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I wish this was true. Our existing customer base is very pleased with the product. But they don't influence others to purchase. We're a gnat in the loud circus of the market place.…

Our competitors are 10 - 1000 times larger than us. Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size. And the couple of customers that know our size have indicated it's better …

No, but it would be great if I was that creative or could come up with stuff like that.

The customer gets year #1 for free. At the end of the year we approach them and ask if they want to renew. If they appreciate your software, they usually do. And since my replies w…

Also in a very saturated market. Getting to the first page of Google is everything. It takes time work, editing each page, good content, and (though they seem to want to downplay i…

Somewhere around $500 - $600. Per year support contracts are around 20% so the life time value of a customer is probably around $1000.

We've tried everything, and the only two techniques that have paid off are: website SEO (including having a blog) and Adwords. Adwords is hard - we've thrown away many thousands of…

lol - yes, me too. Used to really dislike the marketing guys. Once you're running a company though, you discover marketing is what counts, more than code quality in most cases. Tho…

Just hit $1 million/year in sales :) About 20 years ago wrote a scratch-my-itch B2B desktop software for Windows. Side project for 10 years which is how long it took to reach about…