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What is an earned tier?
An earned tier gives the same access as a free tier on one condition: a public post about the product. Every rewarded post is disclosed, the reward never depends on the opinion, users can earn again on a set interval, and it becomes the product's only unpaid tier.
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- Every free tier costs money. Each free credit is spent on the hope that someone, someday, upgrades.
- An earned tier gives the same access on one condition. To get more, a user posts publicly about the product.
- The post names the product and must include an Ad disclosure, so the reader knows the connection before the opinion.
- The reward pays for posting, never based on what the post says. A complaint earns exactly what a compliment earns.
- And it's a tier, not a one-off promotion. Users can earn again on a set interval, for as long as they stay.
- It becomes your product's only unpaid tier, with the old free plan folded in as a small baseline.
- Flip your free tier to an earned tier. It costs about the same, and now it brings distribution back.