Should I Offer A Free Trial For My Product?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jarrod is ready to launch his product and wants to know about the pros and cons of offering a free trial. Jarrod’s site is http://thepegeek.com/. Jarrod was a part of 1 Day Business Breakthrough; more coming soon at http://1daybb.com. In this episode, I recommend Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/solutions/analytics). Do you have a question about selling your product? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.
0:10.8	What's up, everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 227 of Ask Pat.
0:15.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.3	We have a great question today from Jared,
0:22.8	who I actually met in person before in Australia,
0:25.7	one of me and Chris Duckers' One Day Business Breakthrough Events.
0:29.4	You can check out more about that at One DayBB.com.
0:31.9	That's B as in Boy. It's One DayBB.com.
0:34.8	But I do want to mention also, before we get to Jared's question,
0:45.6	today's awesome sponsor, which is freshbooks.com, the easy, super easy to use cloud accounting solution to help you with all of your business finances over a million different small businesses are using it.
0:46.5	And you should too.
0:49.4	And if you're doing any invoicing, this is the app that you should be using.
0:55.7	So go to get freshbooks.com and enter Ask Pat in the how did you hear about a section to get a free trial so again get freshbooks.com and enter ask pat in the how did you hear about a section and be worry free
1:02.5	in tax season which is coming up awesome now let's get to today's question from jared
1:06.9	hey pat jarred from the pheek dotcom here and firstly thanks for everything that you do.
1:13.9	And also thank you for giving me the motivation to head out there and validate one of my new
1:19.2	products before it was made.
1:21.5	As you know, it's been really successful and it's blown me away to be honest how successful
1:26.7	it's been.
1:28.0	And now we're actually at the stage of launching the product and we've got users in the product.
1:34.1	My question relates to offering some sort of free trial for the product.
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