Comments on: Freemium for Blogs

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:55:47 +0000

“Commenting only for paying members only” – no no no no noooo!!!

By: Ste

Ste — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000

You are right when you say you dont need a huge amount of visitors to make the blog profitable but you will need to provide some good, solid, hard to find information if you want people to pay for it. If your information is extremely useful, accurate and upto date then word of mouth alone can sometimes be enough to catapult your sign-ups skywards.

By: Harry smith

Harry smith — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:12:16 +0000

Your proposal freemium for blogs is the best for those people who want to start blogging. But I have my own premium blogs. So will think in future.

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:57:14 +0000

Thanks for your feedback Sydney. I’m not sure you understand the nature of the freemium model right though.

It’s not about taking away what was free before but adding something people might want to pay for.

That’s the question of this post: What’s valuable in a blog so that people would even spend money on it?

Also what’s a very well known blog? Is my blog very well known? Not really. People know me in my niche, which is still quite small.

Still, making blogs profitable does not require huge numbers of visitors.

By: Sydney Monis

Sydney Monis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:35:21 +0000

I feel this policy is useful only for the very well-known blogs. For a normal blog getting a decent number of visitors, introducing this technique of making services available only to paid members will make them lose the already existing customers who don’t wish to pay. Its a free world and i feel information should be kept free too, services and tools apart.