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Streamline Subscription Billing with SAP BRIM

Discover how Acuiti Labs' SAP BRIM solution empowers businesses to digitalize billing and invoicing. From usage-based pricing to automated invoice correction, SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management ensures operational efficiency, reduced costs, and faster time-to-market.

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Das Partnerprogramm von KlickTipp. Das Beste oder nichts.

Das Partnerprogramm von KlickTipp: A Lucrative Affiliate Opportunity for German Marketers

I recently signed up for Das Partnerprogramm von KlickTipp, an affiliate program for promoting KlickTipp's email marketing software. After using it for a while, I'm impressed by the platform's features and the earning potential it offers. Here's my detailed review:

Generous Commission Structure and Recurring Revenue

One of the most appealing aspects of Das Partnerprogramm is its generous commission structure. You earn a 25% lifetime commission on every sale you generate, meaning you'll continue to earn as long as your referred customer remains a KlickTipp user. This translates to a steady stream of passive income, which is a significant advantage over one-time commission programs.

User-Friendly Platform and Marketing Tools

KlickTipp provides a user-friendly platform for managing your affiliate activities. You can easily access a variety of marketing materials, such as banners, landing pages, and email templates, which are already pre-populated with your affiliate link. This makes promoting KlickTipp effortless and saves you time on creating your own marketing assets.

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Navigating Subscription Business Models

In the digital age, subscription-based business models have become the cornerstone of many successful ventures. From streaming services to software solutions and beyond, subscriptions offer businesses a recurring revenue stream while providing customers with convenient access to products and services. However, navigating the complexities of subscription models requires finesse and strategic planning. In this blog, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for mastering the art of subscription-based businesses.

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Subscription business models operate by selling a product or service to customers, who then pay a recurring subscription fee either monthly or yearly. Essentially, the goal is to generate revenue by having a single customer make multiple payments over time for continued access to a product or service, as opposed to paying a large one-time fee upfront. In recent years, subscription-based business…

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How to Generate Passive Income with Recurring Revenue Models

Introduction Passive income is a great way to generate additional income without having to work for it. It can be a great way to supplement your regular income or even replace it entirely. Passive income can come from a variety of sources, such as investments, rental properties, and even online businesses. One of the most popular ways to generate passive income is through recurring revenue…

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a lot of people are saying that watcher's move to create their own subscription service and streaming platform is a business-based move, but as someone has done a lot of research into streaming services and subscription based-models, i don't even know if this is a smart business move

while they are going to get recurring revenue from subscriptions, which will def be more than the ad revenue they're getting now, they're going to lose sponsorships, and money from merch likely will also decrease because people would be less likely to pay for merch if they're already paying for a subscription. also, they're reducing their customer base because a lot of people who are outside the u.s. are already concerned that they can't access the content.

their reach will also drastically shrink because on youtube, they're getting viewers who might not regular viewers since their videos are getting recommended across all different user pages, but by converting to a completely different platform, they're losing those new viewers, which means they're going to have to pour more money into advertising and promoting their content outside of the platform when that promotion happens across youtube organically already

also a lot of big streaming services are turning towards ad-integrated models because non-ad streaming services are unsustainable so if the big players cant even survive without ads, watcher has less of a chance.

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Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

