One of the unfortunate facts of the education market is that it has pretty severe seasonality: sales drop to close to nothing when school is not in session. I have had roughly a week without a sale now, and expect that sales will remain severely depressed until roughly August 15th (when I’m going to probably have a burst of activity — start of the new term means cash money). Oh well, more time to improve the website, marketing, and there is that minor issue of finding myself a job by July 25th…
I just changed my links to the default colors. I have been told that having them other colors (they were previously colored to match my website’s color scheme — an inviting orange for unvisited links and a burnt orange for visited ones) has a tendency to confuse people who are used to the convention that anything blue and underlined can be clicked*. We’ll see if this doesn’t make people more likely to click on the links I want them to click on. My bounce rate is slightly higher than I’d like it to be on the front page.
“So what did you think of the Season Finale of Heroes?””Dude no spoilers I haven’t seen it yet.”
“Oh, alright, highlight the following to see what I thought: *start highlight* The fight scene between Hiro and Sylar, which was supposed to be the highlight of the entire series, was over in less than two seconds. He stabs him, the end. What a let down! *end highlight*”
“Hi forum people! Buy cheap Lost DVDs at spammerplanet.com for only $49.95 per season! Free shipping!”
“Spam!”
“Spam! Reported!”
“Where are the “#”#%ing mods? I tell you, this forum has been going downhill since Tommy stopped running it.”
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) ran four small software businesses. He writes about software, marketing, sales, and general business topics. Opinions here are his own.