Zuora CEO, Tien Tzuo, kicks off Subscribed 2015 in London with a powerful keynote addressing the global impact the Subscription Economy is making on businesses, consumers and technology. He shares the stage with Anthony Fletcher, CEO of Graze, Pete Tomlinson, Sales & Marketing Director, KCOM and Mark Beard, Marketing & Circulation Director at The Economist.
2. A luxury travel destination club. A pet insurance provider. A weight loss program. A farming equipment
provider in New Zealand. A personal meditation app. A professional soccer scouting service. A school lunch
program. A wedding publisher. A French home furnishings company. A restaurant reservation seating
system. A streaming Japanese anime provider. A fashion industry marketing service. A plumbing &
handyman service. A major American airline. A major American automobile manufacturer. A smart
thermostat. A credit card company. A textbook publisher. A home rental service. A cable TV company. A
foreign language learning program. A standardized test preparation service. A 131 year-old cash register
manufacturer. A home improvement and interior design community. A salon & spa management platform. A
radio network. A hospital news publisher. An Ivy League university. A national telecom. A legal contract
resource. A lock manufacturer. A smart phone manufacturer. A private jet service. A toothbrush delivery
service. A multinational OEM. An 83 year-old beauty supply company. A mobile gaming company. A food
takeout delivery service. A real estate agent community. A Swiss travel agency. A streaming music service. A
weather data service. A 160 year-old British financial newspaper. A recreational boat marketplace. A home
security company. A French restaurant guide. A visual effects studio.
17. “We've moved from selling boxes, cloud, mobility, or
any other solution to partner with customers on their
outcomes.”
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
May 2015
YOU CHANGED TECHNOLOGY
18. "There's a secular movement that's happening ... more to an
annuity relationship as well as a subscription relationship.
These are the long-term relationships we want to have with all
customers. There will be an increasing emphasis on the
lifetime value that we can deliver to customers.”
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
May, 2015
YOU CHANGED TECHNOLOGY
25. 50%
Of people in France are moving away
from ownership. Traditional
consumption models don’t meet the
demands of consumers who now favor
flexibility and unlimited access.
Market study: Institut Français D’opinion Publique
(IFOP)
THE FRENCH HAVE GONE SUBSCRIPTION
26. THE GERMANS HAVE GONE SUBSCRIPTION
80%
Of German companies have dealt with
the issue of subscription business
models. Subscription models have
already arrived in the minds of board
members.
Market study: IDG Research Services
27. WE EXPANDED ACROSS THE GLOBE
Munich
Gothenburg
Tokyo
Vienna
Copenhagen
Berlin
Boston
Cologne
Amsterdam
Denver
45. WE PLACED OUR ADS, CONTEXTUALLY, WHERE
WE KNEW OUR AUDIENCE WOULD BE
GRAZING
46. AND WE CREATED A SIMPLE AND
FRICTIONLESS CUSTOMER JOURNEY
“A content marketing strategy that marries a cheekily inventive approach with state of the art dynamic units - all clicking through to a customised soft landing
page where new readers can consume a piece of content and then go on to register or subscribe.“ The Drum
“Content
led”
traffic
generation
“Content
Hub” to
engage
with
content
Subs
Re-target
With more
content
47. WE SAW A POSITIVE SHIFT IN PERCEPTIONS
OF THE ECONOMIST BRAND... NAMELY IN
RELEVANCE AND ADVOCACY
48. AND THE PRIZE FOR OUR EFFORTS…
Significant Growth in the Number of New
Readers and Subscribers to The Economist
6M new visitors
The beginning of many
long-term relationships
£12M in lifetime
recurring revenue
Thousands of new
subscribers
49. THE WINNING FORMULA
+ Clever use of 1st party subscriber data
+ Seamless customer journeys
+ Provocative headlines
+ Inspired content
= Subscription Success
55. A strong financial model has given revenue and profit growth
4
12
32
62
82
105
-‐2
-‐2
6
16
19
14
-10
10
30
50
70
90
110
Graze revenue and EBITDA
$,
millions
FX: 1.55 $/£
• Negative working capital
• Double digital EBITDA margins
• Low capital expended on distribution
• Control of pricing
• Insulation from input prices
• Economies of scale realised through
automation and procurement scale
Strong financial
model
56. It’s model has 5 advantages over pure FMCG brands
A proprietary and
rapidly changing
product range
Ability to build brand
Data to improve
product and service
Create unique
experiences
Multichannel
advantages
57. Ability to build brand
Direct
communication
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
Q: Thinking about brands of products that make or sell
healthy snacks, which BRANDS, if any, can you think of?
