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If your service is free someone somewhere had better be making money

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

John Hagel wrote a good post back in March on the future of advertising, web2.0 monetisation and the trend towards free (thanks to Bart for the pointer). He picks up on a lot of themes we have discussed here and the full post is well worth a read. This bit really stood out [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Great Minds or a Zeitgeist - I wrote something similar yesterday :)

    http://broadstuff.com/archives/986-Freeconomics...
  • Exactly. We have number of competitors who provides a free service. What you see right now at www.edocr.com will remain free, but our strong belief is that we can provide paid value added services, from branding propositions to release of intelligence.

    Who thought boring business documents have so much capability until edocr came along. This is not what we planned to do at the beginning. Time has helped us to find our niche. Now we need bit of helping from our friends to make it a reality.
  • Thanks guys - and Manoj - you are right, a key source of value comes from the information that is created by people using services like yours.

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