Setting Up a Private Community with Squarespace + Circle

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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Why I chose Circle
02:11 - How to Structure a Community
04:58 - Handy Circle Features
07:43 - How I sell my Course Membership on Squarespace
08:37 - Inviting Members to Circle
09:52 - Embedding Circle on Squarespace
13:38 - Removing Members from Circle
14:38 - Price of Circle
15:39 - Thank you

[sfphotogirl]

This is awesome! I hope to see more member communities on businesses' websites instead of on social media in the future!

[hmg]

Excellent community engagement option, Chris! Greatly appreciate your thourough explanation of best tracks for SS adjunct integrations. I'm going to watch this 3x! Thank you!

[abbyleighton.studio]

omg this is amazing and so timely because I am trying to do the exact same thing right now. Thank you!

[SquareWebsites]

One of the biggest features missing from SS. Nice overview.

[TainaErlend]

Really good video, thank you so much! 😊

[sacredbloomalchemy]

Well I am looking to do this so this is very useful

[SEWebDesign]

Google has announced they will be eliminating 3rd party cookies in Chrome by the end of 2024 which are required for embedding the community inside of Squarespace. I am super bummed about this because it was an awesome solution and am now looking into the best alternative ways to make the communities feel seamless. EDIT: See my new pinned comment for the solution - setting up a sub domain

[asiamdav]

Can you do a review on Squarespace member areas and courses? I’d love to know your thoughts on those.

[MrSoloDev]

It's not clear how login information is passed from Squarespace to your embedded Circle site.

[heyBundy]

Have you compared or thought of using SQSP new member and course products. Wouldn’t it make more sense to do it all within SQSP instead of Circle?

[johnvoirol]

Hey great vid! May I ask which camera you are using to record? Love the slightly blurred background.

[SEWebDesign]

Update on embedding: if you set up a sub domain for your community then the embedding works again even if 3rd party cookies are disabled! For example: community.example.com

[taylorelmer]

Hey man first off thanks for the video extremely helpful!
I followed the instructions and it worked but I ran into an issue…

Once integrated into the site the login does not seem to work through my Squarespace site only through the circle community’s url. It acts like the login was successful and redirects but no member can actually sign in and use the feed.

Is this the cookie issues or something else? Any help would be massively appreciated! Thanks again

[JaiSequoia]

hi Chris, how's circle le working for you now that some time has passed? would love an update 🙂

[chronograph]

Hey, does the embed feature work with wordpress?

[islasierraco]

can you still do this if you want to host your course inside of circle?

[ecommrevolution]

You didn't consider Skool? I'm 98% in on Circle, but Skool's simplicity keeps getting my attention.

[ellepatton]

I thought sqaurespace just introduced their own community?

[mdnahidseo]

Do u need a professional YouTube thumbnail designer?