Freemium Model

Loayza’s Online Business Models for Social Media Startups

July 28, 2009

Readers of this blog know I’m following online business models. Check out the recent post on Mashable by Jun Loayza, President of SocialMediaMarketing.com, on 5 Business Models for Social Media Startups

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Free: The Future of a Radical Price — Chris Anderson on Free as an Online Business Model

July 15, 2009

How can online businesses with digital content survive if “free” is the reigning business model?  Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired,  tackles “free” as a business model in his latest book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. (At Amazon, the price is not free, but $16.19.  You can really read it online for free at [...]

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Demise of the Business Model of "Free"? Are Freemium and Micropayment Revenue Models the Future?

February 17, 2009

I’m mulling over online business models and free content today.  Two thought-provoking posts about fundamental changes in 2008 sent me down this path. Chris Anderson’s The Economics of Free argues “Free may be the best price, but it can’t be the only one.”  He makes cogent points relevant to those using “scale up and sell [...]

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