Great story. How has the TweetingMachine affiliate program worked for you?
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
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#32I have a comment about your site: (full disclosure: I don't have any expertise about marketing, or entrepreneurship or anything at all really) This may be my stupid showing through but on the front page, it looks like a piece of software that simply schedules tweets. That is a useful tool, but not something i'd pay $20 a month for considering I would probably just do it myself. It would be good if there were a little…
This may be my stupid showing through but on the front page, it looks like a piece of software that simply schedules tweets. Fair enough, that shows that I seriously need to work on the wording of the site, as it has several features more than that. Great point on the pricing call-out as well, I'm going to work soon to give that its own dedicated page to try and make it a bit more obvious :)
I think `follower` had it right in another reply to the GP, be careful about pricing your service and developing features against the crowd on HN. It doesn't seem like they are the target market for your application, so make sure to read opinions you get here in that light.
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
#33Congratulations. That's a nice milestone to hit, and I'm sure bigger and better things are in your future. Mind if I give some advice (take with a grain of salt)? 1) Welcome to TweetingMachine Discover the Twitter & Facebook tool that's packed with features and free for 10 days! Get More Customers With Less Work Manage your Twitter/Facebook campaigns faster. Try free for 10 days! 2) http://tweetingmachine.com/feature…
Where is your presentation?
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
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#36This is pretty amazing and inspiring! Hey care to share the conversion rates - so how many visitors sign up for the trial and then how many of those end up paying?
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
#37Congratulations. That's a nice milestone to hit, and I'm sure bigger and better things are in your future. Mind if I give some advice (take with a grain of salt)? 1) Welcome to TweetingMachine Discover the Twitter & Facebook tool that's packed with features and free for 10 days! Get More Customers With Less Work Manage your Twitter/Facebook campaigns faster. Try free for 10 days! 2) http://tweetingmachine.com/feature…
Where is your presentation?
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
#38Any noticeable subscriber increase since you posted the first article on HN?
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
#39Excellent series of articles, really enjoyed reading them. I think the problem for a lot of people is coming up with that initial idea, that spark to get things moving. It's really difficult, I find, to come up with something that hasn't already been done before or is already better than what's in my head. I hope to reach your point some day, heh.
It's really difficult, I find, to come up with something that hasn't already been done before There were plenty of Twitter tools that'd let you schedule tweets before TweetingMachine was developed. If you have competition, it means there's money in that space :)
This is really good to know. I always seem to come up with ideas that have already been done. But it's possible my new approach would be better than the competition, like TweetingMachine.
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#40OK, here is my experience with the main page. I'm not a marketing expert, but maybe my comments might still be useful. * Oh, nice professional looking website * First look to left middle "Tweeting machine" * Read the catch line about it being a FB/Twitter tool * Hmm, yeah, but what does it actually do? * Look to right pane. Bleh, looks like an FTP login shell. Oh wait, "Time to send", oh yeah, I think I remember this…
Anyhow, wishing you the best of luck with it. And again, I'm not an expert in any sense of the word. The above is just my honest reaction as I checked it out. Hehe, it's fair and honest opinion so fair enough really :) Regarding spammers, honestly you'd be surprised about the spread of customers that use TweetingMachine legitimately. This year though - I guess a sign of success - I've had quite a few problems with pr…
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