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Supporting The Freeloaders

Supporting The Freeloaders

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 22, 2009

In response to my yesterday’s post, Whose Throat Should We Choke, one of the readers sent me an email saying that it is unreasonable to expect Cloud applications providers to support freeloaders and dashboards are better suited to deal with them. He argues that there is no way SaaS vendors are going to spend money [...]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, free users, saas, support

Are Free Customers Disposable?

Are Free Customers Disposable?

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 6, 2009

Image by CC Chapman via Flickr Phil Wainewright writes on ZDNet.com about how web giants are treating their customers More than any of these acts, though, the most constructive change would be to get rid of the mindset that leads these Web giants to belittle the circumstances of its ‘consumers’. Is it unreasonable of us [...]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business models, customer support, free users, freemium, saas, support | 2 Responses

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