How do we charge our customers? Let them use our product for free and pray that someday they will upgrade? Des Traynor has the answers. He formulated four pricing strategies that could/already working for him.

1. Charge earlier than you’re comfortable with. Don’t wait until you have X-features before thinking about pricing. Once you have the main functionality of the product/service, start charging.
2. Charge more than you’re comfortable with. Charge based on how much you worth to the company, not how small the number of developers in your team.
3. Justify (or Kill) your lowest plan. Instead of freemium, use limited time trial.
4. Plan on Changing Prices. As you add more and more values to the product, the price should go up, not go down.

Interested to add game elements to your activity? Ensure it has the following properties:

1. The activity can be learned
2. The player’s performance can be measured
3. If the player can be rewarded or punished in timely fashion

Found via J.D. Meier

Only in Singapore, when you order a mix of Cincau (Grass Jelly) and soya bean milk, you would say, “One Michael Jackson, please”. Saying, “One Jacko, please” works too. I’m not really sure where the association is coming from. It might came from MJ’s image, who is racially black and have white skin, or it could be referring to his song “Black Or White”.

Only in Singapore, instead of saying “Sorry, my English is not that good”, we say, “Sorry la, my angmoh is no good”.

Photo by Megan Leetz

Only in Singapore, the casts of Fast and Furious shocked by the price of cars.

Do you know any other quirks about Singapore?