Comments on: Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products | Igniting Startups - nPost http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2463 Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products | Igniting Startups - nPost Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:44:22 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2463 [...] From cdixon.org [...] [...] From cdixon.org [...]

]]> By: Silk Screen http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-5778 Silk Screen Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:06:04 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-5778 Finding value for money in paid versions of desktop software has become rarity these days because almost everything has open-source alternatives. First CuteFTP paid was the only good quality ftp client out there, now you have free open source Filezilla and others. May be a model of 'donateware' would work - I have seen CCleaner stay in business for some 3 years now, supported entirely by donationware. The other idea is allowing the user to micro-pay the entire purchase price of a piece of desktop software over an extended period of time rather than making an upfront payment. Another idea would be to just do everything possible to attain maximum number of users (userbase) so you can just sell the company and move on and let the buyer figure out how to monetize. Only a big userbase would motivate the purchase decision of buyer in such cases. Finding value for money in paid versions of desktop software has become rarity these days because almost everything has open-source alternatives. First CuteFTP paid was the only good quality ftp client out there, now you have free open source Filezilla and others. May be a model of 'donateware' would work – I have seen CCleaner stay in business for some 3 years now, supported entirely by donationware. The other idea is allowing the user to micro-pay the entire purchase price of a piece of desktop software over an extended period of time rather than making an upfront payment. Another idea would be to just do everything possible to attain maximum number of users (userbase) so you can just sell the company and move on and let the buyer figure out how to monetize. Only a big userbase would motivate the purchase decision of buyer in such cases.

]]> By: 10-Sep-2009 | MohanArun.com http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2336 10-Sep-2009 | MohanArun.com Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:42:49 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2336 [...] Dividing ‘free’ and ‘paid’ features in ‘freemium’ products – Link. [...] [...] Dividing ‘free’ and ‘paid’ features in ‘freemium’ products – Link. [...]

]]> By: Silk Screen http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2339 Silk Screen Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:06:04 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2339 Finding value for money in paid versions of desktop software has become rarity these days because almost everything has open-source alternatives. First CuteFTP paid was the only good quality ftp client out there, now you have free open source Filezilla and others. May be a model of 'donateware' would work - I have seen CCleaner stay in business for some 3 years now, supported entirely by donationware. The other idea is allowing the user to micro-pay the entire purchase price of a piece of desktop software over an extended period of time rather than making an upfront payment. Another idea would be to just do everything possible to attain maximum number of users (userbase) so you can just sell the company and move on and let the buyer figure out how to monetize. Only a big userbase would motivate the purchase decision of buyer in such cases. Finding value for money in paid versions of desktop software has become rarity these days because almost everything has open-source alternatives. First CuteFTP paid was the only good quality ftp client out there, now you have free open source Filezilla and others. May be a model of 'donateware' would work – I have seen CCleaner stay in business for some 3 years now, supported entirely by donationware. The other idea is allowing the user to micro-pay the entire purchase price of a piece of desktop software over an extended period of time rather than making an upfront payment. Another idea would be to just do everything possible to attain maximum number of users (userbase) so you can just sell the company and move on and let the buyer figure out how to monetize. Only a big userbase would motivate the purchase decision of buyer in such cases.

]]> By: cdixon http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2247 cdixon Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:54:46 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2247 Good ideas. Good ideas.

]]> By: Mark Geller http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2226 Mark Geller Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:26:49 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2226 Great post, I wanted to mention a related suggestion from Timothy Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, which he made at the Casual Connect gaming conference this year--that is to require free users to do some activities that add value to your site in other ways, e.g., referring the site or content to friends, retweeting links, adding comments or ratings, etc. This can be a painless way for users to contribute value without paying cash. Great post, I wanted to mention a related suggestion from Timothy Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, which he made at the Casual Connect gaming conference this year–that is to require free users to do some activities that add value to your site in other ways, e.g., referring the site or content to friends, retweeting links, adding comments or ratings, etc. This can be a painless way for users to contribute value without paying cash.

]]> By: cdixon http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2200 cdixon Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:45:04 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2200 I dunno. Great products keep you because you love them, not because you are stuck. I dunno. Great products keep you because you love them, not because you are stuck.

]]> By: nikiscevak http://cdixon.org/2009/09/04/dividing-free-and-paid-features-in-freemium-products/comment-page-1/#comment-2187 nikiscevak Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:37:50 +0000 http://www.cdixon.org/?p=700#comment-2187 Excellent post Chris but your post does focus inwardly rather than from the perspective of the user, especially for web service/apps. <br><br>You hinted at it with Box.net: The deeper a user becomes ingrained in the product their propensity to pay goes way up. I believe Evernote is another great example (see the recent NY Times article).<br><br>So the more important focus shouldn't be on delineating the feature set but rather getting the user to see and accrue value in your service and before long it's too late to go back. <br><br>The crack dealer gives away the same crack in the first free hit and doesn't just give away bad crack and sell good crack. Excellent post Chris but your post does focus inwardly rather than from the perspective of the user, especially for web service/apps.

You hinted at it with Box.net: The deeper a user becomes ingrained in the product their propensity to pay goes way up. I believe Evernote is another great example (see the recent NY Times article).

So the more important focus shouldn't be on delineating the feature set but rather getting the user to see and accrue value in your service and before long it's too late to go back.

The crack dealer gives away the same crack in the first free hit and doesn't just give away bad crack and sell good crack.

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