Business models / Poll Ideas

[Fernando <ferdebla@teleline.es>]

I think that poll will be useless, the reason is that people in this maillist 
are not shareware targets, and even so, how many people are in this list... I 
calculate 100000 persons in the poll to be usefull in the shareware market.

Questions in the shareware market:
How many people see our program? 
Use to be easier to make people run a program once, now it is a little 
harder, but the total market has grown.

How many people use our program?
People may run our program once, but may no run it again, those are not our 
clients.  Our clients are the ones that use or program enough, in the game 
market the ones that play the complete free stage or something like it.

What percentaje of our users actually buy the program?
Real shareware seller may tell the actual numbers but 1% is a big number in 
this case.  For a real nice program like Quake 0,1 % is a very conservative 
previson.

In other hand if you get that only 1/1000 users of your program are shareware 
registers and each of the give you a $10 profit, How much money Quake has 
made using this numbers? ( 1 cent per actual user ).


You wrote:

>Be quite interesting to have a bit of feedback in poll form from some of
>the business model ideas we had recently.  Personally I've always wondered
>if shareware actually works - I know I've played a ton of shareware games,
>but I've never registered any.

-- 
Fernando Delgado

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