Need your ideas about how Comodo can generate revenue from free products! :-)

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[Júštiñ™]

Provide support directly from Comodo at a small cost.
But keep the forums free. People who want 24/7 professional support can pay and get it.

Hi,

I think e-mail support should be free, but if you want to talk live on the phone then pay for phone support.

[jessica]

I don't understand what is so bad about providing a way for people to donate.  I have used several free software programs, and if any of them were worth a hoot I always donated something for the oppertunity.  I hope I am not alone doing this, but reading some of the posts here I don't believe I am.  Just add some text in a corner of the webpage  > "If you like the product and wish to donate, your controbution will help fund further development." or "pay for our pizza delivery" Whatever seems appropriate.  Or maybe just offer an email address to contact someone if you want to help.  I feel obligated in a way to show my appriciation for the use of a quality product.  It's really decent that something like this is offered to the public, fully operational even.  You didn't even make me fill out one of those irritating forms that require you to divulge everything about yourself but your dogs name.


 Many thanks,   Jessica       

[panic]

I don't understand what is so bad about providing a way for people to donate.  I have used several free software programs, and if any of them were worth a hoot I always donated something for the oppertunity.  I hope I am not alone doing this, but reading some of the posts here I don't believe I am.  Just add some text in a corner of the webpage  > "If you like the product and wish to donate, your controbution will help fund further development." or "pay for our pizza delivery" Whatever seems appropriate.  Or maybe just offer an email address to contact someone if you want to help.  I feel obligated in a way to show my appriciation for the use of a quality product.  It's really decent that something like this is offered to the public, fully operational even.  You didn't even make me fill out one of those irritating forms that require you to divulge everything about yourself but your dogs name.


 Many thanks,   Jessica       

G'day Jess and welcome to the forums.

I've got to agree with you - this software is worth paying money for.I have previously suggested that they accept nominal payments through Paypal or similar, but Melih (the CEO of Comodo) isn;t releasing these to directly make money off them. Hopefully, they will accept donations in the future and pass on the proceeds to charities. This is the kind of company that they are - amazingly ethical.

I hope you enjoy Comodo's software. All of them are great (even though the anti virus/spyware is still in beta) and are well worth checking out.

If you have any queries, please post them here (after checking out the FAQs). The users here have got a broad range of experience and are only too happy to help.

Again, welcome to the forums.

Ewen :-)

P.S. What is your dog's name?

[jessica]

G'day Jess and welcome to the forums.

I've got to agree with you - this software is worth paying money for.I have previously suggested that they accept nominal payments through Paypal or similar, but Melih (the CEO of Comodo) isn;t releasing these to directly make money off them. Hopefully, they will accept donations in the future and pass on the proceeds to charities. This is the kind of company that they are - amazingly ethical.

I hope you enjoy Comodo's software. All of them are great (even though the anti virus/spyware is still in beta) and are well worth checking out.

If you have any queries, please post them here (after checking out the FAQs). The users here have got a broad range of experience and are only too happy to help.

Again, welcome to the forums.

Ewen :-)

P.S. What is your dog's name?

  Thanks for the kind welcome Ewen!  Internet forums can be sort of cold to newbies sometimes.   Donations going to charity is a good idea, maybe Melih will put some thought to it.   I'm getting the feel of the program, although I do have a few questions.  I'll dig around here and see if they were asked before, if not I'll run them by all you techies.  Thanks, Jessica

P.S.  I have "Buddy"  a cat.   

[Melih]

  Thanks for the kind welcome Ewen!  Internet forums can be sort of cold to newbies sometimes.   Donations going to charity is a good idea, maybe Melih will put some thought to it.   I'm getting the feel of the program, although I do have a few questions.  I'll dig around here and see if they were asked before, if not I'll run them by all you techies.  Thanks, Jessica

P.S.  I have "Buddy"  a cat.   

We already have programmes for Charities where we try to provide services free and where we can't we provide them at cost. We very much want to let charities benefit from the success of our products, so we will put something in place when we have some bandwidth.

