Matthew Holman

Subscription Prescription

It's no surprise when subscription growth stalls.

Most ecommerce businesses look at subscriptions as a secondary action to one-time acquisition. Subscriptions are a retention strategy meant to keep people on for as long as possible. Discounts and gifts are the tools most brands employ. But still, growth struggles.

How do you unlock subscription growth?

We start by understanding the entire customer experience. What and how they buy. What they're looking for. How your product, and the subscription, answers that. We build programs that scale, because we find better insights from your data.

Subscription Prescription exists to empower ecommerce brands to new heights of subscription growth. Through content, community, and our unique consulting approach, you'll find the right prescription for your subscription program.

Founder

Commerce Catalyst

Commerce Catalyst was born out of my love for community that both educates and empowers.

After two stints building communities with Marketers Unite and Sharehouse, I founded Commerce Catalyst to fully focus on empowering the ecommerce community.

Starting in Utah, which has an amazing group of startups, founders, and operators in the ecom space, Commerce Catalyst seeks to bring together the knowledge and support of this community for the benefit of all.

Come join our Slack with 600 members or learn about an upcoming event here: https://ccatalyst.co

Creator

QPilot.cloud

Leaning into my superpower around relationships and connectivity, I help build out partnership for QPilot including agency, technical and community partners.

Head of Partnerships / Cofounder

Building subscription revenue is a goal for many ecommerce companies, but...

Making that happen is harder thank it looks. Customers churn, software is cumbersome, and most marketers don't have a ton of experience in subscriptions.

That's where QPilot comes in: subscription software + team of experts.

If you need a flexible subscription experience for your customers, with control for them and automations on the backend to make operations easy on you, then QPilot is worth taking a look.

Plus, we have an amazing content arm to help educate and provide guidance on how to grow.

Come see more at https://qpilot.com.

Head of Growth / Cofounder

Silicon Slopes Marketing Chapter

Help setup and run events, spread awareness for the group, and generally build up the Silicon Slopes Marketing Community.

Vice Chair

RiseKit

RiseKit is a technology platform that helps underprivileged people get training and find jobs that are meaningful and pay well.

I work directly with their CEO on marketing strategy and tactics. Specifically, lead acquisition and scale.

Community Advisory Board Member

SUBTA (Subscription Trade Association)

As part of the leadership committee for SUBTA, I am involved in:
- Creating relevant content for the community
- Driving growth through events, activities, and brand awareness
- Quarterly meetings

SUBTA Committee - Operations CoChair

ShareHouse 

Joined Madelyne van Hoff and Wade Sleater building Sharehouse.

Early focus on building community, events, and carving out a space just for ecommerce.

Ultimately left to continue this focus through Commerce Catalyst.

Founder, Head of Growth + Outreach

Essential Hub

Create, implement, and manage marketing vision.
Step 1: Redo the website with effective messaging, testimonials, and content.
Step 2: Create additional collateral for digital marketing, referral, and outside sales channels.
Step 3: Implement new technology stack to manage contacts and create some automation for lead nurturing.
Step 4: Build out website pillar content on key topics that are valuable to our base.
Step 5: Execute a paid digital marketing strategy to generate new leads.
Step 6: Optimize.

Marketing Director

Aspen Chutes

Manage an ecommerce investment and consulting company. Create and implement digital marketing strategies for clients, including SEO, blog, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Display, Affiliate, and Email. Implementing best practices for conversion optimization of product landing pages and consulting on how to capture the lowest-hanging fruit.

Responsible for lead generation and initial screening on investment opportunities for portfolio.

E-Commerce Manager

Power Graphics Digital Imaging

Graphic designer and prepress operator. Customer service, some printing and production.

Graphic Designer / Prepress

Subscriptions Leader: Consultant, Newsletter, Podcast | Events | Communities | Commerce Catalyst | Partnerships @QPilot | Formerly Incarcerated

Most people don't see subscriptions the way I do.

For many of the brands I come into contact with, subscriptions are about retention. Figuring out how to keep people longer to drive up lifetime value (LTV).

