How Foreign Lobby Report is increasing revenue with pay-per-article
Foreign Lobby is making the most of their content with a regular subscription, with donations, and with pay-per-post articles.
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7 ways to successfully sell corporate, group, and bulk subscriptions – Paywall Podcast
Paywall Podcast Episode 16 explores different ways to sell group subscriptions and explains how, when, and why you should use each one.
Boost revenue and readership with a sponsored subscription level
Rugby News has found a way to combine a free registration level, email-based bulk subscriptions, and advertising sponsorships into something new.
How blocking incognito mode creates more paid subscribers
IP Blocker stops incognito browsers from bypassing your paywall. Add a free level registration and they join your subscription funnel.
July 2021 Monthly Updates: Ready to accelerate your subscriptions? Let’s meet your readers.
This month, get tools and techniques for understanding subscriber behavior and pulling them into your subscriber funnel.
How apps actually increase digital subscription revenue (yes, really)
Having an app can increase your paid subscriptions by 10-30%. It opens up a whole new base of subscribers and improves reader experience.
The Publisher’s Quick Start Guide to Accelerating Digital Subscriptions
ZEEN101’s Ultimate Guidebook for News & Magazine Publishers is a quick start guide for accelerating your digital subscriptions.
The best way to publish a digital edition (spoiler: it’s not a flipbook)
The complete intro to IssueM, a publishing framework for every publisher. It creates searchable, shareable, mobile-friendly digital editions.
June 2021 Monthly Updates: An Cache of Revenue-Generating Tools, Already At Your Disposal
This month, learn how to generate revenue from tools you already have. Make the most of renewals and donations, build new products.
Easy ways to level up your website to build paid subscriptions – Part 3 – Paywall Podcast
Learn how to create new, revenue-generating products with features that already exist on your site, in Episode 15 of the Paywall Podcast.
Easy ways to level up your website to build paid subscriptions – Part 2 – Paywall Podcast
This episode of the Paywall Podcast walks you through the different ways of targeting your subscribers and what to say to them.
Easy ways to level up your website to build paid subscriptions – Part 1 – Paywall Podcast
Learn how to use your touchpoints to improve the reader experience and convert paid subscriptions in this short installment of the Paywall Podcast.
How Tea Journey Magazine Found A New Way To Increase Revenue With Donations
With Leaky Paywall, Tea Journey Magazine has found a way to make easy money with donations, with just a few clicks of a button.
Four ways to sell bulk subscriptions
Groups can be as unique as individuals. Find the four different ways to sell bulk subscriptions to different organizations.
May 2021 Monthly Updates: New Uses for Old Tools to Grow Your Subscriptions
The May update shares ways to increase subscriptions with new uses for existing tools: your paywall, your touchpoints, even your renewals.
How Stone Soup manages subscriptions with Leaky Paywall, WooCommerce, and apps
Stone Soup, a magazine for and by children, offers individual, group, school, and gift subscriptions with Leaky Paywall and WooCommerce.
Interview with Greg Grisolano of Land Line Media
In this Paywall Podcast episode, Greg Grisolano of LandLine Media discusses the redesign that brought a legacy publication into the future.
April 2021 Monthly Updates: New Updates & Tips to Enhance Your Experience
The April update shows off increased functionality in WooCommerce, corporate and group accounts, custom fields, VAT tax rates, and more.
How Elevator World, Leaky Paywall, and MagHub increase subscriptions with tighter restrictions
When your content is unique, it requires tailored protection. Setting a tightly-metered paywall with easy subscriber access is the key.
Paid Subscriptions and Virtual Conferences With Hal Niedzviecki of Broken Pencil Magazine – Paywall Podcast
Episode 11 of the Paywall Podcast looks at how a digital edition sells print subscriptions and how to take an annual conference virtual.
