As a business owner, you often talk about your revenue coming from your customers –– the people who purchase your product. In a traditional sense of the word, “customer” doesn’t imply much more than that: a person who purchases your goods or services with money or some other form of compensation. Depending on the nature of
Join us! Connect with over 10,000 subscription box entrepreneurs like you in Cratejoy’s private Facebook group for Subscription School After you start operating your business, you’ll need to decide on how you’re going to account for your business activity. And by “activity,” we mean revenue. There are two primary methods of accounting: on a cash
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As you know, the merits of subscription commerce are at the heart of this blog. It’s our goal here to explore strategies, case studies, and other realities that surround the e-commerce industry, specifically with a focus on recurring monthly product offerings (i.e., subscription boxes). But while there are many perks of this model, we also need to examine
Join us! Connect with over 10,000 subscription box entrepreneurs like you in Cratejoy’s private Facebook group for Subscription School Is your subscription business hovering around a few hundred customers? Can’t quite seem to crack the code on customer acquisition? There may be a few simple, cost-effective strategies you’re overlooking. “Customer acquisition” relates your strategy of finding
Join us! Connect with over 10,000 subscription box entrepreneurs like you in Cratejoy’s private Facebook group for Subscription School No, not that type of shipping! We’re talking about how you get your product to your customer. Shipping is a huge expense for every subscription box company. In fact, it consistently represents one of the highest expenses in subscription
“Customer acquisition” may sound intimidating, but in short, it deals with the art of growing your business. As you “onboard” (bring in) more subscribers, you increase your Monthly Recurring Revenue and generate more data regarding your average Customer Lifetime Value. Moreover, purchasing becomes much easier! Customer acquisition is centered around 6 main methods: free (also known as “organic”) social
Join us! Connect with nearly 10,000 entrepreneurs like you in Cratejoy’s private Facebook group for Subscription School Choosing products for your box, often called procurement, is one of the most exciting and important parts of your business. Depending on your performance, customers will choose to continue or cancel their subscription. Before you embark on the
Shipping is one of the core operations of your subscription business. Partly because it’s built directly into COGS (cost of goods sold), a good or bad shipping experience can come to define a customer’s experience with your subscription box. You may wonder, then, which carrier is best for subscription box shipping. Generally, your options come down to four