It’s no secret that the second Trump administration is full of grifters who are thrilled to spend your tax dollars to enrich themselves. But you don’t need to be a member of Trump’s cabinet or even his inner circle to benefit from this brave new world. Trump is comprehensively dismantling financial oversight, pardoning crypto scammers, and making sure cronies get sweet no-bid government contracts. At the same time all of this largesse to white collar criminals is going on, the administration is weaponizing the government against everyone else. Just look at Trump’s early pardons and commutations. They send a message that financial crime is just fine. You can also think of them as a sort of wish fulfillment. Trump pardons people who were convicted for doing the same things he does routinely. He had to pay $25 million to settle with people who paid for his scammy “Trump University.” He exploited his own campaign donors by signing them up for recurring donations unless they located a tiny box to opt out. He falsified his financial records, inflating his net worth to obtain loans, for which he was fined $364 million. Trevor Milton, convicted of defrauding people who invested in his electric and hydrogen vehicle company, is probably the best example of how easy it is to buy a pardon from Trump. Milton is the owner of Nikola, an overhyped vehicle company that leverages the name of a famous inventor and promised the moon, but was faking its technology to defraud investors. Hmmm. Sound familiar? Milton was convicted of securities fraud in 2022 and sentenced to four years in prison in December 2023. But since he remained free on bail pending his appeal, he was able to donate $920,000 to Trump’s PAC in October 2024. That netted him a pardon, which doesn’t just mean he won’t serve prison time. It also means he won’t have to pay the nearly $700 million he was ordered to pony up in restitution to investors. That’s quite a bargain: under $1 million in donations to Trump bought a pardon that saves Milton hundreds of millions of dollars. Trump also commuted the 10-year sentence of Carlos Watson just days before he was set to report to prison. Watson was the co-founder of once-buzzy startup Ozy Media, which imploded when it became clear that he was inflating viewership numbers, lying about revenue, and engaging in shady practices like pretending to be a YouTube executive when talking to potential investors. To be fair, it isn’t just that Trump is pardoning rich people. Fervent support of Trump and the lie that the 2020 election was stolen was enough for former Tennessee GOP state Sen. Brian Kelsey to catch Trump’s eye. After the standard Republican whining about how he was the victim of a Biden-led witch hunt, Kelsey pleaded guilty to campaign fraud for trying to shift campaign funds raised for his state legislative seat to his 2016 congressional race. In thanking Trump for the pardon, Kelsey made sure to tie their fates together, twin victims: “May God bless America, despite the prosecutorial sins it committed against me, President Trump, and others the past four years.” Trump also isn’t limiting his pardons to just people. He broke new ground in excusing lawlessness by pardoning a corporation: BitMEX, a cryptocurrency exchange. BitMEX had pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by operating without required anti-money laundering provisions. For good measure, he also pardoned BitMEX’s co-founders. Indeed, crypto scammers might be the biggest beneficiaries of Trump’s commitment to corruption. Crypto probably already had a native appeal to Trump, given that it is largely unregulated and is often used for scams. He and his large adult sons already run a crypto company, World Liberty Financial, which is tailor-made for corruption.

The 47 and Bondi Regime believe that laws apply to their opponents, but not for them or for their supporters.

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Discover how small merchants can harness the power of data without getting overwhelmed, and learn about Buyist Pro's innovative AI-powered platform that can analyze complex eCommerce data in seconds. Greg shares real-world examples of how AI can identify issues affecting conversion rates and explains why recurring revenue models are becoming crucial for eCommerce success in today's competitive landscape. Whether you're a small business owner or eCommerce entrepreneur, this episode provides valuable insights into the future of AI-driven eCommerce solutions.

Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:45 Using Data in eCommerce 1:30 Buyist Pro AI Data Tools 5:03 AI in eCommerce 6:50 eCommerce Trends in 2025

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in a similar vein to the stuff I was talking about recently with google (unknowingly?) selling invalid ad placements, here's an interesting post I saw on linkedin the other day about advertisers who think they're buying ad space on one domain but are really buying ad space on another:

so, for context: the woman behind this post was one of the creators of the sleeping giants campaign, which was a (pretty successful!) attempt to choke out right-wing "news" websites and other peddlers of misinformation by drying up their advertising revenue. she went on to found the check my ads institute, which does a lot of the same stuff and more; one of the recurring themes of check my ads' messaging is that advertisers often aren't aware that they're running ads on unsavory websites (and are therefore inadvertently funding those websites via their ad budgets, even though they genuinely want to avoid doing so)... in part because advertisers frequently aren't aware of where their ads are running, period.

in this post specifically, she's not talking about individual advertisers but about one of the companies that exists to connect advertisers (brands who want to buy ad space) and publishers (websites who sell ad space)—in this case, an ad platform called unruly, although they recently got absorbed into a bigger company called nexxen.

nexxen is an all-in-one ad platform that's both a DSP (demand-side platform, which helps advertisers buy ad placements) and an SSP (supply-side platform, which helps websites sell ad placements). they make money by taking a cut of each transaction.

