All content costs money to create - even if you’re just paying tokens for AI to clank out your next blog post 😉. From infrastructure costs and editing software, to microphones and those little circle-lights, to the actual time you put into the creation, the costs add up. How do you charge for it?
Treefort was built to help you get your content to your audience with the tools you need to monetize. Here is an overview of how monetizing can work on Treefort and how our users take advantage of these integrations.
Subscriptions
Subscriptions are by far the most common way to monetize with Treefort. Dependable, recurring revenue is great for business growth and you don’t need 100k subscribers to make it work financially. Our Stripe integration makes it super easy to set up monthly or yearly subscriptions. Apart from Stripe, our team will help you get set up with Apple and Android too. The essential element of a successful subscription service (nice alliteration!) is new and engaging content. The businesses that manage this well thrive. Our built-in analytics will help you understand what your audience is or isn’t engaging with so that you can give them more of the hits and less of the duds.
Freemium
The “Freemium” model is a variation of a subscription service where you offer both free and paid content. Free content is a great way to attract your audience to your platform and introduce them to your paid offerings.
Individual Purchases
For some content, your audience will expect to purchase it once and have access to it forever. Treefort gives you the option to set up individual purchases - we call these “offerings”. An individual purchase is connected to a user’s account so, as long as the account is active, the content will be available.
Donations
A handful of our customers offer all of their content for free. Ok, it’s not free, they paid to create it, but it’s technically free to their audience. Most of these organizations have 501©(3) status and they use donations to fund the content production and distribution. With Treefort you can link to your site’s giving page or embed the giving page directly in your app.
Mix and Match
Treefort is intentionally flexible. If you’re uncertain about how to charge, why not mix and match? Offer your podcast and articles for free, charge a subscription fee for a series of video courses, and sell your ebooks as individual purchases.
Whichever model you choose, we’ll keep making great software so you can stick to making great content. It’s like a match made in …Moscow, ID.
