Video: Freemium & The Membership Economy

You can make more money by giving stuff away. In this video, I’ll explain how you can incorporate free subscriptions to drive trial, networked effect and even to serve as a marketing...

10 Secrets to Recurring Revenue

Whenever I speak, audience members invariably ask the most questions about how to build recurring revenue. Here are the best things you can do if you want to build the kind of loyalty and engagement that results in predictable revenue streams. Let me know if you have...

How Grocers Should be Using Data

Groceries are able to use loyalty cards to collect tremendous volumes of data about the behavior of their most loyal customers. They also have regular face-to-face access to their customers and could survey or interview them on any visit, with the right systems. And yet none of them are really thinking creatively about building strong ongoing relationships. Very little is happening in the way of segmentation and custom programming. I am baffled about why they are so slow to create community.

Reader Letter: The Membership Economy & Pilates

Michele Fulkerson is applying principles of The Membership Economy to the Pilates Education Institute–here’s the inspiring story of how she’s building ongoing relationships with instructors and studio owners around the world!