Announcing changes to BizSense Pro subscription service

Dear loyal Richmond BizSense readers,

Two years ago, we put the extensive BizSense news archive behind our BizSense Pro paywall, knowing that our years’ worth of local business news and intel had a shelf life beyond just the day a particular story is published.

It turned out that our hunch was right and today thousands of you pay to access our 17 years’ worth of news.

Today, we’re announcing further changes to how our archives are viewed.

Presently, all BizSense news stories are free for anyone to read for the first 30 days after their publication, after which they go behind the paywall. Beginning this week, we’re tweaking that free window down to 24 hours.

That means any BizSense story will still be free for anyone to read within the first 24 hours it’s published. To read those stories any time after that, plus the thousands of news and data posts in the archive, you’ll need to be a BizSense Pro subscriber.

Monthly subscriptions are $35, annual plans are $125 and custom corporate plans also are available.

It bears repeating: This does not mean that the news you’ve come to rely on since 2008 will be completely locked down. You’ll still have 24 hours to read each story each day and the fastest and most direct way to do that is to make sure you’re a subscriber to the BizSense Daily Newsfeed.

That’s our morning email blast with 25,000 subscribers and it is, as always, free to subscribe to and receive each weekday morning at 7 a.m.

In addition to the news archive, BizSense Pro subscribers also get access to the following premium data sections:

The Docket, a weekly roundup of business-related court cases from around the region (published every Thursday)

The Pipeline, a weekly commercial real estate roundup of sales and leases from local brokerages (Fridays)

New Business Licenses, a weekly list of info on the region’s newest businesses (Fridays)

Foreclosures, a weekly list of all the upcoming foreclosure auctions scheduled in the region (Mondays)

The Agenda, a weekly summary of what’s up for consideration at local government meetings (Mondays)

Breaking Ground, our twice-monthly building permits report (every other Wednesday)

The Pitch, a twice-monthly showcase of the work done by local ad/marketing agencies (every other Tuesday)

The DeedBook, our twice-monthly list of local real estate transfers (every other Friday)

The R&D Dept., the twice-monthly summary of patents issued to local inventors (every other Wednesday)

Trading Day, the twice-monthly report of SEC filings posted by local publicly traded companies (every other Thursday)

For those of you who already are paid subscribers, nothing will change for you and your account.

For those of you who have enjoyed BizSense news for free over the years, we thank you for your loyal readership and for your continued patronage as we embark on making subscriptions a more important source of revenue in the future.

Those subscriptions will help us toward our goal of growing the BizSense newsroom. We plan to add a new reporter in the near future, making our news ranks deeper than they’ve ever been. It’s a necessary step to have increased manpower to keep up with all that’s happening in our growing region.

We also have a new and improved subscriber support department. For any technical or billing questions, or to set up a corporate membership plan, please email support@businessden.com.

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