Why Freemium fails: The Idiots Guide

by Ian Betteridge on July 29, 2009

Here’s your business model:
1. Attract people who don’t want to pay for movies by giving away free movies.
2. Try and charge people for something they specifically come to your site to get for free
3. Wonder what went wrong.

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  • http://www.purlem.com/blog Martin Thomas

    Hi.. Your post got me thinking… What is more valuable for a software company (like facebook or flickr). 1,000 paying users or 100,000 non-paying users? What are your thoughts? View my blog post here: http://www.purlem.com/blog/?p=57

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