The Business of Authority

Is Selling Subscriptions For You?

Episode Summary

Is selling subscriptions for you?

Episode Notes

Is selling subscriptions for you?

Talking Points

• How subscription services became mainstream
• Applying the subscription model to a services firm
• The Porsche passport
• Consider what the buyer is actually buying with a subscription service
• Buying an experience instead of a product
• The types of clients who would be interested in a subscription service
• The safest type of service to sell by subscription
• Selling access
• Looking at the big picture when it comes to profitability
• Thinking about which services you’d like to pay by subscription
• Getting a sense of what your clients value about your work and whether they’d be interested in a subscription version of that

Quotable Quotes

“I think it’s pretty clear that the idea of subscribing to things that we used to own has become fairly mainstream.” –JS 

“I think that our audience has an advantage because most of the people in our audience are solos. If you were trying to do this as part of a firm, it’s a lot more complex.” –RM

“The amount of money I would have paid to not have to go to the DMV was in the low four figures.” –JS

“If you created this subscription service in a certain way, you might find that it’s not your current clients that are interested in it. It’s a different kind of client.” –RM 

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