Scott Meiklejohn

If your online store is where you meet your customers, your About Us page is where your customers meet you.

Lisa bought the domain name just for fun. 

We are delighted to be featured on Fortune’s Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022.

Updated August 1, 2023

Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword. Consumers, more than ever, are flocking to brands that are focused on minimizing their environmental footprint. Businesses can do this through various methods like carbon offsetting, charitable donations, or recyclable packaging. 

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We’re still reliving the incredible events of ChargeX22, which took place last week in Santa Monica. Our goal for the conference was to bring together the best minds in ecommerce, from thought leaders and industry-leading merchants to tech innovators and creative agencies. Our collective focus: unpacking the future of ecommerce and how we can prepare for it.

April marks Earth Month, where we all reflect on our sustainable shopping choices and feel immense existential dread when reading the latest report from climate scientists.

How can you tell if your business is ready for subscriptions? What kind of subscription program would work best for your brand? What’s the easiest and quickest way to get started with subscriptions in this fast paced digital economy? 

Many merchants have been faced with a question over the this year: Do we create a remote or hybrid environment, or return fully to the office? While every company’s needs and requirements are different, the majority of the workforce is asking for at least the option to choose what’s best for them. According to a study done by PwC, over half of workers would prefer to work remotely at least 3 days a week.

Warning: Though the following stories are terrifying to behold, they do have happy endings/exorcisms

How do you preserve the empathetic and innovative culture your company forged through years of bootstrapping as it now rapidly grows and scales? What values act as your company's north star, guiding you through smooth seas or stormy waves?

Have you checked out our Powerful & Profitable Subscriptions Playbooks? In this post, we’re taking a closer look at our Scaling Your Subscriptions playbook.

There are many perks to remote working. But looking like a ghost on Zoom while presenting in front of an important client isn’t something you signed up for. So, how can you present yourself professionally on video while working remotely? 

Have you checked out our Powerful & Profitable Subscriptions Playbooks? In this post, we’re taking a closer look at our Cross-Selling & Upselling playbook.

Think about a product bundling scenario you’ve likely encountered frequently. Perhaps something like,

Have you checked out our Powerful & Profitable Subscriptions Playbooks? In this post, we’re taking a closer look at our Customizing The Shopper Experience playbook.

Remember the old normal? Before the new normal of curbside pick up and endlessly scrolling while online shopping. That tactile experience of shopping at a brick and mortar store. You were able to browse the aisles of a physical store, pick up products, and touch fabrics. Chat with entrepreneurs of local businesses you’d become a repeat customer of. 

In this preview from our Powerful & Profitable Subscriptions Playbooks, we’re diving into Building a Brand Community. Our playbooks were created by bringing together 12 of the industry’s most successful ecommerce agencies and getting their insights on growth strategies they use with their top clients. Topics range from marketing (social media and advertising), growing brand loyalty, customizing the customer experience, cross-selling and upselling, and more.

Headless commerce is a commerce architecture that allows for the separation of your brand's front-end and back-end. A headless commerce architecture allows you to have as much flexibility, complexity and agility as your business requires. Contrast to traditional ecommerce platform builds, like Shopify or BigCommerce, headless allows for maximum customization.

In this preview, we’re diving into The Power of Subscriptions from our Powerful and Profitable Playbooks series. We worked with 12 of the industry's brightest ecommerce agencies to put these 8 subscription playbooks together.

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate Earth Day we wanted to showcase 5 brands who are leading the sustainability charge and using Recharge to power their subscriptions. 

We’re diving deep into ecommerce analytics by taking a closer look at our Leveraging The Power of Analytics Playbook. 

To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women's History Month we wanted to showcase seven women-led subscription businesses powered by Recharge. 

What is lifetime value (LTV)? It's the average amount a subscriber spends over the course of their subscription (average revenue per user) before churning (leaving your subscription program).

To celebrate Black History Month we wanted to showcase five Black-owned subscription businesses powered by Recharge and the subscription products they offer to their customers.

https://youtu.be/7-J_qaswTHE Recharge's Director of Product, Jason Tranel, walks you through 10 tips for running a successful subscription business on the Recharge platform.

https://youtu.be/o1glS5Em0x0 Recharge Product Managers, Cody De Vos and Jordan Bluhm, give an advanced lesson on how you can leverage the API to elevate your subscription business.

https://youtu.be/-wLypTGKNZU Recharge's Partner Manager, Elaine Sloboda, chats with Chelsea Jones and Rachel Saul (Co-Owners of Chelsea & Rachel Co.).

Recharge COO, Chathri Ali, spoke with Helena Hambrecht, the co-founder and co-CEO of Haus.

The key to any long lasting relationship is good communication. Business relationships, friendships, marriages - you name it. Learning how to properly communicate so that thoughts and feelings are understood and validated is key.

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out part 1 of our series on remote work. We took an in-depth look at how Recharge embedded a remote-first mindset in our culture and shared several high impact tips for working remotely.

Five years in, with over 220 team members scattered across multiple continents, Recharge has been fully remote since we first started. What allowed us to be most successful was simply this: We embed a remote-first mindset in our culture. It’s foundational within our company.

Reducing churn and increasing the lifetime value of your customers is of paramount importance at any time but it is especially important during times of turmoil and disruption. While your newsfeed may be filled with unwelcome news related to Covid-19, we’re going to focus on what you can do to maintain your subscriber base.

Recharge COO, Chathri Ali, spoke with Patrick Campbell, the founder and CEO of ProfitWell. More than 8,000 subscription companies use ProfitWell to track, understand and optimize billions of dollars in recurring revenue.