Comments on: A great alternative to 30 day free trials http://47hats.com/2008/05/a-great-alternative-to-30-day-free-trials/ Bob Walsh Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael http://47hats.com/2008/05/a-great-alternative-to-30-day-free-trials/comment-page-1/#comment-29665 Michael Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:28:25 +0000 http://www.mymicroisv.com/?p=337#comment-29665 We are maker or a similar Autotext and text expander utility PhraseExpress and offer it free for personal users with no strings attached. Only if commercial phrases such as "thank you for your order" are used with PhraseExpress then it will popup a reminder to purchase a license for commercial use. Don't know whether other methods would be better but we believe that it is a fair deal. http://www.phraseexpress.com/freeware.htm Michael http://www.phraseexpress.com We are maker or a similar Autotext and text expander utility PhraseExpress and offer it free for personal users with no strings attached. Only if commercial phrases such as “thank you for your order” are used with PhraseExpress then it will popup a reminder to purchase a license for commercial use.

Don’t know whether other methods would be better but we believe that it is a fair deal.
http://www.phraseexpress.com/freeware.htm

Michael
http://www.phraseexpress.com

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]]> By: Scott Kane http://47hats.com/2008/05/a-great-alternative-to-30-day-free-trials/comment-page-1/#comment-28830 Scott Kane Mon, 26 May 2008 12:36:46 +0000 http://www.mymicroisv.com/?p=337#comment-28830 Thing is though, there is a slightly different mindset on the Mac, at least traditionally, than on Windows. This kind of thing worked a treat prior to 1996 on Windows/DOS and was a common method. However A/B testing done then (and subsequently) has shown higher sales through enforcement of trials than of a pleasant reminder and nothing else. In fact. taking a time machine ride back to pre 1996 there were serial programs (in particular) that were libraries for common programs that used this technique. Yep - folks would use a stolen serial number just to stop the gentle reminder from the BlueWAVE Mail Reader or PKZip etc. Thing is though, there is a slightly different mindset on the Mac, at least traditionally, than on Windows. This kind of thing worked a treat prior to 1996 on Windows/DOS and was a common method. However A/B testing done then (and subsequently) has shown higher sales through enforcement of trials than of a pleasant reminder and nothing else. In fact. taking a time machine ride back to pre 1996 there were serial programs (in particular) that were libraries for common programs that used this technique. Yep – folks would use a stolen serial number just to stop the gentle reminder from the BlueWAVE Mail Reader or PKZip etc.

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