Is There a Highway to Early Subscriptions?

Olivia: By putting a very high price for the early subscription, you just show that this service provides a certain value. Nicholas: Some people will buy the lifetime subscription. Olivia: We do see it. It's not a zero number of people. And if they want to spend 300, 400 euros on a subscription, then, you know, you should let them.

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As a long-time fan and a collaborator of the consultancy, we invited Andy to Subscription League Podcast for the second time to draw tips for optimizing mobile app subscriptions.

Andy is a Partner and Co-founder at Phiture, a multi-award-winning mobile growth agency and one of the top 100 fastest-growing agencies worldwide. If you are occasionally seeking advice on topics around subscription optimization and growth, you might already be familiar with Andy's expertise, often referred to by the In-App Subscription community.

In the first episode of the podcast series, All about Retention, Andy shares some valuable insights on how to boost retention. This time, he focuses on paywall practice recommendations for the entire subscription journey and four escalating levels of subscriber intent.

For noteworthy quotes and key takeaways from the episode, read the article - How to optimize mobile app subscription with Andy Carvell (Phiture)

Episode Topics at a Glance

Subscription economy reality check
An average number of subscriptions per person
The escalating sequence of intent
Is it a good idea to offer promo codes?
Growth tactics: paywall
Onboarding tactics of Fastic app
Setting the price for the lifetime subscription
Phiture & Purchasely event details (Berlin, October 5th

More about Andy Carvell

Andy has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. His company Phiture, is a Berlin-based mobile growth consultancy and agency co-founded in 2016 with Moritz Daan with over 110 employees. Phiture consults clients around the globe on mobile growth topics, helping them develop and implement holistic mobile growth strategies.

Prior to Phiture, Andy led the user retention team at SoundCloud in Berlin. Andy published the Mobile Growth Stack in 2015, widely adopted as an essential framework for mobile marketers, which he continues to develop.

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