ready to ditch the launch roller coaster?

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evergreen edge academy

You’ve created a membership site that’s making a real impact and your members love. And while the launch marketing model has helped you get this far, it’s just not working as well for you anymore.

It’s time to go evergreen!

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At this special Workshop price, if you add just 5 new monthly members as a result of joining the Academy, it pays for itself.*

* Assumes your membership costs $47 per month with a 95% retention rate.

Plus, BONUSES!

  • BONUS: A Guide to Evergreen Onboarding
  • BONUS: Scott’s Evergreen Tracking Spreadsheet
  • BONUS: Advanced Evergreen Calculator

We will be with you the whole way – training, coaching, supporting, and providing the resources you need to successfully take your membership evergreen.

 

Get in touch if you have any questions!

Why go evergreen?

An evergreen marketing funnel lets you scale faster and launch less frequently. Unlike open memberships where anyone can join anytime, evergreen let’s you continuously enroll people who are truly interested to your membership without having to wait for a launch.

Scale Further

When you lose as many members between launches as you gain during launches– that’s the dreaded “launch plateau”. Your membership goes sideways. Evergreen breaks through the launch plateau so you can achieve the growth you want.

Love on Your Members

Evergreen runs itself, so you can get off the sales hamster wheel. You’ll spend less time planning and running launches and more time serving your members.

Reduce Reliance on Launches

Events beyond our control can throw a wrench into the best planned launches. Launching can feel super stressful when you have all your eggs in this one basket.

Iterate and Optimize Much Faster

With an evergreen funnel, you get constant feedback on what is converting for your audience. So you can easily adjust your ad budgets, content, and designs to get the most out of your investment.

Create More Consistent Revenue

Even for seasoned membership owners, the best planned launches are still hard to predict. With evergreen, you’ll have a steady stream of data which tells you what to expect financially, helping you run your business more effectively.

Spend More Time On What You Love

Evergreen works even when you aren’t. Because your evergreen funnel is completely automated, you can take that vacation and still grow your membership and bottom line.

Membership growth on evergreen

In this real membership example, launches led to strong initial growth (year 1). But then the membership hit a Launch Plateau because it got to a size where launch growth only replaced member attrition between launches. Then, in year 4, the membership went evergreen and began to scale again in a big way.

About the Academy

The Evergreen Edge Academy is where online membership owners and their teams get the training, coaching, resources, and support they need to build and scale a highly profitable evergreen webinar funnel. 

Focused Trainings

Self-guided bite-sized lessons on how to go evergreen

Live Weekly Coaching

Weekly office hours with Scott and other evergreen experts

Time Saving Templates

Swipe files, templates, checklists, and more

Systems & Tools

Gets you up and running fast – even if you’re not techie

Community Support

Celebrate wins, get advice, and learn from others’ efforts

what you will learn

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Going Evergreen: The Math, The Funnel, The Process

Learn what success looks like, the elements of the funnel, how to know if it’s working or not, and what you can expect in terms of your effort level and realistic profitability.

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The Secrets to a High-Converting Evergreen Webinar or Workshop

Your webinar is the key to a profitable evergreen funnel. Learn the nuances of how to structure a high-converting webinar or workshop and how to effectively and comfortably sell your membership.

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Transitioning to Evergreen

An evergreen funnel can bring in hundreds or thousands of new members on auto-pilot. But first you have to build out and automate your entire funnel, step-by-step, the right way.

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Scalable Evergreen Ad Strategy

Ad costs have gone up. You’ll learn how to devise a digital ad “Test Lab” that drives a low enough Cost Per Acquisition to make all of this work for your membership regardless of rising ad costs.

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Evergreen Analytics

You’ll see how to set up an automated tracking system that gives you all the numbers you need to make effective strategic decisions about optimizing your funnel.

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The Member Multiplier

This is the secret sauce that takes your evergreen funnel from “effective” to “outstanding”. You’ll learn exactly what to do with leads who don’t immediately buy.

What They’re Saying

“Working with Scott, we more than doubled our investment in less than a year! The power of evergreen is phenomenal!”

Carrie Green

Founder, Female Entrepreneur Association

When it comes to all things evergreen, Scott is my go-to guy. In fact, Scott was the first person I thought of to present an evergreen bonus for The Membership Experience and his team has been great to partner with.

Stu McLaren

Founder, The Membership Experience and Searchie.io

“Your knowledge and expertise on this topic is world class and you have an awesome program. Knowing my numbers… the calculator has given me the confidence to scale my business.”

John Michaloudis

Founder, MyExcelOnline.com

“The Academy has been highly valuable and super clear on what needs to happen and get done to make evergreen a success! I was really happy with everything I’ve learned and taken away from the Academy. Definitely worth the investment for sure. 💪❤️”

Caitlin Mitchell

Founder and CEO, EB Academics

“I’m totally grateful for this opportunity – I wouldn’t have evergreen launched if you hadn’t offered this program.

Susan Bradley

Founder, The Social Sales Girls

“We had been stuck around 800 members for a while and this program helped us get to 2,500 members in just 5 months. I can’t believe how fast we grew!”

Sonia Stringer

Founder, Business Academy for Women

Hi, I’m Scott Paley

For more than 20 years, I’ve helped hundreds of organizations grow through strategic, creative digital marketing – from big brands like Clairol and Marriott to nonprofits like the Innocence Project and Million Mom March to individual experts like Joan Garry and Carrie Green.

In 2017, I co-founded a very successful membership site that serves nonprofit leaders – the Nonprofit Leadership Lab – which in three years, grew to 2,000 members using the launch model.

But then we hit the “launch plateau”.

When you lose as many members between launches as you gain during launches– that’s the launch plateau. At some point, this happens to every membership – even those with really high retention rates.

Our membership was stagnating even though I knew there was still a ton of room to grow in the market.

That’s when we went evergreen. And it worked!

In less than a year we went from our consistent 2,000 members to more than 4,500 members. We grew fast and with a lot less stress! We were able to help so many more people and organizations and the ripple effect has been enormous.

Now I help others achieve evergreen success.

  1. I build and maintain evergreen funnels for membership owners through my agency Abstract Edge.
  2. I train and support teams to go evergreen through the Evergreen Edge Academy.

Me, beyond evergreen…

Besides my work life, I love to travel, read, play piano, sing, and watch the amazin’ New York Mets. Though born and raised in the New York City suburbs, in 2008, I took my business 100% remote and moved with my wife, Sharon, and our two children to Baltimore, Maryland.

 

 

Let’s Grow Your Membership Together

No matter what kind of membership you run, you could be serving a lot more people than you currently are.

If you want to launch less often
If you want more time to love on your members
If you want to take a vacation without sacrificing your sales…
If you want fewer peaks and valleys in income and more reliably consistent revenue…
If you want your launches to more than just refill your churn
If you want more time and ability to nail down your ad campaigns

The Evergreen Edge Academy is how you’ll get there.