The freemium model is a variant of free successfully used by Eudora Light (an email program launched 1988) that provides a core set of free features to all users. But as all freemium users have found, revenue must be generated to pay the piper. This is where Eudora failed and what might also lead to Twitter’s demise.
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Best business model: Free to use, pay to play
by ComMetrics Team on 2009/08/27 · 23 comments 16,455 views
in c corporate blogging,d business regulation,d business SME
From fee to free: Will e-readers revive newspapers?
by Urs E. Gattiker on 2009/05/21 · 14 comments 9,650 views
in c blogging - case studies,c corporate blogging,d business regulation,e marketing 101 serving a need
Newspapers are struggling to cope with shrinking advertising revenue and subscriber numbers. Increasingly, consumers are unwilling to pay for access to e-news, while for every legal media download, there are 20 more illegal ones. Is this the death of media as we have known it?
Tagged as: advertising revenue, Business Week, Claremont Courier, Financial Times, freemium, from free to fee, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Los Angeles Times, making online users pay, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New York Times, revenue source, revenue stream, social media marketing, Tages Anzeiger