Spent the whole day today working up the website. Lots of work to do yet, but it’s getting there now.
In a sense this is a kind of respite as the old noggin is tired out. Tomorrow I’m taking the whole day off and Saturday is also a day off as on our Senators are retiring and my wife and I will be having dinner them.
OK. Here’s the plan.
This week will be spent getting the website done, uploaded, tested and checked. Incorporating java script etc for some of the functionality and doing those kind of things. To some extent setting the ground work for getting serious with Google.
As this is only partly a B2C product it will not be enough to rely solely on SEO however and I will need to begin planning those other marketing strategies – which I actually enjoy doing.
OK. What I’m going to be doing basically is continuing to blog on now at each stage, pretty much as I have been during the 30 Days. In fact I’ll continue to post the Day number in the subject of each post in an effort to assist reading later.
So, I’ve got some reading to do tonight relevant to marketing and so for this, the technically last “official” day of the 30, but the beginning of what will be many more I’d like to take a quick moment to thank all of the participants in the 30 Days and look forward to following their progress in the days to come.
They are, in no particular order:
With thanks to Mike Wilson for compiling and publishing this list on his site in the first place!
Mike Wilson – Software Monitor:
http://blog.evolvedsoftwarestudios.com/
Steve Chorlerton SMSRelay -
http://tektalkin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/stevechol%20SMSRelay
Sohail Somani -
http://uint32t.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/30day
Tarek Demiati – Master Time Tracker:
http://mentalprocreation.wordpress.com/
Steve McLeod – Poker Sidekick:
http://keepsoftwaresimple.blogspot.com/
Susan Pichotta – Alta Web Works:
http://altawebworks.com/blog/
Benji Smith – Stock Market Analytics:
http://benjismith.net/
Patrick McKenzie – Firefox Widget Creator:
http://kalzumeus.com/2008/06/01/day-1/
Steve Bushman -
http://themisvcrisis.wordpress.com/category/30day/
Bracken Mosbacker & Ben Jenkins’ Tower Prints:
http://towerprints.com/blog/
Sherrie:
http://ldow.blogspot.com/2008/05/getting-ready-to-get-started.html
Runimal Website (Ruby on Rails): Goal Setting:
http://runimal.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/runimalcom/
Philip Flores – misvCRM:
http://www.misvcrm/blog/
Richie Hindle- ClickStop:
http://entrian.com/blog/
Simon Shutter – Schemax Calendar:
http://blog.schemax.com/category/30days
Colin M – Music Tools:
http://www.fret1.com/
Rafael Chaves – TextUML Toolkit:
http://abstratt.com/blog
Scott Kane – MixAction -
http://www.davidscottkane.com (note, you are here already)
PLUS…
Thanks to the thousands of new visitors who have come by this blog this month, and the many more repeat visitors I’d like to thank you too, reading my weblogs and seeing your presence has been an inspiration to keep going for the 30 Days and now beyond.
Cheers!
Scott Kane
Quote of the day:
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. – Rick Cook
David,
Greetings from Jamaica. Congratulations on your progress so far. It is very inspiring to read your posts and the other 30 day participants as well, it is a definite confidence booster.
In one of your earlier posts i remember you mentioning about some apps that you were writing to sell on ebay, how do it go? When time permits do you think you could write a post or two about that? i suspect a lot of folks would be interested too.
Enjoy your time off with your family.
Kind regards
G’day Sriram,
Thanks for visiting!
I’m really glad you are getting some value from the 30 Day participants, it’s been a fantastic experience for all of us, it’s really nice to hear that it is inspiring you too!
We’ve stopped the eBay app’s for some very important reasons. When I did this experiment over a year ago things were different on eBay. It’s now a complete joke. eBay Australia are at war with our ACCC (monopoly watchdog) over their requirement of PayPal as the only payment method. This in itself is unnaceptable. Their requirement for no digital downloads raises the cost of distribution (espeically when certain “power sellers” are allowed to keep selling their digital downloads) and finally the customers, who were always “high maintenance” seem to now, generally and with a few exceptions, be of the worst type. They want 48 hour delivery, have second thoughts hours after purchasing and so on. FIVE of the people we sold to have demanded their money back, which we did without any issues. However they attempted to keep using the products (which means they lied to PayPal) and screamed (and threatened legal action – laugh!) when we barred their keys in the next up date.
As sellers can no longer leave negatives for buyers – but buyers can leave sellers negatives – the system is broken to the point of being a total joke.
Finally, I’m a bit tired of pure B2C sales. It’s getting harder and harder to maintain these customers and to many of them are barely literate, rude and completely unreasonable. The product being developed here is only borderline B2C with most of the marketing to be aimed at B2B and community groups. As I’ve said a few times, and will expand in the weeks and months ahead, this product is the basis for a series of products. It’s a starting point for what I’m aiming ultimately to be a pure B2B application with a markup way beyond this one. Time will tell.
G’Day David,
Thanks for sharing your experience with ebay. I never really understood how ebay works and now i am pretty sure i want stay away from this as far as possible.
I will be following your blog regularly. Wishing you all the best.
Sriram