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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. BuddyHelp was launched in this proto-Internet environment and was immediately used by businesses to provide hands-on technical support.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

InfoChachkie

In contrast, companies that are rapidly growing often rebrand in order to more accurately reflect the expanded scope of their target market and product set. For a growing, successful startup, rebranding can be an effective way to redefine the company''s expansion beyond its initial core market. A Band-Aid On A Gushing Artery.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

InfoChachkie

Freemium business models are popular because they allow startups to quickly drive user adoption. It''s frankly easier to accelerate your startup''s growth and show faux traction if you omit the pesky step of asking users to pull out their credit cards.Let''s face it. Let''s face it. No Help From BuddyHelp.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

If Smucker’s can annually generate hundreds of millions in sales for a variety of food products, there is little risk that a mediocre company or product name will preclude you from achieving similar success. Follow Tom''s lead and make the pronunciation of your company and products obvious. Do''s And Don''t Do''s.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale.

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