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[00:00:16.800] – Jonathan Denwood
Welcome back, folks, to the Membership Machine Show. This is episode 160. In this episode, we’re going to talk about migrating Bodyboss to Fluent Community and how you can compare the two at the beginning of 2026. There’s a lot of information out there. A lot of it’s a little bit out of date. I just thought it was a good subject because I think there’s a lot of interest in these two products. I’ve got my great co-host, Kurt, with me. Kurt, would you like to introduce yourself to the new listeners and viewers?
[00:00:52.120] – Kurt von Ahnen
Hey, Jonathan. My name is Kurt von Ahnen. I own an agency called Manana Nomas, and we work directly with the great, awesome team over at WP Tonic.
[00:01:00.000] – Jonathan Denwood
That’s fantastic, Kurt. Like I say, we’re going to go into comparing Fluent Community with Buddy Boss. Also, if you are considering moving from BuddyBoss to Fluent, what are some things you need to know? But before we go into the meat and potatoes of this show, I’ve got a message from one of our major sponsors. We will be back in a few moments, folks.
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[00:01:59.220] – Jonathan Denwood
We’re coming back, folks. I want to point out that we received some fantastic special offers from the show’s major sponsors. Plus, Kurt’s got a Create course he did for WP Tonic. You get that at a 50 % discount. It will show you how to build a membership website from beginning to end on WordPress using the best and most modern technology. You can get all these goodies by going over to wp-tonic. Com/deals, wp-tonic. Com/deals. So we’ve got two really powerful products here, haven’t we? We’ve got Fluent Community and BuddyBoss. The way I was thinking: how would I explain to myself how I see these two products, Kurt? I really see Fluent Community as a competitor to BuddyBoss, and I see BuddyBoss as a WordPress competitor to Circle or Mighty Networks. I see both Fluent and BuddyBoss if you want maximum design and maximum control over your business. For their individual niches, if you’re looking for maximum design, ownership of your community or membership, these are the type of WordPress solutions you should be looking at. How do you explain this in your own mind, Kurt?
[00:03:41.780] – Kurt von Ahnen
Well, you and I have a very similar alignment: if I were to compare SaaS platforms to WordPress platforms, I could definitely see where school aligns with Fluent Community. I say that because I have a school project I ran as an experiment over there, and I put the same experiment into a fluent community course just to compare, from a user perspective, what it’s like to use those tools. I see that that’s a similarity there. Circle, to me, I don’t know if I really align circle with buddy boss because I’m part of Kevin Geary’s circle community, and maybe I’m missing some of the features there. But I I think Buddy Boss is very feature-rich compared to Circle, whereas I think Mighty Networks has a couple of extra bells and whistles. But yeah, Circle is a roundabout. It doesn’t matter. Both platforms are extremely capable for what you want to do community-wise, but then it comes down to use case and what you’re specifically looking to accomplish.
[00:04:53.520] – Jonathan Denwood
Yeah, I think Buddy Boss is the one that’s got everything you probably would want, which has some considerable advantages. The way I explained it was rather simplistic, but if I were talking to someone who didn’t know much about either platform, we had to start somewhere, and that’s how I would pitch it. I think migrating from Buddy Boss to Fluent is totally possible. They provide a mythology to do it. It depends on the size of the website and the community you’re looking at. But obviously, I think you would do this on a staging site and be prepared. It’s totally doable, but it’s not the simplest thing. Would you agree? No.
[00:06:01.820] – Kurt von Ahnen
I agree. I feel like I butt in on you. I’m sorry for that. To me, it’s not even a migration question. And that’s where I think that maybe I draw the line different, like the way that I deal with my clients at Mañana No Mas. It’s like, hey, if you’re on Buddy Boss and you’re already in Buddy Boss, that’s great. If you’re new to the community vibe, new to this vertical, this segment, When you want community, then we’ll have a discussion about Buddy Boss or Fluent. But I’m not really interested in trying to migrate Buddy Boss to Fluent for clients because I think the expectations are going to be very hard to meet. For community use, unless there’s a specific in Buddy Boss, I’m really after. I’m really fond of Fluent Community, the way that it works. It’s lightweight, it’s simple. Spaces is where the groups and things happen. Whereas, well, we share it. We have a common client, Jonathan, just for example, that was totally confused on what to link to in their menu. They were linking to a group link when they should have been linking to a forum link or a forum link instead of a group link.