N=2010
Heavyweight spend
Highly
differentiated
Top 10 in
snacks
58. Graze online
data
3rd party loyalty
schemes
EPOS sales
3rd party online
data
Data to improve product and service
59. A proprietary and rapidly changing product range
Quickly reaches
customers
Rapid data
analytics
Product team
create new product
Specially
designed
processes bring
products to
market rapidly
grazer rates
60. A unique experience
Conveniently
delivered
through
na5onal
post
networks
A
large,
frequently
changing
range
of
products
which
cannot
be
purchased
elsewhere
Personalised
to
customer
taste
and
dietary
preferences
With
new
benefits
of
discovery,
explora5on
and
surprise
61. Online/Offline
Customer journeys
Media
Gather
online
informa6on
Trial
product
in
store
Try
products
online
Word
of
mouth
Regular
store
buyer
Regular
online
buyers
Rapid data analytics
Product team create new product
Specially designed processes
bring products to market rapidly
Quickly reaches customers
grazer rates
Marketing spend
Drives multiple
channels
Brand building
Trust
Familiarity
Excitement
Dis5nc5veness
Reach
New
Leverage data
And innovation
advantages
Multichannel advantages
76. MANY OF YOU HAVE SILOED SYSTEMS
Pricing Quoting Billing Revenue
? ?
E-commerce
77. EVERY SYSTEM
THAT TOUCHES THE
SUBSCRIBER MUST
CHANGE
Pricing &
packaging
Quoting
E-Commerce
Billing
Payments &
collections
Revenue
78. Without the right
systems, you can’t
turn customers into
subscribers
• A subscription experience
• Business model innovation
• Modernize finance
• Scale effortlessly
• Know your subscribers
• A subscription culture
79. A NEW PROSPECT-TO-CASH
SYSTEM IS NEEDED
Pricing &
packaging
Quoting E-Commerce Billing
Payments
& collections
Revenue
Relationship Business Management
80. Use ERP?
Build your own system?
Stitch together niche solutions?
YOUR OPTIONS
83. Existing enterprise systems no longer work
product
distributed to customers via different channels
customer
visits different channels to manage products
upgrade, downgrade,
renew uses the product
86. PRICING & PACKAGING
• One time, recurring and
usage pricing
• Mix and match charge
models
• Promotions and discounts
• Packaging and
entitlements
• Multi-currency pricing
87. CPQ
• Guided selling
• Branded quoting
• Product bundling
• Product and pricing rules
• Lifecycle order management
• One click quote-to-invoice
115. Marketing Panel :
The Subscription Marketing
Master plan
IOT Panel:
IOT & the founding of digital
transformation
Customer service in the
Subscription Economy
Zuora product:
Billing & Collections
Finance Panel:
The Modern CFO, from geek
to guru
Media Panel:
Think like a disruptor: Lessons
from media companies
Navigating the subscription
billing market
Zuora Product:
CPQ
CIO Panel:
The New CIO
SaaS Panel:
Lessons learnt from
subscription veterans
What’s next for content
monetization
Zuora Product:
Insights
Networking & Cocktails
ROLE BASED PANELS INDUSTRY PANELS EXPERT PRESENTATIONS PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS
STARTUP BATTLE
The Rest of Today
GOOD MORNING, I AM
WELCOME TO SUBSCRIBED 2015, WORLD CITY TOUR
CITIES
PARIS on FRIDAY but here in the BREWERY
12 MONTHS ON – ENGAGEMENT TEAMS – WELCOME ATTENDEES FROM OVERSEARS
LONGSTANDING CUSTOMERS
DISRUPTORS
SUBSCRIPTION ECONOMY
TIEN – PERMEATES our LIVES – CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - RELATIONSHIP
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Steaming Media = HBO
Print Media = UK newspapers
Tech = Microsoft
Education = Lynda
Retail = Habitat
Music = Spotify
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In 2015 look at the world you’ve created. Because of you the subscription economy is now a mainstream phenomenon
The momentum we’ve seen this year
191 new customers have joined Zuora’s RBM platform since last year https://zuora.my.salesforce.com/00O70000004Eg4x
We did a study of the French market with the Institut Français D’opinion Publique (IFOP), that revealed profound changes in people’s consumption patterns.
More than 50% of people in France are moving away from ownership/traditional models of consumption
Traditional ownership models no longer meet the demands of consumers who now favor flexibility and unlimited access. People want to easily renew their contracts and have the latest models
Trend is biggest among young people and professionals in urban centers (paris)
Right now the trend is most visible among products like print, movies, music
But will expand to more types of products in the future: Travel, mobile phones IT, toys, fashion accessories, clothes from top brands, household appliances and furniture
The French associate subscription models with values typically associated with the Cloud (innovation, freedom and shared services).
We did a separate market study this year in Germany with IDG research services. Was focused on business rather than consumers.
We found that While companies see the trend toward subscription-based business models, but their existing system landscapes do not meet the new requirements. Ever-changing buyer behavior and growing customer demands in an increasingly digitized world pose a major challenge for companies. There is an increasing need to adapt business models and associated processes extensive flexible.
Subscription models have already arrived in the minds of board members:80 % OF COMPANIES have dealt with the issue of subscription business models.
