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- Needless to say, competing in the “newsletter” category made life easier. It wasn't perfect: most of the writers we acquired this way did not start paid subscription newsletters, and we generated no revenue off them. But still, it was absolutely worth it. The “newsletter” positioning served as a wedge, and generated a viral distribution loop where ... See more
from Good Positioning Makes Everything Easier - Divinations - Every by Every
- Zuck Has Too Much Power. If you think he’s an evil sociopath, that’s bad. But if you think he’s also a genius with a hard-to-grasp, long-term vision, that’s really good.
from Everybody Hates Facebook by Packy McCormick
- Several individual publishers have experimented with removing ads as part of a larger subscription package. Talking Points Memo, for instance, offers an ad-free “Prime” membership for $100 a year. Some publishers like Slate promise “fewer ads” for paying subscribers. But for every publisher that offers an ad-free experience for subscribers, there a... See more
from Do news consumers want to pay for an ad-free experience? by Simon Owens
- Conversion from Free Tier or Trial to Paid Subscriber:
from 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Consumer Subscriptions by Nikhil Basu Trivedi
- In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more
from Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld by Freddie deBoer
- The auction yields a full demand curve, including the maximum price each customer is willing to pay and their freaking email address!
from Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668? by Kevin Lynagh
- Consumer SaaS: ~55% is GOOD, ~80% is GREAT
from What is good retention by Lenny Rachitsky
- But the greatest benefit of disagreeing well is not just that it will make conversations better, but that it will make the people who have them happier. If you study conversations, you find there is a lot more meanness down in DH1 than up in DH6. You don't have to be mean when you have a real point to make. In fact, you don't want to. If you have s... See more
from How to Disagree by paulgraham.com
- Have a vector that orients your time, attention, and energy towards achieving your goal, and allow for subroutines to develop off of that vector that get you closer to your goal
from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan