A few years ago, digital music was mostly something that teenagers and techgeeks did illegally and inefficiently. Today, with iTunes in the lead, with $4B of the $9B music market passing through their store, there are many viable business models that enable the...
In the world of Freemium, one of of the biggest challenges is introducing a paid offering to complement the free one. Here are a few tips:1. The new offering needs to be better than the existing one. There are very few examples of companies that...
In my last post, I lamented the fact that too many companies focus on the top of the funnel, awareness, before they have figured out how to optimize leads and convert them into happy customers.I said the most important area of the funnel is the bottom. But...
I bet a lot of you have called the Nestle Crunch Hotline (800-295-0051) more likely for a laugh than because of a milk-chocolate-with-krispy rice-related question. What a great way to engage customers, and refresh their brand image as an engaging, lively company....
For awhile, everyone was talking about stickiness in online applications. Stickiness is the word commonly given to attributes of an online service that make users continue to return. Sometimes it is used to describe tactics simply to gain repeat usage, like...