Why you need the most flexible subscription platform for WordPress
Leaky Paywall is built specifically for the needs of news and magazine publishers that use WordPress. In fact, you can generate more revenue streams than you thought possible by taking …
March 2021 Monthly Updates: It’s ‘Make Your Life Easier’ March
The March update includes tips and tools to reduce friction, streamline your workflow, and master the mystery of social media marketing.
An Interview With Wally Wallace of 50Fish on Social Media – Paywall Podcast
Episode 10 of the Paywall Podcast is a primer on social media and email marketing from a career expert, based on real life successes.
How To Create A Subscription-Based Paid Newsletter With Leaky Paywall and MailChimp
Easily add a paid newsletter subscription with Leaky Paywall and MailChimp… complete with automated payments and expiration cut-offs
Exciting Things We’ve Been Working On – Paywall Podcast
Working Together Building new tools and functionalities is a collaborative process at ZEEN101. Sometimes the ideas arise internally: trends we see in the industry, weather-proofing the software for changes in …
February 2021 Monthly Update: New Tips For Existing Tools
New Uses For Old Things We’re well into the new year and it’s time to take a look at the things we have and think: How could that be better? The …
Ensuring Website Accessibility Compliance
Don’t get caught out by website accessibility. Fortunately, compliance with the ADA website requirements doesn’t have to be difficult.
Local News Publishers: Subscriptions v. Memberships v. Donations – Paywall Podcast
The Question of Revenue Should your publication be seeking subscriptions, encouraging donations, or offering memberships? The three main revenue models are a hot topic in the publishing world at the …
An Interview with Todd Moen of Catch Magazine – Paywall Podcast
The Lifecycle of an All-Digital Magazine In Episode 7 of the Paywall Podcast, ZEEN101’s Jeremy Green talks to Todd Moen of Catch Magazine. The Official Journal of Flyfishing Photography and Film, …
An Interview with Greg Wolfe on magazine renewals and gift subscription strategies – Paywall Podcast
A Lifetime of Knowledge It shouldn’t be a surprise that outreach tactics can be shared between print and digital publications. The two formats are inextricably linked in many ways. In …
We help Deutsche Grammophon sell individual live stream concerts
Consider selling individual access to live stream concerts as Deutsche Grammophon does with Leaky Paywall
January 2021 Monthly Update: New Tools For A New Year
Happy New Year! It’s a new year for the world and for your publication. We’ve got some great new tips and tools for boosting your revenue and optimizing your publication. …
Create meaningful revenue and content with paying advertisers
A Different Kind of Content Strategy Wouldn’t it be nice if someone else generated some of your content for you? Wouldn’t it be even nicer if they paid you for …
December 2020 Monthly Update: Gifts For The Season
Gifts That Keep On Giving The holidays are right around the corner and to help you spruce up your publication for the season, we’ve got a few new tips and …
How To Generate More Paid Subscriptions With Promotions – Paywall Podcast
More subscriptions, less stress Paid subscriptions are a key revenue source for most publications. Fortunately, there are any number of easy promotions and strategies a publisher can run to increase …
Learn the step-by-step approach to growing your paid subscription and advertising revenue
In this video Nick Pataro from MagHub and I go over the strategy to building a strong email list that, in turn, attracts paying subscribers and advertisers. Follow along step-by-step …
Managing multiple digital magazine editions
Knowing the waters The success of a magazine, digital or otherwise, hinges on knowing and appealing to its readers. Understanding and catering to the needs of your target demographic is …
An Interview With Street Photography Magazine – Paywall Podcast
A profile of a successful publication Every profitable publication is born out of a wealth of experience that can be shared. In this episode of the Paywall Podcast, Interview with …
6 Examples of Successful Publication & Product Launches – Paywall Podcast
New ideas for a profitable publication Every publication is different, but even small or unusual publications can be profitable. In the third episode of the Paywall Podcast, 6 Examples of Successful …
November 2020 Monthly Update: Leveling Up
Fine-Tuning For Fall You already have a fully-stocked tool kit for the success of your publication. But are you using every feature and function to its full potential? With a …
How to optimize your registration page to encourage paid subscriptions
An Overlooked Opportunity A profitable digital publication has a lot of moving pieces. Your ever-growing archive of content, your paywall protector, the teasing newsletters, your various subscription levels: all of …
How Leaky Paywall and WooCommerce open the doors to subscriptions and purchases using any payment gateway
Our WooCommerce add-on can cater to the payment needs of your specific region without disrupting the smooth subscription experience you’ve crafted for your readers.
