January 4, 2011

New Federal Law Concerns Online Subscription Sites & Paid Membership Sites: If You Do Recurring Billing or Trial Offers – Watch Out!

Last Wednesday, Dec. 29th, President Obama signed a new law known as the ‘Restore Online Shoppers Conference Act’ into being immediately. This new Act affects your business if you market services on the Internet to US consumers and you either offer recurring billing (also known as auto-renew) and/or you offer trials requiring a credit or debit card that will be charged when the trial is over. That’s the vast majority of companies in the online subscriptions,…

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How a Blogger’s Public Radio-Style ‘Pledge Drives’ Convince Subscribers to Pay $49-$75,000 to Support the Site

This exclusive interview with FutureOfCapitalism.com founder Ira Stoll proves that some readers are happy to pay a lot to support the content they’re passionate about. See how the site uses quarterly campaigns that ask readers to support the free blog by paying up to five and six figures for an annual subscription.

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