Business model - Freemium - Introduction
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From the Wikipedia entry on Guignol (the French equivalent of Punch and Judy). My emphasis:
Freemium and pulling teeth
Freemium and Freeconomics
This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times (John Gapper) .
What Is The Freemium Business Model?
Caterina Fake co-founded Flickr, an early freemium success story Plenty of startups out there want to do go for a "freemium" business model, but there's a lot of confusion as to what "freemium" actually means. And more importantly, whether and how it works.Understanding Freemium: How to Create & Grow Paying Customers
There has been a lot of buzz lately around the “Freemium” model and many start-ups are gravitating to this approach.
Understand the "Freemium" Business Model
The "Freemium" business model is based on companies offering their basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced features. With a lack of available comparison sets, Freemium startups often do not know how they’re really performing, and they sometimes aren’t sure how to measure their performance.
I'm excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses. For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. You can reach for all the scale of a free service and still make money.
Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies
Finding a Freemium model that works for you
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 “ Priced and Unpriced Online Markets ” by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman. Discusses tradeoffs in market such as email, IP addresses, search and dial-up Internet.
Freemium has always been an appealing solution to the million dollar question of how to make money online. But with an internet filled with free content and services, how can you get enough people to actually pay? I attended MediaBistro and Charles Hudson’s Freemium Summit East this week in New York City to explore that question.
Making Freemium Work
Chris Anderson's new book , Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available for free in text form and as an audio book ), is stirring controversy and a spicy conversation around the blogosphere. The current wave of discussion started with a critical review by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker .
Free: It Works, It Cries, It Bites
My Favorite Business Model
Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.
I’ve chimed in once or twice on the free vs. paid debate, and I’m firmly in the camp that you should charge customers money.
Freemium Isn’t A Business Model, It’s A Marketing And Trust Strategy
During dot-com (v.2) when it didn’t matter if a startup actually had a business model, a concept that had a lot of street cred was “freemium” . Coined by Jarid Lukin, and propagated by Fred Wilson, freemium was seed as a solid business model because companies charged for advanced features even though they offered basic services for free. The model was based on the notion that if you gave consumer a taste, they’d happily pay for more.