what's happening here is that unruly/nexxen worked with a publisher called yorogon.com who was selling inventory (i.e., ad space) through nexxen's platform. so if you're an advertiser who wants to run ads somewhere, you can go to nexxen and buy inventory from their available sellers; in other words, ad space offered by yorogon.com is one of the "products" for sale on nexxen's markplace. (most of these transactions happen in split-second auctions, though... it's not like shopping on ebay.)

the problem is that this seller who nexxen authorized as "yorogon" wasn't actually running ads on yogoron.com or any of yorogon's nonexistent clients' websites... they were running those ads on fucking breitbart lol. basically the equivalent of a supermarket agreeing to sell some new cereal on behalf of the manufacturer, but the boxes are actually full of thumbtacks.

we can pretty safely assume that breitbart did this on purpose because they know that a lot of the big advertisers with fat wallets shy away from publishers like them—for a number of reasons—which means that they have to sell their inventory to smaller, shittier advertisers with less money to spend. otoh there's no reason to believe that nexxen was deliberately taking part in the charade; for one, the information that led to this discovery is public, so anyone who gave half a shit could've figured it out (including nexxen or any of their advertisers lol). not exactly some vast conspiracy when your extremely public records give away the mismatch. and for two, the whole "promising to run an ad in a certain location but actually running it in a different location" is a massive fucking no-no even if the "different location" isn't andew breitbart's personal wank cave. from that last link I just shared, scroll down a bit and you can find this:

note that the warning code isn't "you're buying ads on a shitty website that sucks," the warning is "you're buying ads on a website that isn't what it says it is." but there is a dedicated warning code! because back to the cereal metaphor from earlier, this is like—okay, even if the cereal box is full of actual cereal instead of thumbtacks, it's still a problem if you thought you were getting honey nut cheerios and then opened the box and it was full of apple jacks instead. (and god knows I would never willingly buy apple jacks.)

whatever you're selling, it has to be accurate: if you offer ad space on golflovers.com but you actually run the ad on golfenthusiasts.com, that's still a major issue and the advertisers you work with will rightfully jump on your ass about it... assuming they ever find out, lol.

what's really interesting to me, though, isn't so much that an ad platform was selling misrepresented ad inventory—because as far as I can tell, that happens all the time—but more that we only know about this particular instance because it involves breitbart. check my ads is specifically hellbent on throttling breitbart's ad revenue, which is why someone was even poking around in these seller lists in the first place. anyone else could have; the advertisers who unknowingly bought ad space on breitbart theoretically could have, and nexxen certainly should have.

but for all the ad quality and transparency standards in place, any parties involved in the advertising supply chain still have to take action and check their records to make sure they're following said standards. if they get complacent, bad actors absolutely can and will try to slip through their defenses. and what's especially embarrassing in this case is how many safety partners unruly/nexxen was working with who claim to mitigate this exact scenario... although one of them was doubleverify and they kinda suck lol

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Benefits of Implementing a Recurring Revenue Model

Understanding the Recurring Revenue Model

What is a Recurring Revenue Model?

A recurring revenue model is a business strategy that generates consistent income at regular intervals, typically through subscriptions or memberships. Instead of relying on one-time sales, businesses secure ongoing payments from customers, ensuring long-term profitability.

How Does It Differ from Traditional Sales?

Unlike traditional sales models, where businesses depend on new customers each month, the recurring revenue approach builds a steady cash flow by retaining existing customers. This model provides financial stability, reduces dependency on unpredictable sales cycles, and enhances customer lifetime value.

Key Benefits of a Recurring Revenue Model

Predictable and Stable Income

One of the biggest advantages of a recurring revenue model is financial predictability. Businesses can forecast their earnings more accurately, making it easier to plan budgets, investments, and expansion strategies. Instead of dealing with fluctuating revenue streams, companies enjoy a steady and reliable income flow.

Improved Customer Retention

Recurring revenue models naturally foster customer loyalty. When customers subscribe to a service, they are more likely to continue using it over time. With engaging content, personalized experiences, and value-driven offerings, businesses can maintain long-term relationships and reduce customer churn.

