Product & Innovation
How did Synapse grow magazine subscription retention?
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01Moving subscription billing to a credit card with a negative option renewal shifted inertia from working against retention to working for it, and grew Synapse's time on file roughly 2.5x. source →
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As you can imagine, when you renew people, when you take a inertia and remove it from one shoulder, which is the inertia as your enemy, and put it on the other shoulder, which is inertia as your friend, you find a dramatic difference in the retention dynamics of a subscription. And in fact, time on file grew by about two and a half X. That was the big insight on synapse.
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