Comments on: The Crossover Business Model: Freemium http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/ Idea Fuel Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Angels Crying - Calling Your Name http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-16984 Angels Crying - Calling Your Name Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:05:53 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-16984 <strong>Angels Crying - Calling Your Name...</strong> news... Angels Crying - Calling Your Name…

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]]> By: Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog : Blog Archive : What Time’s “5 Things” Can Teach Us About About Web 2.0 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-304 Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog : Blog Archive : What Time’s “5 Things” Can Teach Us About About Web 2.0 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:51:44 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-304 [...] Listen to Chris, freemium works [...] [...] Listen to Chris, freemium works [...]

]]> By: Mike McDerment http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-89 Mike McDerment Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:39:34 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-89 Chris - thank you for the kind words and the referral. I'd say our biggest obstacle these days is getting the word out and your client's reaction is nice illustration of that. Great blog by the way, thanks for posting, - Mike Chris - thank you for the kind words and the referral. I’d say our biggest obstacle these days is getting the word out and your client’s reaction is nice illustration of that.

Great blog by the way, thanks for posting,

- Mike

]]> By: Chris Schultz http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-83 Chris Schultz Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:31:04 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-83 Mike - I was wondering if we were going to attract your attention. We needed a contrarian example so I appreciate your good humor. We do really love the service and in fact one of our clients asked us yesterday if we could build him an invoicing solution like ours. He was shocked to hear that our solution was a turn-key web app and I think he's already signed up with you guys. The Freshbooks solution is highly recommended, we really like it, particularly the wide variety of merchant solution plug-ins. Keep up the good work and so will we. I imagine we'll be "paying" customers before too long. I also now get your logic, thats a good point about facilitating the growth of your customers so that they can become paying customers. Thanks for the comment. Mike - I was wondering if we were going to attract your attention. We needed a contrarian example so I appreciate your good humor. We do really love the service and in fact one of our clients asked us yesterday if we could build him an invoicing solution like ours. He was shocked to hear that our solution was a turn-key web app and I think he’s already signed up with you guys. The Freshbooks solution is highly recommended, we really like it, particularly the wide variety of merchant solution plug-ins. Keep up the good work and so will we. I imagine we’ll be “paying” customers before too long. I also now get your logic, thats a good point about facilitating the growth of your customers so that they can become paying customers. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Mike McDerment http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-82 Mike McDerment Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:25:42 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-82 Chris, Keep building your business...we'll get you yet. ;) Just for the record, once you are billing more than three clients a month with FreshBooks, you pay for FreshBooks. Our thinking is until can get your business on its feet and have secured a few clients, we don't want to slow you down. Glad to see things are going well for you and thanks for the mention. - Mike Chris,

Keep building your business…we’ll get you yet. ;)

Just for the record, once you are billing more than three clients a month with FreshBooks, you pay for FreshBooks. Our thinking is until can get your business on its feet and have secured a few clients, we don’t want to slow you down. Glad to see things are going well for you and thanks for the mention.

- Mike

]]> By: Chris Schultz http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-80 Chris Schultz Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:32:51 +0000 http://www.voodooventures.com/2006/11/08/the-crossover-business-model-freemium/#comment-80 Thanks for your thoughts guys. We appreciate you guys continuing to come back and add to the conversation here. I definitely agree that the freemium model is a delicate one. As Sanjay said, you don't want to limit your product in a way that people won't get to taste your best features because that is leaving conversions on the table. Mark, tell me more about what do you mean with your Netvibes vs. Google comparison? Is Netvibes charging for a feature that Google offers for free or vice versa? Thanks for your thoughts guys. We appreciate you guys continuing to come back and add to the conversation here. I definitely agree that the freemium model is a delicate one. As Sanjay said, you don’t want to limit your product in a way that people won’t get to taste your best features because that is leaving conversions on the table.

Mark, tell me more about what do you mean with your Netvibes vs. Google comparison? Is Netvibes charging for a feature that Google offers for free or vice versa?

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