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How to make freemium pay

At the heart of a 'freemium' business model is a notion that makes me viscerally uncomfortable: giving something away for nothing. But in the right hands, it can work well. Here are three examples of how it can work for SaaS providers serving the business market. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Premium Service, Business Model, Service, Helpstream, SlideRocket, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-03-09

SlideRocket presents from the cloud

SlideRocket presents from the cloudYou Get What You Pay ForHi Zack, Thanks for the review nicely written. If you look at a comparable Microsoft stack you'll find that a) SlideRocket is considerably cheaper, b) you don't have to integrate the various components of SlideRocket together we already did that. It's...

Tags: SlideRocket

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

SlideRocket presents from the cloud

Something that I can't seem to avoid when writing a post on here are the words, "collaboration", "interoperability" and "productivity". These are, however, essential parts in the enterprise industry and a step closer to a fully fledged Enterprise 2.0 application. SlideRocket is a Web...

Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation, SlideRocket, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-28

SlideRocket opens up to the public

SlideRocket opens up to the publicflash type manipulation for the end user.Sounds interesting... maybe the only thing novel is the fact that business end users are being targetted for sales. Usually they leave presentations like this up to graphic designers. Not everyone is good with graphics.. just keep...

Tags: SlideRocket

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

SlideRocket opens up to the public

One of the most impressive Flex-based applications out there, SlideRocket, is now open for anyone to go and sign up. Screenshot Gallery They've been doing a private beta for the past few months but they launch today with some new features and a business model. In talking...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR, Marketplace, SlideRocket, Investment, Finance, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-28

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

How SlideRocket plans to make money

How SlideRocket plans to make moneyWhy?After reading about the product I'm left with a "so what" and "why" would I want it feeling. I can see some niches where it might fit, but with the exception of those niches, why would you want to be on a monthly subscription...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, nich, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

How SlideRocket plans to make money

Unlike so many misguided Web 2.0 startups, SlideRocket is going to ask its users to pay to use its Flex-based on-demand presentation application, and it plans a potentially lucrative add-on marketplace too. I got an exclusive sneak preview of its pricing plans. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Asset, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Billing, Analytics, Aria Systems Inc., SlideRocket, Mitch Grasso, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Planning, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-24

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in fundingLooks kewlhow is this different from power point or flash?I gather its more user friendly. Is it also platform independent?RE: SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 millionHey Ryan, your link for sliderocket invites...

Tags: SlideRocket, presentation application

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding

Update: Sorry about the link. Fixed. SlideRocket Screenshots is on the short list of my favorite Flex applications and it sounds like TechCrunch is pretty impressed. I've been following SlideRocket's development since almost the beginning and I'm a huge fan of what founder Mitch Grasso has been...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, SlideRocket, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-19

SlideRocket

SlideRocket is a flex-based presentation application. View this screenshot gallery of SlideRocket. by Ryan Stewart

Tags: Application, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, sliderocket

Image galleries 2007-09-19

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocket

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocketPretty, I guessOf course, since there's absolutely no feature set just a TV ad it's a little hard to tell whether it has any useful features.Google, at least, has a defined set of features including file import an export. If all I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, SlideRocket, TV ad, TV, advertisement, Google Inc., software

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocket

Today is not a good day for Microsoft Office. Google released their underwhelming-yet-much-anticipated PowerPoint killer today, Presently. I checked it out but it doesn't hold a candle to SlideRocket ZDNet Gallery, a presentation application built by Mitch Grasso using Flex and Amazon's S3. One of the reasons that I like...

Tags: Google Inc., Plug-in, Presentation, SlideRocket, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Additional Resources

Live blog results: students cannot live entirely in the cloud

Live blog results: students cannot live entirely in the cloudAgreed"Google Docs is good, great in fact, and I?ve been really pleased with what it can offer me, but Word 2007 just has that much needed leverage you need when dealing with complicated documents."Agreed. The ability to use it locally and...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, Docs, Live-blog

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

The Crunchies 2009

The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother. 7:23 p.m. Arrived just a little late, but got great seats. Sitting next to MC Hammer: 7:42 p.m. Om Malik...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Om Malik, Mobile, Amazon Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Funding software from add-on services

Funding software from add-on servicesJust to clarifyJust to clarify, I'm a big fan of monetizing SAAS through alternative means. While SlideRocket does charge for premium product features, we are also monetizing our free user base through a marketplace of resources and services for presentations. My comment about free software...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, add-on service, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

News to know: Windows 7, Azure, SAP, Google book scans, RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release Mary-Jo Foley: Windows 7: What's coming for business users Larry Dignan: Windows 7: Will it...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-29

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking

Update: KinetiCast can do PowerPoint imports but you can't edit them. I was looking at the "preview" mode in the file sharing screen but when you create a presentation you can import slides from PowerPoint. With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now...

Tags: Presentation, Presentation Creator, Productivity, Peer To Peer (P2P), AJAX, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-08

News to know: HTC Shift; Airport firmware; Microsoft mesh; Novell; VoIP

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Apple's security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backups Mary Jo Foley: Whatever happened to Microsoft's 'other' mesh projects? Paula Rooney: Novell's SUSE Linux 11 to come in...

Tags: Google Inc., Novell Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Firmware, E-mail, Telephony, Hd Dvd, Printers, Productivity, VOIP, Open Source, Online Communications, Networking, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-20