Comments on: Make Early Users “Premium for Life” http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/04/04/make-early-users-premium-for-life/ Adam Darowski is a daddy of two and User Experience Designer for BatchBlue Software. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Adam Darowski http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/04/04/make-early-users-premium-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-11640 Adam Darowski Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:42:24 +0000 http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/04/04/make-early-users-premium-for-life/#comment-11640 Right... and the situation above doesn't really help Gabe. This works when you have, say, dozens or hundreds of users. TechMeme has a huge user base. If you go giving all those people freebies, there's no point in charging. Flickr does this in an interesting way. People that have been with the service for a long time (before the Yahoo acquisition) have an "old skool" tag on their user avatar. It's not a financial break, but it also gives the "I heard of 'em first" cred to some of the early adopters that we all love so much. Right… and the situation above doesn’t really help Gabe. This works when you have, say, dozens or hundreds of users. TechMeme has a huge user base. If you go giving all those people freebies, there’s no point in charging.

Flickr does this in an interesting way. People that have been with the service for a long time (before the Yahoo acquisition) have an “old skool” tag on their user avatar. It’s not a financial break, but it also gives the “I heard of ‘em first” cred to some of the early adopters that we all love so much.

]]> By: jennifer jones http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/04/04/make-early-users-premium-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-11627 jennifer jones Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:51:43 +0000 http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/04/04/make-early-users-premium-for-life/#comment-11627 Thanks for listening to Marketing Voices and taking the time to comment. I agree that it will be hard for Gabe to take away something that is now free unless he makes it more robust and then charges for it. jennifer Thanks for listening to Marketing Voices and taking the time to comment. I agree that it will be hard for Gabe to take away something that is now free unless he makes it more robust and then charges for it. jennifer

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