Sept 23rd - 24th 2025 / Newcastle, UK
RETAIN - The Membership Growth Conference
Ready to accelerate your membership growth?
A one of a kind event for membership site owners who want to increase their membership growth in 2025 and beyond.
Hear from successful membership owners and industry experts on the strategies and tactics that are working for them, discover future trends and new ideas, ask questions and connect with other membership site owners from around the world over the course of 2 days in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
With a mix of keynotes, power sessions, panels and more it’s all about providing you with actionable content that you can implement in your own membership to take it to the next level. With strictly no fluff, theory or pitching!
Retain is the only live event dedicated entirely to growing your online membership.
It’s an event for membership site owners, by membership site owners.
Are you in?
What you can expect
2 action packed days of membership goodness with talks and panels on a variety of membership topics. Plus plenty of time for talking with other membership site owners too – because lets be honest, the conversations you have and ideas you get from the other people in the room are often the best bit of attending a conference!
What we'll cover
The full agenda will be released soon, however Retain 2025 will be laser-focused on membership growth, with topics including marketing and sales tactics for attracting more members, improving your member experience and engagement, retention tactics, expanding and scaling your membership and more!
Who's the event for?
Retain Live is for people who already have an existing online membership site and are looking to focus on growth. We won't be teaching the basics or talking tech - we're covering higher level strategy around sales, retention and scaling. While we focus on online memberships, most of the info given will also be relevant to other membership types.
Check out highlights of our 2019 event:
Meet your host for Retain 2025
Mike Morrison
Howdy, I’m Mike Morrison, founder of the “Membership Geeks”
I’ve spent years guiding the growth of thousands of memberships, e-learning businesses and online communities.
With 20+ years in the online marketing and web development industry, we’ve been the driving force behind a multitude of 6 and 7 figure membership businesses in a diverse range of industries – from weight loss to coaching to executive training to bass guitar – and we have a proven track record of helping great clients to achieve fantastic results.
In 2015 I decided to take all of that knowledge and experience and use it to help entrepreneurs and small business owners to achieve success with membership sites on a global scale, and so created Membership Academy which has now helped over 11,000 membership site owners.
I’ll be leading the charge at Retain 2025 providing training throughout both days on the latest membership growth tactics and strategies, and sharing insights from our work with countless successful memberships.
But I’m not coming alone…
You'll also learn from expert guests including:
Kenda
Macdonald
Buyer Psychology Ninja
Mark
Bryant
Video Marketing Pro
Kimba
Cooper-Martin
Gamification Guru
Funk
Roberts
Tribe-Building Legend
Blair
Williams
Tech Trailblazer
Layla
Pomper
Systemisation Specialist
Martin & Lyndsay
Huntbach
Content Marketing Maestros
Teresa
Heath-Wareing
Marketing Maven
Buy your ticket
Join us on September 23rd - 24th 2025 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England for THE membership growth event that you simply can’t afford to miss.
Don’t forget: members of Membership Academy receive a discount on their ticket price!
PLUS take advantage of Earlybird pricing if you buy your ticket today!
Location
Location
Hilton Newcastle Gateshead
Bottle Bank, Gateshead NE8 2AR
Newcastle Airport (8 miles)
Central Station (1.3 miles)
Frequently Asked Questions
Your completed registration includes the following:
- Access to all speaker presentations and panels throughout both days of the conference
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshments on both days
- Complimentary Wifi access in the event area
- And a few special surprises...
Note: Hotel, airfare and other travel expenses are not included in the ticket price.
Yes you can. However all attendees at the summit must be registered attendees, and so everyone wanting to attend has to purchase a ticket.
No. The current individual ticket price is the one displayed on this page and is the lowest at the time of publication.
Note: The price does increase as the event gets closer, so it’s best to get a discounted price by purchasing at our ‘early bird’ prices.
Group Bookings: If you have a group of 10 or more people that want to attend, please feel free to reach out to us directly for more information on a group discount.
Single day tickets are not available – plus, why would you want to miss out on a full day of learning and fun, anyway!?
You can cancel at any time, but please be aware of the following policy: If you cancel before March 31st 2025 you will receive a full refund, less any processing fees.
If you cancel from April 1st, 2025 onwards you will not be eligible for a refund, but you may send someone in your place – be sure to let us know no later than August 20th, 2025 so we have their details ahead of the event, to make sure that they gain entry without any problems.
Note: No change of names associated with tickets will be accepted after August 20th, 2025.
Lunch will be provided, along with a light breakfast and refreshments throughout the day.
There is also an extensive choice of restaurants within walking distance for making your dinner arrangements at the end of each day.
Schedule
08:30AM
Event Registration & Coffee
09:00AM
Event Starts!
09:15AM
Keynote: State of the Membership Industry in 2025
Mike Morrison
10:15AM
Growth with Gamification
Kimba Cooper-Martin
10:45AM
Coffee Break & Networking
11:15AM
More Sales. Less Churn. The Proven Content Strategy That Gets Results!
Lyndsay & Martin Huntbach
11:45AM
Quick Win Training: Feedback Loops
Mike Morrison
12:00PM
Creating Lifelong Members: The Power of Tribe Building Strategies
Funk Roberts
12:30PM
Lunch
01:30PM
Membership Masterminding Sessions
03:30PM
Coffee Break & Networking
04:00PM
Keynote: Buyer Psychology and the Science of Membership Sales
Kenda Macdonald
05:00PM
Day 1 Wrap-up
Buy your ticket
Join us on September 23rd - 24th 2025 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England for THE membership growth event that you simply can’t afford to miss.
Don’t forget: members of Membership Academy receive a discount on their ticket price!