point. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Membership Services, Inc. (May 4, 2018)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692094555


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 56


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.37 x 8.5 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #173,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #108 in Direct Marketing (Books)


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Customer Reviews: 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 515 ratings


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  • A must-read for anyone wanting to grow their membership business!
I LOVED this book! Robert gives proven, clear strategies on how to grow and retain members. The book is inspiring and tactical. I plan to implement everything that I learned and have recommended the book to others. It is valuable and will help you grow!
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025 by GancosJ

  • The nexus of retention strategy
The title of this book refers to Netflix binge-watching TV shows where, if a viewer got to episode X, they were likely in for the whole ride. Episode X is the "retention point." This is precisely what managers of membership programs must do. This book is a high level view of the main ingredients that keep members re-subscribing and feeling like part of the community. Big take-aways: -Information is like water. Too much is just as bad as too little, and most membership managers try to deluge their customers with more content in order to patch up declining subs. -Nobody “wants” a membership, much like nobody who bought a drill wanted a drill, they wanted a hole. And all too often a membership becomes just an information strip tease where something that could have been delivered right away gets thinned out over weeks months and years. -Membership is a luxury purchase and buyers need to feel like they’re having a luxury experience. Which means belonging to the club must confer status. This in turn demands that you confer recognition on members for achieving goals and hitting milestones. -The focus always has to be on the dream outcome, not the effort. People need to be reminded *much more often than we might think* what it is we’re trying to accomplish here and how good it will feel when we get there. -You must take deliberate action to get the customer to eliminate all other options, distractions, sources of noise. The book is VERY readable. Not only is it short, but the concepts are expressed in very simple stories (sometimes even parables) that underscore key points. You can read it in an hour but I took quite a bit longer to digest it. And underlined lots of elements. The most relevant section for me was chapter 15. In it he has an example of how Dave Ramsey focus his members on outcomes rather than processes. It took a fair amount of effort for me to translate this into a version of my own for my members, but it was WELL WORTH the effort. (I had a very hard time seeing the forest for the trees.) Using the concepts in this book we’ve extended our average retention by at least 30% and increased our lifetime customer value. Rob is an extremely knowledgeable retention specialist who has worked with a wide array of membership models. This book is not a granular dissection of blow-by-blow retention tactics. Yes, you can borrow lots of ideas from his example campaigns and you can infer many specific action points from guiding principles, but this is still a short overview. That said if it locks the concept of a moment-in-time “retention point” in your head it’ll be well worth the read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2018 by Perry Marshall

  • Great Book!
Robert gives a lot of good information and ideas that I will implement right away to start my subscription model. I made a lot of notes to apply a step by step strategy. I am glad I found this book. Enjoy 😉!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2022 by Luis

  • I cannot recommend this book enough!
I listened to this book on Audible, but it was so good that I decided to buy the paperback version so I can make notes on it. It was well worth the time to sit down and work through the actionable steps and the way Robert writes makes it very easy to understand how you can use these ideas in your own membership and business. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024 by Abaggett

  • Good Ideas. In this case Parts of the book are in fact greater than the Whole book.
This book's central thesis is that you can retain your customers via a membership on ramp (onboarding flow). The book was fairly convincing and the author presented case studies from his professional practice as well as a whole lot common sense / intuition. In addition to the onboarding flow, he also gives us a framework for customer retention that we are expected to take at face value. Some of factors were obvious: "it's always about them", some made sense given the thesis: "relationship exists after the retention point", however others were kinda left for us to merely accept "Your value is the feelings you deliver" (as opposed to ROI). The ideas were good, but the book itself was a struggle to get through. Lots of fluffy writing. This is ironic given that one of his principles is that value isn't measured by the volume of content. The framework has an implicit business model in mind: A single recurring product/service offering. He does not address multi-feature products/services who would have complex onboarding needs. The framework relies to heavily on selling a dream - don't get me wrong the dream is important. But in a B2B world, this dream tends to be measured with ROI. Overall, very little practical advice, but the strategic message will resonate and inspire you. This book covers the What, and explores the Why. But in order to be a great book, the author would have needed dive into the How. To conclude, I will continue to recommend Ideas from this book, but I won't recommend this book. As a fun aside, the author did apply his 9 Membership Onboarding factors to his own book. Framing the book with his business success (dream) and ending with an upsell (he does link to his website for consulting services). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2019 by Ry

  • Brilliant and well done - excellent points
This book highlights lots of very useful ideas did I wish I had known 20 years ago when I first started running membership sites. Lots of useful ideas for both veterans like myself as well as those who are new. The accelerator points especially well-thought-out. Kudos to the author and many thanks for sharing Lessons Learned. This is an exceptionally intelligent book with valuable, detailed insights. This is not a basic beginners book at all, but rather a practitioner's handbook. I've been very successful in running membership sites for over two decades, and I totally vouch for the validity, intelligence and genuine usefulness and what he has written. Much appreciated! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021 by Kenneth Calhoun

  • If you have a subscription based business you NEED to read this book
The great thing about this book is that it outlines the needs new members have when joining a business. I had been struggling with why our new members were leaving and after doing some research I found this book. I’m glad I did because in this great read, Robert illuminated for me the reasons why my business wasn’t growing and gave me the big takeaway that I needed to incorporate a new structure for how I effectively interact with my newest customers. The book is concise and professionally written and gets straight to the point while reaffirming key central ideas and is overall an easy read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2020 by Amazon Customer

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