The phrase "a cost of entry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the expenses or requirements necessary to participate in a particular market, activity, or event.
Example: "For new businesses, understanding the cost of entry is crucial to ensure they can compete effectively in the industry."
Alternatives: "barrier to entry" or "entry fee".
In this way, Internet-based calls may often be free, but there is a cost of entry.
The purpose of the campaign "is to further our mission to make the world a little kinder by inspiring kind acts," she adds, and "doing a kind act is a cost of entry" to take part.
Because design should be a cost of entry.
But here's the rub: For Millennials, design is not a differentiator - it's a cost of entry.
high performance is a cost-of-entry expectation in high-end cars.
Mobile VR, which offers a much more accessible cost-of-entry to the virtual reality platform seems to always be bumping up against system limitations.
"Even if I came to you tomorrow with the perfect energy idea," Griffith said, "the reality is that to go from that idea to doing utility-scale power generation would be a minimum cost of entry of a hundred million dollars, and a minimum lead time of five to ten years".
And since theNet is a medium with a low cost of entry, fortunes are squandered on building that American icon, the brand.
SaaS both increased the market size for business software (by enabling mid-size companies to buy at a lower cost of entry) and delivering a better ROI for bigger businesses.
"Since streaming media has almost a zero cost of entry," Mr. Rose said in an interview, "one of the beauties of this is you have the ability to have an infinite number of voices -- music of the Caribbean or Celtic music or klezmer music for people who have a passion, but can't get it from other sources.
This is why the direct marketing team at Lion & Lion offers companies an end-to-end solution to test the waters with a low cost of entry point.
