Author Archives: tcurtis@snideradvisors.com

These days, it seems that technology is revolutionising the most mundane parts of everyday life like paying bills and signing up to subscription-based services. In the past, you had to carefully select which movies to buy on DVD – now it is just a matter of paying a monthly subscription to Netflix. You also used […]

The subscription business model is a runaway train that is rapidly gaining momentum across a range of industries. We take subscription services such as Netflix and Spotify for granted. But as more and more businesses clock on to the benefits of recurring revenue, we will see completely new industries take advantage of this business model. […]

Do you have any subscriptions you don’t actually use that you just keep renewing? Have you ever asked yourself why? A TrackMySubs customer recently told me he was listening to a podcast I was featured on, and he said he had a moment of realisation. The realisation was that ‘fear of loss’ was keeping him […]

In the last few years, lifetime deals have become the gold coupon of SaaS products. In a world where everything is paid monthly or yearly, the opportunity to pay once off at a massively discounted price is almost impossible to say no to. Especially if it’s for a product that you want! Of course, Lifetime […]

Whether including video services like Netflix or HBO Go, product delivery services like Graze, audio services like Spotify, or software services like Adobe’s Creative Suite, you probably have at least a few subscriptions. It’s increasingly difficult to get by without them if you have any presence in the digital sphere. Now, the modern subscription model […]

Let’s face it. A good sales page can be amazingly good at convincing you that you must absolutely have this product/service and that your life will now be awesome. If you have a problem that the offered solution fixes, it can be very enticing to jab the keyboard and sign up. Alternatively, you may look […]

We’re used to subscriptions now. We get it. It’s tough to pay in full for a year’s worth of anything. Home insurance? Netflix? Forget it. I’m never going to have that sort of cash on me. But split it into 12, 24, or 52 smaller payments, and suddenly I can afford a lot more stuff […]

Subscriptions are here to stay. And although they give us the amazing ability to turn services on and off with ease, there are also some inherent things that are just downright annoying to most people. 1. Forgetting to cancel them! We come from an economy where we are used to buying things. We pay for […]

The world is charging full throttle to a pay as you go, on demand, buy a subscription to everything model. We all know the traditional things we can subscribe to – magazines, pay TV, gym memberships… And then of course there’s all the online products and services like software, apps (for anything and everything), subscription […]