[00:07:14.820] – Kurt von Ahnen
And I think a lot of website managers that aren’t agency-level people, I feel like Buddy Boss is just ripe with opportunity for confusion and misuse. And That is a side effect of it having so many features, bells and whistles. It’s just a really good environment to get lost and make mistakes, whereas I think fluent is a little more direct and easy to manage.
[00:07:44.680] – Jonathan Denwood
I think in reality, folks, unless there’s a very strong reason, if you build up, this is only my perspective, folks. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong, but I If I were to give you my honest opinion, folks. If you really build up a good business, a good community in Buddy Boss, I wouldn’t even think about moving to fluent, because if it’s working and you’re utilizing Buddy Boss and it’s doing what you want to do, I just don’t think it’s the hassle. Now, if I was thinking of starting it afresh and I was looking at both, it’s on an individual case. You really got to look at what you want to do, what are the key things that you need. You can adapt both to your requirements, which you can’t do with a SAS that easily. But there’s adapting and you really just going over the top because they do have fundamental differences, which you’ve got to understand, haven’t you, Kurt? Would you agree with what I’ve just outlined?
[00:09:07.380] – Kurt von Ahnen
Yeah, I would. It’s such an interesting conversation, and I think that you and I could really lend some value to people if they stay with us to the end of the show. Because I have projects using both, and I know that you’ve supervised projects using both. Not both at the same time, obviously. Buddy Boss, again, feature rich, but I lose some of my flexibility. I’m using the Buddy Boss theme. I’m using the Buddy Boss menus, the Buddy Boss icons. It restyles my blog and my post pages. I happen to love the styling that they use. But keep in mind, when you go with Buddy Boss, you’re in the Buddy Boss environment. When you go with Fluent, Fluent is more like this extra feature on your website. So your website is still styled the way you want. It’s your posts the way you want If you have Lifter LMS, that’s styled the way that you wanted it. And then you’ve got Fluent Community stapled to the back of it. I think that’s a fundamental difference that needs to be pointed out right from the get-go. It’s like people that want to have this free form, draw on a whiteboard website design mentality, Buddy Boss isn’t for that.
[00:10:22.020] – Kurt von Ahnen
Because it’s a less restricted environment.
[00:10:24.760] – Jonathan Denwood
No, it’s basically a hybrid, folks. It uses a plugin and a theme, but it’s more because it’s back to front. What I mean to back to front is that the plugin is free, but the plugin is free, but the theme you got to pay for. And both the plugin and the theme have functionality in built with them. So it’s a little bit confusing. It does work really well if you’ve got the right hosting and you know how to set it up, but it is confusing confusing. And the other thing is you can change the theme, but you’d be highly advised not to, in my opinion. And most people, some people, there are some third party themes out there, but then you’re very… It depends on that for party theme provider. When Buddy Boss bring out updates, are they going to bring up updates? You’re introducing another vector of problems. But what most people do is if they want a website that doesn’t utilize the Buddy Boss look, which you find on their website, they can either run it as a subdomain or they’re going to have to use a page builder. And what Buddy Boss recommends is Animator for the home page, for the About Us page, other pages that don’t appear to the Buddy Boss look, like you said, I quite like the look apart from About Us page and maybe some other pages.
[00:12:21.060] – Jonathan Denwood
But you’re going to use a page builder and they recommend Elementor, don’t they? Now With Fluent, it’s a totally different scenario. It’s a plugin, and the Fluent team have done a good job. It works pretty well with all the major page builders out there. If you bought a If you built a website with one of the leading page builders, Animator, Gutenberg, Cadence, WP, Generate Press, JitDivy, all the leading ones, there’s a really It’s a good chance that you can install Fluent, set it up, and it will adopt the stall cues from your existing website. How would you respond to that? If I miss something?
[00:13:16.940] – Kurt von Ahnen
Well, it’s their press release when they said, We’ve now adopted theme compatibilities, and they were talking about it looks more like your website and not something stapled to the back of your website. It still feels stapled to the back of your website, folks. It’s not a bespoke custom interface, but it’s a community plugin. It’s not meant to be a bespoke custom interface. You do have the ability to change and customize colors, and it does have the ability to use custom CSS and custom JavaScript if you’re skilled in that area. So there’s lots of opportunities there. And to Jonathan’s point, to me, it’s just a plugin It’s very lightweight. It’s very easy to install, to configure. And you do have… So someone would say, well, there’s no integrations with LMSes or anything like that, right? Well, what’s the integration that you’re looking for with the community. If it is community access restriction because you only want people to buy your… You only want people to buy the course to get the community, and then everyone else is like front of paywall just on the marketing pages. If If that was your thinking, that’s completely controllable through the settings because you’re able to restrict access to fluent community by being logged in or logged out and by role.
