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The $100 MBA Show

MBA830 Free Plans Vs. Free Trials

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Getting customers to commit to subscription services takes finesse. Offering free trials is one way to do it; offering a free plan is another. One is time-sensitive and allows you to showcase the full strength of your product. The other is open-ended but limited in how much it offers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show Daily Business How To So you can choose how to do business the right way every single day

0:18.2

With our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar at home. I'm also the

0:26.1

co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online over at

0:31.3

100 MBA.net. If you're just getting started and want to nail

0:35.8

your business idea, concept, product, whatever it is, check out our free seven-part video

0:41.8

course on idea validation. the five steps to validating a business

0:45.6

idea in the real world.

0:48.0

Just go to 100MBA.net slash free-hifen course to enroll for free.

0:52.8

In today's lesson we're going to take a deep dive comparing free plans

0:56.1

versus free trials.

0:58.0

In today's lesson we're going to primarily focus on SAS products,

1:01.4

whether there are software products, web apps, subscription-based businesses.

1:06.3

We often want to invite our customers to give us a try, to get a flavor, to get a taste

1:12.4

of what they can get if they become a member

1:14.3

and the two major options out there is either we create a free plan where they sign up

1:19.7

for free and have access to our product or a free trial which gives them access to a

1:24.8

product for a limited amount of time before they need to upgrade as a paid

1:28.2

member. We're going to go through the pros and cons as well as my recommendation.

1:32.2

You'll soon find out that one is particularly

1:34.8

strong in certain business models versus another. Free plants and free trials are a

1:38.8

great way to market your business and to get your product in the hands of as many people as possible.

1:44.2

But which one should you choose?

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