How a Great Dane Gets Credit for the Creation of a $100 Million Subscription Box Business

BarkBox is an early success story in the tumultuous, competitive, and ever-changing realm of subscription boxes. Now a company with $100 million in annual revenue, the story of their founding...

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Reducing Friction Supports Customer and Revenue Growth

Isaac Newton’s first law of motion famously states that an object in motion will stay in motion. Similarly, you can think of the subscription model like a force that is...

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Super-Serving Customer Needs

Millennials are a unique demographic. Generally defined as being born between the early 1980’s and the late 1990’s, there's no lack of commentary around this generation, which is the largest...

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Recurly + Xero Integration for Improved Accuracy and Compliance

Any business that seeks to grow rapidly needs to have the right tools in place to support that growth. Subscription businesses in particular need an accounting solution that can handle...

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How to Leverage Your Existing Subscribers to Acquire More

In our previous post in this series, we talked about using data to identify your most profitable subscribers and the metrics to measure campaign and channel profitability. In this post, we’ll...

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Recurly’s Account Updater Service Increases Revenue, Reduces Churn

What do you think caused 5.5 million people in Britain to cancel their credit cards last year? If you guessed fraud, you’d be right. Those 5.5 million people comprise a full...

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New and Improved Emails for Your Customers!

A crucial aspect of successful subscription billing involves being able to communicate with customers. Recurly sends several million emails every month on behalf of the many subscription businesses that depend...

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Subscriptions Power the New ‘Mobility Market’

Subscription commerce continues to evolve. Long ago, subscriptions centered on newspapers, magazines, and for teenagers, the Columbia Record Club. With the dawning of the internet age, subscriptions took over new...

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You CAN Take it With You: New Rules for Cross-Border Streaming in the EU

The modern world is increasingly connected and mobile. Our devices are ‘always on’ and give us 24/7 access to all things digital for work and play. Whether you want to...

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Why Sittercity Relies on Recurly: A New Case Study

In many communities, finding a babysitter or nanny is hard. Sittercity realized the challenges parents and others faced and launched a website to solve the problem, providing parents with a...

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