Comments on: “Pay What You Want” Marketing: Free With A Twist http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/ Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: AnthonyB. Realtor Postcards http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-200924 AnthonyB. Realtor Postcards Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:11:51 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-200924 This type of marketing is very interesting, almost like charity... This will never work for real estate agents! There are way to many sharks and scams out there... If a Realtor offered me that type of solution I would be thinking "whats the catch" hehe. Anyways, this was entertaining. Anthony B. This type of marketing is very interesting, almost like charity… This will never work for real estate agents! There are way to many sharks and scams out there… If a Realtor offered me that type of solution I would be thinking “whats the catch” hehe. Anyways, this was entertaining.

Anthony B.

]]> By: jfsellsius http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198491 jfsellsius Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:08:18 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198491 Good point Steve. Maybe you could rework the Dollar Store model to a pay what you want model. I think housing could work under the right circumstances to fill empty rooms-- maybe pay what you want after midnight (with the same checkout time) since these rooms would likely remain empty. The standby airfare is based along the lines of the after midnight hotel room, where the seat would go empty otherwise. The model might thus find application on a "circumstance" basis. Good point Steve. Maybe you could rework the Dollar Store model to a pay what you want model. I think housing could work under the right circumstances to fill empty rooms– maybe pay what you want after midnight (with the same checkout time) since these rooms would likely remain empty. The standby airfare is based along the lines of the after midnight hotel room, where the seat would go empty otherwise.
The model might thus find application on a “circumstance” basis.

]]> By: Steve Spalding http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198429 Steve Spalding Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:03:45 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198429 Pay As You Want as an economic model works best in industries where the marginal costs are low. If I can sell 10 Million MP3s for fractions of a cent, then it makes a lot of sense for me to let people buy them for whatever they are willing to give me. For retail, it becomes a little stickier. You need to come up with a way to make it so that on average you are making back at least as much as you paid to produce. Pay As You Want as an economic model works best in industries where the marginal costs are low. If I can sell 10 Million MP3s for fractions of a cent, then it makes a lot of sense for me to let people buy them for whatever they are willing to give me.

For retail, it becomes a little stickier. You need to come up with a way to make it so that on average you are making back at least as much as you paid to produce.

]]> By: Kunle Campbell http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198309 Kunle Campbell Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:24:57 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198309 The new Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV is going down a similar line as Radiohead's In Rainbows by free BitTorrent downloads under Creative Commons licenses http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9853174-7.html The new Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV is going down a similar line as Radiohead’s In Rainbows by free BitTorrent downloads under Creative Commons licenses

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]]> By: Vicki Lloyd http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198281 Vicki Lloyd Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:45:13 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198281 In many ways, real estate agents are already working for FREE! Take a listing, and if it doesn't sell, you just worked for free. Work with buyers, drive them around, and if they buy at an open house, or decide to not buy at all, you just worked for free. I guess if we worked with a contract that just says "Pay me what you think I was worth in the end...." that would be a closer model. I don't expect that idea to go mainstream with agents! In many ways, real estate agents are already working for FREE! Take a listing, and if it doesn’t sell, you just worked for free. Work with buyers, drive them around, and if they buy at an open house, or decide to not buy at all, you just worked for free.

I guess if we worked with a contract that just says “Pay me what you think I was worth in the end….” that would be a closer model.

I don’t expect that idea to go mainstream with agents!

]]> By: Joseph Ferrara http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198274 Joseph Ferrara Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:20:18 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198274 Hmm.. that's something to think about, Derek. Hmm.. that’s something to think about, Derek.

]]> By: DB http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198262 DB Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:02:01 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198262 So is Sellsuis going to be a pay as you want listing service? So is Sellsuis going to be a pay as you want listing service?

]]> By: Collectibles http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198037 Collectibles Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:14:10 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/real-estate-marketing/pay-what-you-want-marketing-free-with-a-twist/2008/03/07/#comment-198037 For any marketing, some one has to be act as a mediator. Hence growth will improve for both professionals. For any marketing, some one has to be act as a mediator. Hence growth will improve for both professionals.

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