Time Inc. adds to its subscription website offering; SNEWS and Smore launch new sites
A brand can enhance its value through its subscription website offering, in addition to the overall design
Condé Nast U.S. expands subscription business; Amazon's subscription service becomes an option; Subscription websites need to utilize ads that don't violate rules
Subscription websites expand in a multitude of ways. Of
MPP expanding American market; TNG acquires Ingram Periodicals; Digital publishing becoming a priority for Reader's Digest
Digital publishing transforms in a variety of ways, from new technology in the digital age,
Mequoda has helped hundreds of media brands build vigorous, profitable, growing multiplatform publishing businesses. And we can help you.
Every quarter, I work on a 5-year business plan with one
To build a better subscription website, we've created a collection of our best resources on everything you need to know when it comes to how to leverage outside partners
Most publishers
The Internet has made it cheap, easy and efficient to launch new streams of niche media revenue. Choosing your content focus is a business-critical decision, as the focus you choose
The term "subscription" is a hot topic these past few weeks, especially for new age publishers and media companies like Twitter and Medium. Twitter recently sent a survey to users
Before hiring subscription website publishing experts, take this advice straight to the bank.
If you're looking to grow the most beautiful rose garden on the block, would you prefer to go
A Mequoda subscription website Portal generates value from both users and sponsors
Mequoda has guided the development of more than a 300 successful niche media websites on a wide variety of niche media
How to create new products and passive income from old products as a multiplatform publisher
One of the most interesting rodents on the planet is the grasshopper mouse, native to the
"Do your job."
Those are the famous words of New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick, and the mantra of the whole team, who I imagine you already know just won their
How to use A/B testing tools for creating subscription landing pages that turn more visitors into subscribers
How many times have you been in a meeting where you and your colleagues
Subscription websites LinkedIn and New York Times expand; WSJ closes Google loophole
Subscription websites can be a profitable endeavor for content publishers.
We begin by looking at The New York Times, which
Last year Mequoda launched seven new systems, went agile, and upgraded fulfillment options for our state-of-the-art CXMS
The history books will never look back at 2016 as an uneventful year. We
The one-time cost of building a magazine subscription website could reduce overhead indefinitely
For $3 per month or $36 per year, there is subscription service called The Sink that will automatically
New changes are coming globally for subscription websites using ad blockers
Ad blocking has become a big topic for subscription websites building audiences, as well as other digital media brands.
As this
This week’s subscription website news shines a light on new marketing initiatives and revenue generated by successful subscription services
We’re seeing that subscription website news takes on some interesting dimensions early
Our most-read subscription website publishing posts of last year show an interest in building profitable subscription websites and improving the usability and site speed of existing websites.
In 2016, toward the
In order to succeed in a changing landscape, savvy digital media companies understand the need to evolve
Whether it’s a new subscription website, an updated website, or a new digital product
By all means, launch many content business models and diversify your publishing portfolio. But start with your magazine experience through your magazine subscription website.
We're in a recession. Maybe you're feeling
These new digital subscriptions are focused on building engagement with readers through different strategies
We continue to see new digital subscriptions arise among subscription websites. Some of these new subscriptions are
If you're thinking of launching a subscription website, don't skimp on preliminary research.
So you've decided to start a subscription website. We get requests weekly from entrepreneurs, veterans and newbies, who
Building relationships and high-quality content serve subscription websites like Scribd, The Telegraph, and Food52
Do you remember when subscription websites started using paywalls to add a new revenue stream to their
The more you can give a member of your subscription website, the better.
And it appears we're not the only ones who think so.
Earlier in the week we talked about Condé Nast’s
Coming up with the right content business model(s) can be the biggest stumbling block for those looking to grow a publishing business.
Choosing your content focus is a business-critical decision, as
Because we quantify everything, Mequoda has identified nine (coincidentally) deadly subscription website mistakes that are commonly made when publishers build their online presence.
There are two new advertising revenue models in town – and you probably didn't even know they existed
Since magazine, newspaper, and newsletter publishers turned to the web, there have been
The freebie content business model is one website we build for all of our Mequoda Gold Members
Choosing your content focus is a business-critical decision, as the focus you choose pretty
Having a startup magazine in the finance and health publishing niche used to be a slow crawl to success, but has Google changed that?
Publishers are seeing big increases and decreases
Before building out new website business models, inventory your existing content assets
Author and efficiency expert Stephen Covey writes about how difficult it is to reach goals that you don’t have.
If you are a magazine publisher, you are a digital magazine publisher. You are online, and hopefully you have a digital edition of your magazine. But that may be all
At the beginning of your roadmap, this magazine platform should come first, even before an app.
Online magazine platforms or offline magazine platforms or any platforms in between, it doesn’t matter:
As we always say, a publisher’s minimum information unit (MIU) is the bedrock on which the best subscription business models are built. Any online publisher who doesn’t bother to understand
Setting up a subscription website could be a costly test if you don't think about these three things first
The answers are not always obvious, even to a seasoned print or
A responsive newsletter website brings accessibility to the table
Totally unrelated to publishing, you may have heard that Patagonia recently ditched their app. If you open it, it will tell you
Mequoda has been testing video landing pages for the past few years with great success. In fact, our Intensive attendees have told us repeatedly that our video is what convinced
The sacred elements of any best-practice online magazine business model
Literary perfectionist Gustav Flaubert once said “our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times." He was right on the
There’s no doubt that niche content is the name of the game, at least if you’re playing the game using the Mequoda Method. But digital magazines can’t expect to slap
The subscription model has a lot of perks and one of them is that subscriber churn rate is much lower than any other product you can offer. Customers don't usually
When a customer agrees to have a specific charge card billed a certain amount for a pre-determined (or sometimes open-ended) period of time, that's recurring billing. It's sometimes called recurring
A couple weeks ago I attended an SEO conference called SearchLove hosted by Distilled. One of the speakers was Rand Fishkin, better known as the Wizard of Moz. At the
Your content management system is, simply stated, the system used to manage the content on your web site … but it’s so much more than just that. Choosing a CMS
Since the printing press was invented, the best way to deliver readable content was always on the page. Until the advent of the web, consumers hadn't even considered other ways
How to leverage multi-channel marketing both internally and also to sell out your advertising packages
The human race doesn't all live in one house, or all work at one business. We
Publishers aren't just going digital anymore, they're creating digital magazines that are evolving as quickly as the technology that hosts them
In 1967, an eight-page issue of Computerworld was published for the
Consumers will respond to memberships over subscriptions and publishers will thrive with more integrated publishing systems
The one thing you can count on as a magazine publisher is that there will
Our most-read subscription website publishing posts of 2015 reveal a desire for better understanding of building, publishing and pricing subscription websites
This year in our Subscription Website Publishing articles we've tackled everything
On desktop or mobile, ad blocking has emerged as the defining issue of digital publishing in 2015. This presents good news and bad news for online magazines looking to compete