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by rwalling 14y ago
There is risk, but that's why you lessen it by diversifying your traffic streams, and even your income streams. I own multiple software products and web apps; if any of them tanks I still have more than I need to live on. Actually, at this
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by rwalling 15y ago
If I removed the secret sauce parts it's just a blank Word Doc :-) But seriously, there's not much in there that I can share at this point. However, as I implement and experiment with approaches I will be blogging about them.
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by rwalling 15y ago
Sure, I'll cover many of these in part 3; thanks for asking.
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by rwalling 15y ago
Sure; will do.
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by rwalling 15y ago
Sure. I've purchased web apps and websites (and have colleagues who have done the same) for $1k-$2k that today make right around that each month. But those are the best results; that's not the most common outcome of purchasing in this range
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by rwalling 15y ago
Cool; I'll try to cover the things you raised in part 2 or 3. >>On a side note, amazing job with the redesign. The new hittail landing page looks great. Thanks! >>One thing I noticed however was that you have an extra checkm
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by rwalling 15y ago
Good suggestions - I'll cover these as much as possible in the next 2 parts of the series.
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by rwalling 15y ago
For a look at valuation methods, check out this post from a couple years back...it's where I typically start from: http://47hats.com/2008/07/a-tale-of-selling-a-microisv/ Where the owner of HitTail started from is anyone's guess, but I'm
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by rwalling 15y ago
The results are not changing wildly week to week, but you do receive new suggestions frequently (depending on how much traffic you receive). And with this kind of SEO (long tail), the point is that if you write a single blog post or article
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by rwalling 15y ago
The algorithm has analyzed 1.2 billion keywords and been optimized to work well. If you get 1200-1500 uniques per month, HitTail will likely provide enough value to make it worth the cost.
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by rwalling 15y ago
>>Details on which costs you chose to attack first (technical debt vs. free subscriptions vs. UX) is something all web businesses should think about. Good point. I'll try to cover that in more depth in parts 2 or 3. >>How do
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by rwalling 15y ago
It sends back the referrer URL from the search engine that contains info like what keyword was searched on, whether it was paid or organic, which search engine, etc... The JS doesn't have dependencies in terms of external libraries - self-c
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by rwalling 15y ago
No, they vary pretty widely, even week to week. I have several years of suggestions now and new ones continue to come up every week as I add new content and my rankings shift in the engines.
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by rwalling 15y ago
Exactly. Asynchronous JS snippet on your site (so doesn't affect page speed) that sends analytics info back to our database, where our algorithm is able to analyze it and make recommendations.
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by rwalling 15y ago
Flippa - Focus on net profit. So reduce expenses and increase revenue if at all possible. Automate everything possible; the less monthly time investment the better. Then price it reasonably and gather inspiration from the posts that have do
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by rwalling 15y ago
The inventor of HitTail is very sharp - we're in touch every week or two as he continues to have insights into this space.
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by rwalling 15y ago
What else do you want to know? This is a multi-part series so I can go into more detail.
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Seth Godin's Talk from Business of Software 2010(blog.businessofsoftware.org)
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by rwalling 15y ago
Windows 7 Laptop
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by rwalling 15y ago
There are 7 essays; 3 are new, 4 have been published previously.
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by rwalling 16y ago
>>This looks very useful and immediately applicable to me. Awesome; that's the reason we decided to put it together. Hope to see you in June...
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by rwalling 16y ago
Gotcha. Yeah, we aren't setup to start taking registrations today, but with the conf only 3 months out we wanted to make the announcement. That's why we ask for an email instead of selling tickets today. But we'll make them available asap :
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by rwalling 16y ago
Sweet; see you there.
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by rwalling 16y ago
>>But why are these things so often scheduled for weekdays? In our case, a couple reasons: 1. We surveyed about a dozen people interested in attending and nearly all of them said they couldn't do a weekend, but could make weekdays w
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by rwalling 16y ago
We know most people will be paying out of pocket so we're doing our best to keep the cost as low as possible. Price should be in the $700 range, but we plan to offer pre-launch tix to people on the email list (as mentioned on microconf.com)
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by rwalling 16y ago
If you're interested you can sign up to be notified when pre-launch tix are available; that's the action available today.
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by rwalling 16y ago
We've also arranged a deal with the hotel so rooms are cheap ($79/night). Hope you can make it :-)
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by rwalling 16y ago
You didn't read the end of the post, did you? Because I'm sure that Authorize.Net has never frozen anyone's account and taken their money. PayPal is not the only company that does this.
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by rwalling 16y ago
Because an email list is far more valuable than Twitter. If you have 10k followers vs. 10k email subscribers, your response rate is like night and day. Hands down, email wins. Now there's another side to Twitter, which involves the virality
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by rwalling 16y ago
Done - my email is now at the bottom of the page. I do know that the download emails are working, but if anyone else has not received it go ahead and email using this link and I'll get you squared away.

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