We answer your Questions about our YouTube Membership! ✨

Hey, what's up guys, Ronnie here

Welcome back to the channel. In this video, I want to address all of the different questions we received from you guys

about our YouTube membership, the Rondyship. So I'm going to be calling Kia, who we have contracted in the team, to be working with

us on developing this membership. Kia has gathered all of the questions we received on our different posts related to the

launch of the membership. We already have a bunch of members who joined the membership, so we felt it would be the right

time with this video to give you some extra information about what this is all about, where it is

going and why we even started this project in the first place. So let me quickly call my friend

Kia. Kia, are you here? I'm here. I'm excited for this. How are you doing? I'm ready. Let's do this

So, Kia, you have gathered some of the questions from our members. Yes, Ronnie

what is going on? I'm super stoked to shoot this with you today. So after going through the questions

from the members. I think one of the big ones, and I think a good place to start with this, would be what inspired membership in the first place? You obviously have this killer channel

already. You're doing awesome tutorials. You have the courses. Why even do a membership in the

first place? Okay. That's a really good question to kick us off in this Q&A. So I think there are

two main reasons why the Anna and I wanted to start this YouTube membership. The first one is that

we want to bring some flexibility into our educational program, our educational content

And by that, I mean the courses. Because one thing about these courses is that they take a very long time to produce

So if you look at our best-selling courses, for example, the Canva Master course, it's about 16 hours

of content. If you take a more recent one like the Canva for Social Media course, it's about seven hours

of content as well. So in order to produce these five, six, up to ten different section courses, sometimes it takes us several months

Like the personal branding course even took me, I remember when I shot this one and produced it

it took me almost a year to produce this course. So that's a problem because it means like from the time we start the production or write the table of content until the moment that it actually is available for our students, a lot of time has passed, the tools have changed

and sometimes some of the information is simply out of date. Like, let's say, right now I'm working on a chat GPT course

I have maybe the first two sections already. Well, I could very well publish these sections in the membership

the first two sections of the course, while I could not really publish this course on UDEMI yet

because UDEM needs a full complete course before you can publish it

So that is the first reason. We feel like the membership gives us an opportunity to give access to our courses

by a little chunk, kind of like drip feeding our courses to the members of the membership

So that's the very first reason. And probably the most important. Second one, which is also important, is that we wanted to have a deeper connection with our super fans of the channel

So that is you guys who are like in the membership already. Because, you know, being a YouTuber, it's fun and it's a very rewarding job, but it also is kind of a lonely job

Like you are in the studio, shooting videos. I am lucky enough that I'm not doing this by myself

A lot of YouTubers do this completely by themselves. But me, I have my wife, Diana, with me

I have the team. Not physically here, but I have a team that you can communicate with on Slack

But still, so having these live sessions is something we are going to elaborate on later

But having this connection with the audience is actually something I'm really looking forward to

Like getting to know them, having them getting to know us on a more personal level

So these are the two reasons, really, like the more flexibility in our courses and the way we share them

And second, like the opportunity to connect deeper with the audience. So I think those are both great places to start with

But let's take it from the top. In terms of the courses, let's talk about those a little bit more because a lot of people have senior tutorials, have senior educational videos

They know what you're about. I think some of those people are confused. Why even have courses

Like people said, you know, what's the difference between the courses and your typical tutorials

And so I think maybe if you could talk about that a little bit, that would be helpful. Yes, sure

There is actually a question I get regularly. Well, the difference is that, first of all, the paid content is deeper

It's deeper in the sense that it's usually longer. We explore every topic in much more details

And we also explore them in a much more structured way. A tutorial, for example, could be we explore one specific feature or one specific novelty in Canva or in Chat GPD or something like that

So we will give some tips and tricks about this one feature, but then you don't get the entire context

You don't get the, I would say, more academic approach to the learning of this tool

The courses are about tools. So it could be Canva, could be chat GPT for specific purposes

And so when you put that together, you realize that in order to fully grasp everything that there is to know about this tool in that context or for that purpose, you need a bit of time

and you need to approach this knowledge in a structured way. That's what we do with the paid content

So tutorials are great. Their main advantage, I would say, is that they are available for everyone to watch on YouTube

It's easy to find. But the courses, I would say, are for people who are eager to go deeper and to learn

in a more complete way, to approach a topic and really become a master of that specific

tool or that specific topic that I am teaching in the course. Yeah I think that a great way to putter I feel like it is like you said it more of kind of a complete package when it comes to courses I also know me and a course creator myself before what people want is they want the structure You know I feel like the tutorials are like you can go really specific on this little thing but the court is more of a complete overview

