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For awhile, everyone was talking about stickiness in online applications. Stickiness is the word commonly given to attributes of an online service that make users continue to return. Sometimes it is used to describe tactics simply to gain repeat usage, like...
Too often, companies focus on customer acquisition at the expense of retention. And yet minimizing customer churn is a key, and often totally manageable way to increase number of subscribers, revenue and profitability, key business metrics that go well beyond...
Subscription-based businesses (sometimes called "premium services") generally have opt-out relationships with their customers–that is, a subscriber remains your customer and continues making regular, time-based payments until the customer decides to...
Many online subscription businesses offer tiered products. And one of those tiered products is often available at the low low price of free. This type of model, that mixes free and paid offerings, is known as "freemium", a term coined by Fred...
