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Welcome, welcome. Welcome, first of all, to Side-Asel School, the daily podcast brought

to you by myself, Chris Killapot and our amazing team. Welcome as well to a brand new month.

This is episode 1521 going out on the 1st of March, the year known as 2021. Now, here's

a question for you. How many online services do you pay for? This is kind of like how many

browser tabs do you have open? It's almost like, I don't want to think about it. I'm paying

for so many different services these days and that's the new way. You're paying $5 a month,

$10 a month, $25 a month for all kinds of stuff, perhaps a lot more than $25 a month, especially

if you've got a Side-Asel. You've got a business. There's all kinds of business expenses that

are all done on this recurring payment model now. Just imagine what a small or medium-sized

company pays, especially since a lot of these services have scalable pricing, which is

really good for them means that the more you use them, the more you pay. As a company grows,

if it's using more data, if it has more users, whatever the group or the metric is, those

bills really start to add up. I remember a couple of years ago, the WDS team and myself,

I run this event called Role Domination Summit and our team was using Slack to communicate.

Slack is freemium like a lot of these services and so you have a free version and then you

can eventually upgrade and pay them a lot of money. It was interesting because the free

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