Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
- Subject: Re: Thinking about shareware prices... (was a question about NSDate inside userDefaults)
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 02:10:32 -0600
Thanks for the article. I'm not sure I agree with it, though. For
certain types of utilities (of which mine is a member) which do any
kind of recovery, diagnostics, or repair on a user's system, files,
disk, or are used in any other way to solve problems, time-based
limitations and crippling both seem like a poor idea. The user wants to
know if the utility will actually work to fix whatever is wrong with
their machine before they pay for it. I know I feel this way about
shareware utilities if I ever have to use them - why register something
that won't fix your problem anyway? The user has to be able to try it
out and be sure first. Otherwise it would be lost sales, I think.
Charles
On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:36 PM, Michael Grant wrote:
I don't have any statistics, but I suspect that nagware that won't
let the user do anything or is too annoying during the trial period
doesn't do much better. Kind of a Laffer curve or something.
Definitely, but that's not really shareware, it's just a crippled demo
:-) Then it would be better off as a streaming video showing what the
software is supposed to do.
Here <http://www.dexterity.com/articles/registration-incentives.htm>
is an article that recommends using both time-based and feature-based
incentives, and how to do manage the buyer's perceived risk/benefit.
This is the only writing I've seen that really gets into the
psychology of a shareware transactions!
Alex Rice <email@hidden> | Mindlube Software |
<http://mindlube.com>
what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco
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