October 2020 Monthly Update: Checking Your Foundation
Find Your Cornerstone This month, we’re focusing on perfecting the fundamentals. The first step to a profitable publication is getting the basics right. We kick it off with a few …
Introducing the Paywall Podcast
Looking to generate more subscribers with your paywall? We discuss paywall strategies and tactics for news and magazine publishers. With over 900 publishers running our subscription platform we have learned …
Don’t design your new website… blueprint it
Grab a pencil and a couple of sheets of paper… this (true) story starts with a person I call the frenzied publisher. A big mess Some time ago I walked …
September 2020 Monthly Update: Big Changes For The Changing Season
There’s Something About MailChimp… Your email marketing isn’t just a sales funnel, it’s a sales vortex. It doesn’t just direct your readers to a paid subscription, it sucks them in. …
How we got into publishing with college magazines
This year, ZEEN101 observes its 10th Anniversary. That’s a full decade of providing publishers with the tools they need to be a true and vital presence on the web.
A visually stunning digital subscription magazine raises the bar
Catch Magazine: The Official Journal of Fly Fishing Photography & Film has a ten-year history of visually stunning digital editions. The magazine’s contributors are avid fly fishers but they are, first and foremost, gifted photographers.
Building a subscriber funnel with Leaky Paywall
How would you like to add 1000 new email addresses to your list in a week? Or 7000 new in just a few months? This is exactly what happened when …
How a local newspaper found new life with a metered paywall
The Welch News, a small paper serving McDowell County, West Virginia for almost a century, nearly buckled under the weight.
How to generate new revenues through tiered subscription levels
“We already had a digital magazine going out once a month that people were paying for,” he says. “But we also felt that the content we put out daily was of sufficient value to people that they probably wouldn’t be completely adverse to paying for that as well.”
How we redesigned a website in 60 days to boost engagement and subscriptions
An Overloaded Site Total Football Analysis provides exactly what’s in the name: in-depth analysis of the current world of soccer: its leagues, its players, its tactics and strategies. It’s an …
How to deliver custom content to your subscribers
Let your subscribers select their topics of interest with a low profile custom news feed.
Build your email list using related articles
From Casual To Committed The key to winning the subscription game is capturing the attention of your casual readers. Most of those readers will find you by searching for a …
Grow subscriptions by blocking incognito browser use
Strong Content, Strong Protection The Heisenberg Report is a digital publication of real-time political and financial news. They pride themselves on content that is current, accurate, rich with information, and …
The 10+ plugins you need to polish your subscription management
A Full Toolbox Your content is the engine that drives your publication. But your platform is the chassis that gives your content structure and stability. ZEEN101 has chosen WordPress as …
Increasing digital subscriptions with an All-Access pass
Stepping Up The Tempo Of Subscription Success Modern Drummer Magazine is at the top of their game for growing subscriptions. As a veteran print publisher who successfully made the leap …
How to effectively announce your new issues via email
If you publish regular or special issue content you are likely sending out email announcements to promote each edition. So how do you put together a compelling issue teaser?
How to double your email list by getting rid of your email popup
An Essential Process Time and experience (and even a formal study or two) have proven that growing your email list is an indispensable part of growing your subscriptions. Readers who …
How to make flipbooks part of your digital subscription strategy
A Long History True West Magazine is a veteran publication, publishing a highly visual magazine on the history of the American West since 1953. They started adding their content on …
Using free subscriptions to build paid memberships
A Different Goal For more than 30 years, Land Line has been the publication for independent truck drivers. As a veteran publisher with close ties to the industry it serves, …
What if someone tries to get around your paywall?
