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Written by people who pay for this software · Pricing and offer terms checked August 2026 · Destination links auto-checked 21 August 2026
The rest of this site reviews three pieces of software. These 27 guides are about the businesses people run on them — how to fill a coaching calendar, how to price and sell a course, how to launch a membership and keep the members. Each one ends by recommending whichever of the three tools genuinely fits that job, and sometimes by telling you that you do not need one yet.
How these differ from the product pages. A product page answers "is Kajabi worth $179 a month?". A guide answers "what should I charge for a three-month coaching package?" and only reaches for a tool once the answer requires one. If you already know which platform you want, the three brand columns in the footer are the faster route. If you know the problem but not the tool, start here.
Coaching
9 guides
For people selling their expertise by the hour, the package or the cohort. Mostly an acquisition problem: the coaching works, the calendar is empty.
Almost every coach we talk to has the same shape of problem. The coaching itself is good, referrals are pleasant but unpredictable, and there is no repeatable path from "someone read my post" to "someone is on my calendar". These guides build that path — the lead magnet, the call script, the offer construction and the funnel behind them — and cover what to charge, since underpricing is the second most common thing holding a coaching practice back.
- The Coaching Funnel
Three blueprints — discovery call, webinar and high-ticket application.
- Coaching Discovery Calls
A five-phase script, fifteen questions and the funnel that fills the calendar.
- High-Ticket Coaching
Building, pricing and selling a $3,000-plus coaching offer.
- Lead Magnets for Coaches
17 ideas by niche, ranked by how well each one actually converts.
- Coaching Packages & Pricing
What to charge, three package templates, and the 3-month container.
- Group Coaching Programs
Cohort, evergreen or hybrid — structure, pricing and where to run it.
- Coaching Membership Sites
Recurring revenue past the 1:1 ceiling, with the model maths.
- How to Get Coaching Clients
15 methods, split into what works manually and what scales.
- ClickFunnels for Coaches
What it does for a coaching business, and what it does not.
Creators
6 guides
For people packaging what they know into a product. The hard parts are validating it before you build it and pricing it once you have.
The graveyard of finished-but-unsold courses is large, and every headstone marks three months spent before anyone confirmed they wanted the thing. These guides invert that order: sell first, build for the people who paid, and price against what courses actually sell for rather than against what launch marketing implies. They also cover the funnel that sells the finished product continuously instead of only during a launch week.
- How Much Course Creators Make
The honest distribution, and the revenue math that produces it.
- How to Presell a Course
Get paid before you record — and refund everyone if nobody buys.
- How to Create a Mini Course
One result, 60 to 120 minutes, built over a single weekend.
- How to Price an Online Course
Median prices from 32,000 courses, a formula and three tiers.
- Course Sales Funnel
The five pages that sell a course, and the emails between them.
- Evergreen Webinar Funnels
Recorded training on a schedule — show-up rates and the honest limits.
Memberships
12 guides
For people building recurring revenue around a community or a library. Growth and retention turn out to be the same job.
A membership is the simplest recurring-revenue business there is and the easiest to build badly. The failure is rarely a shortage of content — it is a room that feels empty, a library nobody can search, or a price set from nerves rather than from data. These guides cover launching, pricing, filling and keeping a membership, plus the fee arithmetic for moving off Patreon, Facebook or Discord onto something you own.
- Membership vs Online Course
One-time revenue against recurring, worked through with real numbers.
- Founding Member Launch
Sell 10 to 30 lifetime-discount places before you build anything.
- Free Community to Paid
When to charge, what to charge, and who gets grandfathered.
- Patreon vs Your Own Site
The fee math, the crossover point and the migration checklist.
- Corporate & Team Memberships
Per-seat, flat-org and licence pricing for B2B membership buyers.
- How Much to Charge
Real price bands, an LTV table and what platform fees take.
- How to Start a Paid Community
A seven-step playbook and an honest platform comparison.
- Getting Your First 100 Members
Membership growth as a funnel problem, in three stages.
- Membership Retention
14 strategies, churn benchmarks and what a point of churn is worth.
- Membership Content Ideas
20+ ideas by effort, drip vs all-access, and a 90-day calendar.
- Paid Facebook Group Alternatives
What Meta actually allows, and how to move a group you own.
- Discord Alternatives
Discord’s 90/10 split, its US-only gate, and the upgrade path.
The three offers these guides point at
Every guide on this site is free to read and funded the same way: if a recommendation fits and you sign up through one of these links, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. All three are the same shape — three months for one $99 payment, then the normal monthly price unless you cancel. Terms verified August 2026; confirm at checkout.
Kajabi — if the problem is delivery
Courses, coaching, community, email and checkout in one subscription, with 0% revenue share. Three months of the Basic plan for $99 against $537 at list — a $438 saving — renewing at $179/month. Best for creators and coaches who want the whole business in one account. Full offer detail.
ClickFunnels — if the problem is acquisition
Funnels, landing pages, checkout with order bumps and upsells, and email workflows, with no transaction fees. Three months of the Scale plan for $99 against $591 at list — a $492 saving — renewing at $197/month. Best when people know you exist but nothing turns that into bookings or sales. Full offer detail.
Membership.io — if the problem is recurring revenue
Member hubs holding content and community together, with AI search across every recording, unlimited members and 0% transaction fees. Three months of the Grow plan for $99 against $357 at list — a $258 saving — renewing at $119/month. Best for memberships, paid communities and cohort programmes. Full offer detail.
Not sure which problem you have?
Two questions usually settle it. Are enough people finding you? If not, that is acquisition, and no delivery platform fixes it. And does your revenue reset to zero every January? If it does, that is a recurring-revenue problem rather than a marketing one. The guide that most directly answers the second is membership site versus online course, which works the difference through with real numbers.