[00:14:45.780] – Kurt von Ahnen
So when you have a role as student, like with Lifter LMS, only people with the student role would be able to sign in if that’s what you set in the settings. And so that’s one way that it does interact with the LMS in that way. And if that’s what you’re looking for, Some people say integrations between these plugins. And Jonathan, I always got to ask, what do you consider an integration? Because sometimes they want something that’s not even on the books.
[00:15:11.400] – Jonathan Denwood
Yeah, there’s integrations and there’s integrations in it. Now, one of the other things why I thought it was a good topic for us to discuss in this show, Kurt, was that a lot of the information It’s out there on the internet. It’s a little bit out of date because Fluent Community, the team behind it, have been very active and they’ve been building out things, building out the platform where Budgie Boss was pretty feature-rich a couple of years ago, and I’m sure they’re adding some stuff to it, but they don’t really need to do a lot because it’s very feature-rich. Now, with Fluent Community, Things have changed. If you do, and I’ll probably am going to write a blog post and have this episode as part of it, because a bit the information out there is not wrong. It’s just a little bit out of date. If you go and do a search, there’ll be a few articles say that that fluent community doesn’t have a forum. I think now it does, doesn’t it? It has a forum. Am I How do you think about that?
[00:16:31.540] – Kurt von Ahnen
It uses spaces like a forum. That’s the confusing part. Buddy Boss has groups with discussions and forums, which, quite honestly, is where most people get confused on managing the darn platform, whereas Fluent Community uses spaces and then has discussions within those spaces. It operates like a forum, but it’s not technically a forum like a Bibi press.
[00:16:59.820] – Jonathan Denwood
But But you can get the outcome that you’re looking for.
[00:17:05.680] – Kurt von Ahnen
Yeah, exactly. Jonathan, the whole thing is, what are you looking for? You want your members to communicate with each other. Is that what you’re looking for? That’s what this does. And then there’s a regular news feed and profiles and all that in this platform for people. So earlier we had mentioned, would I migrate from Buddy Boss to Fluent? And my answer was like, well, no, if I was handled and capable there. But I do got to say, if it was a site rebuild or a rebrand or something like that, I would certainly consider a lighter load and go to something more lightweight. So it just depends on your use case and where you’re going.
[00:17:44.600] – Jonathan Denwood
If you got a reasonable community, and you’re running a marketing optimization, an affiliate program, all the thing, and you’re running Bodyboss and you got a reasonably large community membership, you’re going to need some serious hosting. You’re going to need some serious hosting with fluent community if you got a reasoning-sized community, but it’s going to be a lot less than what you’re going to need. But in my opinion, Buddy Boss is the most demanding application, especially if you’ve got other large plugins, you’ve got a lot of stuff going on. But with the right hosting, it’ll be fine. But you do need some It’s really serious hosting.
[00:18:31.960] – Kurt von Ahnen
You got to consider all the things.
[00:18:35.600] – Jonathan Denwood
The other thing, Fluent Community doesn’t natively integrate with another learning management plugin. Now, this is a tricky one because they’ve got their own call structure in built. It doesn’t compare to the leading learning management plugins out there, but it’s not… I don’t think they’re trying to do that. To me, it’s a step up from school. You got more customization with fluent community. But it doesn’t compare. Now, the research I’ve done for this episode, it looked to me that Fluent Community have integrated it more with LearnDash, but I don’t know what the situation is with Lifter LMS. Are there native integration or is it more you could change the code a bit? Do you know a bit about this, Kerr?
[00:19:45.020] – Kurt von Ahnen
No. See, that goes back to that original question/statement I made earlier. What are people expecting as a native integration with a community tool? Because typically it’s just access to the community and the discussions. If If we think about how social learning works with Lifter LMS, each student, if you have social learning activated, is automatically added to a discussion group that matches that course. I could see where maybe someone would say that that’s what they wanted to do. But you could add those discussion groups and put restrictions on those groups for those students in fluent community. So it still works. The integration that I use with fluent community, and I apologize, I really got to focus when I say it because I get them all confused, all the names. I typically integrate with Fluent CRM Pro. And so Fluent CRM Pro has a natural native integration, automatic integration with Lifter LMS. And so if I have my normal setup with Lifter LMS, Fluent CRM Pro, and then I add Fluent community, well, then I’ve got all the automation tools of the CRM to add people, remove people, add tags, change roles, add people to groups. I mean, I can do all kinds of things when I have those three tools together.
