Joda Stößer
@SimJoSt
Searching for the next (profitable) project
Not yet. Though the idea that has been cooking for some time in the back of my mind will have a self-host component, if all goes to plan.
That would make most of the features self-hostable for technical users, and only the business logic as well as the management interface would be unique to a hosted service.
That sounds like an adventure. How would you charge for it?
We are starting to talk to some friends and acquaintances to see if there is a fit. No results yet to report.
Let's see 😊
It does, thank you. Yes, we noticed this after the first few projects we built. Validating an idea first, before you build it and collect interested customers, makes a lot of sense to not waste your time. The typical traps.
We mostly left all of our products online, even if we don't focus on them at the moment, and play the long game.
Our main weakness is our failure to keep being consistent with the marketing approaches we take. Doing a little every day. Especially, if there is other stuff going on, including part-time freelance work.
With the lack of consistency we also didn't try all the avenues, never produced videos and did not try enough actual advertisement.
I see... :)
I would also say that you don't have to try everything, but with caveats.
In my case, I only try new things at the early stage or when the current channels get saturated. Once something works, it's better to double down on that.
Hang in there and keep experimenting, Joda.
I believe you guys will make it.
Thank you for the feedback and insights.
I agree with most of it, and I am always interested in improving myself. Representing the brand in person was never an issue, it's the online part of it all.
Learning something new is exciting, even though I rather delve more deeply into tech, not marketing. For now, we still want to see if an addition to our team makes sense, to play into everyone's strengths.
I'll think about the 3 things that we need to grow in and see, if there is more insight there, than my first thought's I had about it.
Thank you for the offer to chat about it. I might take you up on that.
That's a discussion as old as, well, social media :)
It's very tricky, and I don't believe there is one truth.
Blocking might make the feel empowered and if they read your posts through other means, you will not know.
A follow back would depend on your general social media strategy. I don't know who you normally like to follow, but following back could look like a "I see you".
Remove as follower could be a smart move, as it shouldn't send a notification, but your posts might still show up less in the timeline.
Generally, i don't like changing my behaviour because of other people. So I would go with "ignore". At least mostly. You can take it as a reminder, that you never know who is reading your posts.
The things I liked best when people talked about dealing with competition were, "have amazing customer support" and "have a better product".
Yeah it's a fair point to just keep on doing what I'm doing. Thanks for the reminder there, I usually tend to think like that anyway. For some reason this bothered me a bit more than usual!
I get it. There was a mix of frustration, anger but also validation, when other devs cloned
#vendordetailsomo. It felt like an accomplishment for the project and work to be worthy enough of imitation. Isn't that called the highest form of flattery?
If somebody deems you relevant enough to follow your progress, you might have made an impression on them.
Maybe it will come to you in the next days, why it bothered you.
It might not be the follow at all, but a reminder of something else. Especially, if they feel like a real threat to your business.
The last time someone cloned my app I wasn't worried because the clone was terrible and I could tell they were the type of person to give up after 5 minutes.
This time, I think it's just that this competitor actually seems to have a good product. But ultimately, I think I just need to listen to customers and not pay too much attention to what this person is doing with their business.