Startup Funding Espresso -- Freemium Pricing

Freemium Pricing Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The freemium pricing model is used to expedite customer adoption of the product. Many companies use this as part of a tiered pricing model. The freemium model gives users some experience with the product. These are the advantages of a freemium model: It's easy to implement as the price is zero for a period of time or usage. Customer usage shows the company which ones to pursue for upgrades and paid services. Freemium models can generate virality. There are disadvantages to the freemium model, as follows: There is a cost to supporting free users including support and technical costs. Customers often don't value what they don't pay for. It can be difficult to move customers off the free service into the paid service. To use the freemium model effectively you must have a set of features that customers will pay for. If you give those compelling features away for free, then it will be hard to upsell them to paid customers. Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding. Let's go startup something today. _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ For eGuides check out: https://tencapital.group/education/ For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/ For Feedback please contact [email protected] Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound.