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My advice to Google is to lower the user threshold, possibly as low as 12-25 and create a middle-tier pricing option. 1. Bootstrapped 2. SMB 3. Enterprise
by PoweredByWill 18y ago
My advice to Google is to lower the user threshold, possibly as low as 12-25 and create a middle-tier pricing option.
1. Bootstrapped
2. SMB
3. Enterprise
- davidw 18y agoYeah, the prices are currently: 0-50 users: $0 50+ users: 50 * 50 = $2500 - ouch!
- jonknee 18y agoYikes, I thought it was 0-50 for free and any users past that were $50. So 51 users would be $50/yr. I guess you really have to justify that 51st employee :).
- cstejerean 18y agoWell, companies can upgrade well before they hit 50 users. You get extra space, no ads and premium support.
- jwesley 18y agoFor a company with 50+ employees, $2500 per year is not a major expense, relative to rent and payroll. Still vastly cheaper than MS Office.
- davidw 18y agoSure, but perhaps companies in the middle, with less than 50 employees, might be willing to spend some money, but not $50 a year per employee. Say, a 10 employee company - that's 500$ a year, which isn't huge, but not peanuts either. If Google could get 200$ out of them, and still make a profit, it seems like a win for everyone. No idea what their actual costs are, but they can't be that high if the advertising is anywhere close to covering them.