Product framing often takes advantage of the brain’s tendencies to take shortcuts when estimating value
Example: A steakhouse offers three steaks of escalating value. The brain will often assume the bottom one is too cheap and the top one is too expensive, ultimately taking the shortcut to the middle option.
Should you go trial or freemium? My takeaways from analyzing 50+ SaaS products:
1. You don't have to choose, you can do both! 90% of freemium products also offer a trial.
2. Go trial if your product needs hand-holding and has a high price-point.
3. Go freemium otherwise.
We can have more than one subscription.
Boom.
One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple".
Do you know how many tiers the fastest growing subscription mobile apps have (upper quartile in terms of growth)?
Not 1.
Not 3.
maybe more interesting and differentiated (and fun!) subscription bundles can be created by combining two things you wouldn't typically associate with each other
pair a subscription someone really cares about and bundle it with one they only partially care about, so the latter feels like a bonus
For example Netflix bundled with Blue Bottle, Kindl... See more