You often get what you pay for," said Travers, a marketing consultant based in France. "Many free sites try so hard to please advertisers (their true customers) with intrusive ad formats that they become unusable. Is that what the hard-core proponents of the free Web are wishing? We'd rather pay for good online services than be provided lousy ones for free."
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Internet ride ending: an article where I was able to get the point across that customer acceptance to fee-based services is growing, if you look what they do (i.e. more and more paying services have more and more users,) instead of asking them whether they like it or not (aka "Jupiter Denial".) I also argued quite strongly that the current state of the free web is not that compelling:
