Comments on: Is $0.00 the Future of Business? http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/ Custom logo design, web design, and printed materials designed to help you pass the competition. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:43:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shawn http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/comment-page-1/#comment-3435 Shawn Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:52:29 +0000 http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/?p=765#comment-3435 Glad you found this little corner of the web, Ted. Great feedback. I'm sure you'd enjoy Chris' book. He actually discusses loss leaders in depth, among other "versions" of free. There are some innovative ideas in this book. I am using WL Member for my membership site (http://wp101.com) and I love it. I used nearly a dozen other solutions before choosing WL Member. While none of them are great, WL Member is at least easier to configure and use on a daily basis. I wrote an article about it on the site. Feel free to connect via email. Would be interested to hear what you're doing! And thanks for the tips. Checking out those sites now. To your success! Shawn Glad you found this little corner of the web, Ted. Great feedback.

I’m sure you’d enjoy Chris’ book. He actually discusses loss leaders in depth, among other “versions” of free. There are some innovative ideas in this book.

I am using WL Member for my membership site (http://wp101.com) and I love it. I used nearly a dozen other solutions before choosing WL Member. While none of them are great, WL Member is at least easier to configure and use on a daily basis. I wrote an article about it on the site.

Feel free to connect via email. Would be interested to hear what you’re doing!

And thanks for the tips. Checking out those sites now.

To your success!
Shawn

]]> By: Ted http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/comment-page-1/#comment-3434 Ted Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:31:45 +0000 http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/?p=765#comment-3434 Great post to have stumbled on to Shawn. I’m currently in the process of researching my next web venture and have been studying online business models for years. It’s been my observation that most information ends up free in some form online but that doesn’t mean that people are not willing to pay for convenience or premium content ext. “A new kind of free”… I like to think of it more as a lost lead item. You know, like when Home Depot or the grocery store has a certain item discounted extremely low which leads you into the store and you end up buying other items. Howevere, economics of abundance makes premium high quality information even more valuable... If you’re not providing real genuinely value to your customers then you won’t have a business for very long. “I provided streaming video tutorials to more than 3,000 visitors to my WordPress tutorial video site. All that bandwidth cost me just $2.58, thanks to Amazon’s S3 distributed storage network. The cost of delivering HD-quality streaming video to my clients has effectively become a no-brainer.” Congratulations on your membership site. Are you using WishList member? I was trying to convince one of my designer friend that we should do a similar project about three months back. He said it sounded like too much work. I’d love to talk to you more about some of the details of your site. Here are some sites that I’ve been spending a lot of time on. You might find them interesting. http://mixergy.com/ http://www.startup-review.com/blog/index.php Great post to have stumbled on to Shawn. I’m currently in the process of researching my next web venture and have been studying online business models for years. It’s been my observation that most information ends up free in some form online but that doesn’t mean that people are not willing to pay for convenience or premium content ext. “A new kind of free”… I like to think of it more as a lost lead item. You know, like when Home Depot or the grocery store has a certain item discounted extremely low which leads you into the store and you end up buying other items. Howevere, economics of abundance makes premium high quality information even more valuable… If you’re not providing real genuinely value to your customers then you won’t have a business for very long.

“I provided streaming video tutorials to more than 3,000 visitors to my WordPress tutorial video site. All that bandwidth cost me just $2.58, thanks to Amazon’s S3 distributed storage network. The cost of delivering HD-quality streaming video to my clients has effectively become a no-brainer.” Congratulations on your membership site. Are you using WishList member? I was trying to convince one of my designer friend that we should do a similar project about three months back. He said it sounded like too much work. I’d love to talk to you more about some of the details of your site.

Here are some sites that I’ve been spending a lot of time on. You might find them interesting.

http://mixergy.com/
http://www.startup-review.com/blog/index.php

]]> By: Gordon http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/comment-page-1/#comment-3393 Gordon Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:58:35 +0000 http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/?p=765#comment-3393 So, according to Chris' skeptics, the older generation is still saying, ' There is no free lunch. If it sounds to good to be true it must be.' While the Google generation feels they are entitled. I wondered where all the risk-takers have gone! So, according to Chris’ skeptics, the older generation is still saying, ‘ There is no free lunch. If it sounds to good to be true it must be.’ While the Google generation feels they are entitled. I wondered where all the risk-takers have gone!

]]> By: Gordon http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/comment-page-1/#comment-3392 Gordon Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:51:41 +0000 http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/?p=765#comment-3392 Excellent article! And, it couldn't be more timely for me personally. Excellent article! And, it couldn’t be more timely for me personally.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/free/comment-page-1/#comment-3390 Shawn Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:44:15 +0000 http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/?p=765#comment-3390 By the way, you can read the summary of Chris' book at Wired.com here: http://bit.ly/8Sh3v And, yes, you can even get the book for FREE in a number of ways. I read the book for free on Kindle for iPhone. You can check out more ways to get the book for free here: http://bit.ly/RulP3 By the way, you can read the summary of Chris’ book at Wired.com here: http://bit.ly/8Sh3v

And, yes, you can even get the book for FREE in a number of ways. I read the book for free on Kindle for iPhone. You can check out more ways to get the book for free here: http://bit.ly/RulP3

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