From Free To Freemium

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If you’re not charging for your product, then your users are the product. This forces you to focus on two unrelated efforts: growing your user base and figuring out how to monetize it. There are many benefits to having free users and focusing on hyper growth. But the decision to go the freemium route should be based on math specific to your business — not a pricing philosophy. Because the reality is, the freemium model doesn't work for the majority of companies who try it.

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Visualmarks is a visual story telling platform which provides the most immersive writing, styling and reading experience, think blogging re-imagined

Many freemium services offer extra features in exchange for social referrals. If you're in need of more firepower for a favorite tool, then your best bet could be to bring out the megaphone and start broadcasting.

Consider Dropbox, the much-raved about cloud service that offers a nice 2GB of free space for everyone. But, the more enterprising (and friend-rich) can gain a 500MB increase in storage for a successful referral to Dropbox, all the way up to a sizable 18GB. If you're the enterprising sort with enough pluck to refer your contacts to the service, you could have plenty of cloud to build your business on.

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business freemium at scale Scott McMullan (@scottmcmullan) Freemium Summit East October 25th, 2010

At the Revenue Bootcamp Conference in Mountain View, Calif., Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," discusses how differe...

Following the overwhelming success of the inaugural Freemium Summit in San Francisco, the one-day event moves to the East Coast and will explore best practices for succeeding under the freemium business model. Across all segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering online business models that combine a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most exciting areas of business model innovation affecting the world of media and the Freemium Summit will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.

There has been a lot of buzz lately around the “Freemium” model and many start-ups are gravitating to this approach.

This is a slide deck I presented at Freemium Summit on March 26, 2010. An exploration of existing freemium businesses,

The Freemium talk was given as a keynote to the Software Summit that Macrovision ran for years. It was in the early days

Presented by Adam Smith (@asmith) and Drew Houston (@drewhouston)

Its not an easy decision. Free means lots of users but no revenues (or a little from Ad’s) but the potential of something much bigger if you hit on that killer app. A 30-day free trial only option will result in real users who demand a high value proposition. At least then you will know if your app can be monetised. The Freemium model offers a half way house to gain traction and the opportunity to convert some users, which is particularly helpful during the early startup days. However Freemium is full of pitfalls if executed poorly.

Lesson 1: It’s all about DNA
Lesson 2: Funnels come in all shapes and sizes
Lesson 3: Compound growth is a double-edged sword
Lesson 4: Don’t let pricing psyche you out
Lesson 5: “Boring” things can give you lots of conversion lift

The freemium model is one where the company offers two (or more) versions of a product. The basic version is free to use. You have to pay for the premium version. The goal of this article is to answer the product management question, “Should you create a freemium business model?”

Freemium is a business model that works by offering basic Web services, or a basic downloadable digital product, for free, while charging a premium for advanced or special features. The word "freemium" is a portmanteau combining the two aspects of the business model: "free" and "premium". The business model has gained popularity with Web 2.0 companies.