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Three Ways to Re-Engage Your Least Engaged Subscribers
How do you re-engage a sleeper? A sleeper is a subscriber who hasn’t been active in awhile. It seems like the sleeper may have forgotten they subscribed at all. Many subscription business owners like to let sleepers sleep — and keep paying — even when they’re not...
Design Subscription Models for Outcome, not Addiction
Subscription businesses depend on habits. If subscribers adopt behaviors that use a subscription offering, they’re not going to cancel. Some habits have positive outcomes. People subscribe to Noom to eat better, to Strava to exercise more, and MasterClass to know...
The Role of Subscription Pricing in Association Membership
Subscription is a pricing tactic. It is not a strategy. Not by itself. It’s important to remember this distinction when you’re designing subscription-based membership offerings for your association. Many associations are attracted to subscriptions for the same reasons...
Resources for Business Development & Partnership Strategy
Delivering on a forever promise, and maximizing an organization's overall business potential, is often a task too big for one company. So they need partners, and new ways of doing things. But who builds out those relationships? Who jumps in to explore, formalize and...
Why BMW is Selling Heated Seat Subscriptions and What It Means for Consumers and Car Companies
BMW Group recently announced a subscription to heated seats subscriptions. The offering is available in several markets, including the UK, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa although not the US, yet. According to the Verge, other subscription offerings on offer...
What it Means that Netflix is Incorporating Ads into their Subscription Tiers
In an April 2022 earnings call, Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings surprised longtime followers of the company when he said that he was “quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising, as a consumer choice.” At that time, Netflix committed to...
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