[00:21:15.230] – Kurt von Ahnen
But if it’s just Lifter LMS and Fluent Community, the only thing I’m really getting access to is using the role to give them access to the community itself.
[00:21:28.630] – Jonathan Denwood
Yeah, you’ve explained it really coherent. You must have read my mind because that’s the reality, folks, is that Fluent Community works really fantastic with Fluent CRM. Fluent CRM is the WordPress equivalent, in my opinion, to active campaign. It’s a superb product. It’s from the same company, folks. If you got Fluent Community community with Fluent CRM, it’s going to work with LearnDash and Lifter LMS really well. If you need it, if you need Lifter LMS or you need LearnDash, and I like to point out, if you host with WP tonic, you get access to all those tools if you need them. On our basic plan, we recommend WP funnels with mint. We do that because honestly, with It’s got certain elements to it. It’s a lightweight, but in my opinion, a bit easier to work with somebody that’s got no experience. But when we onboard you, you tell us what you’re really trying to do, we can swap out things. We got a large library of fully licensed plugins that meet your requirements. But it is a power combination, Fluent Community with Fluent CRM with Lifter LMS or LearnDash. It’s really powerful.
[00:23:11.020] – Kurt von Ahnen
Now, just, I think for clarity’s sake, The membership management tools that are inbuilt to Lifter LMS work extremely well with Fluent CRM Pro, and then those automations would tie in brilliantly with with Fluent Community if you manage that correctly. Having that little extra membership flair and that native payment gateway that’s built in the lifter, it makes… If you’re selling courses, selling access to the To the community selling access to different things. That combination to me almost can’t be beat.
[00:23:52.180] – Jonathan Denwood
Go ahead. I think it’s a good time for us to go for our middle break. Then we got some other things on my list of notes that shared with Kirk. I’m thinking you’re going to get a lot of value from this episode because these are two fantastic products. But you can book a consultation with either… Well, we’ll be with Kirk either way because he does most of… I do him as well at WP Tonic, where you can approach Kirk for his own agency. So we’re going to go for our break, folks, and we will be back in a few moments.
[00:24:30.180] – Kurt von Ahnen
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[00:25:03.040] – Kurt von Ahnen
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[00:25:07.800] – Jonathan Denwood
We’re coming back, folks. We had a fantastic discussion so far about Fluent Community or Buddy Boss. Before we go into the second half, I want to point out another great free resource, and that’s the Membership Machine Show WPTonic Newsletter. I write it weekly. It’s totally free. I cover normally Normally, one of the topics that I’m writing a blog post on. It’s always around membership. And then I do a created list of other stories that I think you will find interesting. I normally send it out around Tuesday every week. To sign up for this great free resource, we have to do is go over to wp-tonic. Com/newsletter, wp-tonic. Com/newsletter. On to the next thing. This not only affects fluent community, it affects learn-dash, it affects Lifter LMS. It’s integration with Zoom. It not only affects the WordPress world, it affects the SaaS world, circle, Kajabi, mining networks. A lot of them, they say they got integration, but it’s actually with Zappia. Actually, a lot of them, some don’t use Zappia. They do have native integration, but a lot of them don’t. With WordPress, we’re a fluent community. They’ve got fluent booking, which is another fluent. This is more aimed at if you’re a coach and you want to build a community, but you also want people to be able to book single sessions with you and that But the great news is you got fluent community and fluent booking, and you can build…
[00:27:07.480] – Jonathan Denwood
It’s not native integration. You do have to build a Zoom app. If you host with WP, we do this for you. But it’s there, isn’t it? The integration. But it’s not difficult. It’s just a little bit time consuming. They do provide you with the information to integrate Zoom, don’t they?
