A great way to brainstorm more ideas is to search for "subathon" on Twitter, you'll see endless lists of people's flyers for subathons and you can cherry pick your favorite incentives. I feel like subathons lose their magic if you are running them as often as once a month. How are you advertising them? Are they basically month long sub goals? More @Wikipedia
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