Memberships By Homeschoolers: Run Your Own Business and Get Recurring Monthly Revenue

Compass Classroom Premium Membership free for one month

How many memberships are you a part of? Do you subscribe to any “boxes of the month?” I believe that memberships and subscriptions are here to stay and will only grow with time. Memberships by homeschoolers are the perfect model for running your own business and getting recurring monthly revenue!

Disclosure: I get commissions for purchases made through affiliate links in this post.

My Membership Story

I started my online business in earnest about 6 years ago with some printable ebook curriculum and then I turned those into online courses. Things were going ok, and I was making a few thousand dollars a year. It was enough to pay for my time, but not enough to make a dent in our family budget.

After watching a free workshop about how to start and run a membership, I decided to give it a try. I launched my first membership, Music in Our Homeschool Plus: the Elementary Membership Experience, in November 2019. In 2020 my business took off. My membership grew, and so did my monthly “paycheck!” In September 2020 I launched a second membership called Fine Arts in Our Homeschool Plus: the High School Membership Experience.

To simplify for both me and my members, I’ve now combined the two memberships into one! Music in Our Homeschool Plus now provides music and fine arts for preschool through high school!

How I Finally Grew

This was really fun! I just took a few minutes to look back at my business to create this graphic for you. And, it was even more obvious than I expected to see how much Stu’s course The Membership Experience helped me grow and stay consistent.

As I said before, Stu’s free trainings (podcasts, blog posts) gave me the tools and confidence to start my membership.

But, as you can see, after I took his course and started applying what I learned, it really took off and gave me consistent monthly income!

Why I’m Encouraging You to Join:

It can work for you, too!

Gena’s Sweet Bonus (worth $800): I’m going to help you by going through the course with you and we’ll have a weekly coaching call! This will help you stay with it and get the work done to get your membership off the ground.

Gena's Sweet Bonus for purchasing The Membership Experience with Stu McLaren.

Testimonial from Michelle H.:

“Having a small group session [from Gena] to go along with TME added so much value to the experience. It provided a space to get feedback on assignments that was less intimidating than a large group setting and the extra accountability helped keep me on track and making progress!”

Join The Membership Experience here.

Get on the waitlist and/or register for the FREE workshop or webinar if it isn’t open right now!

Check out my own membership journey here:

I occasionally got some good sale months in the early years when I’d launch a new course that did well. But, the big changes came when I started my MIOH+ membership (Music in Our Homeschool Plus). And, then, after I went through Stu McLaren’s course The Membership Experience (which used to be called The Tribe Experience), and applied what I learned from him, I now have consistent monthly recurring revenue without having to keep creating new courses and launch them!

Membership Talk with Gena

I want to help you with your ideas for starting a membership! Please join my FREE private Facebook Group called Membership Talk with Gena here.

Membership Talk with Gena is a place for those who want to talk about starting or growing a membership/subscription box/recurring revenue stream! Starting my music education membership in 2019 was the BEST business decision I’ve ever made!

Let’s talk about getting your membership started!

Download a Free Guide here:

The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Start, Launch, and Grow a Successful Membership Site:

Find the perfect market for your membership
Establish yourself as the “go-to” expert
Attract an awesome group of like-minded followers
Step off the content creation treadmill
Choose the best pricing model (so you can make money!)

Get it here!

A Membership for Moms with Businesses

Fast forward to 2022. I decided to start another membership, a business book club for homeschool moms with businesses. It’s called the Homeschool Mompreneur Business Book Club. So far we have read The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller, Free to Focus, and some other great books. We support each other by adding accountability for finishing reading as well as implementing something into our lives or businesses!

Memberships by Homeschoolers (with a FREE Printable)

If you’re a homeschooling family, you might be wondering what your family could do to add another income stream. What memberships by homeschoolers are already out there that are successful? Let’s brainstorm some ideas together.

First, let’s talk about some of the popular memberships/subscriptions out there right now to get our minds thinking bigger:

Video: Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Starz, Rightnow Media
Variety (video, free shipping): Amazon Prime
Music: Spotify, SiriusXM
Educational: Worldwatch News, Curiosity Stream
Software: Adobe Creative Cloud
Subscription Boxes: clothes (Stitch Fix, Wantable), pets (Barkbox), makeup (Birchbox), Artza Box
Education Subscription Boxes: KiwiCo, Little Passports, BitsBox
Gaming: PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live Gold
Services: discounts, free product, and/or free shipping each month, coaching, tech help
Books: physical, ebook (Kindle Unlimited and Scribd), audiobook (Audible)
Homeschool Curriculum: Teaching Textbooks, Compass Classroom Premium Membership, College Prep Genius, Music in Our Homeschool Plus

Are ideas swirling around in your head for what kind of membership business you could run?

FIRST: Download the free printable below: 70 Membership Business Ideas for Homeschoolers

SECOND: Sign up for the Free Workshop (read more about it below).

Get a free download of “70 Membership Business Ideas for Homeschoolers”

**It’s very important NOT to say to yourself, “But, someone else is already doing my idea.”

No one is doing it like YOU will.

And, you will find people who love YOUR WAY of doing it!

Free Workshop to Learn All About Memberships for Homeschoolers

Memberships have been proven to work in THOUSANDS of markets, by business owners who have been growing and thriving, even in this past year’s uncertain economy!

Want to think about giving it a go?

Launch your own membership business?

And here’s the really great news. You can learn how from the “go-to guy” for memberships, my good friend Stu McLaren, in a LIVE Workshop he’s putting on next week…

“Turn What You Already Know, Love, And Do Into A Profitable Membership.”

This was the exact free training I went through before I launched my first membership!

The training is 100% FREE to attend and it starts on April 20!

For more than 14 years, Stu has helped launch THOUSANDS of highly-profitable membership and subscription businesses. And the blueprint he’s going to share with you on April 20 is normally reserved for his private clients and customers ONLY. But for a very limited time, you’re getting access to all his proven strategies and insights.

Sign up here. It’s FREE!

Here’s a sneak peek at what Stu will cover:

How to know if your business is a good fit for a membership.
Why memberships are the business model of the future and why NOW is the time to launch one of your own.
An inside look at CURRENT examples of thriving online membership businesses.
What it takes to attract the right people to join your membership.
Plus, a simple process thousands of membership businesses are using to launch and scale…even in times of uncertainty.

This training only happens once a year and seats will fill up fast.

Hurry and claim your spot right here!