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Subscription Sites Can Now Track Digital Edition Sales Across Platforms

One of the most frequent complaints I hear from paid content marketers is that it’s incredibly cumbersome to track digital edition and app sales data coming in from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Zinio and other eReader devices. Basically, the data is not standardized and needs to manipulated by hand. But data-driven marketers (which you all are, of course) will be grateful to hear of CDS Global’s new  platform called eEditions that aims to collect, filter,…

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Sell Your Mobile and Tablet App Through Your Website, Not Just App Stores

One of the most frequent complaints from subscription sites selling iPad and iPhone apps is that Apple refuses to hand over any customer information — not an email address, not a credit card number, nothing. However, some publishers have found a way around this marketing dilemma. Publishers that promote and sell “digital” subscriptions through their website, like Strategy + Business, are able to capture customer data when subscribers pay through their site. Apple (and Google) will then…

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Access Intelligence Acquires 4 Properties while Infogroup, InvestCorp, UBM Put Services Up For Sale

There’s been a lot of deal-making and selling in the subscription site industry recently. First, Access Intelligence has acquired four media brands from Penton serving the marketing industry: Chief Marketer, Multichannel Merchant, Direct and PROMO. All of the publications have strong print, digital and events businesses and will join Access Intelligence’s  Marketing and Media Group, which includes Event Marketer, EXPO, LeadsCon, DM Confidential, min, Folio:, and PR News. Penton’s group publisher Leslie Bacon and her staff…

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Paid Discovery Services Get Picky, Require Paid Content Sites to Improve Subjective Quality

I recently wrote about paid discovery sites that make it easier for paid content sites to promote their content on other sites. But this weekend, when I attended the Financial Publishers Roundtable in Austin, TX, there were rumors that one of the paid discovery providers, OutBrain, was going to ban all financial services publications. However, the truth is a bit more subtle. While OutBrain’s content guidelines state that the company reserves the right to block content from…

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Subscription Site EB Medicine Looking for Marketing Manager

EB Medicine, a subscription site located in Norcross, Georgia, is seeking a Marketing Manager to champion the launch and growth of the site’s  newest publication. The site is looking for a team player to play an integral role in the company’s growth strategy. You should be organized, deadline conscious, dependable, efficient, attentive to detail, and a team player that is also able to work independently. Job Description: You will be responsible for developing and executing the marketing strategy…

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Profitable Niche Membership and Daily Deal Site For Sale

Looking to purchase and invest in a profitable niche site? Website Properties recently listed a successful niche business for sale. The business has two sites — one is a niche membership site and the other is a daily deal site. Both have premium content offerings and focus on photography. But what investors will find interesting is the profit margins. The business generates more than $1.6 million in revenue, and has net profits of around $476,000. The asking…

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The Day Generates $100K in Revenue One Year After Launching a Paywall

In September 2011, The Day, a 130-year-old newspaper that had already been online for 16 years, decided to put up a paywall and sell digital subscriptions. A year later, the site is selling about 1000 online subscriptions and generating around $100,000. What did The Day do that all subscription sites can learn from? First, they handled the paywall launch and transition well. As The Day’s Director of Marketing & Audience Development Daniel Williams told me, the site saw…

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Boston Globe Offers 26-Week Online Subscription for $20 through Groupon

Taking its cue from its parent company (The New York Times), The Boston Globe today launched a Groupon campaign to acquire new subscribers. However, there are subtle differences between The Globe’s Groupon offer and the one NYT launched in August. First, the subscription term is much longer — 26 weeks, compared to the 8-week offer The Times had. As Subscription Site Insider’s How-to on Selling Subscriptions through Groupon discusses, this is a better practice. Even better would…

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No Revenue Decline in Decreasing Article Count on Metered Paywalls for News Sites

For general news sites (that do not have the luxury of a niche market), metered paywalls have been a winning formula — they allow news sites to compete with the free news market by offering 10-20 free-to-view articles a month while still creating a paywall for users who consistently value one site’s news coverage. In addition, metered paywalls allow news sites to maintain their broad brand awareness and collect ad revenue. Now Press+, the digital arm…

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If Information is Disappearing on the Web, Should You Archive Your Paid Content in Public Libraries?

A recent study published by MIT Technology Review has determined that history is vanishing on the Web — especially through social media. The study, conducted by a pair of researchers from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, found that nearly 30% of links on Twitter vanished withing 2 years. That means that the world loses 0.02 per cent of its culturally significant social media material every day. The researchers do not posit as to why the links…

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