Consumers love Apple and Google because their products follow the laws of simplicity. But will their growing market dominance become a problem in 2010 and beyond?
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Apple, Google and China: What you should know
by Urs E. Gattiker on 2010/01/13 · 28 comments 22,212 views
Best business model: Free to use, pay to play
by ComMetrics Team on 2009/08/27 · 23 comments 16,454 views
in c corporate blogging,d business regulation,d business SME
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.
Tagged as: all things being equal, Apple iPhone, Arsenal, Barcelona, c micro-blogging Twitter, ceteris paribus, freeconomics, freemium, global brand, good practice, light version, Manchester United, marketing buzz, Nokia N97, pre-paid SIM cards, pro version, Real Madrid, revenue stream, risk management, social networks fail to make money, there is no free lunch, try for free pay to play
From fee to free: Will e-readers revive newspapers?
by Urs E. Gattiker on 2009/05/21 · 14 comments 9,642 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