But subscriptions are much more than LTV and recurring revenue. They are a way to engage with your best customers, provide more value, and capture more value in return. When looked at through an acquisition lens, subscriptions become less about retention and more about customer experience.

That's what we do at Subscription Prescription - craft acquisition and retention experiences to unlock greater profitability and sustainability for your business.

Message me to learn more about how we can improve acquisition of subscribers, retention of subscriber, and the profitability of subscribers with our approach. Unlock new growth for your business with the right prescription for your subscriptions.

Partner, Cofounder

Patterns in the Cloud builds fun software for commerce

I like interviewing people that just get it. Makes me smarter.

Helps our audience too, and this one is important:

Eric Rausch breaks down the emails that matter. What incrementality really means. True A/B tests. Better offers that strengthen retention.

This is a must-listen and read for anyone in subscriptions.

Let's dive in!

My life in marketing began when a friend needed help with graphics and prepress at his sign shop. I loved discovering how different technologies combined to create beautiful and informative graphics, and I applied myself to learning the art and science of design.

Being a graphic designer taught me the importance of message and audience - knowing who you are trying to reach informs how you should speak to them, as well as researching what they are actually getting from the message. This lesson is important in web design and digital marketing, two other skills I've worked hard on developing.

Transitioning into marketing and ecommerce in 2019 proved an interesting, but necessary challenge. I'm constantly seeking to grow and apply myself to new challenges, and if you know anything about ecommerce, you'll appreciate how challenging it can be.

My perspective reaches across the spectrum from marketing to operations to shipping. I understand the balance that must be struck when developing a successful business and making choices about how resources should be allocated. My special skill is looking at the big picture and distilling down the steps that should be taken for success. At my core I am a problem solver.

I prize learning, innovation, and the application of reliable techniques (like retargeting and email) in establishing success online. I regularly ask for help, advice, and work hard to find a solution that fits the needs and unique position of everyone I work with.

I am currently working on two main projects: Essential Hub and QPilot. Essential Hub is a shipping technology platform that grew out of an effective sales program, but lacks a digital presence. I've worked to develop branding, web assets, implement a CRM and CMS (Hubspot) with all the requisite automation, launch ads on FB, Google, and LI, and much, much more... but throughout my work is the mission to understand what small and large shippers truly need.

QPilot is the most incredible software that you've never heard of - yet! It offers merchants a truly dynamic and incredible software to manage their repeat and scheduled orders. If you struggle to manage 'subscriptions' for your best customers, you should know that there is a solution that can automate everything you need to deliver products to your best customers.

Ultimately, my life centers around working hard, seeing and treating others the way they want, and loving the opportunity that life gives me every single day.

D2C Subscription Agency | Weekly Subscription Tips --> Newsletter + Podcast | Commerce Catalyst Community | Partnerships @QPilot

Who's doing big things with AI in ecom? Not the brands, but SaaS.

This is what I'm seeing, but want to see more:

Raleon innovating content + email (acquired by Intuit)
EKOM AI with product catalogs being searchable by AI
Proxima with ad audiences and enrichment
Siena AI, Gladly and others with AI + CX

What other tools are you seeing? Tag someone building something cool!

Episode title: Subscription Armageddon

We tear it all down! Coming out soon. :)

Subscribe to get notified: https://lnkd.in/emzw4UUv

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Do you know Akwasi Frimpong? Winter Olympian, Entrepreneur, Father and Husband, and the Hope of a Billion:

As a young man growing up in Ghana, he learned from his grandmother that he already had all the pieces for success inside of him. But he must learn to work and never give up.

As a young man in the Netherlands, he developed his athleticism and understanding of what it takes to stand out.

As an athlete at UVU, he started making waves. But his dream was to be an Olympian.

He's been hurt, not made it, but also competed and been incredibly successful on the world stage. But more than that, he's built something special:

https://hopeofabillion.org 

He's impacting thousands and thousands of children, teaching them to believe, to work, to step outside of their comfort zone.

He's an incredible person and someone I'm honored to have as a friend! He'll be speaking at a Commerce Catalyst event soon, I can guarantee you. :)

Just had a couple of Christmas songs come on and I didn't die, so apparently I'm ready for the holiday season.

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