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Re: Just Like Russian Roulette, Freemium is a Numbers Game | Sixteen Ventures

sameerb — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:57:38 -0000

Thanks Lincoln, that makes sense. What is still a bit surprising is Ning totally killing freemium. Social networks are inherently viral - the traffic that free can help bring in can be huge. Even at a low conversion rate, it can lead to much larger higher conversions in such products. Ning got content, great PR and virality from its free users that one would think must have led to a very high (Addressable Market x Reach %) number for them. I understand products like basecamp not promoting a free version, but its hard to imagine that Ning would not benefit. They probably messed up up at some other place: maybe at you point out, they gave away too much for free.

Re: Just Like Russian Roulette, Freemium is a Numbers Game | Sixteen Ventures

sameerb — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:09:17 -0000

Lincoln: Great article. I am wondering how the "Addressable Market" and Reach translate to a pure web business. Should we substitute that by active users?

Re: Video up from Virtual Goods Summit, Metrics for Virtual Goods Businesses: The Whirled Case Study

sameerb — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:42:23 -0000

Andrew: Having the slides of this would really help. I cant read the slides from the video.

Re: How Threadless Got People To Buy Over A Million Tshirts A Year. – With Jeffrey Kalmikoff

sameerb — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:09:22 -0000

I read through this excellent interview & how you faced issues with FedEx account shutting off. Today, paypal shut down our account saying its getting too much transaction. So our few months old online fitness equipment retailer is out of business till we go through their verification process - hoping it wont be long, but looks like we will lose business for 2-3 days till they verify our supplier, delivery confirmations to customers etc Its a full check. They really should have reacted earlier & requesting all information, rather than shutting down our account all of a sudden.

Re: What Does It Take To Build A Successful Online Company? – With Michael Jones

sameerb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:03:22 -0000

Loved this interview .. just heard it from start to finish. I agree with his thoughts on subscription based business being very stable.

Things I would like to hear more about:

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It would be great if he had shared more information about the grid that he mentioned he made about "things people pay for".

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Also would be wonderful to get this thoughts on "market place" businesses like 99designs etc.

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He mentioned metrics as being critical to success for an internet company. While some of these are well known like new visitors/page view, some more details on what kind of metrics he records and how he makes them actionable. One of the issues we struggle with is projecting growth. I feel that if we can not project our traffic levels accurately say 3 or 5 months down the line, how do we make the metrics truly actionable? For a lot of us, its just very hard to say how much traffic a new PR campaign or a new product will bring in ..

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Share some of what hes been upto recently at MySpace.

Great interview - I enjoyed it a lot ! Good learning there!

Re: The Magento Story: How A Student Launched The Software That Powers Billions In Sales – With Roy Rubin

sameerb — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:01:55 -0000

I have been using Magento very successfully for our online fitness equipment retailer: http://www.eFITology.com. I can vouch for it being better than the other open source products out there. What issues did you face?

Re: Quizzes Are Huge On Twitter. What Does It Mean For You?

sameerb — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:35 -0000

Andrew: Just wanted to share a link to our Quiz site - ProProfs Quiz School - launched through Mixergy's Strut Your Startup - We allow easy creation, branding and sharing of quizzes and have grown into one of the most popular quiz sites out there:

http://www.proprofs.com/qui...

Here is an example of our widget running on a promotion done by Auntie Ann's Pretzels:
http://www.auntieannes.com/...

Tour: http://www.proprofs.com/qui...

Re: Thank You Jason Cosper For Killing Mixergy’s “Blog”!

sameerb — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:10:35 -0000

Andrew: Got it - but another issue. The redirection code is not search friendly. It should be a 301 redirect for search engines. You can check it at: http://www.seochat.com/seo-... . Type the www URL and see the code it redirects to.

Re: Thank You Jason Cosper For Killing Mixergy’s “Blog”!

sameerb — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:35:25 -0000

Andrew: Still not working. Check again.

Re: Thank You Jason Cosper For Killing Mixergy’s “Blog”!

sameerb — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:26:06 -0000

Hey Andrew - This is great. One minor issue: mixergy.com is not redirecting to www.mixergy.com. is this intentional or got slipped?

Re: Recommended Biographies For Mixergy Fans

sameerb — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:05:20 -0000

I see no harm in adding affiliate links. Andrew's recommending books hes liked - what difference does affiliate link make?

Re: Anyone with a design eye have a suggestion for what I should do with this section?

sameerb — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:38:50 -0000

I think interviews categorized by theme is a great idea.