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by chdaniel 8y ago
Did pay a visit! I'll send an email to get in touch, thanks for the kind words! Any lines that stood out specifically for you Zakir?
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by chdaniel 8y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I was just mentioning MailChimp as the targeted audience (tech CEOs) most probably know about the freemium plan, so I didn’t feel like expanding on that. After I noticed it caused confusion, I added some extra co
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by chdaniel 8y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I was just mentioning MailChimp as the targeted audience (tech CEOs) most probably know about the freemium plan, so I didn’t feel like expanding on that. After I noticed it caused confusion, I added some extra co
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by chdaniel 8y ago
What I was touching is when I move from a free plan to a paid plan. When the company took the risk. I know a lot of rich people who like to start lean simply for the sake of seeing proof of concept. They have millions in their bank yet they
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by chdaniel 8y ago
> “Provide incentive for prospects to sign up for freemium but do not provide too much value so that free version of the product is enough.” That was a quote from another Quora answer. The article was my answer to a Quora. I found that q
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by chdaniel 8y ago
But wait, isn't the biggest social network the perfect example? Made it free for everyone, gathered so much attention But when you want to advertise, you'll have to compete with so many others, hence the bidding. One could argue t
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by chdaniel 8y ago
That's one way. Another way I was thinking of while reading your comment is something along the lines of "bringing so much value for free, that eventually when they're asking for something from you, you'd feel guilty not
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by chdaniel 8y ago
You know it, you're a smart dude > If you're not directly making profit off of me, I'm either a marketing expense in your acquisition process or you're using our relationship to derive profit elsewhere. That "els
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by chdaniel 8y ago
Two of your examples are tightly correlated to some other articles of mine. The Google Drive example — I said this: "If you’re in a monopolistic environment and you’re successful, others will come. You can start building the experience
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by chdaniel 8y ago
> Dropbox - still on free after getting lots of free space through promos You didn't transfer any monetary value to them but surely helped them. That's a win-win. Amazing > My takeaway, none of these freemium methods are “ba
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by chdaniel 8y ago
> I am however subscribed to Notion.so since yesterday, after running into the 1000 blocks limit after multiple months of using it. I considered for a long while, but found that it does provide good value over all. > This is by far my
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by chdaniel 8y ago
Love seeing that! Maybe, just maybe, they do that to enable the Da Vinci example given in the article? Students that might be creating the next Facebook-like company in their dorm? Who knows
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by chdaniel 8y ago
True, when it comes to radio, we don't have the luxury of complaining about ads. Sure, you can switch to another station but what if you're driving...?
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by chdaniel 8y ago
> “Provide incentive for prospects to sign up for freemium but do not provide too much value so that free version of the product is enough.” That was a quote from another Quora answer. The article was my answer to a Quora. I found that q
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Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit(chagency.co.uk)
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by chdaniel 8y ago
you mentioning Cloudflare out of all the given examples is the proof that they're giving out a lot — hence why I said I love them despite never using their service "You will get happy customers who will be happy to recommend you,
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by chdaniel 8y ago
thx for the comment. yep, it's exactly about worrying about how to capture the value later. but through equality of opportunity, more often than not it will make its way to you (this captured value) as I mentioned in the article, it mi
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by chdaniel 8y ago
my website might be slower now because of the influx of users but it definitely loads!
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by chdaniel 8y ago
hi guys, I'm very humbled to have my content shared here. I'm very open to any kind of discussion around this topic. Feel free to reach me at daniel@chagency.co.uk