The Summit Host Hangout Podcast

Hundreds of episodes filled with real stories, real strategies, and real numbers to help you make your virtual summit (and the launch that follows) as streamlined and profitable as possible.
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"Accidentallyā€¯ Adding 300+ Members to a Membership with a Virtual Summit with Bail Ansari

This week you'll hear from Bail Ansari about her unexpected success with virtual summits and how she

There's something really special happening with summits in hobby-based niches right now. Over and over we're seeing our clients host a summit for B2B niche with a hobby-related topic, and they absolutely take off. I've got an incredible story to share with you today from one of our clients who experienced this firsthand when she "accidentally" added 300 members to her membership through a...

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How I Landed a Sponsorship without Packages or Pitching

In this episode, I'm breaking down why I had written off sponsorships for Membership Momentum and how I got one anyway, even without packages or pitching.

When I shared my takeaways from the last summit I hosted last month, I wasn't expecting to have this extra update to add on from this event - especially after deciding that I wasn't going to have any sponsors! Today we've got a fun episode that I totally didn’t expect to record, but I ended up with a sponsor for my summit without any packages or pitching, and I just had to share...

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A Last-Ditch Effort That Brought in $30k and 260 New Members with Heather Levin

Tune in to hear what made Heather decide to go for it with her first summit, what the experience was like, and how it completely transformed her business.

It's frustrating to have an offer that you know is amazing and that gets amazing results for the people who buy it, but that you're struggling to grow the way you'd like to.

That's what today's guest, Heather Levin, was experiencing prior to hosting her first summit. She had a great membership in an amazing and unique niche, but nothing she was doing was creating the results she wanted and...

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Customer Service without the Headaches for Virtual Summits with Margaux Fraise

Margaux Fraise is here to share how her extensive experience in retail prepared her to handle summit customer service in a way we can all learn from!

Customer service is…one of the not-so-fun parts of hosting a virtual summit. When you run an event as big as a summit, an influx of customer support questions usually comes with it - no matter how clearly you spell things out! It’s just bound to happen when you have thousands of people at something free there will be at least a couple of “those people”.

It's hard to...

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8 Takeaways from Hosting the Membership Momentum Virtual Summit

Love a good behind-the-scenes? In this episode, I'm sharing 8 key takeaways from our Membership Momentum event. And it's not all rainbows and butterflies!

A few weeks ago I hosted the Membership Momentum Virtual Summit, and I'm excited to share eight key takeaways from the event today! I recorded this episode right after wrapping up the event, with the all-access pass cart still open, and the momentum high. So you're getting my takeaways while everything is still fresh.

I wanted to capture my thoughts before they fade, so I'm bringing...

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Stay Top-of-Mind Using a Visibility Tour During Your Summit Off-Season with Kelly Sinclair

Kelly Sinclair dives into using a Visibility Tour to become the go-to expert, open the door to new opportunities, and generate leads in just 10 minutes per day.

I know there are a lot of you out there who love the energy of summits, and the audience growth, revenue, and visibility they bring. But we're always looking for other ways to keep the momentum up between summits too. We love challenges for that, as a way to keep the connection and sales going with your existing audience between summits. But about getting in front of new audiences? How do you...

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My Favorite Time-Saving Summit Strategies

Hosting a summit takes time, so I'm sharing my 4 favorite ways to save time in hosting a virtual summit plus one thing you'll need to do before you get started!

Have you ever thought about hosting a summit, but wondered.... where am I going to find the time!?

This is something I hear literally every day from people who want to host a summit, but they're frustrated because they honestly don’t have the time for it.

I’m not here to brush that off or say that they're making excuses. I know it’s a real struggle. Summits are big projects...

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How I Stay on the "Cutting Edge" of Virtual Summits (but keep it out of our core strategy)

I'm peeling back the curtain to share my thoughts about the

Not too long ago, I reached out to a past collaborator, friend, and affiliate about something, and she gave me what I considered a challenge wanting to know how I’m staying on the “cutting edge” of summits. She wanted to know so that she could decide if she was going to continue recommending me or not - or at least that’s how I took it.

Now, I...

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8 Reasons You Need to Host a Summit if You Have a Membership

We've consistently seen our clients add 150-500 new members with their summits and I'll share 7 other reasons that summits and memberships are the perfect pair.

If you have a proven membership that you're ready to scale and bring to the forefront of your business, it's time to host a virtual summit.

You've heard me say time and time again that a virtual summit can bring a ton of momentum, awareness, and revenue into your business, and launching your membership is no exception.

We've consistently seen our clients add anywhere from 150-500 new...

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Thought Process, Experiments, and Strategy Behind Our Upcoming Virtual Summit

I'm sharing the strategy behind my upcoming event, results I'm expecting, how I'm tying in our offers, the purpose behind bringing in a partner, and more.

We're working on our next summit and for the first time ever, we're hosting a summit for membership site owners! I always want my events to go well, but I also use them as a chance to experiment with new strategies to see what's working NOW in the virtual summit space.

And this time, I'm doing something new and taking you behind the scenes of an event we haven't even hosted yet!  ...

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