We recently started working with a publisher who came to us looking to sell more magazine subscriptions. When we started talking about the importance of building their email circulation, the
We are so happy to announce that Food Gardening Network recently received the 2024 Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement for Magazine for Consumer or Trade, presented by GardenComm:
At Mequoda Publishing Network we are big on helping print publications adapt to today’s digital environment. There are quite a few ways to bring your brand online these days, but
In the past, we have reviewed how to use the concepts of Six Sigma in subscription marketing and testing and then creative offer testing for subscription pricing.
We shared a story
We talk a lot about digital magazine subscription marketing around here, and unwittingly neglect your very important print publications. Once you’ve established your subscription price strategy, the next problem to solve
I find myself publishing digital books, magazines, and newsletters as I have transitioned away from print over the past decade. I wish I could say that I made this transition
Is it somehow improper for email newsletter editors to support audience development efforts? Is it wrong for bloggers to promote a product from an advertiser, or from themselves?
The best email marketing campaigns don't hit the snooze button on engagement – they wake up early and go to work every single day
The worst thing you can do to
What should your email marketing service provide?
Email is technology’s gift to marketers. For good or bad, it allows companies to send word of their products and services into the inboxes
“The days of renting or buying email lists are over. Email exchanges with aligned partners is the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to grow your audience.”
I Like Crochet now reaches
I love May! Flowers are blooming, the grass is greener, and everything looks fresh and new. It is a time to be outdoors and enjoy the warming sun. Our May
“Digital growth for GreenPrints includes engaging print subscribers online—but rapid and big growth has largely come from Mequoda’s Email Exchange program.”
In less than one year since its new website launch
We Like Sewing—a site just over a year old, serving sewing and quilting enthusiasts—tops 275,000 active email names, largely built with an aggressive Email Exchange program.
“You don’t have to rent
“The days of renting or buying email lists are over. Email exchanges with aligned partners is the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to grow your audience.”
In less than two years
One of the biggest moving targets in Mequoda best practices is the metered paywall.
The biggest question we get is, how much free content is enough? And you have to be
When an article publishes on your website, how do you go about promoting it in social media?
When I pose this question to a room full of magazine editors from different
As we move into the brave new world of digital magazine publishing, one thing has not changed: your people are the absolute key to your success.
Over the past year and
Digital magazine publishing is and continues to be the current and next frontier, with unlimited revenue stream options coming from creative use and integration of text, images, video, social content,
Print advertising rates have always been robust. After all, magazine ads have been superior to broadcast ads in several ways: They offer a targeted environment, they offer adjacency, and they’re
It's hard to determine how to spend both your time, and your resources within a business. The way we look at every decision you make is this:
Is whatever you're thinking
The best thing you can offer in an ad package is exclusivity, although few publishers can. Back in the days of print-only publishing, there was little opportunity to be an
If you have an idea for a new digital magazine and are considering the many options for publishing it, you're reading the right words, at exactly the right time, and the
A magazine sales letter full of content and detail works best for selling premium information products online. No matter how hard we try to make winners out of short sales
Happy 300th anniversary to the newspaper publishing industry! The first official American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick was shut down after only its first issue in 1690, so
The true audience development definition requires maximum outreach while retaining results for future sales
Just like "inbound marketing" was the buzzword of the online marketing industry last year, "audience development" begins
Are you itching to launch a new digital magazine, but you want to do it right, and you don't want to waste money on trial and error? That's completely understandable,
Some helpful hints on generating revenue through online advertising
What comes to mind when you think about revenue models on the Internet? Is it a relatively new model that was designed
A multi-platform website enables a publisher to create dynamic content on multiple platforms. Some of these platforms might be online streaming through a membership library of training videos, or it
There was a time when investors were shying away from publishing media because "journalism" is "expensive" and user-generated content is "cheap".
But as the world changes tides and begins to preach
Our primary goal at Mequoda is to build the best subscription website marketing systems for publishers. We want publishers to have a system that attracts visitors, captures their email address,
“I simply don't understand the opportunity,” one veteran magazine publisher told me at a recent industry conference. “My magazines are sponsor-driven. My issue archive includes hundreds of back issues. I
We developed the Email Newsletter Scorecard with our friend and email marketing expert Jeanne Jennings. Let’s look today at #9: the all-important footer. In addition to abiding by CAN SPAM
Contrary to what you've probably been thinking, the ultimate digital magazine is built in a browser, not an app. That's why web magazines are skyrocketing to success because users are
We often hear about predictions for digital magazines; how they will grow, the revenue generation expected throughout the industry and the time frames associated with these numbers.
These predictions are important,
Creating the best subscription website business models starts with understanding your minimum information units—both the free minimum information units you'll use to build a loyal audience and the premium minimum information
You would have to be living under a rock to have not noticed that premium membership programs for publishers are all the rage. After flirting with all forms of digital
Social Media Optimization (SMO) is what we call the process of optimizing your content and your business, for social media.
Typically, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes first. This is the process
Membership websites are defined in part by the fact that users access the content on-demand, when they have a question they need to be answered or a learning tool they need
A magazine subscription website model is set up to sell subscriptions for a related print or digital magazine and to provide access to back issues and other premium content.
For the
Only five years after the advent of the tablet, strategies for successful digital magazine publishing are starting to sort themselves out and deliver measurable results. Of course at Mequoda, we're
How would you like to expand your product line with something that’s based on content you already have, increases your credibility in your niche, offers your customers immediate gratification, and
You may not know it, but there are things you could be doing on Facebook right now that are against their rules, or are strongly suggested against.
You may have been
Ten years ago, apps and responsive website design weren't even on the radar of a webmaster, and website analytics weren't nearly as dynamic as they are today. Websites back then
Back when many current print journalists were beginning their careers, their job descriptions looked very different than they do now.
Yes, the basic idea of being a journalist is still the
“Mad Men” may have died, but in the digital age, advertising's been born again. In fact with a 21st century propensity for growing new tentacles, the conventional ad is evolving
Although we work with many established legacy publishers, we also work with publishing startups. In fact, these startups benefit from our years of work with legacy publishers teaching them how
Aggregating great content is just as valuable as creating great content
Content aggregation is often given a bad name, because it’s often done incorrectly.
The best content aggregators approach the process
These days, when people talk about newsletter best practices, they’re usually referring to free email newsletters, used as a marketing tool to drive inbound traffic to websites. But because some