Keep telling us how we can improve pls! Everything we do is for you! Literally :-)

Melih

[pandlouk]

Make a comodo IE toolbar with a search button for google and other search engines. But it must be a separate program.


A Comodo toolbar for IE. Like the one that Norton has
http://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,1221.0.html

[Scott B.]

I've givin this some thought, and noticed a couple of effective ways.

You could have the autoupdater be shareware, for a fee of say $5 for 1 year licence. Much like spywareblaster or similar...

a donate button, like spybot s&d and thousands of other programs is always a viable option.

get involved with public education computer security.

I don't like the idea of paying for a manual at all, documentation should come with a product.

[Redmark45]

Hi well it's my first post on this forum after finally getting the firewall installed using the new beta version 2.3.2.21....Wow I have been around since the early days if Internet and the WWW.
This as a free product by far excels anything either free or otherwise have to pay for on the net PERIOD. Reading many peoples thoughts on how to help, I already have written to my ISP provider on the subject of Comodo's new for free firewall, hoping that they can help in any way possible. My ISP is BTOpenworld, they already provide a security suite which is crap!!! Told them so many times......So if everybody here on these forums writes to there ISP admin sites extolling the virtues of Comodo as a licencing product......Free with there software. I'm sure the "Word" would get out very fast indeed. I also have to agree with HungryGhost, "Trust" goes along way with companies Comodo has to be able to show that it can beat its opposition by being the best product (Which it already is).

Certification is needed for Comodo's firewall, showing it to be a true Stalwart Defender of your computer.   

[comicfan2000]

   Ok, this has been hashed and torn to pieces in the other threads, but to generate revenue, I still say Comodo browser. Think of the money other browsers make from adds , etc...And you can in fact hype up your own products. Melih, others have said it would be a risk, but I haven't heard your take on it. In fact, technically of course , would this be a risk to Comodo? Others have also said you may get bad hype about it, but in truth this happens anyway due to (as politely as possible) scum sucking companies trying to undermine Comodo.  Comodo has always risen above it, and will continue to do so, would a browser be all that different then? Don't get me wrong, I know the technical implementations of creating a browser are great, but in fact could be done, correct? I am in no way saying I am right or wrong, I will accept either answer, but would truly appreciate hearing what you have to say, if you hate it, etc...I can take it!

  P.S.  If you say you like it, you will get the Meatball Admin award!  lol.  What an incentive huh?

  Thank you ,

 Paul

[Melih]

   Ok, this has been hashed and torn to pieces in the other threads, but to generate revenue, I still say Comodo browser. Think of the money other browsers make from adds , etc...And you can in fact hype up your own products. Melih, others have said it would be a risk, but I haven't heard your take on it. In fact, technically of course , would this be a risk to Comodo? Others have also said you may get bad hype about it, but in truth this happens anyway due to (as politely as possible) scum sucking companies trying to undermine Comodo.  Comodo has always risen above it, and will continue to do so, would a browser be all that different then? Don't get me wrong, I know the technical implementations of creating a browser are great, but in fact could be done, correct? I am in no way saying I am right or wrong, I will accept either answer, but would truly appreciate hearing what you have to say, if you hate it, etc...I can take it!

  P.S.  If you say you like it, you will get the Meatball Admin award!  lol.  What an incentive huh?

  Thank you ,

 Paul

I do see the pros and cons!
There is always way of getting into browser market via utilising the mozilla and adding security to it!
the question is:
why re-invent all that, why not simply add the security layer on top of it?
Even though I can see the advantages of creating it all from scratch. But that would also take resources away from what we are doing currently which is not desirable.