There’s Always Someone… The success of a leaky/metered paywall is tied to the ability to offer a few free articles per browsing session so that your content is fully indexed …
Integrating Leaky Paywall with Publisher’s Creative Systems (PCS) & Data Joe for a smooth subscription flow
Value & Simplicity Publishers focus their efforts on crafting valuable content for their target audiences. That’s their main purpose. But the revenue comes from making sure that people are seeing …
How to sell a Super-Premium subscription level
Special Handling For Special Content All of your content is valuable, but for most publishers there are some pieces that are simply more valuable than others. Take iPolitics, for example. …
What should you set your Leaky Paywall meter to? – a Profitable Publishing Webinar
New Research and New Regulations On September 12th, ZEEN101’s Pete Ericson and Jeremy Green hosted our third Profitable Publishing Webinar. This edition of the webinar kicks off with Pete’s tutorial …
How To Use Ad Techniques To Promote Your Subscriptions
Creative Use For Existing Tools The Texan is a young publication that focuses on political news from the Lone Star state. The publication prides itself on being advertisement free, as …
Do Flipbook E-Editions Really Work?
Flipbooks: Yea or Nay? Flipbooks (or e-editions) were an early development in field of digital publications. It was a logical step: they were a perfect replica of the print magazine, …
How To Protect And Profit From Your Unique Content
A Different Kind of Content All content is valuable. Fortunately, just about any kind of content can be metered. Take a look at Automobl. Automobl is a new Canadian car …
The State of Subscription Management – A Podcast Interview
Chatting With the Experts Digital subscriptions are an issue critical to the world of publishing. So it’s not surprising that it would be a popular topic for discussion. That’s why …
How To Build Your Email List and Track GA Goals – A Profitable Publishing Webinar
Strategies and Walkthroughs On May 14th, ZEEN101’s Pete Ericson and Jeremy Green hosted our second Profitable Publishing Webinar. This week’s session included the importance and ease of building your email …
Why You Should Shift Your Focus To Inbound Marketing
A New Perspective All successful publications have found ways of marketing that work for them: print mailings and cold calls, tracking subscriber (and ex-subscriber) behavior. These outbound methods are valid …
How To Make Digital Advertising Work For You
Digital Advertising That Works In Autumn 2018, at the National Newspaper Association’s annual trade show, ZEEN101’s Pete Ericson led a roundtable discussion on digital advertising. The consensus was that digital …
How To Create A Better User Account Experience
The Finishing Touch Most of our efforts are focused on convincing readers to become subscribers. It’s easy to forget that there is still one last step: actually purchasing the subscription. …
How To Integrate Your Paywall And Your Third Party Systems
Don’t Panic! The idea of transferring your entire print subscription database to a digital edition can be terrifying for an established publication. Fortunately, you don’t have to. Just ask Louisiana …
How To Create Special Issues and Track Reader Behavior – A Profitable Publishing Webinar
A New Way To Learn On May 9, ZEEN101 was pleased to host our first Profitable Publishing webinar. Our own Pete Ericson and Jeremy Green showed the audience how to …
How To Turn Your Digital Issue Into Your Sales Funnel
A New Sales Engine The transition into digital publication has been rough on newspapers. (This year’s New York Press Association Spring Conference has made that clear.) Your digital front end …
Being A Newspaper In The Digital Era: Lessons From the 2019 NYPA Conference
A Rough Season Newspapers are caught between a rock and a hard place. That’s the takeaway from this year’s New York Press Association Spring Conference. We had the honor of …
The Problem With Password-Sharing
The Black Market of Content You spend a lot of time and effort on crafting amazing content. You want your subscribers to be excited about it. You want them to …
How To Convert Subscribers With A Coupon
