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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …