The successful user-driven startups of today are the ones who offer subscription-based services. As a magazine or newsletter publisher, you know a subscription-based business takes the revenue of one product
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
Getting a grasp of mobile best practices is like trying to catch a fish bare-handed. Unless you're a bear, they're really tough to pin down. If you are a bear,
We're surrounded by a goldmine of creative video ideas in magazine publishing – which one will inspire you?
I sit here writing this as I just finished watching six videos in
Put down the sunscreen and register before summer fever sets in
So, look, I know you're headed on vacation in the next week or so, but we have an early bird
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
You don't need us to tell you that the digital ad news when it comes to anti-ad-block efforts is not necessarily good. The efforts of digital publishers to block ad
When your magazine marketing job gets boring, that means your customers are probably just as bored. Pep up your magazine marketer game in 10 days!
Being a magazine marketer is fun,
When it comes to Snapchat, media brands must reconcile the upside of the channel with its challenges. Or overcome the challenges and maximize that upside, take your pick. Most digital
Mequoda wants no publisher to be left behind
I can talk until I’m blue in the face about how well the Mequoda Method works in helping legacy print magazine publishers make
What most publishers of niche magazines don't realize is that coming up with an editorial calendar is just as much work as producing the evergreen content itself.
New Nielsen Catalina multi-year media survey yields some interesting results on magazine marketing strategy
When we talk magazine marketing strategy, typically we're talking from the point of view of publishers. But
TIME magazine is seeing growth in print and digital due mostly to a strong pursuit of native ads in editorial and video, plus staffing updates and multiplatform publishing
Last year, TIME's print
Among publishing executives, is there anyone more admirable than Maria Rodale? Of course, we all have our favorites, but for us, Rodale's new media innovation, multiplatform strategy instincts, niche content
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
Digital magazine distribution and consumption will receive the Audit Bureau of Circulations treatment; plus, Google follows Apple's lead and Time Inc.'s vision
Digital magazine distribution, readership, ad views, and more are
Your magazine app is a platform, but it's not the most profitable digital magazine platform for passive income
Digital magazine apps are great for one huge reason: They come with a
Despite all of the ups and downs of digital publishing, the online magazine business keeps on cranking along, and companies like Time Inc. continue to set the pace with strategic
If you’ve been reading here about the journey from legacy print publishing to digital magazine publishing, it may sound almost too confusing to contemplate
The journey involves everything from creating a
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
Exploring the latest mobile publishing solutions with the best programmatic ad marketplaces and Google's latest big splash; plus, print magazines as innovative content marketing?
It could be argued that mobile publishing
For a very long time PR was pretty straightforward, and for many publishers, highly automated. The guidelines for how to pitch a press release started with writing your press release,
Is there a more historically iconic and currently intriguing magazine publishing company than Time Inc.?
We've watched with fascination their efforts to not only stay relevant and viable, but also to
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
Circulation reporting and auditing has been a meticulous science for more than a century. Then digital magazine publishing came along to shake it up for the first time in decades.
In
For the enterprising social media publisher, Facebook video and Snapchat represent a promising future
What does it mean to be a social media publisher these days? It means you're willing to
While using Google AdWords looks easy, it takes knowledge and hard work to be good at it. But there's a big payoff. If you follow the advice below and correct
There's no shortage of interesting digital magazine publishing trends to watch, but hovering near the top has to be magazine subscription marketing.
With all of the "ad"-versity facing the industry –
Learn everything from pricing to copy platforms, and watch the print-to-digital upgrades roll in
The beauty of the digital era in publishing is that it doesn’t just give you a new
Improving direct marketing results is a constant source of discussion for publishers. They are always tracking, evaluating, and testing different offers for their products in order to optimize their results,
Multi-channel publishing, multiplatform publishing, content distribution strategy: Whatever the label, proactive media companies meeting their readers on their own turf are emerging more and more as the best digital magazines.
I don't know about you, but the world's a'changing when it comes to audience development. For a while, I felt like we were so ahead of the curve at Mequoda
If you're starting a magazine business plan, it would be a good idea to circle the troops and decide right now whether your future will be advertising or circulation driven.
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Politics aside, can we agree that Donald Trump is kind of a multiplatform master? He creates spin-off products like it's going out of style (it is, in fact, in style.)
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Set up your marketing based on data and continual improvement to reap big profits
One thing that troubles publishers who are planning to make the move to multiplatform publishing is how
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
What we know: Ad blocking is on the rise. What we don't know: whether the effort to block ad blockers will prove effective. What's starting to become apparent: The ad
Google's kind of the king of mixed messages. They tell publishers not to optimize, and to "just write great content" but their team says that yes, in fact, good keywords
When we develop magazine business plans for our Gold Members, it include seven levels which you've probably heard us refer to as CAROTME: content, audience, revenue, optimization, technology, monetization, and
Report from 2016 IMAG conference cites distrust in Facebook-publishing dynamic
The topics don't get much hotter these days than Facebook publishing, and though the gap between the social network and media
There’s no such thing as publishing a magazine.
The fact is, if you want to transition your business from the traditional print model to 21st-century publishing – and the profits it
How we're seeing a larger return on our marketing investment by recycling marketing campaigns across platforms
When I first started working at Mequoda almost 10 years ago, we wrote a lot
The MPA just released their Magazine Media 360° report and the future of magazines is just as interesting to predict as ever. The top growing magazine brands year over year
Hearst says yes, begins providing online ad targeting for readers of print magazines; plus, the Independent, True Ink, and time-based selling
Believe it or not, a big part of multiplatform strategy
In-person anything is better than phone or email anything. A cold call could turn into a friendly conversation about the latest Game of Thrones, whereas a cold email could just
There’s no such thing as publishing a magazine.
The fact is, if you want to transition your business from the traditional print model to 21st-century publishing – and the profits it
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
Recent headlines reflect the highs and lows of the digital publishing market; plus skepticism on whether Facebook Instant Articles is using its powers for good
The digital publishing market moves fast,
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
It always amazes me how people can worry about good things that happen. Sharon (not her real name) runs a successful $5 million special interest B2C publishing company that now
