Pricing Questions

Why is Dropbox so much more successful than many other sites that offer/offered essentially the same service?

Pricing Business Model Competition User Interface Service

asked Mar 11 '11 at 23:05

Zippy
871 points

I am starting a company and am considering agile development, but I don't understand how a Fixed Price contract (the type I would like to use), could work. It seems like the point of Agile is to...

Pricing Contract Agile

asked Mar 14 '11 at 10:36

Skaz
254 points

We're looking into building a site that would facilitate receiving payments online for places that do no have this capability. There's more to the site than receiving payments, it also makes sure...

Pricing Fees

asked Feb 21 '11 at 14:00

Pbz
111 points

I would like to test prices for a SAAS (software as a service) product. I know how to do A/B testing. My question has to do with the ramifications of such testing. If we sell to Customer A for $99...

Pricing

asked Feb 27 '11 at 09:49

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

I know this question is a bit artificial, please don't explain me the concept, etc. because I am a professional senior e-marketer. I was just wondering how much do you think one general link click...

Pricing Marketing Advertising

asked Mar 1 '11 at 11:19

Vafello
106 points

Do you enterprise software people list your prices on your website? Most enterprise software seems to require the customer get in touch for a quote. What are you thoughts on this?

Pricing Marketing Enterprise

asked Feb 10 '11 at 05:59

Big Tuna
349 points

We're trying to figure out the pricing for a service we've been asked to provide (a couple times, in passing, actually in reference to something we've pitched that hasn't hit the mark "well that's...

Pricing Enterprise Saas

asked Feb 10 '11 at 15:31

Sean
1,149 points

I'm currently hashing out my price points for a hosting service that I plan on launching on Amazon AWS. The biggest line item in the budget is currently the machine time. I know that if I give a...

Pricing Cost Hosting

asked Feb 12 '11 at 07:07

James
139 points

Note: Cross-posted at programmers.stackexchange.com One of the side effects of the recent trend of "Lean" startups, and the app store era, is that consumers are more acclimatised to paying small...

Pricing Business Model Business

asked Feb 13 '11 at 01:40

Marty Pitt
171 points

I have started interviewstreet.com recently (helps in screening programmers). We have got around 10 paying customers who pay between $x-$y a month for the same product , same specifications, etc....

Pricing

asked Feb 14 '11 at 21:18

Viv
482 points

Just looking for some examples on what other people use as a pricing model for their enterprise software. Does anyone charge based on # of employees (not # of actual users)? We figure the # of...

Pricing Enterprise

asked Feb 16 '11 at 03:49

Big Tuna
349 points

I have two companies that have interest in licensing my business's content (training materials). I want to offer exclusive and non-exclusive pricing options, maintenance fees (for annual updates),...

Pricing Sales Legal Licensing

asked Jan 31 '11 at 07:22

User6935
36 points

I wanted to know what people's opinions were on monthly versus annual subscriptions. If I did go with annual payments it would offer a discount over the month-to-month costs for the year. Anyways,...

Pricing Plan

asked Jan 14 '11 at 07:15

John
161 points

I have a Japanese learning community website... Currently there are three main plans... Free: Access some of the content (some 20 lessons, a few cheat sheets, etc.), for free, forever. This is...

Pricing Website Trial Plan

asked Jan 20 '11 at 02:25

Philip Seifi
132 points

I am considering creating a solution, which would save large companies time. I am certain that they would save this time, so I am willing to sell my solution for a price that is proportional to...

Pricing Business Model

asked Jan 23 '11 at 08:11

David
1,567 points

If someone approaches you expressing interest in having you perform web-development work, what questions should be asked? Assume you know only the bare-minimum : he/she wants you to develop a...

Pricing Web Dev Communication

asked Jan 7 '11 at 14:16

Closure Cowboy
128 points

For a B2C subscription service, is it recommended to have a free plan? Based on my research, users who sign up free plan suck up a lot of support resources and a number of well known services have...

Pricing Payments Freemium Free Memberships

asked Jan 8 '11 at 11:56

User3462
345 points

A customer has found a serious security flaw in my software, over a year after their support period has ended. Should I provide a free update? The upgrade price is substantial, so I don't want to...

Pricing Security

asked Jan 12 '11 at 23:32

Steve Hanov
596 points

I have a product in beta (which is a minimum viable product) and am working on the release version. I had my early adopters take a survey and although a majority of them had great things to say...

Pricing Monetization

asked Dec 20 '10 at 06:44

Nick H
120 points

The scenario We just got our very first medium/large size client. They are opening a new company which operates around a web application that will be entirely developed and maintained by us. We...

Pricing Software Contract

asked Nov 25 '10 at 03:16

Marco
173 points