330 Why Creatives are Crushing it in the Membership Space with Special Guest Membership Expert, Stu McLaren

What qualities do Creatives have in common that make adding a membership model to their business a perfect fit?   We'll tell you! In today's episode I'm joined by my friend and Mentor of 5 years and Membership Expert Stu McLaren to talk about the wild success Artists are seeing in the membership space.   And by success we mean, growing 7 figure memberships in just a few years, while inspiring art and creativity, and creative business skills for thousands of people across the globe.   It's inspiring, to say the least, to see this rapid growth of PROSPERITY and THRIVING in an industry that was once known for its starving, struggling mentality.   Days of the Starving Artist are gone as Creative Business owners today, myself included are changing the narrative forever more.   It turns out there is one single quality many of us share that makes Artists especially successful at starting, building, and running memberships.   In today's episode, we share what that one quality is among others that makes Artists perfectly suited to add a membership to their revenue streams how many different kinds of creative memberships there are with very specific skills being taught how to know if starting a membership might be something you want to do what owning a membership, not 1 but now 2! has done for me both personally and professionally   If this episode has thinking about what it might be like to start a membership or you have one going already but don't know how to grow it effectively, you're in luck because Stu's free workshop is happening now: How to Turn What You Already Know, Love, and Do into a Profitable Business Just click here to join the workshop for free   You can find all things Marisa and Creative Thursday creativethursday.com and on instagram and facebook @creativethursday

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Marisa Anne Cummings, a Los Angeles based artist + author + entrepreneur, actually started the Creative Thursday podcast in 2006. What? what! how is that even possible? And yes! she wishes she had kept it going after all these years. Yet as a small business owner, maybe you can relate? choices needed to be made, and a passion for painting and continuing to build her art business became her focus. Cut to over a decade later, armed with SO many more lessons learned, and a - can no longer be suppressed - desire to share them with you! Marisa is ready to make a return to one of the first creative mediums she loved, podcasting! Even more fired up than before, Marisa is looking forward to picking up where she left off on her creative journey through both - one her favorite things to do - having thoughtful, inspiring, keeping it real, conversations with fellow Creatives + Business Owners along with offering her own perspective as an artist and entrepreneur, traversing this online world. We’re talking everything from life + business + creativity + entrepreneurship.