InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Ways To Make A Freemium Service Work. The concept of a Freemium solution was not well founded when we launched BuddyHelp. The Freemium approach is now widely recognized as an effective product rollout strategy in which one version of the solution is offered at no charge, while other versions of the product require payment.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Geni launched in January of 2007 as a free service, created by former PayPal co-founder David Sacks, and switched to a "freemium" model in December 2008 with its Geni Pro service, as it went from building up users to figuring out a business model. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2011

In such cases, a Freemium solution might be the appropriate initial market foray. To learn how to not launch a Freemium solution, see Making Freemium Customers Pay. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. A Valuable Brand. Growing up in working-class families, the Beatles wanted to provide their fans with as much value as possible.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Thus, you may starve working on your labor of love.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

How are you finding your conversion rates working with the freemium model? John Nahm: Freemium has been working spectacularly. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. We have a conversion rate of between five and ten percent of users on a given month, who convert to premium usage.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Club Cooee uses a freemium service model, with the upsell focused on the sale of virtual goods. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. We'd like to see these options added in the future.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

That company was sold in 2007. It's been popular in recent years to have "freemium" services--can you talk about some of the decisions you made to go straight to charging for the service? How much technology automation is involved here, or is there just lots of labor involved? How far are you in terms of launching and offering this?

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