ShoutMix - Lets *Oooo ramai

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Free service has to stop *Oooo

Thanks for using ShoutMix for all these year. I have been providing free shoutboxes on the World Wide Web for over 7 years now. It wasn't long before I realized being 100% free is not sustainable. Just before ShoutMix's first birthday, it almost had to be closed. *Oooo

ShoutMix has tried to work with the freemium business model ever since. Conversion rates were low with the first version. With the second version, things improved and I have had more paying customers. Fortunately people liked the service and started paying for more features. *Oooo

With that in mind, the new third version was developed to make things better for free and paid users alike. It was developed with lots of feedback from users over the course of several years. Meanwhile my biggest goal remained: to improve conversion rate to keep things sustainable and profitable, all while making ShoutMix a really high quality product for everyone. *Oooo

One of the most mentioned feedback was that the old free version was too restrictive. Others are less trivial, just make it better, more premium features, more powerful stuff, avatar support, real time push update, really good spam protection, support for really high traffic situations, etc.*Oooo

Finally, in November 2011, the new version 3 was completed. It was launched successfully and very smoothly. It was a great moment. *Oooo

During the first month since launch, the reception went really well. New sign ups are in the thousands daily. Just within a month, almost 50,000 users have signed up! Hundreds of thousands of messages posted. Over 10,000 users from Facebook. Generally, users loved the new version. The growth are massive. *Oooo

So, what went bad? *Oooo

The conversion rate did not go up. In fact it fell lower. Our stats show 99.93% of users either have no intention to upgrade or are just happy with our free service. Worst of all, some customers have actually stopped paying and switched to our free service! It may seems to be good news for everyone right now, but it is really bad news for all of us. *Oooo

By offering too much with our free plan, we cannibalized our paid plans. Happy users did not make more paying customers. The projections are bad. Only 0.07% users are customers. These are the people who keep ShoutMix sustainable as a business. Business is the part making ShoutMix exists for everyone. If it keeps on going this way, ShoutMix will not be sustainable any more and will need to close down in the near future. *Oooo

The freemium model is broken for us. *Oooo

Some argued that ShoutMix can easily monetize its free service with ads. It has been tried, but the rates were terrible. Beautiful, unobstructive ads do not pay well for ShoutMix. We can probably do better with flashy popup ads, but no thank you. Our competitors do it with popup ads. But there is no way ShoutMix is going to commit such ugly sin. *Oooo

ShoutMix is becoming more of a premium product. In fact it already has. ShoutMix is designed to be the best in the industry. With passion plus personal investments of time, money and labor of over 7 years, ShoutMix has outgrown the freemium model. *Oooo

So where do we go from here? *Oooo

I have two choices. One, allow ShoutMix to become unsustainable. This is bad news for everyone. The other choice is to stop our free service. It is becoming obvious that this is where ShoutMix should go. And so, ShoutMix is not going to be free any more. *Oooo

Existing users will be able to continue using their accounts at no cost right now. The transition will begin within a few weeks. Eventually, users with free accounts will need to switch to a paying plan or stop using the service. The date is set at January 1, 2012. After this date, free accounts will stop working unless upgraded to a paid plan. *Oooo

The good news is that ShoutMix will be available for only $0.99/month and will be available effective immediately. For our old version (the Classic) it will only be available in Premium package which costs approximately $1.67/month. *Oooo

Existing customers are unaffected by all these changes. In fact, ShoutMix is going to be really awesome for our current and future customers. Our focus will be to make paying customers extremely happy and they will get 100% of our resources. If you are one of our customers, things are just going to get a lot better for you. *Oooo

ShoutMix has always been a product with great passion. It is just unfortunate that it did not work out as a free product. We all have to move on. And ShoutMix will continue to be the most affordable, high quality and premium live chat software that everyone can use and love. *Oooo

Snecx Tan

December 2011

source: http://www.shoutmix.com/v3/openletter.php

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RVP Record 2011

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Akhirnya berlabuhlah tirai 2011

menyaksikan Robin Van Persie berjaya memecahkan record Legendary Thiery Henry

“Thierry, is in my opinion, Arsenal’s best ever player,”

“He set that record, is an unbelievable player but on this one, I have just beat him! I fell one short of Shearer’s record but maybe next year."

“I am a sportsman, you want to achieve the highest. My main thing is to win games but I want to achieve the highest possible."

“This was one thing I could achieve a little more than Thierry in one year but just short of Shearer. You can look at it in many ways."

“It has been a great year, thanks to my team-mates, mainly. I could not have done it without them. They have been unbelievable. Theo has given me so many assists. All the players have been absolutely fantastic.”

Van Persie juga menceritakan isu kecergasannya pada tahun 2011:

“That is the main thing,”

“I could play relaxed and enjoy myself. I could go from strength to strength. I could feel that every single game I was getting fitter and better, which is an unbelievable feeling."

“I have had some knocks in the past but 2011 was clear with no injuries and I could enjoy myself. I was playing, having fun – as everyone could see."

“Not long ago I wasn’t even convinced I could play as a main striker. So I was not [expecting so many goals] at all but stuff like this happens when you are feeling relaxed and enjoying the game.”

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Wahh gitu

Like like you Persie

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This year

King Henry is return to Arsenal

for 2 month

?? Not officially yet ??

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Adakah Henry akan join Arsenal??

"For him to come back is something so brave. He has nothing to prove. He has a statue here – only a couple of players have that. He broke every single record at Arsenal – he won everything here."

"Some people might question ‘why do you do it, because you have proved everything already?’ but there is only one answer. That is because he loves the game so much that he just wants to play. I asked him a couple of weeks ago [to come back]."

"He is unbelievable, even in training. He had a couple of sessions and – I don’t want to put too much pressure on him – but he is looking right up there. He is looking very good. He knows when to drop, he knows when to make a one-two. He knows all these things. I am looking forward to it so much."

"It will be good for everyone. It is a massive joy to play and train with him. I am excited too. It’s like, ‘oh yes, Thierry is back, let’s have fun’,"

"The younger guys are all looking up to him. Everyone is sharing that feeling. Before the [QPR] game I saw him speaking to Francis Coquelin with the ball, showing him how to run. He is doing a great job already."

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source: arsenal.com, youtube

Happy New Year 2012

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Happy New Year to all of you

Semoga korang sihat sihat sokmo

Alhamdulillah

Bersyukur ke hadrat illahi

Kita masih bernafas di bumi Allah ini

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Apa azam korang tahun ini?

Alkisah dah ada beberapa target

tapi

Ianya belum boleh dihitam putihkan di dalam blog ini

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Kalau target ditempat kerja

Bulan lepas lagi Alkisah dah set dengan manager

Nak tak nak kena achieve sebelum half session 2012

Wehuu

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Alkisah terdengar dan terbaca

beberapa artikel & orang pernah cakap pasal

2012

kita kena prepare

nanti akan terjadi macam cerita 2012

??

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Waterparkk !!!

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Maka

Bagi peramal peramal yang hebat lagi bijaksana

sila layari video dibawah..

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Kiamat akan datang

tapi kita tidak akan tahu bila

jadi nasihat Alkisah

Beramal dan bersedia selalu

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Ujian Allah bukan macam ujian University mahupun sekolah

Last last minit baru nak study group cari testking ataupun terhegeh hegeh buat toyol

To late babe, its too late..

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Maka dengan itu

Mulai sekarang marilah kita sama sama

kembali ke jalan benar

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Insyallah

Bersedia sebelum terlambat

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