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AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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@AwesomeReminders: You might consider offering AwesomeTextMessageReminders at a reduced rate. Either custom text, given by your customers, or something like: "Hi John. Someone who knows you told me you were awesome. Have an awesome day."

Wouldn't this get old real quick? Like after one message.

To be fair. The current concept would appear to have this flaw as well.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting).

Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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post #12

Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting). Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

Pffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hearts into it.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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post #12

Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting). Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

How'd you do your math? The sample calls they play are 30 seconds long. Assuming another 30 seconds for looking up the number and waiting for them to answer, that's 1 minute per call. 750 calls a day for 20 days (assuming they don't call on the weekend?) that's 250 hours of calls in a month... which is only $30/hour.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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post #12

Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting). Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

How'd you do your math? The sample calls they play are 30 seconds long. Assuming another 30 seconds for looking up the number and waiting for them to answer, that's 1 minute per call. 750 calls a day for 20 days (assuming they don't call on the weekend?) that's 250 hours of calls in a month... which is only $30/hour.

You're right, I thought they only called once a month lol
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