Friday, January 16, 2009

Tumblr and their free business model

I just posted this comment at SIA regarding Tumblr's claim of 625,000 users.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/screenshots-of-tumblr-version-5/page/1#comment-4970d75830b7d980006da6fa

I thought it was worth posting the comment here as well.


Yep, i dont see the business model.
It's easy to build a free service for 625,000 users.....converting them to paying customers is hard.
Want to see how easy, give me 625,000 Mars bars and I'm sure i could get rid of them in under a day at Union Square park on 14th St.
Whats the point.....?

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

5 comments:

  1. Good point. Time to see some innovation to the "now what" biz model.

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  2. yeh it's over a year old, guess they changed their url structure.

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  3. and can't you find it (the link) again or post the contents of it?

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  4. sorry doesn't look like the article is on their website anymore.

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