The Newsletter that I started six months ago has about 1000 subscribers at the moment, with around 5% of them converting into paid subscribers.
I am trying to see how to ramp up on the value, and one of the options is to build a community on slack for the members, which will give it more stickiness.
There are a few tools like memberful but they charge extra - and the cost of the stack is starting to add up. I’m trying to avoid that.
I am thinking about building a small connector app that will do the following:
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When a member subscribes to the newsletter, it will add them to the slack workplace (via an invite) - with an onboarding process in place.
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via slack notifications + email, will send a reminder 3 days to the member before the subscription ends, to remind them to renew so that they can continue without interruption.
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In the event that the subscription gets canceled, It will remove the user from the slack workplace. Also, there is a zapier trigger that sends out a feedback form to see how we can improve things and the reason as to why the person canceled the subscription.
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(optional) there might be some folks who might want to trial the community, still wondering how to do that. I don’t have clarity on the workflow for that yet.
Before I get started, wanted to check if there was already a tool/project/github codebase out there which can do this and will save me time and energy. Ghost is already handling the payment+membership so don’t need something as feature-rich as Memberful (and pay for it).
Thanks in advance.