Go deeper into certain topics and structure it in a way that, like you said, is a bit more academic

So that sounds awesome. Another piece to this that people asked about was about the live sessions

And you touched on this a little bit before was wanting to connect more with your super fans or the community

And so people were curious, what can they expect from the live sessions? What exactly do those look like

So the live sessions, so that would be the second perk of the membership

The first perk is access to these courses before we publish them anywhere

The second perk is access to our live sessions. Ideally, once we figure out the tech, so thank you for bearing with us here, these will be YouTube live sessions

So it would be live, there would be a time. You can connect, sign up and just be part of the live experience

But the sessions in themselves are, I would say a place where you can come and connect with

Diana and I and you, Kia, because you will also be in the calls

And first, like, hang out with us, spent an hour with us

You can ask us your questions about Canva, about Generative AI, or simply about your business, if you are running a business

It's kind of like, yes, this space that we create where you can come with your questions

We were also thinking about having design critiques. So those of you who remember the Pimp My Design episodes on the channel was kind of like this idea

You show me your designs, you submit the link, Canva link, so I can get inside the designs and then just give you some feedback on that design

Maybe tweak them a little bit live so you can see how I would change this or that in the design

So we could have something like that like live design critiques with Diana

We could also sometimes if they accept to invite guests to these sessions to talk about a particular topic

So we would have expert speakers that would come and you can have access to these people

So the Q&As, the design critiques, and hanging out, like just spending some time with us

So the plan would be to have at least one session per month for the members

And yeah, this is in a nutshell what these live sessions are going to be about

I'm super excited about this because I think it's a way for the members to get to know you and Diana better as well

Like I saw some of the old Q&As you guys had on the channel and yeah, they can ask you about life and business and Canva, everything

So before you talked about the courses and a little bit of live sessions, money. Could you touch a little bit on that third pillar? This was something that I think also has a lot of

potential in this membership, but people were a little bit confused about the tools or the templates

So talk about that a little bit. So access to tools or templates is our third main pillar

So this channel, the Design with Canva, Team Rondi, is really about showing you how to use tools

to achieve specific goals in your life, like professional goals, personal goals. And so we are using a few tools

like Canva, Chat GPD, DAL-E, and a few other generative AI tools

So a lot of these tools have the ability to use templates. For example, if we take ChatGPT, a typical template would include different prompts that we are using to achieve specific hands

So what we want to do for our members of the Rondyship is to collect all of these prompts into templates that are editable, that they can use straight away

So we are trying to figure out the best way to do this. The problem is that Open AI keeps changing every two days

So it's very difficult for us to keep up and figure out the best way to do it

But we are working at it very hard with the team. And we are taking a little bit of time to just start this engine, like the third pillar

It is here and it is definitely going to become an entire part of this membership

So we are building that library of prompts for chat GPT. There will be some prompts for Dali

We want also for you to discover Diana's Canva template. As you know, Diana is a Canva creator

She has over 8,000 templates available in Canva. And it's just like it's a bit difficult to search and find all of these templates

So we are trying to see how we can improve the experience of our members by maybe having every week

like some news about the new templates that she publishes with direct links

So you can try them out. So stuff like this is something we are working on

So basically, the tools part is going to be giving you our members access to prompts, to templates, and to future tools

Like, for example, like the GPs that seem to be the new hot thing on Open AI's platform

Well, we are experimenting with building our own GPs for different things

And once they are ready, like, we will share that with the members of the wrong ship

So that's kind of like everything we will include in this tools or templates

plates per of the membership. Nice. You mentioned it a little bit. I'd love for if you could just touch

a little bit more is this idea around building and experimenting because I know you and I have

jammed on this about building in public and I just thought this would be an important thing to dive

into more. I think because especially this membership might be a little bit different than the

normal completely finished polished courses and tutorials that your community is used to. Talk a little

bit about your ideas around building in public and why you think it's important to kind of attempt this new

direction with the membership and also just in general. So the concept of building in public is something

that is becoming more and more popular among content creators because the speed, the pace at which

content or platforms are changing is increasing. And we observe that with the rise of generative

