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Re:The Effect of Shorter Trial Periods for SaaS by jmedwards on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:07AM (#3981830)
I'd love to see you perform some more tests (10, 20, 30) now that you have settled into your new website - for the good of the Internet!

Mileage, I'm sure, will vary depending on the audience.

Our company serves organisations of all sizes. I reckon a 14 day trial period would improve (at least the immediacy of) our conversions of small business customers, but it would simply cause difficulties and annoy our enterprise customers, often with a team of people involved at varying levels who are often spread over the world, resulting in a slow ramp-up to testing.

Targeting different trial lengths at different stereotypes of lead would be an interesting project...

Re:The Effect of Shorter Trial Periods for SaaS by d_jackson_kf on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:09AM (#3981840)
It would be an interesting project, but possibly detrimental too! Play with your own baby, leave mine alone : )
Re:The Effect of Shorter Trial Periods for SaaS by jmedwards on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:37AM (#3981955)
Thought you might say that!

But you never know - despite the substantial improvement, 14 days might not be your sweetest spot.