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Publisher Mastermind webinar – How to nurture casual readers into paid subscribers
Publisher Mastermind with Q&A – Learn best practices for engaging and nurturing casual visitors on your website.
Piano.io alternative: How to migrate to Leaky Paywall
Get more control over your data, more flexibility with your subscription strategy, and better subscriber retention.
Special Episode: Pete stops by the Powered By Coffee podcast to talk paywall monetization strategy
Pete drops by the podcast Scale, from the Powered By Coffee team to chat about paywall monetization strategies with Stewart Ritchie.
How to create a paid newsletter in WordPress with Leaky Paywall, Newsletter Glue, and MailChimp
Easily create a paid newsletter in WordPress using Leaky Paywall, Newsletter Glue, and MailChimp.
3 ways AI will shake up your reader revenue
How do you target different types of readers? What registration setups work better than others? Find out…
How magazine publishers should approach reader revenue
How do you target different types of readers? What registration setups work better than others? Find out…
15 Innovative Tactics To Grow Your Subscription Revenues
It’s time to consider adding revenue streams. Check out these new tactics that are actually working for our publishers.
How to convert more readers with targeted messaging
How do you target different types of readers? What registration setups work better than others? Find out…
Motivate your readers to become paying subscribers with a drip email campaign
Have a free registration wall and want to improve paid conversions? A nurturing drip email campaign plays a key role.
Is Your Free Registration Hurting Your Paid Subscriptions?
In this videocast, Pete and Tyler discuss different types of free registration approaches and how some free registration setups work better than others.
Can a pay-per-article option actually boost subscriptions?
Pay per article allows readers to purchase single articles. Offering a pay per article option can help drive readers to subscribe if both options are shown in tandem with each other.
What percentage of your audience should be paid subscribers?
Paid digital subscriptions are becoming the largest share of revenue for publishers including the New York Times.
The 10 Best Paywall Providers For Your Content Business in 2023
Monetizing your digital publication requires a crucial decision: Should I set up a paywall?
It’s your subscriber. It’s time to control your data.
It’s important to take control of data, be able to export it, transfer it easily from one system to another, etc., so that you have full access/control over your information & subscribers at all times.
Subscriber Behavior: What insights do you need?
It’s time to identify the articles that convert your new free and paid subscribers. By digging into this single metric, you can quickly learn more about what readers actually value and will pay for.
Hype (formerly Pico) alternative: how Leaky Paywall compares
If you are looking for a native WordPress paywall platform to deliver a better subscriber experience, welcome to Leaky Paywall.
WP Publisher Sessions #1: Making Newsletters Personal
In this webinar Lesley Sim from Newsletter Glue provides newsletter tactics to help publishers that use WordPress succeed.
Improve your reader engagement on your publication’s website
Pete and Tyler from Leaky Paywall and the Paywall Project reviewed the Relevant Magazine website independently, coming up with three things that could help build paid subscriptions.
Do Flipbook E-Editions Really Work?
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, right down to the flipping pages (and sound effect).
As the digital world has advanced, flipbooks have fallen out of favor for many good reasons. But that doesn’t mean that they are completely obsolete.
What are subscription retention best practices?
We received a question from Flyer Magazine on how best to handle subscriber retention emails. After reviewing the website, the video below turned into a retention and new subscriber generation session.
How To Create A Paywall In WordPress (+7 Best Solutions in 2023)
WordPress paywalls can help generate revenue from online content, control access to premium content, and attract new free and paid subscribers.
Subscription predictions for 2023
Tyler Channel and I talk about trends that we have seen put into action as well as what publishers said they were planning on in 2023. This episode turned into a ‘recommended major themes’ discussion… actions that you should consider adopting this year.
Improve subscriptions on Andover News with a Quick Registration
Want to improve the growth of your paid subscriptions? Pete from Leaky Paywall just reviewed the local news site AndoverMAnews.com.
5 Strategies for Publishers to Boost Revenue in 2023
Publishers need to diversify revenue streams for long term success. But how?
Upgrade your free newsletter with paid subscriber benefits
As a publisher, it’s important to have a newsletter to drive your visitors back to your website.
Which articles are converting paid subscribers?
With our new Insights from Leaky Paywall, you can now easily track which articles are generating the most paying subscribers and free registrations. This powerful tool gives you visibility into reader habits, allowing you to identify which types of content are resonating with audiences and driving conversions.