Everybody Loves A Bargain There’s a quick, easy way to encourage people to subscribe: add a coupon. Coupons are compelling to readers – everyone loves a good deal. They reduce …
How Generosity Can Generate Paid Subscriptions
Personal Generosity What goes around, comes around. It’s not a new philosophy and it comes in many forms and phrases, but the general idea is this: do the right thing …
How To Create A Thriving Classified Section
Theoretically Valuable Classifieds are an effective resource for a digital publication when bundled with a subscription. They are particularly salient for the readers of Small Boats Monthly – a publication …
How To Protect Your Content With Category Restrictions
Leaky Paywall Makes Your Life Just A Little Easier A metered paywall is a necessity for a digital publication. It protects your content without locking away its value from the …
How To Build A Smashing ‘About Us’ Page
From Perfunctory to Perfect Everyone has an ‘About Us’ page. Their creation is often an afterthought – a few lines about the publication, maybe a set of profile pictures of …
How Automated Email Marketing Can Triple Your Audience
A Powerful Tool Email might just be the biggest direct marketing tool in your arsenal. It can also be the easiest. Studies show that readers who join your email list …
10 Amazing Subscription Prompts To Inspire Paid Conversions
An overlooked Weapon You have subscription cards. It’s a necessary part of the process – bring them in with your awesome content and then you have a page that tells …
How to increase ad revenue with sponsored galleries
History and Progress Spotlight News has been covering local news from the Capital District of New York for more than 60 years. Those years of experience have given them a …
How to turn your Thank-You page into more subscriptions
An Unused Tool In Your Toolbox Every publisher has a secret weapon that they just don’t know about yet. It’s a tiny tool in their arsenal but it is perfectly …
How to double your email list in 6 months with a metered paywall
An Easy Win We’ve talked a lot about the importance of building your email list. It’s a gateway to paid subscriptions: readers on your email list are ten times more …
How To Use Leaky Paywall As A Hybrid
Leaks Aren’t For Everyone Your content is your currency, so it’s not surprising that an entire industry has arisen around keeping it safe. Leaky Paywall is hardly the only metered …
How Your Ad-Blocker Strategy Can Win Paid Subscribers
Everyone needs an Ad-blocker Strategy Advertising is a time-honored part of the publishing world. The digital space, however, has changed the game. ‘Banner blindness’ keeps readers from registering the content …
Make your ads more effective with sponsored content
feed the feed It’s no secret that the world of digital advertising is a bit of mess. Traditional advertising methods just don’t work the same way online. Web readers have …
How to grow your print subscriptions with digital issues
The Digital Dilemma In an increasingly digital world, it’s difficult to fathom staying afloat as a print publication. But the transition into digital hasn’t been easy either. First, there’s the …
A successful strategy for migrating print readers to a digital format
A Universal Truth Your readers are, in many ways, the most important part of your publication. They’re the source of your revenue and the driving force of your content. And …
How To Sell Ads In A Digital World
A Hard Truth The digital advertising space is a bit of a mess. Traditional print methods don’t cut it with a digital audience. Banner ads, display ads: they just don’t …
Increase Your Subscriptions By At Least 10% With An App
Apps Are Not Optional This is probably something you’ve heard before, but it bears quite a lot of repetition: You must have an app. It’s not just how ubiquitous they …
How To Build Your Audience With Email and Social Media Engagement
Foundations Are Just Beginnings You can’t attract an audience to your digital publication without first creating amazing content – and fortunately, that’s your wheelhouse. Once you’ve got the content, you …
Things You Didn’t Know About Leaky Paywall, Past and Future
Every Hero Has An Origin Story We’re always happy to talk about how Leaky Paywall works for you – how it helps you reach your readers, grow your audience, and …
How to Price Your Digital Publication to Retain and Increase Your Subscriptions
And now for something completely different… We talk a lot about how to woo your subscribers. But before you can start growing your digital subscriber base, you must answer a …
Create New Sources of Revenue from Existing Content
Untapped Goldmines We’ve talked about this before, but there is an undeniable truth that deserves some time in the spotlight: Your digital publication has a ton of content that is …
How To Make Your Email Marketing Smarter (And Easier) With Automation
A Tool That Goes The Distance It shouldn’t come as news that email can be a powerful tool for publishers. Building an email list is vital because people who join …
Why You Should Be Publishing Special Digital Issues
Everybody’s Got Issues Publishers already work incredibly hard. Your attention is on creating brilliant content: finding the right audience, the right sources, the right angle, the right words. On top …
Issue-based rockstars: 2 Folio awards for 2 IssueM publications
Take a Bow! Many congratulations to Modern Drummer and Einstein Magazine (and if you can’t wait… see the Folio winners now). Their rockstar digital publications nabbed them a place among the …
Combine Pop-Ups and Popular Pages To Earn Subscriptions
Good Tactics for a Revered Source Track & Field News is the bible of track and field. The web-based publication reports on major events and rising stars in track and …
How A Local Newspaper’s Metered Paywall Doubled Its Subscribers In 18 Months
The Challenge: Valuable News Hidden Away The Austin Monitor is an online news publisher dedicated to the local political and business happenings of Austin, Texas. Though their content was prolific …
Why the Metered Paywall is the Heart of your Marketing Strategy
Two Truths Digital paid subscriptions have been a bit of a trial-and-error gig since the invention of the internet. But two seemingly unrelated things have become indisputably clear: The reader …
20 Best Features of Leaky Paywall You Don’t Know About
Easy Doesn’t Have To Mean Basic Leaky Paywall is an easy tool to set up. It can be installed easily, you can input your baseline settings easily, and then it …
How Soccer Coach Weekly personalizes Leaky Paywall to motivate and manage subscriptions
A Powerful Tool That Molds To Your Hand All on its own, Leaky Paywall is a powerful tool for increasing paid subscriptions. Just using the standard set of options and …
What if you simply let paid subscribers post classifieds?
The Challenge: Classified Ads De-Classified Advertising is often the lifeblood of a magazine, financially speaking. Whether it’s a full-page photo ad with an attached perfume sample or a veritable catalog …
How To Boost Paid Subscriptions with a Free e-Book
The Challenge: A Reason To Subscribe For more than 10 years, Soccer Coach Weekly has been the go-to digital publication for the mentors of The Beautiful Game. Replete with drills, …
Tip: Premium Content Encourages Subscriptions
Leaky Paywalls Boost Subscriptions The biggest goal for any publication is to increase paid subscriptions. For web-based publications, a tool like Leaky Paywall is a crucial part of achieving that …
Join our webinar – Make The Most Of Your Metered Paywall
A metered paywall is a powerful tool for increasing your paid subscriptions and ZEEN101’s Leaky Paywall is as user-friendly as it gets. But even the friendliest and most powerful tool …
How To Increase Paid Subscriptions Organically With A Weekly Newsletter
The Challenge: An Easy Path To More Subscriptions Military Living is a digital and print publication that de-mystifies travel for military families. In addition to its three travel guides, the …
How To Revive Old Content to Attract New Readers
Forgotten Treasures All successful publishers eventually run into the same problem: they amass a lot of amazing content that their growing body of readers never think to read. Different types …
How Apps Helped A Publisher Gain 50% More Readers Without Increasing Workflow
Tea Journey Magazine began in 2016 with the knowledge that its readers were out there. A successful Kickstarter campaign (they raised almost $100,000) gave it everything it needed to launch its digital publication as an offering to tea connoisseurs.
