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Maybe you could expand your market by doing other kinds of quick online document design. Instead of resumes, businesses might like to be able to generate attrac

Maybe you could expand your market by doing other kinds of quick online document design. Instead of resumes, businesses might like to be able to generate attractive proposals, marketing, or fund-raising documents. They would pay more than $9 for such a service too. When I looked at your site, that was the first thing I decided you could possibly help me with. It seems like you could have a pretty broad offering by replacing the templating functionality of MS Word for various documents. You can compete both on price and ease of use - I think Word ends up being pretty imposing for a lot of people. You probably should stay out of finance documents though (invoices), which tend to get auto-generated by software. That would require integration effort, as I don't think high-value businesses tend to do invoices by hand.

websymphony 14y ago
Have you looked at Bidsketch? http://www.bidsketch.com/ http://www.bidsketch.com/
bharani_m 14y ago
Thanks for your suggestions Andrew. Yes we would like to expand to other kind of online document design. We will have to identify a few good niche(s) and then take it from there. Resume creation itself seems like a big market to us, and it would be great if we can help people do it easily than the other alternatives, we agree that MS Word has become quite imposing with each new version of Office and let's see how much we can simplify it for the users.
- pionar 14y ago
  I've used Resumonk in the past, and it's great. It's really surprising to me that this kind of service isn't more prevalent.
  - bharani_m 14y ago
    Happy to know that you liked Resumonk. Made our day!
- sown 14y ago
  Just another suggestion: invoices was something I needed last year. I imagine, though, a lot of such services exist.
  - pan69 14y ago
    Yes. Invoices would be one. How about proposal documents, quotes, NDA's, terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. You could expand to include legal advice. Many serviced based companies out there need good documents. You have some solid ground work to really tap into a niche market here. But I think you should focus on the content of the documents more rather than the aesthetics. Personally I would never pay for a resume design but I would pay for a set of document designs to support my business and if these documents would contain the right content it would make all the more valuable.

websymphony 14y ago

Have you looked at Bidsketch? http://www.bidsketch.com/ http://www.bidsketch.com/

bharani_m 14y ago

Thanks for your suggestions Andrew. Yes we would like to expand to other kind of online document design. We will have to identify a few good niche(s) and then take it from there. Resume creation itself seems like a big market to us, and it would be great if we can help people do it easily than the other alternatives, we agree that MS Word has become quite imposing with each new version of Office and let's see how much we can simplify it for the users.

pionar 14y ago
I've used Resumonk in the past, and it's great. It's really surprising to me that this kind of service isn't more prevalent.
- bharani_m 14y ago
  Happy to know that you liked Resumonk. Made our day!
sown 14y ago
Just another suggestion: invoices was something I needed last year. I imagine, though, a lot of such services exist.
- pan69 14y ago
  Yes. Invoices would be one. How about proposal documents, quotes, NDA's, terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. You could expand to include legal advice. Many serviced based companies out there need good documents. You have some solid ground work to really tap into a niche market here. But I think you should focus on the content of the documents more rather than the aesthetics. Personally I would never pay for a resume design but I would pay for a set of document designs to support my business and if these documents would contain the right content it would make all the more valuable.