How to drive value for members by embracing ‘big data’
Big data may be one of this year’s buzz phrases, but behind the trendy terminology lies a very real issue: few associations are managing their data as effectively as they could, and as a result they’re not getting value from it. Most associations have built up a mass of data on members and their activities, [...]
Short circuit: Are associations failing members by failing to embrace the internet?
Every association knows that having a digital presence is essential, but many are not fully exploiting their website’s potential for helping them provide the services members want and improve efficiency. A website is more than an advert for the association, a cost centre, or a way of creating revenue; it should build long-term relationships. Linked to a back-end [...]
Avoid the transparency trap: the 5 rules of trustworthy member transactions
Your content and services may be highly relevant, valuable and stimulating, but without one priceless commodity – trust – the loyalty of your members will be impossible to sustain. The biggest threat to member confidence currently lies in conducting online transactions – and it’s becoming increasingly challenging for organisations to be transparent and accurate, and [...]
Finding the perfect CMS
SubHub CEO Evan Rudowski reveals why they abandoned the Drupal platform and looked elsewhere for a solution BIO: The CEO of SubHub, a leading provider of digital membership solutions, Evan Rudowski has over 25 years’ digital media experience. He held roles at News Corp and Excite.com in the US, before leading Excite UK and Europe. In [...]
Is Newsweek dead in the water with its digital-only title?
Magazine publishing may be worth $40 billion in the US, according to First Research – but the industry’s existing business model and changes in media consumption habits over the last few years present an immense challenge that threatens the sector’s very existence. Newsweek became the latest publisher to close the doors on its print edition [...]
I Sent My First Tweet in 1986
In the 1980s, Evan Rudowski ran the news ticker at One Times Square. Today, he is the CEO ofSubHub, a leading provider of digital membership solutions for associations and publications. A native New Yorker, Rudowski now lives in Bath, England, with his wife and two children. He blogs at evanrud.com. You could say I first tweeted [...]
Association of Online Publishers Appoints SubHub To Implement Cloud-Based Solution For Relationship Management
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP), the voice of the UK’s premium digital publishers, has appointed Cardiff-based SubHub to build a state-of-the-art digital association management solution to enhance AOP’s ability to serve its members. As with many large membership organisations, as the range of AOP services has grown, the tracking and management of actual member [...]
Why have digital magazines failed when ebooks, music and films are thriving?
Miles Galliford, co-founder of SubHub – the membership website company – on what magazine publishers need to consider to thrive online. Circulation of digital magazines in the US doubled in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, according to ABC figures. Forgive me if I’m not jumping for joy or [...]
Think BR: Why digital magazines never turned the page
Publishers need to appreciate that they are in the audience building business, writes Miles Galliford, co-founder, SubHub. One by one, content industries have been dragged, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the digital age. It started with the music industry a decade ago when people started copying and sharing music online. The record labels immediately recognised [...]
SubHub Revamps Website For Worldwide Magazine Media Association
SubHub, the leading builder of membership websites for publishers, associations and organisations, has rebuilt the website for FIPP, the worldwide magazine media association. FIPP.com is the online hub for more than 700 FIPP member companies, including more than 6,000 member magazine titles. The new website, which includes a sophisticated member contact management database, provides FIPP [...]