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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …