The Membership Money System — Build a 3-Tier Membership That Runs on Files and Posts ($197)

Most membership advice assumes you already have an audience, a community manager, and a platform built for courses. This system assumes none of that — because it was built by a one-person shop, at zero spend, on Ko-fi.

The Membership Money System documents, end to end, the membership operation behind Fast, Cheap & Confident:

1. Tier Architecture — how the $3 / $12 / $25 ladder is designed: what belongs at each tier, the exclusion rules that make tiers mean something, and how an all-access top tier turns a product library into a subscription

2. Ladder Pricing Logic — how each tier is priced against the rung below it, and the deliverability test that keeps every tier's promise producible on your worst month

3. Delivery Mechanics That Actually Work — Ko-fi posts can't attach PDFs; this system uses the tested workaround (hosted file links inside members-only posts), with folder permissions, gating checks, and link-leak procedure spelled out

4. The Monthly Drop Operation — weekly, monthly, and quarterly drop speeds; the drop-post anatomy; the 12-month drop calendar template

5. Retention Workflows — welcome sequence, monthly state-of-the-club post, win-back template, and the quiet upgrade footer (labeled honestly inside: these are designed workflows, ready to run)

Worksheets included: Tier Assignment Grid, Tier Promise Audit, drop calendar.

Honest note from Jerry: This is the complete membership system I built and run for my own shop — the tiers, the delivery setup, the monthly drop routine, the member portal. As of November 2026, my own tiers are open and have zero members, and this system has made me zero membership dollars. You're buying the finished machinery and the operating instructions, not a membership success story. If I ever quote member numbers for my shop, they'll be the real ones, with the date next to them.

What this is not: not a course about getting rich with memberships, not a community, not live help, and not platform-agnostic — the delivery chapters are Ko-fi-specific because that's where the system runs. If you want the whole-business picture first, the Seller Masterclass ($97) is the overview; this is the membership deep-dive.

$197 — documents and templates, yours to keep, work at your own pace.

By Jerry Madrigal, San Antonio, Texas — Fast, Cheap & Confident.