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Releasing Breaking Free, the eBook, For Free
11 Sep 2009Breaking Free, the book, came out a few years ago when this blog started. Since then it has done reasonably well (for a first time author) both in print and online. But something happened a while after it came out: I started to wish I’d given the electronic version away for free and only charged [...]
We’re doin it live! Tonight I’m launching FeedmailPro! It’s been tested in the wild and is performing well after a handful of tweaks over the last week. Thanks to the folks who beta tested it and have been sending me feedback. I also added the final features which were needed before launch, namely billing, the [...]
Following up from my post a few weeks ago, I’ve made some big changes to BuyersVote.com to simplify it and make it easier to use. Now, instead of adding each page individually with a long list of fields to fill out, it’s possible to add an entire category with lots of pages in just two [...]
It’s been a cool week. I’ve been reading this awesome book, the 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing. It’s short, simple, and profound. Highly recommended. I also met up for drinks with another American entrepreneur living in Buenos Aires (found me through the blog). Turns out he started http://www.virtualdatingassistants.com/ Check it out and let him know [...]
Last weekend I took a day trip to Tigre, Argentina which is a little town on a river delta about an hour outside Buenos Aires. I went with some people who live in the same house, and met some new people along the way. It has nice boat trips, restaurants, and some boardwalk/themepark type stuff. [...]
UniversityTutor Revenues Fall By 50%
27 May 2009As you might have seen a few weeks ago, I posted about how the new UniversityTutor.com business model wasn’t working very well. Revenue has fallen by about half during this time. Also, it’s not just the summer time effect. There are still a fairly large number of contacts going through the site (see below). Even [...]
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StartBreakingFree Moved To New Server!
24 May 2009For the last year or two I’ve been hosting this blog (and others) on 1and1 Hosting with a shared hosting plan. While it was very inexpensive (about $10 per mont) the performance has been seriously lacking lately. On a regular basis I would come to the homepage, or try to log into the backend, only [...]
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Remember the new billing/invoice system I designed and launched for UniversityTutor.com? Things aren’t looking very promising so far. They started off well and in the first week or two about a dozen invoices got processed through the site. I figured it would slowly trend upwards from there as people started adopting it, but in the [...]
New Rating System For BuyersVote.com
27 Apr 2009Well last week I launched BuyersVote.com and the response was good. Lots of people sent me their feedback and I was able to watch people use it (a very valuable experience). I also put it through the “parent test” where I watched people who weren’t SUPER tech savvy (my parents :) use it. By far [...]
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