10 Best Articles on Subscription Business
The most useful articles on subscription business from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Subscription Business Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on subscription business by Refind users in 2023 so far.
- Scale your subscription ecommerce billing with your business.
- One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content »…
- What's the Right Business Model for Good Writing?
- How to Sell Subscriptions: 4 Strategies for SaaS Companies
- Business Lessons from Ben Thompson’s Stratechery
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How to Sell Subscriptions: 4 Strategies for SaaS Companies
Need to know how to sell subscriptions for your business? These four strategies work for the top B2B SaaS companies.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on subscription business—all under 10 minutes.
What's the Right Business Model for Good Writing?
What’s the right business model for good writing? Many platforms have strong opinions about how writers should make money. Let's take a closer look at the pros and cons of advertising, subscriptions,…
Scale your subscription ecommerce billing with your business.
Are you a subscription ecommerce business in the scaling stage? Here are 12 pieces you need to take care to be on top of subscription management.
The Evolution of The Subscription Business Model
Exploring the world of in-app payments, usage-based pricing (UBP) and decentralized finance as it pertains to subscriptions
3 Reasons Why Subscription Businesses Fail
Subscriptions are hot (and not). Companies and investors love subscription business models since they generate recurring revenue that translates to predictable cash flow. The more money a company is…
Habit formation: How The Wall Street Journal turned user-level data into a strategy to keep subscribers coming…
The Journal went on a quest to identify the user actions — an app download, an article share, repeat reading of a particular reporter’s stories — that can turn a new subscriber into a loyal one. Then…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on subscription business.
One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content »…
Shared by 227, including Mathias Menzl, Tom Connor, Kevan Lee 👋, Oscar MacDonald, AJ Ghergich
Business Lessons from Ben Thompson’s Stratechery
Ben Thompson is the founder of the subscription newsletter Stratechery. He previously worked at Apple, Microsoft, and Automattic, where he focused on strategy, developer relations, and marketing. I…
How Subscription Business Models are Changing Business and Investing (the Microeconomics of Subscriptions)
A subscription is at its core an arrangement with a customer that creates a periodic contractual commitment. Netflix is an example of a subscription-based business. The default in a subscription re…
Rise of Subscriptions and the Fall of Advertising
We talk a lot about how individual startups disrupt existing business models — such as Airbnb vs. hotels or Craigslist vs. newspaper…
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