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Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't us

by adhipg 16y ago

Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail. However, the main question again: how will they earn money?

martinkl 16y ago
It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based on what our users are asking for. You can see our analysis of freemium business models on the Rapportive blog: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you Edit: looks like rahulvohra and I had a little race condition here ;-)
- rahulvohra 16y ago
  The perils of working on different sides of the Atlantic…
- adhipg 16y ago
  hehe... races to give an answer - that's another thing that we have been hearing a lot around here lately! ;-) And, thanks for the service and the link - I am not quite sure how I missed that post!
rahulvohra 16y ago
The plan is to go freemium: build an amazingly useful product, and charge money for premium features. I know that startups very commonly say that this is their plan. We've thought very hard about what makes freemium work: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you. We're pretty certain that Rapportive has all the right characteristics.
- adhipg 16y ago
  Yeah, I agree that freemium will work perfectly for you - the use case is there - people who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there! One quick question: the upgrades that we see today (Facebook comments and the like) - will they always be free or will that be a part of the freemium suite at a later date?
  - axod 16y ago
    > "People who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there!" Facebook? Sharing cute cat videos? idk doesn't seem like a business use case to me.
    - adhipg 16y ago
      Well, sharing cats is not that useful. But, knowing that my potential client loves cat or is currently at a beach/conference or loves the same music - altogether another story! :)

by adhipg 16y ago

martinkl 16y ago

It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based on what our users are asking for. You can see our analysis of freemium business models on the Rapportive blog: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you Edit: looks like rahulvohra and I had a little race condition here ;-)

rahulvohra 16y ago
The perils of working on different sides of the Atlantic…
adhipg 16y ago
hehe... races to give an answer - that's another thing that we have been hearing a lot around here lately! ;-) And, thanks for the service and the link - I am not quite sure how I missed that post!

rahulvohra 16y ago

The plan is to go freemium: build an amazingly useful product, and charge money for premium features. I know that startups very commonly say that this is their plan. We've thought very hard about what makes freemium work: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you. We're pretty certain that Rapportive has all the right characteristics.

adhipg 16y ago
Yeah, I agree that freemium will work perfectly for you - the use case is there - people who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there! One quick question: the upgrades that we see today (Facebook comments and the like) - will they always be free or will that be a part of the freemium suite at a later date?
- axod 16y ago
  > "People who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there!" Facebook? Sharing cute cat videos? idk doesn't seem like a business use case to me.
  - adhipg 16y ago
    Well, sharing cats is not that useful. But, knowing that my potential client loves cat or is currently at a beach/conference or loves the same music - altogether another story! :)