Lessons Learned from the Quartz Email Team
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The most important metric? “Total number of active subscribers we have per newsletter.”
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Paths To Subscription: Why Recent Subscribers Chose To Pay For News
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After Years Of Testing, The Wall Street Journal Has Built A Paywall That Bends To The Individual Reader
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Each site visitor is scored, “based on dozens of signals,” on their propensity to subscribe.
A Guide To Page Value – The Undervalued Metric
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How to track which pages, or groups of pages, users see before a transaction.
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Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift. In addition to his work with MediaShift, he works as a consultant with non-profits and newsrooms.