AI. So in that space, things are changing so fast. And therefore, if you are a content creator

you are facing a real dilemma Like how do I keep up with all this content And how do I create polished content tutorial courses before the tech even becomes obsolete or the tech that you are showing in your particular piece of content

becomes obsolete in terms of the user interface, in terms of the features. All of this is changing

very fast. So some content creators have started to build in public. So they are creating channels

they are creating courses or creating content and just admitting and is just part of the package

it's not going to be perfect, but I am willing to do this together with you. I am building

this business in front of you. I'm going to be transparent. I'm going to share the details of

like the mistakes I make. I remember, for example, a few tutorials where I deliberately decided

not to cut some of the mistakes or the fails that were happening in Canva. And some users

commented, oh, I love that you're showing the mistakes and the fails because it happens to me as well

And this made me think a lot. And with the membership, not with the main tutorial

on the channel. We still want to have a high quality of tutorials and these will take time

But in the membership, we feel like we have our little closed community where we can be

different. We can try something new. So what we want to try there together with you, Kia

is to deliver videos and updates that are not as polished as our tutorials. We will not spend

two weeks with the production team to make them all shiny and colorful and perfect

We will make them look good, good enough, and then we will push that. to our members so that you can have access to the information faster

And there is something beautiful in that building in public because it creates a community

It's showing you in your authentic way. Like it's almost unedited, but it's more authentic

It's just like it's realer. And I think there is something in there that strengthen the community

And for me, this is a new challenge. This is not something we're used to because we are perfectionists, both Jana and I

And we want everything perfect. But perfection takes time and slows you down

sometimes. So, yeah, this is what it's about. Ronnie, I love that. I'm super excited about, too

and being a part of the membership, being able to push these updates quicker too, where, you know

folks, they aren't going to expect something super polished from me where I can show up every week

say, here's what we got going on and give them the information that's most necessary quicker

without having to put all the bells and muscles on top. So I'm really looking forward to that

Also, building too and getting input from the community, you know, that I think is important

with something like this. So the last few questions I have for you, Ronnie, are a lot of times people

curious, who is the membership for? And the last one, of course, the people ask is why charge for this

So maybe we take it from the first one is who do you believe this actual membership is for

Do you have to be an expert to know these things? Do you need to know Chad GPT in and out

Have to be a designer. Who do you kind of imagine this membership helping the most

Well, I don't think there is a particular skill level that you need to have in order to really

fully benefit from this membership. It's more, I would say, where you are in your entrepreneurial

journey. Like, if you are just getting started and you are discovering Canva and learning the very

basics, I would say stick around the channel for a little bit. Like, watch some tutorials we have

created. Watch 10, 20, 30 videos. So you start like your journey like this and you start to get

a feel of who we are, what we are proposing to YouTube and to the Canva community. So get into

that content first. The membership is for people who have been following us for a while. And

they know us and they understand what we've gone through, like the type of business we are building

So I would say the membership is for people who themselves aspire to create some sort of a business

around content creation and want to have access to us, to ask us these burning questions

they might have about how to do it or how can I do it better or faster or in a more productive

way. So I would say this category of people, people who are just like really fans of the channel

They want to connect with us or they want access to our courses

Instead of buying them on Udeme or on Skillshare, there is a new way you can learn from us

It's more like a buffet, you know, like we'll have everything in the membership so you can pick and choose

We'll have exclusive educational pieces also in the membership. So I don't know. There is a new tool. Maybe we spend an hour and a half together jamming on it and just like creating recording as we build

So that's also something cool that I'm looking forward to do. So I would say this is more the type of people who we are creating this for

I think that's cool, Rwining. I think a lot of folks, too, because it is such a diverse audience

but there is this sort of common thread between them all that there are a lot of freelancers

or creator-preneurs that I know you, I like that, that sort of staple that you kind of

but people that are building something. And I'm not sure folks realize, too, the amount of value that they could get just from talking

to you and Diana about how you've built your own business and what it actually takes to

run a team and processes and all these things that I think as folks, if they want to expand from

freelancers or, you know, entrepreneurs into having more of a team or what that actually looks

like to build a business or run a YouTube channel at this level, I think that'll be super helpful. So I like that it is for a little bit of everybody depending on what it is that they're

looking for. So before we kind of wrap this up, a lot of times people too, they ask about the price

they say, you know, what's their between just buying a course and this paid membership? Or, you know

before, it was all free tutorials. Why are you charging for stuff now? So talk a little bit about

the price point that we chose that we talked about and why it's worth investing in. So the price

point of the Rondyship, which is that tier in our membership. Right now, as of filming this video

we still have two tiers. We have a $299 tier and a $999 tier. The Rondishap or the membership

what we have discussed so far in this video is the $999 tier. If you sign up for the $299 tier

all you have is the custom badges and the custom emojis and priority access to our reply to your comments on YouTube So it is really the 999 tier that we consider being the piece de resistance of this membership