Is your website annoying your readers? Here are seven ways to make your website more reader-friendly.
Paywall Podcast E30: Publishers often redesign their sites and add features without considering how these changes will affect the user experience. As a result, many websites are difficult to navigate and use, causing frustration for readers who just want a smooth content experience. Step back to take a look at what you are actually doing to the reader experience.
How to easily produce a premium newsletter for your paid subscribers
Pete and Tyler discuss how to quickly update your existing newsletter into a value-add for your paid subscribers. It’s easy and you already have everything you need to make it happen and automate the workflow.
Catch Magazine builds recurring revenues with a streamlined subscription platform
Catch Magazine has found a platform that makes it easy and streamlined. In this article, we’ll show you how Catch Magazine moved from PayPal to Stripe to create a recurring revenue stream that’s growing month after month.
How your paywall can help you build reader relationships
Join Pete and Tyler in a discussion on how your subscription system should actually be improving the relationship between you and your readers… with the end goal of building your subscription revenue.
Will your paywall kill your website traffic (and ad revenue)?
Don’t be afraid of the paywall. Pete and Tyler will tell you why the long terms gains to traffic, readership, and revenue are worth it.
How to turn your password sharing problem into a revenue opportunity
Password sharing doesn’t have to be a publisher’s worst nightmare. You have a few options to turn paywall dodging into revenue.
How to create subscription cards that convert more paying subscribers
Pete answers a publisher question on improving the performance of their sign-up page to increase paid subscription sales.
Sell more subscriptions with member benefits
Pete walks through a few actual publications, offering advice on how to find and phrase your best member benefits to sell more paid subscriptions.
How we would build a local news publication
Pete and Tyler discuss how they would build a viable local news publication in the digital age, with practical tips and tactics.
Should local news publishers ask for donations or require subscriptions?
Weigh the pros and cons of subscriptions v. donations as revenue models for local publishers in a continuing conversation with Pete and Tyler Channell.
How to succeed with digital subscriptions as a small local news publisher
Tyler Channel has a long history of helping small, local news publishers survive and thrive in the new digital world. The head of the Paywall Project and also head of Success here at Leaky Paywall, Tyler sat down with Pete to offer his wisdom on how local news publishers can succeed in the digital era, including two major success stories and a load of good tips.
Will selling an ad-free subscription boost revenue?
Selling an ad-free subscription has given Swedish publisher Samnytt a significant boost in revenue.
How many articles should you give away for free on your publication’s website?
Let’s answer the question: What should I set my paywall meter to? In other words, how many free articles should I give away before prompting a visitor to pay for a subscription? This is a question we get all the time from both news and magazine publishers.
An interview with Eric Shanfelt on subscription strategies
Eric and Pete dive deep into free registrations and paid subscription strategies. Make sure you check out Eric’s High Value Publishing podcast (where this interview is also published).
How to target (and convert) free registered users into paying subscribers
Learn two ways to target and promote paid subscriptions to your free registered users
How to attract a sponsorship for your free registration level
You’re giving away something for free. So you’re giving away your valuable content. So there’s a good match here between an advertiser to sponsor the free registration level and what you can tell anybody that’s new.
How to price your publication’s digital subscription to boost revenue
Get the rundown on boosting your revenue with the simple pricing of yours publication’s digital subscription, in this five minute video.
How to set up your email newsletter to boost paid subscriptions
Get the rundown on why an email newsletter is important to your paid subscriptions and a tour of a successful newsletter, in under 3 minutes.
Digital Subscriptions for Print Publishers: A Deep Dive
In this MACMA webinar, Pete offers a deep dive on digital subscription revenue, with a template for success based on best practices and publisher examples.
Your #1 strategy for growing paid subscriptions
Invest 6 minutes to learn the most important step in growing your paid subscriber base. We have implemented this strategy throughout our publisher base and the results are impressive.
Increase Subscription Revenue with a Family Plan
Adding a family plan increases your revenue options by offering readers a compelling alternative to password sharing.
March 2022 Monthly Update: MultiPass and the WordPress REST API
This month’s update brings you a few quick updates just to make your life (and subscriptions) easier, as well as a new product preview.
Improve your conversions with our Subscription Optimizer
Paywall Optimizer is a visual walkthrough of your subscription funnel, identifying issues and offering easy tactics for improvement.