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#128 — Optimising the subscription lifecycle

After speaking to people who create content professionally — we kept hearing that it would be beneficial to have a place to share ideas, tips and stories about running email newsletters, and building content-based businesses.

So, we recently launched a brand new community for exactly that and there's already some great conversations taking place. If you'd like to get early access, reply to this email and we'll hook you up.

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💯 Top picks

Building a subscription-first company

This (free) FT strategies report shares the common challenges and learning points from their program with 8 publishers across Europe. The report is broken down into two areas, building a subscription-first company, and optimising the subscription lifecycle.

💸 Business models

Quartz sees record week for member signups, now has more than 25,000 paying members

The publisher enjoyed its best week for membership after announcing it was becoming an independent media company.

Sunnie Huang Newsletters editor at The Economist, discusses the role of newsletters

"Newsletter producers spend a lot of time obsessing over every single pixel in the email but the email itself is only a very small part of the reader’s experience. The relationship with email readers starts long before they actually open the first email and it continues long after they’ve finished reading it."

Based on 30 top paid email newsletters, the average price per month is $11.

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Attention software developers! Media organisations need you

As digital media companies become tech companies, their need for people with technical backgrounds grows, creating opportunities for software developers interested in journalism and media.