| |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
LWN status updateLWN status updatePosted Jul 31, 2002 1:53 UTC (Wed) by stonedown (guest, #2987)Parent article: LWN status update I donated $50 and would be willing to subscribe for up to $40 per year. My several cents worth: I think you should allow free access to the weekly edition, headlines, the calendar, the Penguin Gallery, and security stuff. You might consider doing something to make viewing the daily updates just a little annoying for non-subscribers, such as a 5-10 second delay, before allowing them to view the updates page. During those 5-10 seconds, you can make a gentle pitch for subscriptions. Alternatively, you can delay non-subscriber access to the daily updates by some amount, perhaps posting them the next day. Access to the Archives should be limited to subscribers. If a non-subscriber follows a link to an archived article, they should see something like this: "You have attempted to access an LWN.net archived article. Although LWN.net offers many free services, archived articles are available for subscribers only. Please subscribe to LWN.net for only $X/year and support high quality news on Linux and open source software. We need your support!" I think the subscription rate should be about $20-$40/year, in order to make it easy for people to afford. You can add a premium subscription level of somewhere in the range of $50-$80, for "Friends of LWN.net" or something like that. But, I'm not sure what special benefits they might receive. When a person subscribes, they should be encouraged to add a donation to their subscription. The Linux Stocks page could be available to subscribers only. In the future, you might consider adding monthly interviews or some other special feature, which is only available to subscribers. Good luck! I hope you are able to come up with a strategy which works well for you. You might want to take a look at MandrakeClub, in case nobody mentioned that yet. Whatever you do, you need to be more upfront about asking for donations/subscriptions. You have to market yourself better. That's why I bring up MandrakeClub, because those guys seem to understand very well what is required. Signed,
(Log in to post comments)
|
|||||||||||