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Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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I've been asking about admin tools and buisness analytics inside of rails (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2849695/ruby-on-rails-adm...) this is a great example of something that I am making from scratch on my own.

Do you have any tips or rails libraries that can help?

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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I don't really understand what one does with a Bingo Card created by this software. Is this an American teaching method that's common?

Let's say you're doing, I don't know, a lesson on cellular biology. After wrapping it up, on Friday afternoon, you want to play a fun game which still has some educational content. So you print out one Parts of A Cell bingo card for each student in your class and explain how bingo works (or not, because they've almost certainly played before). Then start calling things like "This center of the cell is where the chrom…

Re your comment: "the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo)"

Study this month confirms this and goes further: "near misses were most rewarding for the pathological gamblers, who experienced them as being almost as rewarding as a win."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357991

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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What are the freelancing expenses for? (Customer support and creating new card categories?)

Side note: you might want to change the color of the "payments processing" slice of the expenses pie chart, since it's pretty impossible to see with the current background. But anyways, this information is really cool.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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Evangelizing is tough, which is why most technology evangelists work for companies with enough money to buy small European nations and have vague job descriptions that they can't possibly fail at. I, on the other hand, have a limited budget and a well-defined brief. The audience of biology teachers is much, much wider than the audience of "people looking for biology bingo", and it being more diffuse makes it harder t…

maybe a video with few people playing bingo cards with an explanation of Bingo Cards Creator itself, will do it.

heh!

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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It's so weird that a guy who makes an online bingo card generator is openly publishing sales stats and releasing an a/b testing gem, but I like it.

Believe me: I would have been thrilled if one of the larger commercial entities using Rails had solved A/B testing before I did, but since nobody seemed to be working on it, it was either write my own or use Google Website Optimizer.

A/B testing is totally worthwhile for an Internet business even at small scales. I can't say enough good things about it.

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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What are the freelancing expenses for? (Customer support and creating new card categories?) Side note: you might want to change the color of the "payments processing" slice of the expenses pie chart, since it's pretty impossible to see with the current background. But anyways, this information is really cool.

I do all customer support myself. Freelancing is overwhelmingly creating new cards for the website, doing content for mini-sites, and doing web design (something I'm not good at).

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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Evangelizing is tough, which is why most technology evangelists work for companies with enough money to buy small European nations and have vague job descriptions that they can't possibly fail at. I, on the other hand, have a limited budget and a well-defined brief. The audience of biology teachers is much, much wider than the audience of "people looking for biology bingo", and it being more diffuse makes it harder t…

Well thought out; but by "evangelize" I just meant to consider those people visiting your site who don't know what your Bingo Cards are, and to sell the concept of Bingo Cards, not just your product ( sell in the sense of explaining the benefits, as you did above). Like adding a link from "for instructional and entertainment purposes" to an explanation page. It would be a long-term strategy, to grow the pie, not just…

BTW: Here's more on lean evangelizing (for want of a better term): http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch13_Promote_Through_Educat...

Re: Sales of Bingo Card Creator Per Month

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It's so weird that a guy who makes an online bingo card generator is openly publishing sales stats and releasing an a/b testing gem, but I like it.

Believe me: I would have been thrilled if one of the larger commercial entities using Rails had solved A/B testing before I did, but since nobody seemed to be working on it, it was either write my own or use Google Website Optimizer. A/B testing is totally worthwhile for an Internet business even at small scales. I can't say enough good things about it.

Some of these larger commercial entities could probably take a few lessons from you!
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