Excuse my French. So it is that tier. And we don't know yet if we are going to keep the lower tier

We want to make this super easy. It's created a bit of confusion when we launched. People

they thought they were in the membership, but they were on the lower tier. And they were kind of surprised

why can't I see that video that you posted? So we are probably going to end up deleting that first here

and keep the $999 or regional equivalent in your currency. There would be an equivalent price

Now, why starting to come up with a paid offer on YouTube

Well, first, because it's a new program, like relatively new program by YouTube

And for having a coach at YouTube, they have told us personally that they are taking this program seriously

and they want to build it further. So we can expect more features and more cool perks that we can do more cool things that we can do with the membership

The second reason is because our audience, you guys are here already on YouTube

We have over 400,000 people who have subscribed to our channel right here on this platform

So we want to be closer to you with our courses, with the things we can offer you

So we don't need to just find you or have you find us on another platform like Udeme or Facebook community or anything like that

Like you're already here. So let's have everything here. And that join button is right under every single one of our videos

So that is the why. And the why we are charging is because time is limited

We can only do so much. Creating two videos per week and courses and running a team of eight people

It just takes a massive amount of time. So we need to make some choices

In order to build that membership, we are investing. We are investing in our team, hiring talent like you, Kia, for helping us bring your skills

to the table. So all of this has a cost. And therefore, we thought if we give that extra value, people will gladly pay these $10

They will consider this an investment in their skills, in their network, in their coaching

Like you mentioned, our experience. And this is something we never do on YouTube

But I spend a lot of time just coaching my friends, telling my friends about our experience

how we did that or that in terms of the business part. And we've done this together, Kia, like we talk about your business

but I've done this with maybe a good, like dozens of different friends

And it's always something I enjoy doing at, something I'm good at. And so I want to give access to the people who really, really enjoy our content and decide to join this membership

I want to give them access to us in that same way. I also think knowing you and Diana and spending more time with you both, realizing that you

weren't just making money and then trying to like stack the cash, that it's about the more resources

that you're also able to invest into the community. You're able to actually build bigger, better, cooler things because like you said, it takes time

Yeah. And it takes effort. And so, you know, you're able to actually bring more, I think, to the table with a paid

offer like this where then you actually can have people to help you edit or bring on people like

me who can run different things that you're actually able to build a better product with it

But I do think that that's important. You're not just squirrelling the money away somewhere. Not trying to buy a Ferrari. Exactly. Like how much money you guys invest back into the business

I think is cool. And something I just wanted to be transparent about. I'm not sure folks necessarily

realize that. So Ronnie, I guess we'll be wrapping this up. The last thing is, what's next

What can people expect? How do they join? Let's put the cherry on the cake here

So what's next? Well, the membership is launched. If you want to join, there's a join button

right here next to the subscribe button underneath this video. So you can check that out

Make sure to differentiate the two different tiers if you still see 299 and 999. Everything we've

talked about is the 999 plan, the Rondyship. So yeah, if you want to join, go ahead. You can

cancel that membership at any time on YouTube. So yeah, and what's next? Well, we'll be planning

our first live sessions with our first members. It just happened so that we, the

and I and I are traveling. We'll be in Colombia, but we'll figure out a way to make it happen

definitely in the month of November or early December for the members already in the membership

I've seen before recording this video, we are already 20 members. So big shout out, big thank

you to all of the people who have already joined and I'm really looking forward to meet you guys

in that first live session. So check out the membership tab on our YouTube channel for announcements

and Kia will keep sharing these weekly updates. And once we have the date, we'll share it with you and we'll all meet in that first live session

So that's what's next. I'm working on some new courses as well. One is the chat GPT course

So we can expect these to start launching and rolling out in the first section, at least, in the membership around beginning of January

So I'm very excited about this as well. Yeah, I think also one of the cool parts of being a member, especially these like first movers

is that they really get a stake in building this thing with us

you know, it'll always be moving and adapting and changing. But if you're some of these first members, like, we're really right there boots on the ground with them

And so I think it's a perfect time to join, especially if you are gung-ho and you want to build this with us in a way, you know, to give your input

And yeah, so I'm really looking forward to meeting you guys too on the inside. And I guess we'll be in touch

You'll be hearing from you weekly. I'll be doing updates. And once we have a date like that first life Q&A, I'll actually be able to hang with you in real life-ish

So I'm looking forward to it. Yep. I'm looking forward to this. Well, thank you, guys

for watching this video. Again, the join button is right there. Thank you for watching until the end

and we will see you then