Comments on: Business Fear Mongering – “But what if everyone uses that” http://experiencecurve.com/archives/business-fear-mongering-but-what-if-everyone-uses-that Learning and writing about emerging internet culture Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:06:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: karl long http://experiencecurve.com/archives/business-fear-mongering-but-what-if-everyone-uses-that/comment-page-1#comment-72 karl long Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:35:37 +0000 http://experiencecurve.com/?p=90#comment-72 Too true, that's why i liked flickr as an example, i mean they charged from the begining, and their value proposition was such a slam dunk I signed up the next day. None of the trying to squeek by on a free account. It was $50 bucks a year at first (if memory serves), but for that you got 2 gig's of upload bandwidth every month, i'm not a math genius but I quickly figured out that was 24 gigs a year, no brainer. Of course I barely use 2% of that on a monthly basis :-) From a business model standpoint, and this is an often overlooked fact, they bucked the trend of charging for storage, I mean even two years ago if you were basing your business model and pricing on the cost of storage it was like tying your priceing to a falling rock. Flickr was very innnovative by tying their pricing to bandwidth, guess what, it's still 2gig's upload a month and they've halved the price. Anway, an inovative product combined with an innovative business model was flickr's success. Everyone else was charging for 100megs of storage and trying to make money of prints. Thanks for the comment. Too true, that’s why i liked flickr as an example, i mean they charged from the begining, and their value proposition was such a slam dunk I signed up the next day. None of the trying to squeek by on a free account. It was $50 bucks a year at first (if memory serves), but for that you got 2 gig’s of upload bandwidth every month, i’m not a math genius but I quickly figured out that was 24 gigs a year, no brainer. Of course I barely use 2% of that on a monthly basis :-)

From a business model standpoint, and this is an often overlooked fact, they bucked the trend of charging for storage, I mean even two years ago if you were basing your business model and pricing on the cost of storage it was like tying your priceing to a falling rock. Flickr was very innnovative by tying their pricing to bandwidth, guess what, it’s still 2gig’s upload a month and they’ve halved the price. Anway, an inovative product combined with an innovative business model was flickr’s success. Everyone else was charging for 100megs of storage and trying to make money of prints.

Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Levi Cooperman http://experiencecurve.com/archives/business-fear-mongering-but-what-if-everyone-uses-that/comment-page-1#comment-71 Levi Cooperman Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:17:42 +0000 http://experiencecurve.com/?p=90#comment-71 What about another important question: "If everyone uses it, how will that make me money?". This is a question too few web 2.0 businesses are asking before they put together a great new service that attracts thousands of users. What about another important question: “If everyone uses it, how will that make me money?”. This is a question too few web 2.0 businesses are asking before they put together a great new service that attracts thousands of users.

]]> By: Futurelab's Blog http://experiencecurve.com/archives/business-fear-mongering-but-what-if-everyone-uses-that/comment-page-1#comment-70 Futurelab's Blog Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:44:16 +0000 http://experiencecurve.com/?p=90#comment-70 <strong>Business Fear Mongering - “But what if everyone uses that”...</strong> by: Karl Long Many conversations about interactive products and services come to the point of asking the question “but what if everyone uses that”, ususally reffering to the “free” aspect of a service, or the general priceing, o... Business Fear Mongering – “But what if everyone uses that”…

by: Karl Long Many conversations about interactive products and services come to the point of asking the question &ldquo;but what if everyone uses that&rdquo;, ususally reffering to the &ldquo;free&rdquo; aspect of a service, or the general priceing, o…

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