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Visit any ecommerce company website and you'll likely find you can sign up for a free account or a free trial of the product/tool/service, with which the company hopes to entice you enough to become a regular customer. For example, the office favourite Graze will send you your first box of goodies free, Amazon Prime offers your first 30 days free even here at Smart Insights your can sign up for a free account and access over 20 of our resources.
This freemium model has become the defacto model for most brands online. The issue? You have to try and convince your audience who use your free service how do you convert them into paying customers. This is where new research on the mobile gaming industry from Facebook could help.
In this research, Facebook found out what mobile gamers were willing to open their wallets for:
Now if we translate this in terms of ecommerce:
The report also shows that gamers in the, what they term, 'developing countries' (BR, TR, ID, IN & TH) value Social Connections with many games having their own communities to become part of. Brands that can develop either own communities of uber-fans and advocates acheive sales success with the right management and upsell activities.
So, all in all, the freemium model in Gaming is very similar to ecommerce - Reach your audience with a free or low-cost offering and upsell, becoming a paid member through exclusives and a sense of belonging.
By Patrick Kelly
I have spent many years working with both B2B and B2C brands to implement data-driven marketing strategies covering paid search, SEO, Social media and marketing automation. You will also find me catching up on the latest Marvel releases or playing the latest RPG.
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