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TrueConf converts approximately 8% of free users to paid licenses

Lev Yakupov · 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees · Sep 13, 2019 · at 5:09

Lev Yakupov explains TrueConf's freemium on-premises sales funnel dynamics to host Nathan Latka.

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“So we usually have the conversion rate from the free version to the paid version approximately eight percent.”

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