{"id":13384,"date":"2015-04-03T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3316531"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T17:15:00","slug":"increasingly-pay-per-use-is-paying-off-by-ariasystemsinc-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/increasingly-pay-per-use-is-paying-off-by-ariasystemsinc-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasingly, Pay-Per-Use Is Paying Off By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You hear the terms \u201csubscription economy\u201d and \u201csubscription commerce\u201d all the time. And with good reason. Subscription-based monetization is transforming business as we know it. But what about usage? Where\u2019s the \u201cconsumption economy\u201d? Turns out, it\u2019s all around us.<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of usage-based billing, the example that probably comes to mind first is metered public utilities \u2014 water, gas and electric. Phone services, especially mobile, might come next. Then maybe taxis. And that\u2019s about as far as most of us get before we scratch our heads. What else is there? Plenty. In this post, we take a look at several market niches where pay-per-use options are already the norm and why they work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3316531\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You hear the terms &ldquo;subscription economy&rdquo; and &ldquo;subscription commerce&rdquo; all the time. And with good reason. Subscription-based monetization is transforming business as we know it. But what about usage? Where&rsquo;s the &ldquo;consumption economy&rdquo;? Turns out, it&rsquo;s all around us.<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of usage-based billing, the example that probably comes to mind first is metered public utilities &mdash; water, gas and electric. Phone services, especially mobile, might come next. Then maybe taxis. And that&rsquo;s about as far as most of us get before we scratch our heads. What else is there? Plenty. In this post, we take a look at several market niches where pay-per-use options are already the norm and why they work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3316531\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13385,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384\/revisions\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}