Comments on: Three characteristics of a successful freemium business http://www.elezea.com/2010/07/successful-freemium-business/ A webcolumn on design & technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: G-J http://www.elezea.com/2010/07/successful-freemium-business/comment-page-1/#comment-66 G-J Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:42:34 +0000 http://www.elezea.com/?p=550#comment-66 Spot-on. Personally, I can add to more examples to the list, which for me followed exactly the same pattern to subscription: (1) mindmeister.com, a brilliant mind mapping tool that I use extensively in my work; and (2) toodledo.com, a task management tool that integrates seamlessly with GTD, my favourite approach to time management. In both cases the free product contained absolutely everything I thought I'd ever use, and I used both extensively and productively before I realised that it's just going to be more awesome if I upgrade. And it was. And yes, going premium took a long while for me, maybe 1-2 years. But by then it felt inevitable. Spot-on. Personally, I can add to more examples to the list, which for me followed exactly the same pattern to subscription: (1) mindmeister.com, a brilliant mind mapping tool that I use extensively in my work; and (2) toodledo.com, a task management tool that integrates seamlessly with GTD, my favourite approach to time management. In both cases the free product contained absolutely everything I thought I’d ever use, and I used both extensively and productively before I realised that it’s just going to be more awesome if I upgrade. And it was.

And yes, going premium took a long while for me, maybe 1-2 years. But by then it felt inevitable.

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