September 19, 2013

Are You Including Re-Upgrades in Your Customer Lifetime Value Estimates?

Customer lifetime value is an important metric because it allows you to estimate the ROI on your marketing spend, explained Bakley Smith, CFO of TestingMom.com and guest speaker on this week’s Webinar for Subscription Site Insider members. Usually, customer lifetime value for subscribers can simply be calculated as total all-time revenue/total all-time number of paid subscribers. But certain subscription sites, especially those that see subscribers cancel and then rejoin (e.g., dating and seasonal sites, like MLB.tv), may…

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Exit Strategies for Subscription Sites

Sometimes a subscription or membership site dies — either because of a dwindling audience (where are the trade pubs for street sweepers and switchboard operators these days?) or for other operational reasons. But what do you do with existing subscribers if you decide to close shop? In this 15-minute On-Demand Video, Insider Editor Minal Bopaiah chats with Nancy Brand, Director of Operations at Chartwell about the options subscription sites have when closing shop.

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