I almost did that. Ultimately I decided to take an "it just works" philosophy to crawl frequency (unless you need realtime).
Would you segment the number of pages differently? I think some sites with a lot of user generated content might actually have a ton of pages. But it is hard to get real numbers.
They're undepriced, but I think the first problem is going to be going from 0 users to 10 users (bang down doors) rather than extracting the maximum proper value from those first ten users. The optimal pricing strategy will still lead to him having 0 customers until he figures out who needs this and how to reach them repeatedly.
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I almost did that. Ultimately I decided to take an "it just works" philosophy to crawl frequency (unless you need realtime).
Would you segment the number of pages differently? I think some sites with a lot of user generated content might actually have a ton of pages. But it is hard to get real numbers.
Maybe Patio11 will chime in with some ideas for your pricing plans? Everything I know I got from reading his comments/blogs.
(I think he searches for mentions of his username, so the bat signal is officially turned on :-)
They're undepriced, but I think the first problem is going to be going from 0 users to 10 users (bang down doors) rather than extracting the maximum proper value from those first ten users. The optimal pricing strategy will still lead to him having 0 customers until he figures out who needs this and how to reach them repeatedly.
You're right. Getting these first ten is SO hard.
After I have ten customers, I will have much more information to base my prices and differentiators on.
Hmm I still like the crawl frequency as a price differentiator personally.
Other ideas might be a service level guarantee for the high priced plans. And included email support for setup.