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Is there evidence of better results with a free version vs. free trial?
Some companies opt for a free version in hopes of converting to paid. Others offer a free trial. I can see merit in both, but I'm curious what your thoughts are around which is preferred and why. Any ...
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To Freemium or not to Freemium?
There are numerous examples of SaaS products stuck with lots of users and few paying customers. The common advice is not to give away too much in the free plan and always be upselling. The best ...
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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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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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How to deal with users expecting a free edition of a software product (when not available)?
I'm working to launch my product in the near future and some guys are asking if there will be a "free" version.
I've read some opinions that discourage the freemium model because canibalizes sales ...
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When freemium goes bad, How to fix?
Basically we went down to freemium path quite a while ago, now got thousands of users who don't convert and free version cannibalizes sales (there is no exact way to figure out numbers on this one ...
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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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Premium features VS Donation gifts
We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization:
Premium model: Buy a Foo ...
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Is freemium still working?
We've heard from several formerly wildly successful software/webapp companies using the freemium business model that it is no longer working well. Does anyone have any validation to this? And if ...
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How should I best add paid features to a currently free site?
I have an existing site that has been running for a couple of years as a free service. It started out as a hobby but now I have my own startup, it is coming under that umbrella and substantial ...
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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
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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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A list of well executed, balanced and succesful Freemium model based products
What products do you know of, products that have a Freemium model implemented well and successfully - meaning that there is significant count of paying customers in opposition to the count of ...
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Do I need to offer a free version to sell my SaaS?
I have a software as a service model for content management system.
What I'm wondering is do I have to have a free version tier in order to sell it? Meaning do I need to have some threshold of use ...
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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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Why are big software companies going freemium?
There's a lot of criticism of freemium in the startup community, but in 2009, some of my favourite large software companies moved towards, rather than away from it.
Atlassian started their $10 ...
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Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
I am starting an online b2b networking portal. It is somewhat comparable to linkedin in a sense that most of the content is user generated, meaning more users it has more attractive service becomes. ...
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lead generation / conversion for freemium saas (howto, ideas)
We're looking for advice and opinions on economic, effective ways to convert existing users from free to paid subscriptions. Our SaaS product is a slight twist to the traditional freemium model: ...
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Microtransaction vs Subscriptions
Instead of a monthly subscription, anyone can use the site but advance functions require credits/micropayments. For example, Basecamp - if you add more people its $2 per month per person. if you like ...
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How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for our startup?
Hey AOS, over the past few months, my cofounder Jason and I have been trying to figure out how to exactly launch Ramamia, our family sharing app.
Link here: http://staging.ramamia.com
We've been in ...
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Should I give my product away for free in the beginning?
I own a website service that teaches people a language in a fun way (just one language for now). There are over 50 lessons now and members compete to earn the most points by completing a quiz game.
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importance of a community?
I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between
building a community
completing business model
at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have ...
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Desktop Software Startup: Offering Free Version and 30 day Trial overkill?
Basically, I am doing pay per feature for my desktop software.
I offer a base version which is free, but has limited functionality.
I also offer 15 day trial on specific features users wants to test ...
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Freemium vs Ads? Or both?
I am developing an online utility application. My partners and I have struggled to come up with a profitable business model. We were thinking that we could sell server space to allow people to put ...
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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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Framework for Freemium model in ASP.NET
I have a website that I would like to add registration and plans (ex: premium membership, free membership) and charge the customers on a monthly subscription basis. The existing website is written in ...
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Switch straight to paid saas?
I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide ...
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Cutting the price for Mac App from $40 to $0 (going freemium)
I'm selling a Mac application for $40 and thinking about to go freemium. For now is just a mac app and I'm going to build a web service with an api, native cloud sync + win client + web app = ...
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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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Free Trial for January Only
We just launched our site 6-8 weeks ago. We use the freemium model to offer two services: gigs & jobs. One service is free with a premium upgrade available while the other service is always a ...
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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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Dropbox revenue will double even without single paid customer. How?
Recency I read an article about growth of dropbox. Drop is growing with an amazing pace with 50 million users already with only less than 10% paid customers. They are expecting that next year their ...
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Launching as free beta, then eventually making some features premium-only
For the launch, we're thinking of including all the eventual premium features at no cost, referring to the launch as a public beta. Eventually, once traffic picks up, we would put up a notice saying ...
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Freemium :: model?
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With the freemium model. Should we launch the FREE offerings first, then BUILD and sell the premium stuff, or have at least one premium service available before lauch?
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Marketing Ideas for a B2C Startup
I have a paid B2C web app. I'm currently running a trial model but I'm working to convert it to the Freemium model after evaluating the potential gains and losses.
Although my conversion rate is low, ...
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if Twitter charged for customizing your profile, would you pay for it?
It seems to me that people care enough about it to pay for it.(just search "my background")
and personally, given the right price, I would.
I'm asking this because I want to know when do people pay ...
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Any areas or software missing from the “freelancer” suite?
There are certain aspects of what I like to call the "Freelancer suite," basically tools that are designed specifically with the freelancer or small web team in mind. They basically are: time ...
