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How to sell magazine subscriptions online - the Vanity Fair example
This idea works even better than I first imagined.
Can you guess the No. 1 magazine in your dentist’s office?
PROOF BOOK
Idea: Suspense in copy is motivating. True? Answer inside…
Scents and sensibility in subscription direct mail
Sniffing around for a new circulation idea? Smells like the New York Times is on to something …
49-Point Checklist for Beating Your Control
What do you need to know to beat your control? The answers to this list of questions will provide a good start when working with outside creatives. Or—and especially—if you attempt to do it yourself.
What Now? What Next?
Costs are up. Response is down. Circulation is falling. Lists are exhausted. Offers are fatigued. Rules are changing. Subscribers are wary. Has there ever been a better time for new ideas in circulation? Here are some things you can do now to survive the tough times so you can positively thrive when — if ever — the going gets good.
‘Let’s do whatever The Wall Street Journal is doing’
Here’s the latest in my mail from The Wall Street Journal. Ever since “two young men graduated from the same college,” whatever The Journal mails has been the avatar of subscription promotions. As they say, if you’re going to steal, steal smart.
113 Certainties for Circulation Success
Here’s a list of tips, techniques, and truths to help you create winning subscription promotions. Do you know them all? Know a few more I should add? Reply before midnight.
Issue 1
OPEN LETTER
The myth of subscription direct mail is it gets very little response. In fact, it gets 100% response. Readers either love it or hate it. Remember it or forget it. Open it or throw it away. And to a degree far greater than you might imagine, how customers respond to your marketing is controlled by you.
