Category: ZEEN101 News

Tips on subscriber behavior, fine-tuning your site, and integrations for partners you trust: get squared away before the holidays!

Better tools help you gain more subscriptions. This month’s update is all about improving and enhancing existing tools for your benefit.

This month we’ve got new tips, partners, integrations, and inspiration for your journey to subscription success.

This month, get tools and techniques for understanding subscriber behavior and pulling them into your subscriber funnel.

This month, learn how to generate revenue from tools you already have. Make the most of renewals and donations, build new products.

The May update shares ways to increase subscriptions with new uses for existing tools: your paywall, your touchpoints, even your renewals.

The April update shows off increased functionality in WooCommerce, corporate and group accounts, custom fields, VAT tax rates, and more.

The March update includes tips and tools to reduce friction, streamline your workflow, and master the mystery of social media marketing.

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 technology, and so on. But often, we build new tools because a publisher had a wild idea and wanted to see if it was possible. […]

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 result is a host of new ideas for using tools you already have in new and exciting ways. Now you can do AB testing on […]

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. Now you can easily create a paid newsletter or charge individually for premium content. You can track your revenue on the dashboard and find new […]

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 the privilege? The richness of your content is what draws and retains your readers. Valuable content that caters to the needs and interests of your […]

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 tools. Add a flipbook, run some promotions, reduce your stress with simplified processes or new information, find some inspiration in the journeys other publications have taken: […]

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 handful of updates, small and large, new integrations, and a whole bunch of tips on optimizing what you already have, it’s time to take your publication to the […]

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. A reader on your email list is 10x more likely to purchase a subscription. Which is why, this month, we’re all about MailChimp and its […]

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 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. Fortunately, ZEEN101’s LiveMarket presents an alternative – a digital advertising option that is a win-win-win situation for advertisers, publishers, and readers alike. Let’s Talk About […]

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 part of that gift-giving. Fortunately, for web-based publications, there’s an easy solution. Gift Subscriptions to the rescue! We recently discussed the importance of building your […]

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 learned a lot about the value of subscriptions over ads as a revenue source. The technical lessons were, well, technical but they had some broader […]