November 7, 2013

Case Study Lessons: Online Trials for Lead Generation Work Best with Few Barriers to Entry

A subscription database in Canada is generating $168,000 to $191,000 a year by catering to the non-profit niche, an impressive feat, in our opinion. CharityCAN has been able to solve a pain point for fundraisers looking to conduct prospecting research by combining their own proprietary information with cleaned-up public data into one sophisticated database with a starting price point of CA $1,999. And interestingly, as Publisher Anderson Charters told Subscription Site Insider, CharityCAN has generated such impressive…

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CharityCAN Makes 6 Figures with Traditional Sales Approach for Innovative Fundraising Database

When Publisher Anderson Charters bought Canadian Donor’s Guide in 2002, he knew the directory world was changing. Thus, in 2008, he launched CharityCAN, an online database incorporating the data from the Canada Revenue Agency and other sources for fundraising organizations and non-profit professionals looking to conduct prospecting research. In this exclusive Case Study, Charters and Associate Publisher Alison Stoneman spoke with us about how the site sells high-priced subscriptions by mining its own database and placing traditional outbound sales calls. Plus, learn the right (and wrong) way to develop an online B2B lead nurturing campaign and set up a conversion funnel for group subscriptions.

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