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Per *month*?
Mar. 8th, 2011 10:54 amI just got a come-on from LinkedIn, offering me one month free of their "premium" service. Of course, I know the pusher-in-the-playground business model perfectly well, so I'm not signing up for anything without a little more research, but it did make me curious.
I go to the LinkedIn homepage, which I pretty much never use: I'm a passive consumer of LinkedIn, treating it as a useful Rolodex and accepting connections from people I know, but not doing much with it. I look around a little, and am immediately struck at how hard it is to find *prices* anywhere. Indeed, I can't find the prices listed on any page that I can access without logging in and selecting the "upgrade" button.
Boggle.
The plan they're trying to push at me costs $40 per month? Seriously? I mean, $40/year is around what I was expecting, and I might even think about it if I actually used LinkedIn much -- the tool would be mildly useful if I was job-hunting and didn't have as good a personal network as I do. But $500/year is pretty outrageous -- and moreso considering that that's only the middle-tier plan. (Yes, really: there's one that's even more expensive.)
I repeat: boggle.
Does anybody actually subscribe to this? I suppose headhunters probably do, and I can see it being worth the investment for them. But I'm hard-pressed coming up with a reason why anyone else would. Is it priced to take advantage of the desperately unemployed? I guess that makes sense -- they're probably targeting people who are actively job-hunting, and pricing it on the assumption that they will pay almost anything for a month or three until they find a job, and then drop it again...
I go to the LinkedIn homepage, which I pretty much never use: I'm a passive consumer of LinkedIn, treating it as a useful Rolodex and accepting connections from people I know, but not doing much with it. I look around a little, and am immediately struck at how hard it is to find *prices* anywhere. Indeed, I can't find the prices listed on any page that I can access without logging in and selecting the "upgrade" button.
Boggle.
The plan they're trying to push at me costs $40 per month? Seriously? I mean, $40/year is around what I was expecting, and I might even think about it if I actually used LinkedIn much -- the tool would be mildly useful if I was job-hunting and didn't have as good a personal network as I do. But $500/year is pretty outrageous -- and moreso considering that that's only the middle-tier plan. (Yes, really: there's one that's even more expensive.)
I repeat: boggle.
Does anybody actually subscribe to this? I suppose headhunters probably do, and I can see it being worth the investment for them. But I'm hard-pressed coming up with a reason why anyone else would. Is it priced to take advantage of the desperately unemployed? I guess that makes sense -- they're probably targeting people who are actively job-hunting, and pricing it on the assumption that they will pay almost anything for a month or three until they find a job, and then drop it again...
Per *month*?
Mar. 8th, 2011 10:54 amI just got a come-on from LinkedIn, offering me one month free of their "premium" service. Of course, I know the pusher-in-the-playground business model perfectly well, so I'm not signing up for anything without a little more research, but it did make me curious.
I go to the LinkedIn homepage, which I pretty much never use: I'm a passive consumer of LinkedIn, treating it as a useful Rolodex and accepting connections from people I know, but not doing much with it. I look around a little, and am immediately struck at how hard it is to find *prices* anywhere. Indeed, I can't find the prices listed on any page that I can access without logging in and selecting the "upgrade" button.
Boggle.
The plan they're trying to push at me costs $40 per month? Seriously? I mean, $40/year is around what I was expecting, and I might even think about it if I actually used LinkedIn much -- the tool would be mildly useful if I was job-hunting and didn't have as good a personal network as I do. But $500/year is pretty outrageous -- and moreso considering that that's only the middle-tier plan. (Yes, really: there's one that's even more expensive.)
I repeat: boggle.
Does anybody actually subscribe to this? I suppose headhunters probably do, and I can see it being worth the investment for them. But I'm hard-pressed coming up with a reason why anyone else would. Is it priced to take advantage of the desperately unemployed? I guess that makes sense -- they're probably targeting people who are actively job-hunting, and pricing it on the assumption that they will pay almost anything for a month or three until they find a job, and then drop it again...
I go to the LinkedIn homepage, which I pretty much never use: I'm a passive consumer of LinkedIn, treating it as a useful Rolodex and accepting connections from people I know, but not doing much with it. I look around a little, and am immediately struck at how hard it is to find *prices* anywhere. Indeed, I can't find the prices listed on any page that I can access without logging in and selecting the "upgrade" button.
Boggle.
The plan they're trying to push at me costs $40 per month? Seriously? I mean, $40/year is around what I was expecting, and I might even think about it if I actually used LinkedIn much -- the tool would be mildly useful if I was job-hunting and didn't have as good a personal network as I do. But $500/year is pretty outrageous -- and moreso considering that that's only the middle-tier plan. (Yes, really: there's one that's even more expensive.)
I repeat: boggle.
Does anybody actually subscribe to this? I suppose headhunters probably do, and I can see it being worth the investment for them. But I'm hard-pressed coming up with a reason why anyone else would. Is it priced to take advantage of the desperately unemployed? I guess that makes sense -- they're probably targeting people who are actively job-hunting, and pricing it on the assumption that they will pay almost anything for a month or three until they find a job, and then drop it again...
We just got an email from BBC America, telling us that a show we were interested in is airing soon. The show is Torchwood.
Episode 2.
Airing February 6, 2008.
One does wonder just how big that mail queue managed to get before somebody noticed it...
Episode 2.
Airing February 6, 2008.
One does wonder just how big that mail queue managed to get before somebody noticed it...
We just got an email from BBC America, telling us that a show we were interested in is airing soon. The show is Torchwood.
Episode 2.
Airing February 6, 2008.
One does wonder just how big that mail queue managed to get before somebody noticed it...
Episode 2.
Airing February 6, 2008.
One does wonder just how big that mail queue managed to get before somebody noticed it...