Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 48150
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texte = Alex McCombie wrote:>On 2/27/03 10:47 AM, Donovan wrote: > >While I agree about the logic of sub-domains (hosts) being flawed for us >this became infinitely more clear (if not tolerable) with the addition of >the unlimited fee on the commerce addition as well. > >Basically, in my mind and in my conversations here, I am simply referring to >the upgrade as a $1,500 price tag as considering ongoing multiple fees for >every domain (or host as it might be) was not acceptable. > >I had fully expected to see an upgrade fee of $1,000 anyway. While this puts >that fee a full 50% more than expected, at least it doesn't have to deal >with this domain license issue. > >As far as the difficulty of selling the subdomain license to customers, >should they opt to pay the lower than expected (at least by me) upgrade fee >of $495, > Who is going to buy into the current entry level system? You would have to have less than 4 domains and know for a fact that you would never need to grow to even consider the entry level option. At this point you are so close to the cost of unlimited that why not go to the unlimited anyway. (4 domains = a total (realworld) upgrade cost of $1045)The way I see it, it costs $150.00 per domain minimum. (regular domain, www, and one other host) In my opinion, the details of Smith Micro's solution has made the entry-level system a non-choice.An entry level is a good idea... if it works. Make an entry level based off of domains instead.Then basically, if the customer wants more than 20 domains, they should pay the unlimited cost of the upgrade. That is an entry-level system.Donovan-- -Donovan Brooke -Administrator of IT / -Assc. Art Director -Creative Services -Epsen Hillmer Graphics-402.829.0123 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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Alex McCombie wrote:>On 2/27/03 10:47 AM, Donovan wrote: > >While I agree about the logic of sub-domains (hosts) being flawed for us >this became infinitely more clear (if not tolerable) with the addition of >the unlimited fee on the commerce addition as well. > >Basically, in my mind and in my conversations here, I am simply referring to >the upgrade as a $1,500 price tag as considering ongoing multiple fees for >every domain (or host as it might be) was not acceptable. > >I had fully expected to see an upgrade fee of $1,000 anyway. While this puts >that fee a full 50% more than expected, at least it doesn't have to deal >with this domain license issue. > >As far as the difficulty of selling the subdomain license to customers, >should they opt to pay the lower than expected (at least by me) upgrade fee >of $495, > Who is going to buy into the current entry level system? You would have to have less than 4 domains and know for a fact that you would never need to grow to even consider the entry level option. At this point you are so close to the cost of unlimited that why not go to the unlimited anyway. (4 domains = a total (realworld) upgrade cost of $1045)The way I see it, it costs $150.00 per domain minimum. (regular domain, www, and one other host) In my opinion, the details of Smith Micro's solution has made the entry-level system a non-choice.An entry level is a good idea... if it works. Make an entry level based off of domains instead.Then basically, if the customer wants more than 20 domains, they should pay the unlimited cost of the upgrade. That is an entry-level system.Donovan-- -Donovan Brooke -Administrator of IT / -Assc. Art Director -Creative Services -Epsen Hillmer Graphics-402.829.0123 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Donovan

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