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Firstly, congrats! Secondly...I love the design. Who did it for you? Alexandria Neonakis? Thirdly, I too looked for a pricing plan page - to figure out how you were going to make money. When I entered a zip code, then I discovered the pricing page. It looks too wordy. Try to find a more concise way to display that same information. It kinda looks a BIT confusing, maybe it is psychological because the columns for each…
My zip is 10005 and you recommended a small garden, but i would almost expect recommending a patio garden for my zip. How to you decide which of the 3 options to recommend?
The small garden is a balance between feasibility and ambition for the novice gardener. In other words, I'm just emphasizing the plan that makes me money. :)
If you truly want to make money, emphasize the plan that makes me happy enough to share your site with everyone I meet.
Firstly, congrats! Secondly...I love the design. Who did it for you? Alexandria Neonakis? Thirdly, I too looked for a pricing plan page - to figure out how you were going to make money. When I entered a zip code, then I discovered the pricing page. It looks too wordy. Try to find a more concise way to display that same information. It kinda looks a BIT confusing, maybe it is psychological because the columns for each…
Thanks for the feedback about the plans page... It's getting an upgrade next week probably, so I'll hold on to your comments.
If it were my site, to get some extra money in the door right now I would try upselling a 3 year package for the price of 2 on a special page just before the customer hits the shopping cart. Plus add a little extra something to the deal (like a special info pdf) to increase the chance the customer will pay double.
Also, what about letting the customer choose herbs and some favorite fruits.
Another thing that might help to "build" your business out of the bootstrap phase would be an 800 phone number with regular business hours so customers can call with questions about planting or ask why their tomatoes are dying on the vine. It might help to build repeat orders and add some gravitas to the business vs. just being a website with no track history.
NOTE: Watch your traffic, the site timed me out due to too much traffic (5/10/2010 aprox. 9:15pm Austin Time). I'm sure traffic is light now, but if you get a lot of hits at once you don't want to turn potential customers away by timing them out. It is probably due to too many concurrent server connections not bandwidth.
Totally like this idea ... very clever, and I've never seen anything like it before. Concur with some previous comments that price page needs attention. Sounds cliche, but go back and look at some of the older 37signals.com/svn posts on making purchase process easy/intuitive/good design. Also, can confirm that page is dorked somewhat in IE8 ... pretty sure it's not the look that you were after! Let me know if you nee…
That's no excuse though. I'm definitely going to find an internet cafe and do some more testing. Thanks for the reminder.
Congratulations on pushing the button. You've done something incredibly rare and you and your team should be proud. A few suggestions- get on the new Facebook connect (facebook login) right away, and add a few social features (like add a check box that says "also post this on my wall" when you guys email people) so people can easily share what they're doing. That has a huge potential effect. Also, for what it's worth…
Awesome idea, and a great MVP at that, congrats! I don't live in the US and I don't have any place for gardening right now, but other than that, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Why do I have to choose veggies. I'm looking for a select all button because I want to grow everything. I actually have a garden and had a great harvest last year so I'm not kidding about this. Even if I'm not going to grow it I want to know when it should be planted just to learn.
Signed up and I like the calandar a lot. I'm so jealous I didn't think of this. Already emailed your site to a few folks. Grats again!!!!
ps: Love the design. Feels like farmville in a good way.