After its epic high-profile crash in 2018, what does the relaunch of Movie Pass teach us about running a successful subscription business?

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Subscription models disrupt many industries. The convenience, economics, and customer value enable companies to dominate competitors. And, then there are situations where a subscription model leads to failure.

There are four key drivers of subscription growth for the subscription business model. 

This episode of Be Unleavable^® Subscription Growth reveals the four keys to disrupting an industry with a subscription business model and we’ll see how Movie Pass stacks up against those 4 criteria. Plus, you’ll discover what it takes to scale your own subscription business.

📺 What I’m watching:

 I suffer from a Muppets obsession. I’m not proud of this, it just is. I hope we are in one of those safe spaces here.

This week The Muppets came up on a call so I could recall and share my favorite Muppet sketch of all time.  It’s very obscure, but lucky for me, and now you, it’s available on the Youtube. (Probably half the 763,481 views are by me.)

This sketch is from a 1980 episode with guest Linda Ronstadt. The 9-year-old Robert Skrob had a massive crush on Linda Ronstadt.

So it was in a “Blue Bayou” induced haze when I first saw, “The Cat Came Back.”  Even at 9-years old I instantly recognized the moral lesson: what you oppose returns.

I just discovered a website called Muppet Wiki that tells me the song was a popular folk tune written as a minstrel number by Harry S. Miller in 1883.

Enjoy “The Cat Came Back” while I spend my Labor Day weekend endlessly scrolling through the rest of the Muppet Wiki.

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About Robert Skrob

The problem with subscription membership programs is that members quit, I fix that problem. For more than 20-years I have specialized in direct response marketing for member recruitment, retention and ascension in diverse subscription members environments including non-profit associations, for-profit publishers/coaching, subscriptions and SAAS companies. For an evaluation of your current churn rate and how I can improve it, contact me here. I discover there are often two or three quick wins you can implement within a week to lower churn immediately, let’s talk about your quick wins.