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I will say that based on playing around with lots of configurations, improving your retention rate appears to be much more important to long term income than sign-up rate. Relatively small changes there can have huge cumulative impacts.
For example, if you had 100 daily subscriptions and 90% retention, your equilibrium point would be around 30k subscribers. Increasing it to 95% retention would jump you to 59k subscribers. You’d need roughly double the daily sign-ups (200) to reach the same level.
The Tyranny of the Churn Equation
David Smith
For example, to transfer money from one account to another; should that function be in the sending account or the receiving account? It feels just as misplaced in either.
When such a behavior is recognized in the domain, the best practice is to declare it as a Service.
DDD Quickly
UnknownAuthor
Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
Six Tips on Writing From John Steinbeck
Maria Popova
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