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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:50AM (#21332587)
I literally just switched to a very limited freemium model yesterday (just trialling it for now), but before then it was just pay to access.

It's $39 per quarter or $99 per year for access to all the content.

Quite a low priced product with decently high churn, so I've been trying to find ways to increase the value.

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by deevus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:55AM (#21332620)
Bonjoro is great for reducing churn. https://www.bonjoro.com

Check out how Matt Ragland from ConvertKit uses it here: https://www.bonjoro.com/uses

Disclaimer: I'm the CTO

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by taneq on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#21332715)
Honest question, doesn't this creep people out? I mean, I'm obviously not the target market but I find it awkward enough when sites pop up those "Hi I'm <name>, how can I help you?" chat windows even though I know they're just a script. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I'd bought something a while back from a site and I got a personalized video from the person running it.

(Then again I did buy a Klein bottle a few years back and it came with basically a photo commentary of it being shipped and that was absolutely awesome, so...)

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:00AM (#21332648)
Bonjoro is such an awesome idea! I was aware of it, but never thought to actually try it out myself. I'll look into it!
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by Freeboots on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:05AM (#21335356)
So, how exactly does this work? You get a notification that a customer has triggered your bonjoro, and then you record a video and send it to them via email?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by deevus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:51PM (#21340256)
Generally it works like this

- Discrete event (new signup, product purchased, new blog subscriber etc)

- Task is created in Bonjoro

- Bonjoro user records a video and it is sent to the person who caused the event

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by Havoc on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:39AM (#21332874)
Higher pricing than i would have guessed. But I guess it solves a professional pain point so worth it
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by icebraining on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:49AM (#21342536)
Seems cheap for a business case. Even when I worked in a low-wage EU country, that would easily fit into my training budget.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:40AM (#21332889)
What would your guess have been?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by Havoc on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:26PM (#21336221)
Probably around 60% of that.

But as I said if professionals are willing to happy then no point in being shy on pricing

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:31PM (#21336857)
I was just curious to know your number - it's an interesting data point. I have experimented with pricing, but not enough, so it's something I have to do at some point.