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by bdunn 14y ago
Email me: brennan@planscope.io I have a few customers testing out my soon-to-be public API. Would be more than happy to have you work with it.
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by bdunn 14y ago
I founded a product called Planscope ( https://planscope.io ). I'm the only person involved. I develop, design, support, and handle all the marketing. * I don't pitch 50% of the time (0% is more accurate) * The lights are on. With more than
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by bdunn 14y ago
The whole site comes across as a bit of a skeezy sales letter. You're a designer, you're better than that. And this is why many designers are horrible at making websites that sell. When I sold my first book, I tried a short-form, nicely d
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by bdunn 14y ago
Long sales pages are able to present the pain the reader feels, detail the solution they need, provide an offer, establish their authority, highlight customer success stories, counter objections, and reverse risk. (This is all yanked from S
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by bdunn 14y ago
Disclaimer: I was interviewed for the book and just finished skimming through my copy. First off, Nathan generously offers a full money back guarantee. If you don't find the book's value outweighs the cost, ask for a refund. Second, yes, yo
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by bdunn 14y ago
I built Planscope ( https://planscope.io ) specifically for freelancers and consultants. I wanted: * To know how scope changes affected overall budget * My clients to know what tasks they were spending money on * Stupid simple and a no-brai
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by bdunn 14y ago
It's not uncommon for a Ruby or JS (i.e. specializing in Backbone) developer to charge $200+ an hour, which fulltime could bring in just north of $30k a month.
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by bdunn 14y ago
There are two types of developers: those who make money writing code, and those who are tinkering around (think: college students toying around with Bash scripting) The former, like most other professionals, will gladly pay for services and
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by bdunn 14y ago
You can help businesses create or optimize internal tools that make current positions unnecessary (cut costs) or make tasks that take 5 hours a day take 5 minutes (increase efficiency.) This won't involve conversion rates, lifecycle mailing
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by bdunn 14y ago
I've received MANY reader success stories from people who have simply adjusted their messaging from "I will write code for you" to "I will help you be more profitable (...as a result of writing the right code)." As far as I know, none of
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by bdunn 14y ago
Take a listen to the podcast Patrick mentions in the P.S. Eric and I have had a lot of success in offering free seminars to local business leaders (e.g., "How to find customers online"), and use the opportunity to also create a networking m
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Teeny bit of traction - what next?(blog.asmartbear.com)
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by bdunn 14y ago
Can't wait to look into this. Planscope ( https://planscope.io ) has been syncing time with Harvest for a while, first with the Harvest Javascript SDK and now everything occurs server-to-server via their API. This latter approach has actual
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by bdunn 14y ago
Beautiful. I ended up resorting to RMagick and some custom charting code to build personalized infographics for the weekly digests that Planscope sends out. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2205912/weekly-digest-planscope.png Weekly digests + sex
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by bdunn 14y ago
I wrote this a few months back: https://github.com/brennandunn/dripper It depends on resque-scheduler, but let's you setup a drip campaign against an ActiveRecord model pretty easily.
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by bdunn 14y ago
And all of the above are B2B products, whereas the OP described B2C products. That's a very important point to make: There's a comfort zone of about $5 a month that the typical consumer will pay for SaaS software. There really is no cap for
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by bdunn 14y ago
Chamber of Commerce, any technology partnership groups, meetup.com, there are a million of these sort of events in any decently sized area.
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by bdunn 14y ago
I had a lot of luck frequenting events where small business owners are (i.e. people with problems and money.) Networking events, mixers, business lectures, and so on. I also spent a LOT of time cultivating my past clients list and encouragi
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by bdunn 14y ago
Truthfully, the recording I did with Patrick is enough for some people. But the book goes much more in depth (i.e. how and what to change on your sales site, examples of qualifying emails, followup tactics, academic research re: pricing
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by bdunn 14y ago
I'm just confused about why you think I'm running a smoke-and-mirrors shop. I have a ton of testimonials from people thanking me for helping them raise their rates. If you email me, I'll send them to you. I take a lot of offense that you th
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by bdunn 14y ago
Before planscope it was projectorpm.com, cease-and-desist copyright issue. The book and podcast are relatively new. I'm the owner of We Are Titans, my consultancy, and it's been around since 2008. Before that, I was just a freelancer. Also,
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by bdunn 14y ago
Nope, I like sharing (and, confession: it gets me incidental business. Win-win all around.) My mailing list initially came from Planscope subscribers. You'll notice I have a "get 8 free reports" opt-in on the blog and when you sign up for a
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by bdunn 14y ago
You are so wrong.
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by bdunn 14y ago
Let's look at a few examples: * Amy Hoy's 30x500: An alternative to the "pick an idea, build, then sell" mentality. She's poured a LOT of research (trust me on this one) into her course, along with what's obviously worked well for her. * Pa
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by bdunn 14y ago
Going to disagree. I think the level of likelihood for failing when you're shooting in the dark with your idea dú jour is SUBSTANTIALLY higher than when you mine audience pain points and build products around what people are asking for. Tha
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by bdunn 14y ago
Because when I took that screenshot (last week), we we're only 1/3 of the way through October :-)
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by bdunn 14y ago
That's sort of like saying "the depressing truth about relationships is that you need to go out and meet people to get involved in one." I take a lot of pride in promoting my products. Marketing is just storytelling, and when your story ali
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by bdunn 14y ago
I don't think there will be any breakthroughs in managing cashflow, value based pricing, and similar topics anytime soon. If I were writing ebooks and workshops on something technical - like Ruby - then yes, it would be a bad example to wit
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by bdunn 14y ago
The first thing I did was find an audience of people where there was a consensus about a specific set of pain points (in this case: client project scope creep & transparency.) I then just reversed their pain to derive a solution. If the
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by bdunn 14y ago
They both have their places. You can budget against recurring revenue - it generally just takes time to ramp up. Infoproducts require constant tending (marketing), but when life happens and you need some cash, you can run a sale. Also - mai

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