How An Online News Source Did Better Than Banner Ads
The Challenge: Successful Advertising For A Difficult Medium The Genesee Sun is a news source for Livingston County, New York. Conceived and launched in 2011 as a solely online and …
Don’t Get Stuck In The Banner Ad Suck
A Tricky Battle The verdict is in: digital advertising is a bit of a disaster. Most online ads are irritating to the reader and only mildly profitable for everyone else. …
Traffic Surges and Web Growth: A Year With ZEEN101
A Year of Effort, A Year of Reward 2017 was The Year of Modern Drummer’s Digital Magazine. Originally a print magazine with a decent news blog and articles hidden in …
How To Take Your Organic Subscriptions From Zero To A Thousand In Six Months
The Challenge: Staying Afloat in the Digital Waterways Small Boats Monthly – child to the broader Wooden Boat Magazine – is an all-digital, issue-based publication of three years. It features …
Einstein Magazine and IssueM: An Award-Winning Combination
Time to Celebrate ZEEN101 would like to offer our heartfelt congratulations to Einstein Magazine for their recent recognition in the prestigious Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards. The Folio Awards are …
How to use Facebook to promote an issue-based publication
Social Media is Made for Issue Publishers Using social media for marketing is hardly a new concept at this point, but innovative businesses are always finding new ways to make …
Sell gift subscriptions for the holidays
Join the festivities The holidays are coming and with them comes a slew of decorating, wassailing, and gift-giving. For every business also comes the dilemma of how best to become …
Focus On The Users: Technology Lessons From ‘WordCamp For Publishers’
What’s Good For the Tech… WordCamp for Publishers was a treasure trove of information for the publishing space, both on the marketing and technical side. In terms of marketing, ZEEN101 …
How a legal magazine managed their paywall to explode their email list (and subscriptions)
The Project & The Challenge: Strong Content, Low Readership The Practice is an online magazine published by Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession. It’s a valuable resource for …
Subscriptions, Not Ads: Lessons Learned At ‘WordCamp for Publishers’
A Learning Experience This August, WordPress held the first ever WordCamp for Publishers in Denver, Colorado. Hosted at the Denver Post building and attended by publishers of every size and …
Read the Bibblio interview on how a veteran magazine publisher got digital publishing right
The Beat Goes On The web-based issues and subscription success of Modern Drummer magazine is getting some attention. Fully customized web issue publishing and archiving, an easy-to-manage metered paywall, and …
How a college magazine overcame the challenge of publishing effective digital issues in our mobile and sharing world
The Challenge: A Beautiful Magazine in the Digital Age Lynchburg College, a private college in Virginia, publishes a truly beautiful magazine for their alumni and community. Rich content, high-quality, high-resolution …
Hardening your metered paywall can triple paid subscriptions
The Challenge: Established Publication, New Era For 30 years, Military Living has been providing an invaluable tool to the military community: a set of guidebooks for military travel. Military personnel …
How a drumming magazine leapt into digital subscriptions with resounding success
The Project – A Proud Print History Modern Drummer is a comprehensive drumming magazine with a long history of compelling issues. Interviews with titans and rising stars, product reviews, tools …
Meet us at Denver’s WordCamp for Publishers!
Twenty years ago, I was a publishing student in Emerson College’s Writing, Literature, and Publishing program. I loved books and print, but—truth be told—I attended the program’s print publishing classes …
We help Einstein Magazine win Best Design – Folio Award
Einstein Magazine was chosen by Folio as 2016 and now 2017 Winner of it’s category for digital publications. It uses our IssueM toolkit for WordPress to manage live web issues. We …
What happens when you lock down your paywall?
Visitor traffic plummets but subscription conversions increase four fold. What should you do? Watch this video [4:06] to find what the Wall Street Journal discovered and what options you have. …
What’s the difference between a metered paywall and membership software?
