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I switched away from Freemium for my company yesterday. Should have done it a while back.

Free users are harder to support, more vocal and less likely to upgrade. Even a token amount of money initially is probably enough to discourage the "pathological" customers and the sunk costs mindset might encourage spending more money with your service.



Have you tried to make money on your free users in a different way?


The easiest way to make money is to ask for it directly from the people it benefits.

I suppose I could try selling user data or use advertising. Either require massive number of users and a lot of upfront time to get going.




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