Scalability and Business Growth

A well-structured recurring revenue model supports scalability. As your customer base grows, your revenue increases proportionally. Businesses can introduce new tiers, premium features, or value-added services without significantly increasing operational costs. This makes it easier to scale without constantly hunting for new customers.

Better Cash Flow Management

Consistent revenue streams lead to better cash flow management. Businesses can allocate resources efficiently, reinvest in product development, and focus on customer satisfaction without worrying about irregular cash inflows. This financial stability also attracts investors, making it easier to secure funding.

Enhanced Customer Relationships

Subscription-based businesses have more frequent touchpoints with customers, allowing them to gather valuable feedback and improve services. Regular interactions help in building trust, increasing engagement, and creating a sense of community around the brand.

How Subscription Apps Can Help Implement This Model

Automating Payments and Billing

Subscription apps streamline the entire process by automating recurring billing and payments. This eliminates the risk of missed payments, reduces manual work, and ensures a seamless experience for both businesses and customers.

Managing Customer Subscriptions Efficiently

A subscription management tool allows businesses to: ✅ Track subscriber activity ✅ Offer flexible subscription plans (monthly, quarterly, annually) ✅ Handle upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations smoothly ✅ Provide insights into customer preferences and behavior

By automating and optimizing these operations, businesses can focus on improving their services instead of dealing with administrative hassles.

Choosing the Right Subscription Management Tool

Features to Look For

When selecting a subscription management tool, consider:

Automated invoicing and payment processing

Customizable subscription plans

Integration with e-commerce and CRM platforms

Analytics and reporting capabilities

Seamless Integration with E-commerce Platforms

For businesses operating on platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, or Magento, choosing a tool that integrates seamlessly is crucial. This ensures a smooth user experience, easy setup, and efficient subscription management.

Conclusion

Implementing a recurring revenue model is a game-changer for businesses looking for financial stability, scalability, and improved customer retention. By leveraging subscription apps and management tools, companies can automate processes, enhance customer experiences, and drive long-term growth. As businesses shift towards digital transformation, embracing this model is not just an option—it's a necessity for sustained success.

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As journalist Sean Davis of The Federalist points out,

It was Politico that maneuvered to have the Hunter laptop story banned and everyone discussing it censored. Politico peddled the illegal Supreme Court leak that led to the near-assassination of multiple Supreme Court justices. And now we find out the regime was funneling tens of millions of dollars of our money to Politico?

Scroll down for the backstory - but as we mentioned below, ZeroHedge - as we assume The Federalist (our bedfellows in demonitization back in 2000), hasn't received a dime from the US government (or any government, assholes), while coming under recurring attack from the deep state and their various tentacles. We subsist on dwindling ad revenues thanks to the media censorship complex, subscriptions, and revenue from our new store. So as we noted below (and thank you to all who have flooded us with orders today):

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It starts with him

What was once a promise of technology to allow us to automate and analyze the environments in our physical spaces is now a heap of broken ideas and broken products. Technology products have been deployed en masse, our personal data collected and sold without our consent, and then abandoned as soon as companies strip mined all the profit they thought they could wring out. And why not? They already have our money.

The Philips Hue, poster child of the smart home, used to work entirely on your local network. After all, do you really need to connect to the Internet to control the lights in your own house?  Well you do now!Philips has announced it will require cloud accounts for all users—including users who had already purchased the hardware thinking they wouldn’t need an account (and the inevitable security breaches that come with it) to use their lights.

Will you really trust any promises from a company that unilaterally forces a change like this on you? Does the user actually benefit from any of this?

Matter in its current version … doesn’t really help resolve the key issue of the smart home, namely that most companies view smart homes as a way to sell more individual devices and generate recurring revenue.

It keeps happening. Stuff you bought isn’t yours because the company you bought it from can take away features and force you to do things you don’t want or need to do—ultimately because they want to make more money off of you. It’s frustrating, it’s exhausting, and it’s discouraging.

And it has stopped IoT for the rest of us in its tracks. Industrial IoT is doing great—data collection is the point for the customer. But the consumer electronics business model does not mesh with the expected lifespan of home products, and so enshittification began as soon as those first warranties ran out.

How can we reset the expectations we have of connected devices, so that they are again worthy of our trust and money? Before we can bring the promise back, we must deweaponize the technology.

