Comments on: Free – is not a business model

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:14:27 +0000

I think Seth has been following Anderson a bit on this, too.

http://www.getimplemented.com/must-read/why-seth-is-wrong-about-free/

By: Steve Sammartino

Steve Sammartino — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:03:20 +0000

It was – and the site started making less money than before. So we changed it back.

Steve.

By: Peter Wok

Peter Wok — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:37:03 +0000

Isn’t Rentoid ‘free’ now?

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Value creation & extraction « Start Up Blog — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:09:43 +0000

[...] the past I’ve been very clear on my views about Free – it is not a business model. It’s a sampling campaign, or a related revenue strategy. But in truth, the methods for [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:57:05 +0000

But…didn’t you just say you’re giving them stuff for nothing.

So, you get their attention, then what?

Steve is right, it’s part of your promotion (sign up to mailing list, freemium, building trust, thought leadership, whatever).

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How to monetize « Start Up Blog — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:36:40 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:20:40 +0000

I’m amazed by how many bloggers are supporting Gladwell here! I read Anderson and didn’t much like his post, read Gladwell and thought it was even dumber.. then was taken aback by how perfectly Godin captured my sentiments.

“No business can survive without revenue.”

Talking about attacking a straw man!

“Here’s what ‘Free’ really is – it’s part of the marketing mix.”

No. It can also consist of offering a product to those formerly known as “consumers” in return for their services. They’re paying you in attention. Netflix, Amazon, (yes, Google) and numerous other successful companies are bathing in the success of this principle.

By: Transaction Friction « Start Up Blog

Transaction Friction « Start Up Blog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:35:25 +0000

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By: Sachin

Sachin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Personally, I think it is perfectly fine for people to take the main point of your idea from some experiments and build on it. It is now always to see a revenue as the first dish on your plate. Facebook changes thr way of revenue generation by including many things instead of just adds.

Gmail is free for many of us, but for enterprise they charge. Who knows gmail starts a subscription, the same way what usa.net did.

2. facebook start charging thr developers and share revenues like apple for the apps they make. Now this is not an add model… Read More

3. free is not a business, but definitely it is the source of business. Radio to consumer is free but for them they generate the revenue by ads and many more sources.

4. Depends on your model. facebook was something which happened, was never planned, but the data it will have must have some values. And the source of data is we -the free user