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How to deal with unsatisfied clients in a free application

We offer a free, cloud based B2B application - it offers the same and more functionality than most if not all of the paid equivalent applications out there at no cost. We offer awesome support (most ...
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MVP: include price right from the start or test first

I have idea for the file sharing site. Now, I was thinking to first release the service without pricing options and users base, basically, to offer free but limited service, kind a like free sample, ...
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Is 'free' a bad idea in business applications?

In the case of business SaaS, specifically in a market where this type of software is never free what are the arguments regarding launching your product for free? More specifically the idea would be ...
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Transition of a mobile app from free to freemium

I'm about to release a mobile app I wrote. Since the first version is somewhat bare-bones (aka a MVP), I'm making it free. However, in the future I want to use the freemium model. Do you think it's OK ...
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B2C - Should I have a free plan?

For a B2C subscription service, is it recommended to have a free plan? Based on my research, users who sign up free plan suck up a lot of support resources and a number of well known services have ...
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Hosted Scripts Web Startup

I'm starting a web startup that hosts open source scripts such as wordpress, joomla, phpbb etc for free, any user gets a working website, with a sub-domain. Users get free sub-domain and hosting, ...
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Freemium in user generated content/social service?

Could freemium be a good model of earning profit from user generated content services? Let's take same hard example - www.trapster.com. It's a mobile phone application for exchanging information ...
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(Basically)Freemium?

There has been some great discussion on whether or not "freemium" (i.e. offering a lite edition) is a good way to go: Lite Version or Trial? To Freemium or not to Freemium Free Trial vs. Freemium ...