I am still sitting on the fence on this! (very unlike me! :-) )

Melih

[falkor]

Everyone always wants more .  Well , by looking around just a LITTLE bit , you can see Comodo is growing by leaps and bounds .  As Melih knows , a good product will draw them in .  Word of mouth is already big and keeps getting bigger .  By the way , in the last 3 days , the membership here has grown by 68 members .  Comodo IS making the rounds and will draw attention as long as it produces quality .
  Good luck on the browser issue Melih .  Maybe seems like a tough decision but , just remember .  Opera had to finally stop the ad version because of the drop off in customers and bad word of mouth .  Although you would get SOME benefit , as a business person I think you will see that the down far outweighs the good .  Good luck though .
  And why not do what the Firefox idiots did ?  Have everyone start posting a Comodo download link everywhere they can .  Firefox gained a bit .  But , Firefox had already been out for quite some time and many had already tried it .  It did gain but , not to the point they had hoped .  Again , word of mouth at this point is great .  Keep it good and it will grow with ease regardless of what else you do !

[DoomScythe]

I do see the pros and cons!
There is always way of getting into browser market via utilising the mozilla and adding security to it!
the question is:
why re-invent all that, why not simply add the security layer on top of it?
Even though I can see the advantages of creating it all from scratch. But that would also take resources away from what we are doing currently which is not desirable.

I am still sitting on the fence on this! (very unlike me! :-) )

Melih

I would agree if Comodo build some extensions for Firefox as a added layer of security. However, if Comodo were to take the path of building a browser completely from scratch, I think it would be a waste of resources. There are many other products out there that Comodo can develop, where the pastures are greener.

Yours truly,
DoomScythe

[comicfan2000]

Everyone always wants more .  Well , by looking around just a LITTLE bit , you can see Comodo is growing by leaps and bounds . 

  Sigh,   <<I dont want anything. I don't want MORE of anything, THE TOPIC IS HOW COMODO CAN GENERATE REVENUE FROM PRODUCT SO WE GIVE OUR OPINION>>  I wanted to know from MELIH why this wouldn't be a good idea, I wasnt' the one benefitting from it, it was to try and create revenue <<for COMODO.>> I would assume take his word for it over others. This is why I said, I didn't care either way, so just to clear this once and for all....

 <<< I don't care if they use it or not, I simply wanted to know WHAT the issues were with it, WHY it would or wouldn't work.>>>> I don't care if it's used or not, like i said, I wasn't exactly looking for award here. Just curiosity. I mean no offense here but any user on comodo can say why THEY think it's bad, but to get the perspective of Melih, is what really mattered so I could lay this to rest.

   This is the specific reason I asked. I was trying to help Comodo with ideas AS ASKED. 


<I am not arguing and speaking in a tone but capitalizing words to stress the importance of what I am saying> if you will,  but I do fail to see your reasoning for the way you answer people.  You clearly make it sound as if I am not personally happy with Comodo, you say they are growing by leaps and bounds which I agree and love comodo products, but you would assume then if comodo asks of us our ideas, we are then simply selfish and want more?? If you can in fact explain your thinking pattern on what leads you to believe that I want MORE of from Comodo, please do so I may understand WHERE you are coming from. Perhaps then there will be no need for back and forth on this.

  Take care,

 Paul

[comicfan2000]

I do see the pros and cons!
There is always way of getting into browser market via utilising the mozilla and adding security to it!
the question is:
why re-invent all that, why not simply add the security layer on top of it?
Even though I can see the advantages of creating it all from scratch. But that would also take resources away from what we are doing currently which is not desirable.

I am still sitting on the fence on this! (very unlike me! :-) )

Melih

 Thank you for that Melih. That's simply what I wanted to know was the why this wouldn't be feasable, and understand.  By the way, I did not vote you as a senior citizen! loll.  :

 Take care,

 Paul

 

[comicfan2000]

I would agree if Comodo build some extensions for Firefox as a added layer of security. However, if Comodo were to take the path of building a browser completely from scratch, I think it would be a waste of resources. There are many other products out there that Comodo can develop, where the pastures are greener.

Yours truly,
DoomScythe

 Thanks for the take, and in fact what Melih has stated. I am not business oriented and truly have no idea what resources Comodo has\doesn't have which is why I wanted Melih to explain, it puts it into perspective, ya know? I have no problem with it and in fact if that big of resources needed to do such a thing, I would not expect it from Comodo either. 
   
  Take care,
Paul

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