My Re-Commitment to Customer Support
Supporting customers is a great experience and is also a key selling point for a lot of good products online. But it can be hard to do, especially when you’re product really begins to grow and become...
View ArticleTurnover is vanity
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity but cash is reality. I heard Hilary Devey quote this on Dragon’s Den recently. Great quote. The post Turnover is vanity appeared first on Gilbert Pellegrom.
View ArticleBootstrapping a Small Software Business
I've been running a small Web Development company for more than two years now. Dev7studios has been successfully profitable from day one. That may sound great, but that is partly because we are such a...
View ArticleLimited Company vs. Sole Trader
One of the first big decisions that you need to make when starting out on your path to creating a business is what type of company you should register as. In the UK at the moment you generally either...
View ArticleSelling to a Mass Market
One of things I discovered after launching the Nivo Slider WordPress Plugin was that the people who bought the plugin were not the people that I had expected to buy the plugin. I imagined that the kind...
View ArticlePricing is Hard
Over at Dev7studios we sell WordPress plugins and Web Apps so I've had to make decisions on single product pricing as well as SAAS pricing over the years, and none of it has been simple. I think part...
View ArticleOn Founders Being Unprofessional
A word to the wise (looking at you, startup founders and co-founders especially), don't start getting bitchy with people online. You never know who might be an existing (or potential) customer. Nick...
View ArticleUber for Groceries
While I was in Miami a few weeks ago I got the opportunity to use Uber for the first time. I've been raving about it ever since. "It's the future" I keep telling people. Anyway this lead to a kind of...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Selling under Non-Disclosure
Back in the summer I sold one of my small SAAS apps that had around 100 paying customers. After trying a few private channels someone recommended I try selling the app through a broker. I had sold a...
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