Want to go from free to fee?
Meetup.com did it.
Here’s the business plan:
Start charging money for what you offer. Just make sure what you offer is something great.
(That business plan will even fit on one CORNER of a bar napkin.)
Take a look… the important part starts about 3:35 into it:
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The most interesting line for me was where he said that their user base and the meet up groups quality improved dramatically once they started charging.
And I assume their expenses also went down since their traffic/bandwidth decreased.
Of course, it is worth noting, that meetup.com does offer a one-month free trial and that they are a continuity program -- so the parameters are different then saying selling a line of eight ebooks or something of that nature.
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