81–90 of 91 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You would rather watch the movie with ads?? Really? I would pay to get rid of ads everywhere.
That is not a popular stance. See cable television.
Apparently we don't pay enough.
On Windows Phone, every app has the ability to offer a free "trial" version. So you can make a paid app, but still let the user try it (with less features, or ads). I think this mechanism is ideal.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agree. If you had four movie theaters that: 1) Charges $12 up front 2) Shows the movie for free with ads 3) Allows you to decide if you want to pay $3 for each quarter of the movie Easy: #2 or #3, then #1.
You would rather watch the movie with ads?? Really? I would pay to get rid of ads everywhere.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is not a popular stance. See cable television.
Sad thing is, even if we pay, we still get ads. Like before the movie is shown. Apparently we don't pay enough.
It seems that because you're comfortable paying for a product that you're actually more valuable to advertise to.
People say they are willing to pay but more often than not they look not to pay. Same as airlne tickets. Everyone complains the service and quality is terrible yet everyone is always looking for the cheapest price. It's the real consumer behavior drives the markets rather than our idealized behaviors ;)
Totally agree. If you had four movie theaters that: 1) Charges $12 up front 2) Shows the movie for free with ads 3) Allows you to decide if you want to pay $3 for each quarter of the movie Easy: #2 or #3, then #1.
Slightly revising my position: The order in which people would choose this doesn't really matter
The only business models I want to work on any more have some mass-market component that is absolutely free, and a niche companion product that makes money off of the exhaust fumes of the mass-market component. The last two businesses I started are Stack Overflow, which is free, where the careers business on the side makes money on the small fraction of Stack Overflow users who are looking to get better jobs, and Tre…
What are your thoughts on say something like a video course? i.e giving it away for free and doing an upsell on consulting or stick to charging for the course?
Another interesting example in this area is Michael Hartl with http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ which is now perhaps the most popular Rails tutorial out there. You can read it all online for free but he makes very good money selling the PDF and screencasts of it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are your thoughts on say something like a video course? i.e giving it away for free and doing an upsell on consulting or stick to charging for the course?
Totally doable. People are very willing to pay for personal training as a supplement to a video course. I've done this before, except I also charged (much less) for the non-hands-on part, but the far more expensive 2 hours of one on one training sold out first. Another interesting example in this area is Michael Hartl with http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ which is now perhaps the most popular Rails tutorial out there.…