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: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 20:09:17 -0700
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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