Founded in 1970, Cabot Heritage Corporation proves a family-owned publishing company with fewer than 30 employees doesn’t have to be limited by tradition or staff size to keep aggressively evolving. Currently 100% of the company’s marketing is online, and they’re continually testing tactics such as video, pricing offers, and online quizzes.
See creative samples and results data from seven A/B tests conducted by subscription and membership Web sites including a B2B publisher, a virtual world, an investment advisory newsletter, a personal nutrition site, and an online club for military vets. The average test increased response rates by 25%. You’ll see what worked, and what did not. Also includes basic testing guidelines and names of low-cost testing tools.
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The recession has impacted Chartwell, a research publisher to the utilities market, perhaps less than other firms, especially when it comes to renewals. They are lucky that their niche has remained strong, but more than that, they have a great pricing model, multiple revenue streams, and solid sales tactics. If you sell group subscriptions, you may find several ideas in this exclusive Case Study that could apply to you.
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Artistic Threadworks proves that a mom-and-pop site can beat the big boys. Typical consumer sites get an average subscription lifetime of about six-to-eight months, but clients of Artistic Threadworks keep paying for an average of 30 months!
Reason Magazine — a print magazine — was one of the very first subscription periodicals to sell itself on Kindle, and it’s still one of the top 20 bestsellers in the Kindle Magazine Store. Discover how the process works operationally, and how Amazon Kindle sales stack up against electronic edition sales of the same title.
TheLadders’ Michael McCurdy tells SSI about thriving in a saturated market, predictability models, and why “Bill Me Later” didn’t work for them.
Sandra Olson, founder of Budwig Videos, tells SSI about the power of practical information, how to succeed in a very small niche, and lessons learned about video marketing.
TradeTheMarkets co-founder John Carter on an honest approach, when and why to add personnel, and multiple revenue streams; his subscribers spend an average of $1,000 within six months of signing up–do yours?
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Emily Glossbrenner, co-founder of Fully Booked Rentals, discusses how to parlay a book into a successful subscription site and why quality content trumps the quantity of material available.
Founded in 1995, Angie’s List built slowly but surely until hitting critical mass as a nationally known brand and landing $60 million in venture funding in 2008. The site has multiple revenue streams (we counted at least eight, the majority from vendors–not consumers), most of them recurring.
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