Guidelines for the hardware producer

What we can do as engineers and business owners is make sure the stuff we’re building can’t be wielded as a lever against our own customers, and to show consumers how things could be. These are things we want consumers to expect and demand of manufacturers.

Control

Think local

Decouple

Open interfaces

Be a good citizen

1) Control over firmware updates.

You scream, “What about security updates!” But a company taking away a feature you use or requiring personal data for no reason is arguably a security flaw. 

We were once outraged when intangible software products went from something that remained unchanging on your computer, to a cloud service, with all the ephemerality that term promises. Now they’re coming for our tangible possessions.

No one should be able to do this with hardware that you own. Breaking functionality is entirely what security updates are supposed to prevent! A better checklist for firmware updates:

Allow users to control when and what updates they want to apply. 

Be thorough and clear as to what the update does and provide the ability to downgrade if needed. 

Separate security updates from feature additions or changes. 

Never force an update unless you are sure you want to accept (financial) responsibility for whatever you inadvertently break. 

Consider that you are sending software updates to other people’s hardware. Ask them for permission (which includes respecting “no”) before touching their stuff!

2) Do less on the Internet.

A large part of the security issues with IoT products stem from the Internet connectivity itself. Any server in the cloud has an attack surface, and now that means your physical devices do.

The solution here is “do less”. All functionality should be local-only unless it has a really good reason to use the Internet. Remotely controlling your lights while in your own house does not require the cloud and certainly does not require an account with your personal information attached to it. Limit the use of the cloud to only the functions that cannot work without it.

As a bonus, less networked functionality means fewer maintenance costs for you.

3) Decouple products and services.

It’s fine to need a cloud service. But making a product that requires a specific cloud service is a guarantee that it can be enshittified at any point later on, with no alternative for the user owner. 

Design products to be able to interact with other servers. You have sold someone hardware and now they own it, not you. They have a right to keep using it even if you shut down or break your servers. Allow them the ability to point their devices to another service. If you want them to use your service, make it worthwhile enough for them to choose you.

Finally, if your product has a heavy reliance on the cloud to work, consider enabling your users to self-host their own cloud tooling if they so desire. A lot of people are perfectly capable of doing this on their own and can help others do the same.

4) Use open and standard protocols and interfaces.

Most networked devices have no reason to use proprietary protocols, interfaces, and data formats. There are open standards with communities and software available for almost anything you could want to do. Re-inventing the wheel just wastes resources and makes it harder for users to keep using their stuff after you’re long gone. We did this with Twine, creating an encrypted protocol that minimized chatter, because we needed to squeeze battery life out of WiFi back when there weren’t good options.

If you do have a need for a proprietary protocol (and there are valid reasons to do so):

Document it. 

If possible, have a fallback option that uses an open standard. 

Provide tooling and software to interact with your custom protocols, at the very least enough for open source developers to be able to work with it. This goes for physical interfaces as much as it does for cloud protocols.

If the interface requires a custom-made, expensive, and/or hard-to-find tool to use, then consider using something else that is commonly available and off the shelf instead.

5) Be a good citizen.

Breaking paid-for functionality on other people’s stuff is inherently unethical. Consider not doing this! Enshittification is not a technical problem, it is a behavioral one. Offer better products that are designed to resist enshittification, and resist it yourself in everything you do.

Nothing forced Philips to do what they are doing: a human made a decision to do it. They could have just as easily chosen not to. With Twine’s server lock-in, at least we chose to keep it running, for 12 years now. Consider that you can still make a decent living by being honest and ethical towards the people who are, by purchasing your products, paying for your lifestyle. 

We didn’t get here by accident. Humans made choices that brought us to this point, and we can’t blame anyone for being turned off by it. But we can choose to do better. We can design better stuff. And we can choose not to mess things up after the fact.

We’re putting this into practice with Pickup. (We also think that part of an IoT reset is giving users the creative freedom of a general-purpose device.) If you’re looking for something better and our product can fill a need you have, consider backing us. We cannot claim to be perfect or have all of the answers, but we are absolutely going to try. The status quo sucks. Let’s do something about it.

Published October 15, 2023 By Jeremy Billheimer