[00:27:35.660] – Kurt von Ahnen
Yeah, I’m finally remembering how easy it used to be. One of the strengths of Buddy Boss was it would integrate with Zoom as part of the platform. But then when Zoom restructured all that stuff, it seems like yesterday, but it was 18, 24 months ago, right? When they switched all that around to those, having to create those apps. I’ve gotten pretty adept at it, Jonathan. I’ve set up There’s probably 50 or 70 of these set-ups now, whether it be through fluent booking, whether it be setting up an internal connection with Lifter LMS for hosting live course resources or the Buddy Boss connection. If you follow the installation guide in the Zoom plugin, it’s a free plugin, but if you download that from a repository and you follow the installation guide, line by line by line, don’t Don’t skip a dang thing. It works, and it works flawlessly. I’ve been able to incorporate that into a few of the builds. I know it’s a little bit off topic, but we also carry Creator LMS, and Creator LMS has a Zoom feature to it. I got super excited. I thought, Oh, they’ve got a way to do this OAuth thing.
[00:28:54.300] – Kurt von Ahnen
Sure enough, I had to go and create the apps and do the connection. There Their step-by-step guide actually was not as complete and confidence-inspiring as the one in the repository plugin.
[00:29:13.720] – Jonathan Denwood
There’s a few SaaS memberships that have this native integration. It’s not a technology problem. It’s just that for pure native integration, you got to pay Zoom to have it. They’re only provided to some providers. Some of the biggest SAS providers out there don’t have native integration. Like I say, you got to use Zappia. Everybody’s in the same boat. Choose your poison, basically. But it’s totally durable in WordPress with these two solutions. The other thing, it doesn’t have custom field functionality. That’s not correct now. It does have custom integration. You can add fields and stuff that you can’t do with a SaaS product that’s fluent. I don’t know actually what the situation with Budgie was. I’d imagine you can as well. That information is a bit out of date. I had a list where I looked at the leading blog posts around this subject, and it was just that they were a little bit out of date, basically. Things move on. Fluent Community user profiles are less flexible than those at Buddy Boss. Well, it’s probably moved on a bit, but it’s a product that isn’t as feature-rich as Buddy Boss, but it’s not meant to be, isn’t it?
[00:31:01.030] – Jonathan Denwood
It’s supposed to be easier to set out and manage, isn’t it?
[00:31:04.600] – Kurt von Ahnen
Yeah. If I was going to be super direct, I don’t mean this. I’m not pooh-pooh on Buddy Boss. I have sites with Buddy Boss. It’s a great, great product. I already said, I like the format on the posts and the courses. It’s great. But for new people coming into community, if you have a tribe that you’re acclimating to community and you’re bringing new people into a site, the onboarding, the intuitive of the user experience is more favorable in fluent community. It’s just easier. I don’t have a better way to say that.
[00:31:47.300] – Jonathan Denwood
No, anybody that’s new to this but wants the flexibility of WordPress, wants the ability to build, to be future proof, not to find themselves in trapped on the platform and really have the maximum control over their membership, the community business, which are really important. The easiest route now is fluent community. And that’s nothing against BuddyBoss. Buddyboss, if you’re at that stage where you built a real community on some other platform, but you really want your own ownership, it’s probably the right decision to go with Buddy Boss. Now, on a subject where a fluent community can’t compete with Buddy Boss is if you require a native app. Here we go. Now, most people look at this, and it applies to the leading SaaS products, is that most people look at SaaS products as well that offer… They normally, a lot of them, do offer a app product at a reasonable price, but it’s got all their branding over it. That applies to circle, Kajabi, to Mighty Network, to the majority of them that do offer app. Then they offer a custom solution, and they’re all around $20,000-$30,000 where you don’t have the apps, the platforms, branding all over.
[00:33:39.620] – Jonathan Denwood
A lot of people get fixated, especially if they start in a community. I wouldn’t even think about app usage unless I had a very large community and I had a lot of demand for an app. I wouldn’t even consider it. In some ways, I wouldn’t say it’s a white hearing, but people get obsessed by it. You really got to have a sizable community and have that demand from your community. Most people can get That way with a website that’s fully responsive. The reason why they get fixated because of the push-pull functionality. I can tell you that I am, and I think Kirk would agree with this, I am very I’m very resistant. I’m putting another app on my phone. I’m really not interested. I have too many apps on my phone already, and I tend every six months to take quite a few of them off because they’re taking up space, they need updating, blah, blah, blah. What’s your own thoughts on this, Kerr?
