freeconomy-growing your business in free economy
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Growing Your Businessin Economy of
FREEKapil KanugoTwitter: @kapilkanugo
Email: [email protected]
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What is FREECONOMY ?
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ECONOMIC GRAVITY
Competition forces To Start giving Something for
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DIGITAL PRODUCTS1. Digital Information has low barrier to Entry1. Benefits include Faster Mass user adoption2. Information is cheap down to nickels and dime3. Apps on appstore, Websites etc are all available either
for FREE ot FREEMIUM
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE MARKETHardware Products
1. High Cost of Hardware Manufacturing and reproduction.Example, hardware, microprocessors used to cost $10 per transistor 30 yrs ago while they cost 0.00000015 cents today.
2. Harder to Mass adoption and higher barrier to entry3. Reasons include cost of hardware is Non-zero.4. Hardware products make money around software
ecosystem5. Example: Itunes for iPod
abundanceDriving force of Information to Zero is
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Wants to be
Customized Information Commoditized Information
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Price for digital product is eventually going to be
Marginal Cost ofPROCESSINGBANDWIDTHSTORAGE
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Time
In Competitive Markets
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Free is always just a gimmick.
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Free is an attractive Price Point
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Companies like can offer things for free indefinitely,
You can do the same
&
If you are so inclined
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The Web is rapidly becoming the biggest store in history
everything is going to become available at
100 percent off eventually.
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It will be the
basis for many business models in the
future
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because
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abundance of Digital markets is a
Given,
not an option.
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It makes sense to start right away trying to build a business model which
will thrive on free.
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It CAN be Done
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ask Google, Yahoo! or loads of other companies
which are thriving
by giving their services away for
free
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Someone
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Somewhere
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Is going to figure out how to make it happen
In every Industry
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BE That Someone
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By creatively expanding the
definition of their industries in order to find ways to make their core product free by
selling something else.
How?
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. You Can’t stop free
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– so don’t bother trying to hold
back the floods by using laws or locks.
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Pirates will figure out how to do it
&they will let everyone in on the secret
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Take free back from the pirates&
develop a business model
which enables you to make money from
selling upgrades.
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You certainly can make money from
free
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People will always pay
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to Save Time
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To Lower Cost
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or for something they are
passionate about.
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People will also pay for
status.
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If they’re hooked on what you do, they will pay for more of the same.
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Use free to open doors & reach new consumers
and then figure out ways to
charge them.
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Be prepared to
redefine your market
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In Web world, Attention and
Reputation is Money
It’s your job to find ways to convert either of
those currencies into cash.
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The way to compete with Free is to move past the abundance to fill the adjacent scarcity.
If software is, ,
sell support.
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If phone calls are free,
sell distant labor and talent that can be reached by those free calls (the Indian outsourcing model in a nutshell).
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If your skills are being turned into a commodity that can be done by software (hello travel agents, stockbrokers, and realtors), then move upstream to more complicated problems that still require the human touch.
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Sell customized solutions Not Commoditized Solutions.
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Understand that sooner or later you’re going to be forced to compete with free in your industry –someone will figure out how to give away what you charge for.
They will do it through cross-subsidies, by software or by some other means.
Your only choice is to come up with a 100 percent price discount yourself and figure out something else you can sell or somehow ensure the differences in quality will overcome that price difference.
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By making innovations available for free, more people are encouraged to build on your ideas
making it easier for you to make money by selling services around the
free goods.
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You reach a broader market
sooner if you give things away.
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Free is not a silver bullet which guarantees you success. Simply giving stuff away will not make you rich.
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You have to plan carefully and deliberately how you will convert the reputation you hopefully earn by giving things away into cash. Every project will have a different answer to that puzzle.
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You need a business model which harnesses free constructively and productively.
To give your stuff away and hope for the best is no business model at all.
You need to think about the possibilities and figure out how to make free work for you. It always can be done and if you can’t figure it out, wait until your competitors do.
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Embrace waste rather than trying to eliminate waste all the time–don’t worry about things that are getting progressively cheaper all the time.
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Don’t keep on tryingto ride the scarcity model of business
when the world is awash in capacity abundance for everything.
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Get ahead of the pricing trends by moving to free now
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Don’t forget free inevitably ends up making some things more valuable
– value always migrates somewhere else. A 100 years ago, entertainment was scarce and time was plentiful. Today, the reverse holds true. Figure out what’s going to become more valuable when the products in your industry become free to all and go there now.
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Manage for abundance –wasting resources won’t be
expensive over time
Let people access resources without restrictions and
experiment more.