Monetise Your Passion
Membership Engine Platform Website
Reach more students, grow your fanbase, build your community
Your skills, experience, ideas, knowledge and passion for music are worth money to the right customer
Its our job to help you unlock this potential...
and give you the tool so you can turn it into market ready products...
SoundSquares Membership Engine at Your Service
Why Sell Memberships?
Build Recurring Revenue
Reach a Wider Audience
Help others benefit from your ideas
Earn from Your Experience
More Time Doing What You Love
Share Your Passion
Build Passive Income
Monetise Your Knowledge
Demonstrate Authority
Scale Your Services
Work Fewer Hours
Why People Love Memberships
Learn New Skills
Acquire New Knowledge
Access to Experienced Professionals
Interest in the Founder
Being Part of a Community
Accountability when Learning
Meeting Like-Minded Others
Share Their Experiences
Feeling of Connection
Supporting Creators They Love
Supporting Work They Believe In
Business Models
How to Make Money with Memberships
Content Stream
If you share valuable content regularly
Content Library
If you have a library of content, products, or courses ready to go
Group Coaching
If you want to scale your teaching services
One to One Services
If you have a high level of expertise in a specific skill, and you enjoy connecting one on one
Product Bundle
Access to different kinds of content grouped by category or outcome
Community
If you're passionate about connecting people around a specific topic
Road to Result
If you want to provide a long term service that covers a more comprehensive skillset
Hybrid
If you want to Mix and match aspects of each to build a hybrid membership model
Multi-Tier
If you're passionate about connecting people around a specific topic
Membership Product Examples
Content Library Example
Learn to Play Jazz Piano
$35 per month
Complete access to the full library of video courses that take you from basic to advanced player
- How Jazz harmony works
- Chord voicings
- How to solo
- American Songbook Repertoire
- and more...
Content Update Example
Daily Music Production Tutorials
$35 per month
Tune in with me each day while I work on new projects, tracks, releases, remixes and more
- Watch my workflow
- Behind the scenes insights
- Hear me break it all down
- Learn my production techniques
- and more...
Group Coaching Example
Weekly Vocal Workshop
$45 per month
Weekly in person vocal sessions with access to bonus online materials to help you practice in between workshops
- Weekly in person singing workshops
- Access to guided practice videos
- Access meet like minded singers
- Get experience performing every week
- and more...
How to Sell Memberships
Post with a Purpose
Free 'Teaser' Content
- Social Media Posts
- Paid Ads
- Free Content on Your Site
drives traffic towards
Premium Content
- Your Courses & Videos
- Your Products
- Members Only Perks
Membership Engine Features
Tools to monetise your following and fanbase
Online Course Builder
Premium Membership Areas
Unlimited Membership Tier Plans
Automatic Billing & Payments
No Content Censorship
Increased Professionalism
Run Your Business on Your Platform
Not someone else's...
- Own your content
- Keep your earnings
- Feature your branding
- Use your own professional email addresses
- Increase your professionalism
- Raise your brand value
- Create other offers; products, services, courses & more
- Employ more advanced selling tools & analytics
- Cross promote your offers
- Create upsells for higher earnings
- 'The money is in the list' - build yours and enjoy customer relationships for life
- Commicate with your customers anytime, on your terms
- Keep your business safely in your hands while other platforms come and go
- Harness email marketing automation & other business tools
- No other profiles to distract and steal your customers
- Earn from advertising on your site
Your Business, Your Brand, Your Freedom
The Details
12 One to One Mentoring Sessions
12 Week Course
Your Own Membership Platform Website
What do I get?
Successful applicants receive a custom built Website Platform, 12 one-to-one Mentoring Sessions (via video call), and ongoing email contact with their mentor.
Website features can include a Content Porfolio, E-Commerce Shop, Marketing Engine, Booking Engine, Customer Manager, Fanbase Membership Area, Student Membership Area, E-Learning Hub, Email Marketing Software, Music Licensing Platform, and Project Manager.
Why would I want this over Instagram Subscriptions or Patreon?
Independence
'Traffic You Own'
Own Your List - highest ROI
Control Your Traffic - you can upsell, control customer journey, etc. (Insta and Patreon know the value of this, that's why they let your put your content on their platform)
The issue has always been that, by relying on Patreon for membership income, musicians put their own success into the hands of a corporation rather than themselves. This means that you’re subject to all of their Terms and Conditions, even if you don’t know exactly what they say, or don’t care to study legalese and want to hire a lawyer that does.
In recent years, Patreon has even been known to censor content or completely remove membership pages if they don’t feel the content fits their platform. When that happens, all of your paid members (and, potentially, a full-time living) can be deleted with very little warnin
Pricing - what does it cost?
The cost to run the programme is $2395 per Music Creator.
However, successful applicants will be offered a place on the programme free of charge, and will receive all website design and build services free.
Other applicants may be offered a discounted price of 50% or more. We are able to offer this kind of discount to most Music Creators who demonstrate they are serious about committing to the work required.
All applicants must cover the monthly fee of their website, which covers hosting, software, software maintenance, technical support by email, etc. Depending on the features required, the website monthly fees range from between £6 - £49. Of course, the aim is that you will be earning significantly more than this from your website.
What criteria are you looking for in applications?
This support is for professional Music Creators from any country, of all genres and disciplines. This includes Vocalists, Instrumentalists, DJs, Music Producers, Composers, Artists, Bands, and more.
We seek to build lasting relationships with Music Creators and we are particularly looking for those who aim to build a sustainable career and income from their music.
Applicants must:
- be aged over 18
- have a SoundSquares Music Creator Profile
- demonstrate a high quality of musical output
- demonstrate a high quality of content (video, images, articles, social media presence, etc)
- have evidence of growing following
- have control over one or more aspects of your career (e.g. self-managing, self-releasing or self-producing)
- be able to invest at least 7 hours per week
Tell me about the process
Step 1 - Apply for the Music Entrepreneur Programme below. We aim to notify successful applicants within 14 days of application submission.
Step 2 - If your application is successful and we decide we want to work with you, we will send you information about the next steps, which may involve making an initial payment to setup your website. You will also be invited to book your first mentoring session, and provide us with your content (audio, video, text, images, etc).
Step 3 - During your first mentoring session we will work establish a plan of action and lay it out inside your Project Manager inside your website. The 12 week programme will run from the date of your first session. You will have weekly mentoring sessions, and you will be given assignments in between sessions. You will be able to contact your mentor at any time via email through the 12 week programme.
Step 4 - We aim to make your first website iteration live within 14 days of you uploading your initial content (videos, audio, images, text, etc). We will show you techniques to promote your website upon launch. This first iteration will focus on promoting your brand and your content. E-commerce, membership and other functionality and
Step 5 - We help you implement your strategy and develop your website into a membership platform, including the agreed monetisation and client acquisition methods.
Step 6 - Upon completing the programme, you will receive tutorials for managing your website, and you will be able to ask technical support questions via email at any time.