Hey, hey, Erin Kelly, CEO and co founder of MemberVault. Out here. So, I don't know if this is starting to happen in your inbox yet, but it's definitely happening in mine, people are starting to send those like, hey, do this before the summer starts like, Hey, this is your chance to like get get something done.

You know, that type of messaging. And I mean, it's true like this, I feel like end of April, early May or like into May, is a time when online businesses typically kind of do another big like spike of like launches, or pushes or visibility pushes, you know, either because that person is going to be taking some time off in the summer, or because they typically see a kind of drop off of activity from their audience in the summer, because their people are taking time off and vacations and everything.

Obviously, I know last year last summer was like totally different because of stupid COVID. And this year, it's kind of, it'll be interesting to see what happens, right? Because with all the vaccinations and everything, and depending on what country you're in, like, you might be feeling like you're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for COVID. Or you might be feeling like you're still like, very much in the thick of it. And as we all have experienced like that can change very quickly. Either way, right? So

I have seen some interesting articles talking about how like vacation travel is spiking right now in terms of like plane, people booking plane tickets and putting, like Airbnb ease. And, you know, doing travel planning, like RV trips and stuff like that. So I do think that it is going to be a more quote unquote, normal summer in the sense that like people are going to be taking, taking time off.

And so yeah, I mean, this is a very common time that people do a big like launch or push. And so you might already have every, all your groundwork laid, and have everything planned for what you're doing. Or you might be thinking, Oh, I like it, especially if you're a service provider, or a really busy coach, your might, you might just not be thinking like, Oh, I should probably do something for the summer, before summer, like the height of summer really hits.

So one of the things that we wanted to do is to support you and that regardless of whether you already know what you're doing, or you're creating something new, or you are, you know, doing a launch of something that you've already launched before, regardless, like every no matter what you're doing, whether it's creating something new and pre selling it, or, you know, getting more visibility on something that already exists, kind of the core need is that people see what you're doing, right.

So in the collaborative for the month of May, we're going to do a main momentum push to help you really optimize your member role to get a lot of visibility, we're going to be doing a lot of opportunities for you to get extra visibility inside of the group inside of like, to our audience. And also like just keeping everybody's spirits high, and getting getting help as you need it. So I'm really excited about, you know, doing this event.

It's in the collaborative, it's free. So even if you're a free member vault account, like totally open to you, we want to help everyone get as much out of their member vaults as possible. So if you're not in the collaborative yet, definitely join, you can go to member vault.co forward slash collab CO, LL AB, or just search for member vault collaborative, or just member vaults, and it'll probably come up on Facebook.

And if you don't have an account yet, definitely grab a free account. Because obviously, if you don't have an account, like most of the stuff that we're doing isn't going to be relevant. And like the promotional stuff, we won't be sharing,

you know, accounts that aren't on member vault. But yeah, so like, this is going to be a really, really fun way to, you know, not feel as alone and what you're doing and to keep your energy high to get some insights around fun ways to get more visibility on remember vault or on specific products. And so that's going to be really fun. And it coincides with the launch of our very first monthly challenge, which is really exciting. It's been, we've been working on this behind the scenes, I don't know, if you participated in any of our, like, actionable challenges that we've been doing. You know, I've been doing these podcast episodes where it's like, do this, and then go share it here and you know, you'll get a boost of 150 to your member wealth account. Those have been really fun, and people have really been liking them. And so what we're doing is we're adding to that, because gamification is awesome.

And something that we recommend everyone does inside of their accounts. But we are going to be rewarding people based on two different metrics every month. So starting in May, but it will happen every single month. And so if you are active inside of your account, so doing stuff inside of the admin of your membership account, so building products, adding quiz questions, responding to people, like whatever you're doing, like visiting your member vaults account and doing stuff in it, there's gonna be three different tiers that you can hit inside of the daily active user challenge for the month of May, and you will be unlocking automatic boosts to your account for that, and then we also want to reward you for getting people, your people to actually engage with your account.

For that, there's going to be an EP challenge as well. And it'll be EP earned by your people for that month, so for may like you start at zero. And then if you're doing a bunch of stuff, especially if you're participating with the main main momentum stuff inside of the collaborative, you're going to be getting more activity in your account. So you will also get the side benefit of earning these boosts without having to do anything extra. So really excited about that. And I'm so sorry, I feel like I'm sitting in my car recording this, parked, of course. And I don't know if you're if you live somewhere where their allergies are like a fire it up right now. But my car, like windshield is covered in pollen, like to the point where I can barely see out. So I feel like snow sniffily mass.

Side note, sorry. So yeah, so lots of very exciting things happening in May. And also next weekend, so not this weekend. But and I'm recording this on a Monday. So basically, two weeks from now, we're going to be releasing some fun new features, and announcing some things that are coming through the rest of the year.

So that is coming, very excited about all that stuff. There's some really fun things like public pages and a blog feature that it's gonna enable you to not only have your feet free and paid products instead of member all but also have your free content all in one place.

And so you're going to be able to, you know, not have to worry about like, Oh, where is that and like, your people are gonna have to click, click all over the place for your products and everything, like they can just engage with you inside of MemberVault.

So I know for me, I'm really excited, because I hate our WordPress blog. And I'm really excited to have a blog feature that's attached our own member vault. So that is gonna be coming later this year. And we have a bunch of other things that we're going to be announcing in about two weeks.

So lots of really fun things coming for me. And so I wanted to give you a heads up, really the only action step for today is to make sure that you're in the collaborative, and we're going to be posting more information about what's coming, we're gonna have a checklist for you to follow. For me, in terms of like, do these things to get maximum amount of visibility and engagement inside of your account, no matter what you're doing, you know, whether you're repurposing something that you've already sold or relaunching it, or pre selling something that you haven't created yet. So lots of support, lots of engagement, really excited about it.

And yeah, and then like I said, there's gonna be some some fun announcements coming in a few weeks as well. And a few features that we're also pushing at that time. So I hope that you are, this is our last week of April, I hope that you are feeling energized and excited about what you're doing in your business. And regardless, if you're not, hopefully the stuff that we're gonna be doing will help you get energized and excited and feel supported.

And if you are excited, then you're gonna bring that energy and share it with the rest of the community so that we can get everyone like amped up about the possibilities and the fun pieces of running an online business.

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