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Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

by Scott Kane on June 28, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Being a “micro” anything tends to be a tough road to hoe. Software, where micro is actually pretty common, is no different. On this blog I frequently toss established wisdom out the window, throw the baby out with the grey and sullied bathwater of software history and in general take careful aim at the standard Micro ISV marketing techniques – and fire…

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Urgent Threat Message – An Outbreak Of Mono On Linux Or Has Swine Flu Infected Fanboys?

Urgent Threat Message – An Outbreak Of Mono On Linux Or Has Swine Flu Infected Fanboys?

by Scott Kane on June 23, 2009 in 30Dayers, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Micro ISV, Microsoft, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

The threat to Linux is not Mono. The threat to Linux remains, after all these years, the fanboys and FOS fruits who hold it tighter to their heaving bosoms than a distressed four year old desperately clutches “blanky”.

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43 Things – Should Micro ISVs Care About These In Their Business – Or Not?

43 Things – Should Micro ISVs Care About These In Their Business – Or Not?

by Scott Kane on June 22, 2009 in 30Dayers, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

…but that it was just a little naive and that one should take such things with a pinch of salt. I wasn’t saying the blog post, or it’s 43 points were necessarily wrong. Rather that while there’s some good philosophy in them business and marketing and in particular on the Internet are not cut and dried, not simple…

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Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

by Scott Kane on June 16, 2009 in 30Dayers, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Pleased to say my statements in respect of content really paid dividends with CDROO. The site went live on Sunday 7th of June 2009, previously it was offline, pointing to a “Currently Offline” page with no content, all database driven so therefore invisible to the search engines and no sitemap.xml file to cheat with. As of yesterday (just on a week later) CDROO has made it to page one in Google for what are, for that site, important keywords. Money where my mouth is time, so:

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June 2007 – June 2009 377 Days – Can We Go To Release For July 29th?

June 2007 – June 2009 377 Days – Can We Go To Release For July 29th?

by Scott Kane on June 12, 2009 in 30Dayers

I’ve decided to try to do the same thing starting Monday 15th of June 2009 through to July 29th 2009. If I fail to do so this time…I still honestly believe time periods of 30 days etc are generally bad news for development cycles. In this instance I’m literally bringing the pieces together into the UI and connecting them with glue and code.

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