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6 reasons why you’d be crazy not to go freemium

Explore why adopting a freemium model can boost your business with lower friction, high marketing leverage, better product quality, and more! Discover how to leverage user decisions for success.

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6 reasons why you’d be crazy not to go freemium

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  1. 6 reasons why you’d be crazy not to go freemium

  2. who’s ready to talk about freemium?

  3. what does box.net do?

  4. 4,000,000+ users60,000+ businesses 500,000,000 files served/year

  5. we weren’t always ‘freemium’

  6. those were the two most profitable months we’ve ever had

  7. in 2005, an early investor said: “you’re crazy to give this away for free” …and then he referenced pets.com

  8. “think about the cost of storage, bandwidth, support, operations, and blah and blah and blah…”

  9. he was right and wrong he was already a billionaire, so it didn’t really matter

  10. the times have changed amazon s3, google, outsourcing, Ycombinator, and so on

  11. a free trial is not enough (unless you’re selling to the CIA)

  12. fundamentally, happy customers will pay you* *if you have a good product

  13. make the “average” free, and charge for the fringe security, more space, no ads, etc

  14. technology decisions are now being made by users, not management don’t put up a wall in front of them

  15. here’s why you’d be crazy not to give out your software for free

  16. lower friction = faster traction hook them early and get their data

  17. high marketing leverage your users are your marketers

  18. it forces you to make a much, much better product you can’t just be larry ellison

  19. sales will love you only talk to people that want your product

  20. reach traditionally impenetrable markets your product will seep into new ecosystems

  21. if they don’t want to pay, they don’t have to leave only lose customers to yourself

  22. just to be fair, a few reasons why freemium sucks

  23. sales will hate you for the same reason they love you

  24. delayed gratification some users take years to pay, most never at all

  25. lower commitment smaller barrier to entrymeans smaller barrier to exit

  26. free = cheap & insecure no one ever got fired for buying IBM

  27. in conclusion google wants to destroy you

  28. Build. Get traction.Monetize.

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