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[T709]The Road Less Traveled

by Gary, Gar

Freemium is a business model which works by offering basicgoods and/or services for free, while charging a premium for advanced orspecial features. The word freemium is created by combining the concepts freeand premium.

The Freemium model has been around for a while, but seems tobe coming into its own in the environment of Web 2.0. The Freemium model in its pure form providesa base set of services free of charge in order to keep the traffic flow goingbut then charges a fee for specialized services. The freemium model typically supports itsfree offering with advertising of some sort which then is used as an addedincentive to step up and pay for a premium product or a subscription-basedversion of the service.

It is in essence the inversion of the free sample. Ratherthan giving away one percent of your muffins to sell 99 percent, you're givingaway 90 percent of your goods for free to sell 10 percent. Your give away isintended to reach the largest possible audience. Freemium is something similarto certain video games, where you can play as much as you want up to level 10,and only in certain areas. If you want to access the rest of the game, you haveto pay.

Freemium is all about creating a traffic flow. If you canget a flow of visitors to your site, you can usually find a way to monetize.Free content is appealing and attracts people to your site. This is importantas it typically takes several visits to a site before someone buys a product.

Also free is great if you are not established as anauthority, and want people to get to know you more. Business relationships areall about trust and perceived value.

The downside to the freemium model comes in predicting thebalance between the free and the fee. If the free product is comprehensiveenough, the client may see no need to upgrade to the paid product. If the freeproduct falls short, the trust is broken and the client will not trust theupgrade to meet his or her expectations.

In today's ever-changing marketplace businesses struggle tostand out from the crowd. Freemium can set you apart and boost your marketshare.

Face it. There's still nothing new under the sun, and that applies to get rich quick schemes. There just is no such thing.

With a patient, steady approach to e-commerce, however, and reasonable goals, you can assuredly create a real online home business career that will work to bring in a living income for the rest of your life. The key to success, as with everything, is remaining grounded and making rational decisions all along the path of your work at home journey.

The biggest step you will take on that journey is deciding on a home marketing program that's right for you. The temptation is to dive into the glitzy websites offering cheap and profitable home business programs and, of course, the ubiquitous get rich quick scheme. Time to take a moment for pause at the crossroads and check out your atlas.

Take the time to research your possibilities. You will most certainly find some online home business opportunities that feel better to you than others. Gather them up like flowers, then take a little more time to investigate each one thoroughly. How do their case studies of success compare? Which ones seem to actually have content that has some meat on it? Which ones seem to be selling?and only selling?

Now take a look at how long the journey might be with each of your prospective online work at home opportunities. Do some of them claim you have to put in tons of time to master the technical aspects of e-commerce, such as Google adwords and click tracking? Are there some that offer to do that for you? Those shortcuts might save you a world of headaches along the way, and get you to your destination a lot sooner.

Compare costs, of course, of each of your favorite online home business programs. Double check the ones that say things like risk-free. They may just be for real.

Your time spent in studying your journey and the opportunities along the way will lay the foundation for building a figurative online "home," and then, maybe even a city. Done correctly, you won't find yourself down the road a short while later, stumbling about with your feet in the sand, as you watch your structure crumble around you!

Many novice Internet entrepreneurs are unaware that a learning curve even exists to create a successful online home business. Traveling the road with care is a good way to take short cuts that shorten the learning curve time without risking disaster around the next bend.

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