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Membership sites for professional-services firms.

A membership site is a business you own: the content or community behind the login, the billing relationship, and the member list itself. We build membership platforms that handle tiers, recurring payments, gated content, and member profiles without a third-party platform taking a cut or setting the rules. Working remotely from our Providence, RI studio, we scope, prototype, and build for organizations across the US and Canada. A referral earns a professional firm the first look; the website decides whether it earns the call. Prospects read the bios, weigh how honestly the engagement is described, and rank you against the rest of their list. We build firm websites that read as carefully as your work: clear service pages, verifiable credentials, and one obvious next step. For accounting, advisory, and consulting firms, membership packages recurring advice: a monthly retainer that includes a set of calls, a resource library of templates and guides, a client-only webinar series, and priority email access. It turns one-off engagements into predictable revenue.

Quick answer

A membership site for professional-services firms puts content, tools, or community behind a login with tiers, recurring billing, gated access, and renewals that run themselves, on a platform you own rather than rent. GEO Marketing Group builds custom membership platforms starting around $10,000, typically $18,000, working remotely from Providence, RI.

What it includes

What membership site builds include for professional-services firms.

Membership tiers with recurring billing, trials, coupons, and upgrades through Stripe

Gated content: articles, videos, downloads, courses, or tools unlocked by tier

Member profiles and an optional searchable member directory

Events, RSVPs, and members-only registration with capacity limits

Automated onboarding, renewal reminders, and failed-payment recovery emails

Admin reporting on signups, cancellations, and revenue by tier, with CSV export

Connects to the tools professional-services firms already use.

Membership site builds earn their keep when they stop double entry. These are the integrations we most often scope for professional-services firms; if your stack is different, we map it in discovery.

Calendly or HubSpot MeetingsHubSpot or Pipedrive CRMDocuSign or PandaDoc engagement lettersQuickBooks Online or Ignition for proposalsLinkedIn and Google Business Profile

Why professional-services firms reach for this.

The site looks like every other firm

Stock handshake photos and a wall of service names say nothing about how you work or why a client would pick you over the firm down the street.

Expertise is hidden in jargon

Prospects cannot tell what the engagement involves or whether it fits their situation, so they call the competitor who explained it in plain words.

No clear next step

A generic contact form is the only way in. There is no consultation booking, no intake, and no sense of what happens after someone reaches out.

Membership site builds start from $10,000. Every project is quoted to its scope.

FAQ

Membership site builds for professional-services firms: common questions.

Should I build a custom membership site or use a platform like Patreon or Kajabi?

Start on a platform if your offer is simple and you want to test demand. Build custom when the platform fee is material, when you need a member experience the platform cannot provide, or when owning the member list and the billing relationship matters to the value of your business.

How does recurring billing and renewal work?

Stripe Billing handles the subscription lifecycle: trials, monthly or annual plans, proration on upgrades, tax where required, and automatic retries with reminder emails when a card fails. Members update their own payment details from their account page.

Can I migrate existing members from another platform?

Usually, yes. We import member records and, where the old platform allows it, existing card details through a processor-to-processor migration so nobody has to re-enter payment information. Access levels are mapped to your new tiers before launch.

Ready to scope a membership site build for your professional-services firm?

Describe the workflow in plain language: who uses it, what they need to see, and what should happen automatically. We come back with a scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed quote.