Comments on: October 2007 Stats — $2,000 in sales

By: Starting a MicroISV in record time.

Starting a MicroISV in record time. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:12:36 +0000

[...] days and with less than 60 dollars he had built his program. After a year in business he is now grossing over $2,000 a [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:32:35 +0000

I live in Japan, have a full-time job, and gett about one CD order a day. Making the CDs myself would be a gratuitous waste of my time. Shipping them so that they arrived in America in a timely fashion would be more expensive than SwiftCD. It would also force me to get up every morning half an hour earlier to check for orders, pack them up, and drop them in the mail bin before heading to work. I hate getting up in the morning, and I would grow to hate the customers who forced me to do it. As a matter of fact, when I started offering CDs it was with a service which required me to punch in the details manually, a 2 minute task per order, and I hated even having to do that (my schedule is VERY tight in the morning — if I don’t get on the train at 7:36 on the dot, I am screwed).

SwiftCD is *worlds* easier than this — the orders come into e-junkie, the e-junkie computer communicates them to Swift-CD, I only ever have to get involved if there is a problem (i.e. once every 3-6 months, not daily).

By: Al

Al — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:34:48 +0000

Hi Patrick,

I really enjoy reading your blog. I am just curious how you decided to go with SwiftCD rather than make and ship the CD orders yourself?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:50:00 +0000

That is from the Google Webmaster Console. (Google for it — that is how I login.) It is under Statistics -> Top Search Queries. You’ll need to verify your site first to actually use the console. It takes about 5 seconds to do so — upload a file to your root directory, click a button, delete the file.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:29:28 +0000

It took me about 4 days to get my Slicehost account, something I did several months ago (to work on Kalzumeus, on the recommendation of a blog reader who raved about them). I put up a $120 deposit to get the account (6 months), which helped me get to near the front of the queue. It is my understanding that they are a little overwhelmed at the moment so I don’t think $120 will get you an account that quickly anymore.

I am extraordinarily happy with everything about their service.

By: Jordan Sherer

Jordan Sherer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:16:18 +0000

Hey Patrick,

This is a bit off topic, but I was wondering… How long did it take you to get your SliceHost account? How is their service compared to others?

Thanks,
Jordan

By: Rizal

Rizal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:50:57 +0000

Congratulations!