July 12, 2012

Is Your Subscription Site Prepared for Outages and Other Disasters?

Digital technology, doomsday prophecies, and hyperbole seem to go hand-in-hand, especially on slow news days. While it’s unlikely the Internet will ever fail completely, the recent DNSChanger malware attack is a good opportunity to review your subscription or membership site’s emergency preparedness. After all, crashing is bad for for free sites, but it can be exponentially more damaging for paid sites, leading to cancellations and lost revenue. If you have a temporary outage due to malware,…

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How WritersMarket.com Turned a 90-Year-Old Print Directory into a Profitable Online Subscription Site

At any given moment, 50,000 subscribers are paying to access WritersMarket.com’s robust database. Winter Thielen, Director of Online Product Development at WritersMarket.com and Robert Brewer, Senior Content Editor, spoke with us about how the site maintains its listings, succeeds with email marketing, and creates perceived value with limited-release compilations. Plus, get inspired by some great conversion tactics, including an unusual navigation bar and a well-designed site tour.

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