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Re: Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week

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Post by robryan » Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 12:46 AM UTC

ramit wrote: post #134

agotterer wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To extend on what you said. I think the price points are wrong. I'm not sure the interviews are strong enough to justify at minimum a $25/month recurring subscription. I would potentially pay a few dollars (prob not though). If nothing else I would rather pay as I go ($1 a video or something) as opposed to the subscription. What it comes down to is that a lot of these people are being interviewed elsewhere that can b…

I've tested many prices for my content products at iwillteachyoutoberich.com/scroogestrategy.com/earn1k.com. Andrew, based on my experience and data from the content/marketing industry, I'd encourage you to charge more -- at a MINIMUM $47/month, probably $97/month or even $297/month. If you want to chat about why I suggest this, and some of my internal metrics, please email me.

The issue I see here though is that people will pay a lot of money if they think that they can get really high value out of your videos, such as you claiming to have a short cut to millions.

Andrews videos are useful but they aren't your short cut to millions, start ups are still going to be a lot of work and a big gamble no matter how much wisdom you have gained from people on the subject.

Re: Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week

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Post by chrischen » Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 6:15 PM UTC

bob345 wrote: post #119

rasikjain wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Information should always be free to the community and Mixergy should concentrate on monetization with different ways rather than subscription model....

"Information should always be free" Wrong. The provider of that information should be able to charge what he wants. It's capitalism.

Actually the market will force him to do something. that's capitalism. You don't just charge whatever you want without regards to market forces.

Re: Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week

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Post by chrischen » Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 6:22 PM UTC

ramit wrote: post #134

agotterer wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To extend on what you said. I think the price points are wrong. I'm not sure the interviews are strong enough to justify at minimum a $25/month recurring subscription. I would potentially pay a few dollars (prob not though). If nothing else I would rather pay as I go ($1 a video or something) as opposed to the subscription. What it comes down to is that a lot of these people are being interviewed elsewhere that can b…

I've tested many prices for my content products at iwillteachyoutoberich.com/scroogestrategy.com/earn1k.com. Andrew, based on my experience and data from the content/marketing industry, I'd encourage you to charge more -- at a MINIMUM $47/month, probably $97/month or even $297/month. If you want to chat about why I suggest this, and some of my internal metrics, please email me.

If that works, he'll make more profit at the expense of the community.

I'm sure there are plenty of upstarts who find these videos extremenly valuable, but aren't willing or able to pay hundreds of dollars. I don't think it's in Andrew's goals to do that.