80 % OF COMPANIES also believe that they need new metrics to adequately measure the success of their subscription business.
Problem is…
ONLY 2% OF COMPANIES can easily implement or modify a new subscription model with their existing systems/ have dealt with the issue of subscription business models. - companies lack the flexibility in their IT structures to implement changes quickly
The subscription experience
Meaningful, ongoing relationships (built through subscription services)
You (people)
We are all subscribers in our personal and professional lives
We exist to help real people (subscribers) get services in the easiest way possible. And we exist to help companies (like yours!) and the people who work in them shine.
The power of RBM
You, and all of our customers, have exciting products and a vision to monetize business relationships. But what’s most important is that at the other end of every RBM system we sell, there are real, live human beings. Whether they’re consumers or B2B, subscriptions are making their lives that much easier, that much more flexible, and that much more free.
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Story gist:
Declining Ad revenues + Brand perception problem leads Economist CEO to invest $2M on top of funnel acquisition to increase subscriber revenue bet big on subscriber revenue model
Customer data + customer journeys: Economist uses customer data to serve up relevant high-quality content online to pique reader’s interest and guide them towards a customer/subscriber journey with the Economist
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Story gist:
Declining Ad revenues + Brand perception problem leads Economist CEO to invest $2M on top of funnel acquisition to increase subscriber revenue bet big on subscriber revenue model
Customer data + customer journeys: Economist uses customer data to serve up relevant high-quality content online to pique reader’s interest and guide them towards a customer/subscriber journey with the Economist
As for Graze, here are a few more questions:
Q: As you add more products how do you introduce them to your customers?
Q: How do you continue to communicate with your customers so they know you are listening and learning about their preferences?
Q: What are the ONE or TWO most important things you have learned or you would like to share with others who are opening new subscription businesses or entering new markets?
Story gist:
Declining Ad revenues + Brand perception problem leads Economist CEO to invest $2M on top of funnel acquisition to increase subscriber revenue bet big on subscriber revenue model
Customer data + customer journeys: Economist uses customer data to serve up relevant high-quality content online to pique reader’s interest and guide them towards a customer/subscriber journey with the Economist
“We know that by using sfdc that you love and are focused on your customers. But now you need to turn your customers into subscribers. This is what will establish/build the ongoing relationship that is key to your success and to your customers success”
* Here (in the script) we need to give specific examples of the benefits having a sub business model. I want to paint a pretty vision of what their business could be like with subscriptions. Later on the “pain” slide, these are all the wonderful things that will “break” if they don’t unify their backend systems
How do you transform your company around subribers?What changes do you have to make?
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Graze example - launching in US
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words:
In the old world – when you were just shipping prpducts it was ok to be siloed
but now you have collaborate
in order to do the things on slide 22, all the systems that touch the customers get affected. Pricing, Packaging, Bundling, Quoting, Ecommerce, Billing, Payments, Collections, Revenue.
you’re probably rethinking all your systems right now: billing , payments, quoting, etc.
You know there is a shift you know it is effecting each dot this is why all these systems are starting to change
This the ‘pain’ slide:
“This is critical because if you don't integrate these systems If you don't have the right ones, you can't deliver a subscription experience.
You can't reap all the benefits of a subscription model. everything we just talked about breaks.
Doesn't matter if you can quote for subscriptions if your billing system can't take in process orders. And there's no point to have flexible bundling pricing and product offerings if you can't measure out the subscription sales are affecting your business”
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words:
In the old world – when you were just shipping prpducts it was ok to be siloed
but now you have collaborate
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words:
In the old world – when you were just shipping prpducts it was ok to be siloed
but now you have collaborate
“We know that by using sfdc that you love and are focused on your customers. But now you need to turn your customers into subscribers. This is what will establish/build the ongoing relationship that is key to your success and to your customers success”
* Here (in the script) we need to give specific examples of the benefits having a sub business model. I want to paint a pretty vision of what their business could be like with subscriptions. Later on the “pain” slide, these are all the wonderful things that will “break” if they don’t unify their backend systems
Story gist:
Declining Ad revenues + Brand perception problem leads Economist CEO to invest $2M on top of funnel acquisition to increase subscriber revenue bet big on subscriber revenue model
Customer data + customer journeys: Economist uses customer data to serve up relevant high-quality content online to pique reader’s interest and guide them towards a customer/subscriber journey with the Economist
How did KCOM first come to join the subscription economy?
What internal changes had to be overcome to turn your vision into reality?
What internal changes had to be overcome to turn your vision into reality?
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words:
In the old world – when you were just shipping prpducts it was ok to be siloed
but now you have collaborate
You can feel it in your depatments, your strategy
You can see it in your systems
This is why a new system RBM is needed
MORNING INSPIRING – AFTERNOON WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
MORE SESSIONS – WHAT CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS
ZUORA TRACK – OR HEAR FROM YOUR PEERS
STOCKHOLM V LONDON STARTUP BATTLE
NETWORKING RECEPTION
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