Folks are justifiably cynical, based on past behavior of companies doing similar schemes. Now, to TrialPay's credit, it required a first name only, and an email address. Using gmail, <my address>[email protected] easily eliminates any spam, spam which I've yet to receive. But the whole reason for the "+trialpay" was because of my first thought: "these guys are going to spam the hell out of me". I didn't just make that up on my own. People get that attitude honestly, and it's something one should always be aware of when asking for user information. Offended? Nah. Leary? You bet. In this particular instance it was a positive impression of the company because my expectations weren't met. :-) Mike StewartTwo Dogs Software, LLCwww.frostydogs.com
To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:19:18 +0000 Subject: [macsb] Re: Customer acquisition strategies It's disappointing to me that some people here are so cynical. For the record, I am the founder and CEO of TrialPay. I wrote Mac shareware for over a decade, starting when I was 11 years old. TrialPay emerged from the fact that most people won't buy shareware, but those same people will buy flowers for their mom for mother's day. Actually, we now power this for Facebook Credits (for Facebook) and do this for a lot of other companies -- HP, Fandango, Trend Micro, Intuit, Electronic Arts, etc. I'm not here to sell our service, though. I have never posted anything to this group promoting our service -- I believe our record with clients who use us effectively speaks for itself. I genuinely thought people might find some of the information we collected to be useful. The thought that we just made these numbers up is ridiculous. Why would we do that? We polled hundreds of our software publisher clients and published a report with CNET. Some industries tend to be more competitive than others. If you have a paid anti-virus product for Windows, you have intense competition and a large number of users are sourced from pre-installs and/or search. I apologize if anyone was offended by my post. Alex --- In [email protected], Rafael Bugajewski <raf...@...> wrote: > > Yep, count me in. This whole TrialPay stuff makes things worse and hinders > the popularity of media. > > Rafael > > > On 08/31/2010, at 03:13 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote: > > > I'd like to know what is contained in the report as well. I get enough spam > > from TrialPay now, I certainly don't want to sign up for more. > > > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:11 PM, ricky.hussmann wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Has anyone looked at this report yet? You have to sign up for the TrialPay > >> service. Perhaps I'm being a little ridiculous, but I was curious if the > >> material in the report is worth signing up for what looks like an annoying > >> service (TrialPay). > >> > >> --- In [email protected], "Alex Rampell" <arampell@> wrote: > >>> > >>> I thought some people might be interested in something we put together > >>> with CNET/Download.com on customer acquisition strategies for online > >>> software companies/ISVs: > >>> > >>> http://nl.com.com/view_online_newsletter.jsp?list_id=e482 > >>> > >>> We aggregated anonymous information submitted to us by several hundred > >>> clients; there's some good stuff in here that people might find > >>> interesting/helpful. > >>> > >>> Alex > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 > > Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: > > http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
