From Zero to Hero: How I Scaled My Subscription Business to 10,000 Subscribers and $10M+ Without Breaking the Bank

From Zero to Hero: How I Scaled My Subscription Business to 10,000 Subscribers and $10M+ Without Breaking the Bank

How I scaled my subscription business to 10,000 monthly subscribers and $10M+ in total sales

Without a huge team ❌
An unlimited budget ❌
Or even any prior business experience ❌

And with only $3000 startup capital 💸


This step-by-step process has been used successfully by countless other founders like me

I.E. It’s not a fluke


Step 1. Get clear on who your customers is

In the beginning it’s tempting to just create a product that you like

Or that you think would help someone

But you could be wrong

Instead, identify your ideal customer

Focus on finding a person with a problem.

That person may have been you in the past, maybe not

Think how can you help them to overcome that problem with your products or service?

People don’t buy products they buy solutions to problems

Or to increase their status

Help them and they will pay you


Step 2. Get clear on HOW you help that customer

When you know who your customer is

E.G. dog owners short on time

You can think of ways to save them time while caring for their dog

This is the genesis of your solution to their problem

This is what your product will help them to achieve

This allows you to also think about other problems you can help solve for them – adding features to your product

The bigger the problem, the more likely someone will buy your solution

Finalise the product you sell and package into a subscription

A monthly box, a membership site, a software product or coaching services

Now you’re ready to begin testing & selling your product


Step 3. Optimise your website to convert

In order to effectively get people to buy your product, you need to brainstorm all of the problems your products can solve for them

These are the features of your product, and we need to connect them to the benefits the customer will get

I.E. the solutions your product offers them

Then we need to create a simple website and fill it out with these solutions in the form of benefit-driven sales copy

Add some images and a killer offer and we’re well on our way

Pro tip: your offer will be the #1 factor that determines whether someone signs up or not


Step 4. Leverage email marketing

Before you drive any traffic you need to think ahead

Not everyone is going to buy right away, in fact most people don’t

So we need a way to capture interested people as email leads

Set up a popup, 2 step form, signup flow or quiz to grab their email as they look around your site

Then we will set up automated reminders and email blasts to get them back over to convert

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Step 5. Drive traffic profitably

Now we can start to work on increasing website traffic

Organic can work, but its slow and tedious

You can produce content, but expect it to take 2-3 years to pay off

To go faster, it’s pay to play

Create ads on social platforms focusing on the pain points and problems you identified your customer had from step 1

Image ads are easiest to create, again your offer will be the key to getting the click

When you get some results for initial customers, video testimonial ads are also powerful



Step 6. Refine your offering

The offer is the key to success with subscription marketing

In order to convince someone to pay you each month, you need to incentivise them to give it a try

Free gift, discount, free consultation, free trial

All of these can work, even combinations of 2 or more

When you find the right offer, you’ll know

You’ll be getting more subscribers in a day than you used to get in a month

P.S. It may take several (2-10) tries to find the right offer



Step 7. Upsell, retain and win-back

Now that you’ve got your acquisition sorted

It’s time to turn those subscribers into pure profit for your business

Leverage email, SMS and other communication channels to keep people engaged, gather feedback and find ways to keep them subscribed

Then, offer more value and solve more problems to earn more profit

People are never done buying

Read that again

You can get creative in your solutions and put them in front of people

Your customer value can double and your business can scale to the moon


I’ll see you there!

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