There are some big differences between membership software and a metered paywall… the biggest is that the meter will let Google index and rank all your articles in search. …
How a college magazine uses web issues to win readers (hint: it’s not PDFs or flipbooks)
Publishing PDFs and flipbooks to the web blocks Google search from finding your articles and prevents them from being shared in social media. As an added insult PDFs and Flipbooks …
Leaky Paywall is featured on the wpinnovator podcast
Lee talks about [1:37 secs] our metered paywall plugin for WordPress – Leaky Paywall Find out more: Get our free guidebook: The Publishers’ Quick Start Guide to Accelerating Digital Subscriptions …
How to add a display/banner ad into your WordPress sidebar
Learn how to quickly create a linked banner ad and publish it into your sidebar. This method breaks down into a few simple steps: In your Dashboard create a draft …
How a metered paywall doubled subscriptions for a Texas news publisher
In 18 months the Austin Monitor doubled their paid subscriptions by switching to a metered paywall. Watch this video to find out how they did it. For more information about …
How a new publisher used native apps to successfully launch their digital magazine
Tea Journey magazine quickly built up over 1500 web and app subscriptions during their first few months after launch. Watch this video to find out how they did it. For more …
How an innovative publisher built digital subscriptions from their travel guidebooks
MilitaryLiving.com produces 3 printed guidebooks packed with deals for Military and ex-Military travelers. They needed a way to move all their guidebook information onto the web in order to get …
A conversation about the digital publishing mess we are in, and the solution we call Anvil
Bob Self (from Front and Finish Magazine), Jesse McDougall, and I discuss the problems with today’s digital publishing solutions and take a look at the new Anvil publishing platform that …
Add a few tweaks to your sign up page to boost subscriptions
This fantastic video from GoodUI will enlighten you as to what easy changes you can make to your subscription page to increase sales conversions. They review Harvest’s sign up page. …
How to curate outside articles fast with WordPress
Watch this video (1:19) to learn how to quickly curate and publish articles using the Press This tool in WordPress. You will be amazed how fast you can deliver additional …
Digital issues: Publish more issues with fewer articles
The Freedom Press Survey: Readers spend 10 – 30 minutes on average with a digital magazine What this tells us is that readers have about 20 minutes to spend with …
Introducing Anvil…
We’ve got exciting news. For the past few years, the ZEEN101 team has been hard at work in our super-secret underground laboratory planning, sketching, building, and refining the first all-in-one …
UK publishers are mixed on performance of Facebook Instant Articles
If you are considering trying Facebook Instant Articles to drive more traffic to your site, expect mixed results. Some publishers are reporting positive results and some are bowing out. Bottom …
Google to Penalize Pages with Intrusive Popup Ads Starting January 2017
It’s time to rethink your ad strategy if you are making readers close popup ad boxes before they can get to your article. Google announced today that it will begin …
46% of 25+ year-olds pay for digital news subscriptions
The trend is turning… the world of low value free information is so underwhelming that we would rather pay for access to great reporting on our special topic of interest. Your readers prefer …
Your paywall works better without counting down how many free articles are left
No big surprise, but metered paywalls work and have been working for a number of years now. It makes sense, give away a few free articles (that also happen to …
Leaky Paywall Version 4 is out
3 major features have been added to Leaky Paywall (along with UI improvements and bug-fixes): API integration for 3rd party payment gateways. You can now integrate with any payment system …
How the Einstein College of Medicine publishes it’s digital issues for search, social, and mobile
If you are publishing issues to the web take a look at Albert Einstein College of Medicine‘s digital magazine. They do a lot of things right. What and how they …
How did Tea Journey Magazine raise almost $100k on Kickstarter?
Tea Journey helps consumers make informed tea selections, properly prepare fine tea and better appreciate the artisans who craft it. Just days ago enough tea enthusiasts contributed to successfully fund …
The Surprising Effectiveness of Digital Issues
In an effort to grab and keep the attention of an audience, many publishers—when they “went digital”—accelerated the pace of publishing to breakneck speed. Unburdened by the physical distribution limitations of print publishing—sourcing, printing, shipping, etc.—digital publishing meant rapid-fire publishing was now possible. Blogs, vlogs, ‘grams, streams, and all the other exhausting forms of stream-of-consciousness publishing proliferated—much to the frenetic joy of the audience and the frenetic stress of the publisher. Hello!