[00:34:53.500] – Kurt von Ahnen
Well, you and I are similar in that I don’t want any more apps on my phone. In fact, about every six months to a year, I I literally just factory data reset my Android phone, and I only install things as I absolutely need them for work. I find that the phone is incredibly damaging to me for my mental state. I’m busy working on the computer. This thing’s ding and dong and booming, booming, buzzing. I don’t need that all day. If I’m working, I’m in front of my computer. If anyone needs to reach me, I’m in front of my computer. I’m going to get what I need right here. I don’t need to have a leash in my pocket to to force that. I’m not a big fan of apps. Now, when other people want to use apps for the push notifications and things, the main thing seems to be that push notification thing because they could save You can save a website to the homepage of your phone. It looks just like an app, acts like an app as long as it’s connected to the Internet. It just doesn’t give you push notifications. And so a lot of people say, I really need those push notifications.
[00:35:56.580] – Kurt von Ahnen
And when you say, are those push notifications worth $20,000? All of a sudden, those, they’re not that valuable. I think most people, when they pursue the app lane, pursue it way too early. I think if you really need an app for your organization or for your learning, your tribe will pull it out of you. It’s going to be multiple people requesting, demanding, and it’s going to happen when you have not 50 users, not 100 users, but more like thousands of users. There’s really got to be a return on investment to go down that lane. I usually don’t even entertain it with my clients.
[00:36:39.680] – Jonathan Denwood
That’s annoying. Having these push notifications unless the community. It’s a total red herring. It’s normally… And you get people that got a community, but it hasn’t grown to the extent they were hoping. And they think it’s going to cure the growth problem or they’re getting a large degree of churn, and they think it’s going to solve their churn problem. But the problem is with the content. The problem is with the engagement. It won’t solve the real problem. Like you say, if you want it white-labeled with your own branding. But the good news is that, among the solutions, BuddyBoss offers one of the most cost-effective ways to get app functionality fully branded with your own branding, and it works. It won’t be painless, but none of these are, so take your poison, basically. But in some ways, I think the whole thing is a bit of a red herring. But what to end the show, what are some things you think that people really need to understand about? I think another factor is that, if you’re adding forum and community functionality to a membership, people need to see that this is going to require a lot more work.
[00:38:20.960] – Kurt von Ahnen
We should probably mention that. Sometimes you can get help from your community. You can get people to volunteer or serve as a news feed lead or moderator, or whatever. But in reality, if it’s your project, you’ve got to make sure things get moderated and somewhat controlled. If you’re not careful, crazy stuff can happen inside a community. You’ve got to monitor it. You’ve got to watch it. And it is a job. It’s not a… And I’ve had people ask me, well, can I just automate that? And I’m like, stop trying to automate everything. There’s this false idea that these big companies get ahead and succeed because they’re all focused on automation and have all this high-tech stuff. And that’s not true. I’ve worked for these big corporations. There are a lot of manual processes. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done. And when you’re just starting out, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.
[00:39:20.480] – Jonathan Denwood
But on the other hand, I think a lot of people, if you really want to succeed in membership and have a successful online business, should consider this engagement. I think there are other things you can start your course and then add it because it is going to cause a lot more work for you. There are only so many hours, especially if this is a side hustle. I think doing things that get people to join your A membership website is probably worthwhile, rather than waiting to look at it at some stage. But that’s the beauty of WordPress, folks: you have these options. Is there anything else that you think we need to point out before we wrap this show up?
[00:40:18.740] – Kurt von Ahnen
Just more of an internal linking concept, Jonathan. Folks, Jonathan and I have covered before when it is appropriate to consider adding community to a learning site, and like that. I encourage you to review those past episodes because many people try to build community too early in the process, and then they struggle to gain momentum. You really need to have some energy in your website. You need to have some active users or a tribe somewhere that you can bring into the community all at once. Because if you just sign up one, two, or three people, there’s no energy and it’s very hard to succeed that way.
[00:40:55.760] – Jonathan Denwood
What’s the best way for people to find out more about you and what you’re up to, Kurt?
[00:41:00.340] – Kurt von Ahnen
Well, Manana Nomas for business, maniananomas. Com and on all the socials. And then Kurt Von Ahnen on LinkedIn. I’m on LinkedIn quite a bit.
[00:41:09.260] – Jonathan Denwood
That’s fantastic. We will be back next week with another topic to help you build a thriving community or membership website and get the results you’re looking for yourself and your family in 2026. We’ll see you soon, folks. Bye.
[00:41:25.620] – Kurt von Ahnen
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