The Subscription Scourge
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Subscriptions, subscriptions, subscriptions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 347 for |
| 0:09.2 | Wineab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop of in paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and |
| 0:13.6 | save more money. At the end of the day we want you to gain more control by |
| 0:19.3 | increased awareness through just four rules give every dollar a job. Embrace your true |
| 0:26.4 | expenses, roll with the punches that life gives, and finally age your money. |
| 0:31.5 | Step away from the financial edge a little bit. |
| 0:34.0 | Today I want to talk about the subscription scourge of which Wienab may or may not be a part. |
| 0:39.0 | Depends on if you find value in it or not. |
| 0:42.0 | Everything's moving toward subscription. |
| 0:44.2 | Wienab did a few years ago as well, to the chagrin of some and to not the delight, |
| 0:49.2 | but to the acceptance of others, I would say. |
| 0:51.8 | It's been a positive for us economically because we've been able |
| 0:56.3 | to build on the platform extensively far, far more than we could have before. We're able |
| 1:01.1 | to plan better. We're able to be more aggressive in |
| 1:04.2 | our hiring. All those things are great. However, you are a consumer and when you hear |
| 1:09.3 | that a business is moving to a subscription, your first thought should be of course why? |
| 1:16.5 | And could I avoid it? |
| 1:18.7 | All those things. |
| 1:19.9 | And as the business, on the business end end where we sit as a software services company |
| 1:27.1 | we have to justify our value so my challenge to you and you could start with |
| 1:31.1 | Wienab is to make us justify the value of the subscription. |
| 1:36.7 | And you need to do that for each one of the subscriptions that is perhaps scourging you. |
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