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Growing Sunday Print
Circulation in 2015
Dick Fuller, Director of Circulation
Tom Zeller, Audience & Revenue Development Manager
Katelin Reinhart, Circulation Sales & Retention Manager
• As we were eliminating print, and building digital,
we conducted focus groups.
• We learned a lot about print, and it’s relevance
to both our subs and nonsubs alike.
• Question: Were we “contributing to our own
demise?”
• Staff
• Acquisition Strategy
• Retention Strategy
• Audience Engagement Strategy
• AAM Qualified Strategy
• Marketing Strategy
Staff
Staff Redeployment
• Goal: to redeploy staff to
give the department more
firepower on the sales side.
• An operations management
retirement was repurposed
and filled on the sales side.
• Phase II: supervisors who
had a lot of work move with
our outsourcing of
production will begin getting
more involved in SC sales
efforts
Acquisition Strategy
• Email Marketing
• Targeted Queries
• Buttons
• Prepopulated Forms
• Increase Conversion Rates
• Responsive Design
Email Marketing
• Outsourced Manual dialing to cell phones
in our market
• Over 1,400 Paid In Advanced orders
• All orders in our top 22 pre-print buy zips
• YTD Margin: 28.8%
• Average 100+ PIA orders a week
• Kiosk Thursday-Sunday
• Leverage the camper at special
events
• New retail outlets such as Menards
and Dollar Tree
• Start/Restart Verification
• CC expiration calls
• Reminder calls at 6 points from -42 days
to +60 days from expiration
• Final “tomorrow is your last day” call
• Start/Restart Verification
• “Renew at a still discounted rate”
• Upgrades*
• EZPay*
Audience Engagement
All Access
• Print gives you all access digitally, plus access to
reader only events and giveaways
• Plus access to the Washington Post Digital
Subscription
Blade Rewards
• Weekly Contests and ticket giveaways
• Summer Campaign: Win a Camper
Audience Engagement
• Convert Print Subs to Digital
AAM Qualified Strategy
• 70/30 Rule
• Samples
• Retail/Business
• NIE*
• What is the Goal?
• Billboards
• Social Media
• TMC
Marketing Strategy
Billboards
Marketing Strategy
Social Media
Marketing Strategy
TMC
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