Reduce Your Monthly Failed Charges So You Collect More Recurring Revenue

Reduce Your Monthly Failed Charges So You Collect More Recurring Revenue

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Subscription businesses benefit from the advantage of recurring revenue. Acquire new members and keep your existing ones. Sounds simple, right? We understand it’s not that easy. How do you keep your recurring revenue if your members’ credit card charges are declined? When you charge the credit card that you have on file, send the product or service, and then find … Continued

How To Seize The Membership Economy Opportunity To 5x Your Company

HOW TO SEIZE THE MEMBERSHIP ECONOMY OPPORTUNITY TO 5X YOUR COMPANY

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Why would your company want a member instead of a customer? Studies show the valuation of companies in the membership economy are anywhere from five to 10 times the size of similar companies which use transactions. That’s according to Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of The Membership Economy. Baxter is a Silicon Valley marketing consultant whose clients have included Survey Monkey, … Continued

Increase Your Recurring Revenue by Delivering 10X Value

Increase Your Recurring Revenue by Delivering 10X Value

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:59 — 30.6MB) Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | How to Subscribe Using Different Platforms The subscription economy is exploding and everyone is wanting the benefit of recurring revenue. Today the world is awash with subscription options-Netflix, Amazon Prime, SalesForce.com, Dollar Shave Club, and so on. Sure, you offer a dynamite … Continued

Four Ways Specialized Information Publishers Generate New Customers

Generating New Publication based subscriptions

Business readers will invest to get specialized information that gives them the edge against a competitor. But how do publishers who sell subscription-based newsletters, magazines, reference manuals and training programs get those business readers to invest in their publications? The usual methods of direct mail and online ad campaigns figure into their marketing strategy. But the publication itself is also … Continued

How to Accelerate Your Subscription Growth – Insight and Advice from Zuora

How to Accelerate Your Subscription Growth Insight and Advice from Zuora

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:02 — 23.2MB) Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | How to Subscribe Using Different Platforms How would you like to know the secrets of the fastest growing subscription companies? Subscriptions are exploding for everything from information, software, to monthly boxes. This growth has attracted new resources for analytics, software, and marketing … Continued

Essential KPIs for Monitoring the Health of Your Subscription Program

KPI to diagnose the fastest ways to grow membership programs.

Each year when I visit the doctor for my annual physical, the blood test results come back in a multi-page report detailing blood cells, cholesterol, liver enzymes, and more. A human body requires dozens of interconnecting systems to work properly and be healthy. Same with subscription programs. Subscription programs often reach out to me when they’ve hit an invisible ceiling. … Continued

Why Donald Trump Won’t Make America Great Again and Neither Will Trump’s Critics

Donald Trump identified a silent movement of fear and loathing within white America that delivered him to the White House. But, Trump didn’t invent fear-based movements; he’s simply a current practitioner. There’s evidence that fear has been used to lead and control people since the beginning of human history. The primary purpose of public crucifixions for Roman emperors was to … Continued

How Much Money Do Failed Credit Card Transactions Cost You Each Month?

How Much Money Do Failed Credit Card Transactions Cost You Each Month?

I remember, early in my monthly continuity days, waking up on the first of the month, looking at my Blackberry, and seeing hundreds of emails from my credit card processor — one for each transaction, indicating all of the credit card pre-approved subscription payments getting processed for the month. It was a moment of sweet appreciation. Even now, as I … Continued

The Secret for Faster Recurring Revenue Growth, Invest More on Member Retention

It’s been exhilarating working with several $100 million — and larger — publishers over the last couple of months. These companies spend millions of dollars on member acquisition. They track their numbers and know what’s working — and what’s not — within their marketing and sales funnels. Some have weekly training seminars for copywriters. They get together, analyze promotions that … Continued