How This Former Film Critic Built a Business Around Classic Movies

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Aaron West spent years as a film critic, sold a tech company in the 90s, worked in corporate IT, and somewhere along the way never stopped loving movies. After the pandemic reshuffled his life, he and his partner Jill Blake, a former TCM and Filmstruck insider, decided to stop treating their passion as a side hobby and build something real. The result is CineJourneys, a paid online membership platform built around the thing most people think you just do for free: watching and studying classic cinema.

In this video you'll learn how Aaron went from a podcast and a Substack to a fully built membership site, how he used MemberPress to power the whole thing.

Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 What Is CineJourneys
02:07 What Is a Cinephile?
04:06 Aaron's Background
06:27 How the Podcast and Community Started
07:10 Turning the Passion Project Into a Business
09:10 Launching the Website
11:00 Moving from Substack to MemberPress
13:41 The Guides
15:49 How the Classes Work
18:28 Inside the MemberPress Setup
23:33 Biggest Lessons Running the Site
25:16 The A24 Book
31:08 Membership Growth & Where Things Stand
39:14 Why WordPress and The Tech Stack
42:01 What's Next for CineJourneys
44:34 Where to Find Aaron

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