Comments on: Start Charging Users When They are Successful

By: Hanley Leung

Hanley Leung — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:22:41 +0000

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By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:18:19 +0000

I totally agree with you this!

People should concentrate on improving the value as possible in their products/services….and build the user number…get a lot of feedback….Only later think about how to monetize…

By: Aytekin

Aytekin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:17:40 +0000

jrome: I couldn’t have said it better:

“A symbiotic approach to sales, that is building in sales cycles based on increasing the value of the software to the active user base, is in my mind, how best to make a dime in these times and likely for the foreseeable future.”

There are two important goals every web startup should have:
1. Increasing the user base
2. Increasing the value of the software for users

So, why not try to increase these two factors instead of trying to get as much as possible from a small user base. That’s premature optimization.

This reminded me of a great Paul Graham quote. In fact, I found it:
“You can envision the wealth created by a startup as a rectangle, where one side is the number of users and the other is how much you improve their lives. The second dimension is the one you have most control over. And indeed, the growth in the first will be driven by how well you do in the second.”

By: Kuta Kharisma

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By: jrome

jrome — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:43:48 +0000

I like the way you stated a very key point to selling premium or freemium digital products: “Crippled products or trial versions are bad because one side on the relationship knows that the other side is only in it for the money and does not care about them.” I’ve started many “trial versions” where I was in constant fear lest I forget to remind myself to turn off the auto-billing before the trial is up. That method works extremely well, as you write, for short term gains, but people are not going to renew or recommend a product that they paid for but don’t use. It’s those social recommendations that now market software to the masses, not million dollar ad campaigns. And once software is broadly adopted, usage should be the true measure of success. A symbiotic approach to sales, that is building in sales cycles based on increasing the value of the software to the active user base, is in my mind, how best to make a dime in these times and likely for the foreseeable future.

By: Aytekin

Aytekin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:55:22 +0000

Oh, I see what you mean. You were commenting on the language. Changed “I don’t like none of these approaches.” to “I don’t like any of these approaches.” Thanks. I should probably review my posts better.

By: Aytekin

Aytekin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:49:08 +0000

Hi Ralph, do you have any suggestions?

By: ralph

ralph — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:16:19 +0000

I don’t like none of your double negatives.