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Sep 2023
47m 41s

How Jay Clouse Built a $500,000 ARR Comm...

Greg Isenberg
About this episode

Today Greg is joined by Jay Clouse of Creator Science. In this episode, Greg and Jay talk about the upsides of cohort-based courses and what strategies Jay uses to achieve his 95% retention rate. 

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SHOW NOTES
0:00 - Intro
5:40 - How Jay studies top creators 
12:10 - Courses vs. Membership Community
19:30 - How Jay attracts audiences
24:20 - The secret dividends of viral posts
30:40 - Being a distributor vs. being an artist
43:30 - Why retention is the golden metric

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