Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen
@EbrahimKhalilHassen
Estimate a lifetime value. Something like a)user will use the service for X number of months and than cancel. b) if i know that the user will be around for x number of months, what would that normally cost c) maybe offer a discount and (d)work out how much you will reinvest . (have not done this but I understand that if you subtract card processing fees, you can offer a good discount and still make something on the deal).
I stay in South Africa so maybe not relevant. From my experience, best to register at the very beginning and take time to setup systems that (a) separate out personal and business expenses and (b) be tax compliant. I started without registering and got myself into several issues related to taxes, and this has proved expensive. The irony is that had I started out with a registered company I would have had a much smaller tax liability. The other advantage is that you are forced to record finances, which means you have to have basic financial systems in place. But, what is VERY important, is to do the registration as quickly as possible, and cheaply.
Have used Clicky before. Easy to setup and useful. Have started this course on Google analytics www.jeffalytics.com/courses/a…. So far, excellent.
Too long. I can get a prototype / MVP/ MUP out very quickly (in a couple of days). Turning that into something that I can launch takes months and months. I am always tinkering with it, and never really launching. My biggest goal is thus to launch and in doing so, commit to that project for an extended period of time.
@getaclue - thanks for taking the lead on this, and I am willing to work with whatever is decided. A couple of suggestions to get us going. 1. Marc needs to make a call on using WIP brand 2. I think it would be a huge plus to have WIP branding. 3. Maybe we start really small, with a landing page and a mailing list. 4. We continue to publish on our existing sites. 5. If it works, we can take the next steps.
Exactly this. WIP branding will help. If Marc can provide a subdomain (blog.wip.chat) that might help too. I also don't care who curates who posts maybe there can be volunteers & some startup success stories or launch stories about why we made the product that we did & what will it be used for. It would help more with Visibility too because as WIP is a closed group so maybe WIP Blog which would be fully open will get more visibility & its beneficial for everyone. Since we get visibility for our products, our sales might help with that too.
It will be like WIP Blog = Failory + IndieHackers. The main issue will be not spamming because we have a lot of products every month. So we need to be careful of how we do it. We can do question formats like IndieHackers does or we can be more personal.
Also, we can have Top 5 products of the Week or Top 5 products of the Month. It has a lot of potential. I don't think anyone alone could do this because of the frequency of the products that get released every week so we need people to volunteer. This would be really awesome though. I am all for it.
This would take us to the next level.
I do not think that the questions are searchable. Ask anyway, someone will have an answer or point you in the right direction.
Welcome Nick. This might help wip.chat/help. I am also finding this chrome extension extremely helpful to add todos. chrome.google.com/webstore/de…
WordPress is my choice. Ghost is really cool, but I do not have the technical skills to install it, and do not have the inclination to learn. The hosted option looks interesting and something I might try. A couple of other reasons 1. WP is great for a blog, and has excellent integrations with email marketing and payment processors 2. With managed hosting overall cost of ownership is relatively inexpensive for security, caching, backups etc 3. For a person with my limited coding skills, the learning curve is relatively low as I can usually find a plugin to do what I need it to do.