Posts from 2006
- June 2006
- So you want to be a microISV
- Dev Journal: First Three Days in the Trenches
- Random Acts of Kindess
- From Design to Market In Eight Days Or Less
- The Original Conception through Release In 7 Days Story
- The Pros and Cons of Java for uISV
- The Sorrows of Java Printing
- The Joys of Open Source
- Development plan for the rest of the week
- And we're feature complete
- Unveiling The Software & Market
- My Competition
- Guestimating Market Size
- Introducing the Bingo Card Creator website
- From Visitor to Downloader to Purchaser
- Unexpected Expenditure & Great Marketing Idea
- July 2006
- Why Even One Man Teams Should Use Source Control
- Home stretch!
- So I Hit The Big Red Button And Went Away For Six Hours…
- Bingo Card Creator By the Numbers
- Cows, milk, and conversions
- Rock On Google
- Yahoo Advertising vs. Google Advertising
- My Very First Customer Contact
- Must Not Get Blinded By The Trees…
- A Feature Before Bedtime
- Day #11: First Page of Google
- My conversion rate is abyssmal
- Happy Fourth of July
- Optimized Landing Page #1
- Random Improvement
- I Just Made (A) Front Page of Google
- Some minor accounting
- Idea for uISV Product
- Hustling for development dollars on eBay
- Took off nag screens
- Nice Weekend Camping, Plans for This Week
- Conversion Rate Steadily Improving
- Getting Organic Search Traffic
- Localizing
- My first feature request
- Getting started with eSellerate
- The Long Tail of Search
- My First Sale!
- Accounting
- Minor Niggles
- Making AdWords Work For You
- Oh noes!
- Yay for iterative improvements
- Grr, annoying hackers
- I am really starting to hate web development
- Aww, poor cracker…
- 'Tis An Ill Wind Indeed…
- Figured Out The IE Problem
- Five Programs I Will Eventually Donate $20 To
- If you're coming here via Google…
- Its OK To Be Second Best
- I'm Cash-Flow Positive
- Another Payment Processor To Look At
- From "Minimize CPC" to "Maximize Conversions"
- Re-evaluating My Opinion of YSM
- Drop-Dead Simple Update Checking
- Lesson: Check To Make Sure You Have Uploaded The Correct Installer
- Coolest mISV Product Ever
- Google's Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak
- And back to your regularly scheduled programming…
- Legitimate Organic Searches Eclipse PPC
- 10 minute tweaks to boost your conversion
- On-page SEO for Small Companies
- Minor Programming Tweaks
- August 2006
- I'm Profitable
- A Month Worth Of Stats
- I Hate Typos + PAD Files Work
- More Business Firsts
- Semi-Offtopic: The Passion of the Customers
- Support Does Not Scale. Customer Service Does.
- Seasons Change, Ads Get Borked
- Single Minute Exchange of Dies
- Fie Upon You, YSM
- Bingo Card Creator 1.03 Released
- Peeking Over Your Customers' Shoulders
- Impressions On Download Sites
- A Love Note To My Favorite Productivity App. Ever.
- The (Trial Downloads) Numbers Game
- Don't Let Java/.NET Deployment Scare You
- Early Results of Auto-Submission Experiment
- I'm Reviewed On A High Traffic Web Site!
- The Anthem of My Business
- When Ruthlessness Is Required
- Everybody Say Hiya To the New Guy
- Tweak Your Installer, Double Your Sales
- Update on Ad Experiments
- Ten Reasons Why Most Internet Writing Is Terrible
- You Can Probably Stand To Charge More
- Mid-month Stats Update
- I Love My Job
- To Limit, or Not To Limit
- Going Away For A Week
- Back Again
- If Three of Your Computers Burned Up In A Week…
- Open Source vs. uISVs — Some Myths That Need To Die
- Bingo du Jour
- I Took My Own Advice… And It Paid Off
- Outsourcing for the uISV
- The Visual Impact Stock Icons Make
- The Art of Apologizing
- Minor SEO Updates
- Porting to Mac OS X
- Another Hosted Services Success Story
- Feature Creep!
- How much content does your website have?
- August Numbers
- September 2006
- How NOT to do your license key checking
- What Should Starbucks Do
- Yay, 1.04 Out The Door
- Everything You Need To Know About Registration Systems
- My Next Piece of Software
- Yo Ho, Me Hearties, Yo Ho
- Kanji of the Day: 任
- Studying For the JLPT
- Writing a Customer-Focused Blog
- A Good Day
- Bits Du Jour
- Bits du Jour update
- Once Is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Third Time Is A Pattern
- Another Plug for e-junkie
- AdWords Kicks Me In The Shins
- Update on AdWords
- Mac Version Doing Fairly Well
- Mid-month Stats Update
- Selling Software on a CD
- Crazy Busy This Week
- Text Link Ads
- Time To Get Back On Track
- October 2006
- Three Cheers for Tucows
- September Stats
- Bleg for my Mac using friends
- Undergoing Massive Spam Attack Today
- Object Lesson on Blogging for your Business
- Stock Market Bingo, or, Investing for the uISV
- Selling Software To People Who Don't Buy Software
- Accounting For Lazy Programmers
- Blatant Plug For A Program I Like
- As You May Have Guessed…
- Dealing With Email Spam
- Bleg For Perl Help
- Belated October Stats
- Bingo Card Creator Goes International
- Sometimes I Wonder If…
- A Handy Little Tool You Might Not Know About
- If One File On Your Web Server Gets Corrupted…
- November 2006
- December 2006