First off: thank you to the hundreds of people who have created accounts with The Pickup in our first week of operation. It’s been deeply affirming for Alicia, Zack and I to so many of you sign on for this little enterprise, and we do not take your support for granted in the least.
But enough about us! What does subscribing to The Pickup do for you?
Since we’re a fairly new kind of local business, I thought it’d be helpful to walk you through your subscription benefits so that you get the most out of The Pickup.
What are your subscription benefits?
To start, we offer subscriptions to The Pickup at three tiers. (You can also create an account and read articles for free, though you’ll eventually bump into a hard paywall.) Let’s run through the list of benefits, which start with the basics and get fancier as you go down:
- Full access to all the articles on the site
- Gift article links
- Commenting privileges
- Newsletters mailed directly to your inbox
- Merch drops
- Freebies and invitations to subscriber-exclusive events (by the way, if anybody out there works for any of Tulsa’s great cultural institutions and wants to offer discounts or freebies to our subscriber base, please get in touch with me at matt@thepickup.com)
- Gift subscriptions to share with friends, family and neighbors
Since The Pickup has had its doors open (or maybe I should say its tailgate down?) for just a few days now, please trust me when I say that this is the beginning of this enterprise and we’ll adapt as we go. Our business model is very simple: we’re trying to create new subscribers and retain existing ones. So the focus of that retention effort will always be to improve on the quantity and quality of benefits we offer to you, our most dedicated readers.
Now that we’ve gone over your benefits, here’s how to get the most out of them.