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Duration of free trial to “steal” customers from my competitor?
I am launching a website. It will compete with one other website. The service will be identical for the most part, except my website will be superior in usability and I will also provide some extra ...
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Charging a transaction fee, what's the right number?
My partner and I are developing a marketplace website that connects retailers with product makers, allows them to communicate with each-other and hosts wholesale transactions-we are looking for advice ...
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what's a fair amount to charge to build and maintain a web site for a small clothing boutique?
I'm a professional programmer. I've been asked to visit the owner of a small downtown clothing boutique because she wants a "web presence". Probably just a simple place holder web site with their ...
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Charging for a Web App
This may be an in-appropriate question but we are looking at changing the way we charge our customers because the current system is complicated. The problem is that its hard to simplify it without ...
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What is the best way to test whether people would pay for a web application?
I am currently implementing a relatively simple web application, as I'm trying to dive into Ruby on Rails. It turns out be going quite well and, in my opinion, it will appeal to a lot of users. But ...
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Should I charge more or less for monthly-subscription payment (vs the single one price)?
I'm building a software product that I will charge for X amount per license. Also, I want to give customers the chance to pay a monthly-subscription. Note: In both cases they will have access to the ...
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Free service or paid service?
Why are there free services and paid services? How are paid services different?
For example, some job search sites require $$$, and others are free.
How would you decide whether to charge for a ...
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How to charge customers for a web design business?
As some of my earlier questions point out, I'm a web design enthusiast and am hard at work to launch a small company, myself being the single employee.
I had a simple question: how do I charge my ...
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How do websites that don't charge anything make money?
The obvious answer is "advertising" but I've heard of a lot of decently popular sites that don't make much on advertising. How else do you make money? are they just hoping to get bought out?
And for ...
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Accepting payments… subscription plans
So, I am a total newbie when it comes to payment processing, acceptance of payments, subscription plans, etc.
I've recently built out the SaaS offering and will be in beta with it through the end of ...
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How much to charge for sponsorship spot on my blog?
I have been asked how much do we charge for a sponsorship or an ad in our blog... what is a fair price, do you charge per month, size, location in page? any tips will be greatly appreciated.
The ...
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Can you act as a white-label payment service built on top of a payment processor?
Can a company who has a merchant account act as a white-label "middle-man" between another merchant and a payment processing company like Paypal? For example, a white-label company offers an API into ...
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Monthly billing between PayPal and a spreedly, recurly
Paypal's simplest integration is an IPN and is super simple, but we all know the risks, and how badly they handle monthly billing. But it takes an hour to set up and is $.30 + 3% or something.
It ...
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Accept Credit Card payments in the US - Europe based company
We're a European based startup planning to sell domain names and digital goods into a niche market and will focus primarily on the US market.
The only current option for accepting credit card ...
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How to charge a customer for a tailor-made solution (ERP)?
We are designing a tailor-made ERP application for a SMB customer whose processess are very specific and have been very succesful for the last 20 years. Question is: How to charge for the project? ...
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Strategy for unveiling a social network?
I have identified a niche community, for which I want to build a social network.
From compete.com, I see that the TAM is at least 10K unique active users. Their web activites revolve around an archaic ...
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Agency work: Hourly vs. Fixed bid
We currently do all our work with the hourly model, charging $X/hr. $X is the same for all types of work: graphic design, print layout, website design & development, SEO, etc.
But, as we are ...
