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Why subscriptions just don’t work for customers
- In short, subscriptions are not a panacea. Price changes do not solve product/market fit on their own. But, if your product gets better with more usage, addresses a naturally recurring behavior, and has a potential “upgrade tier” of users, a subscription model could be very successful.
from Firehose #182: 💰 Subscription addiction. 💰 by Alex Taussig
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- It’s much easier to build a subscription business that draws on an existing recurring consumer behavior, instead of trying to create a new recurring behavior. As a result, some categories of consumer spend just lend themselves more naturally to a subscription business than others.
from 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Consumer Subscriptions by Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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- The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a regular basis before you make content is awesome, but in this subscription economy, we have lost the ability to place value on each individual film. If the company spends time and energy on only certain ... See more
from The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model
the current subscription-based business model makes it really hard for film makers to create a hit and/or generate a profit large enough.