Permission Marketing

I’m currently reading an excellent book by Seth Godin: Permission Marketing I’m only a quarter of the way through the book but I’m already getting a lot out of it. So much so that I’m rethinking the plans I’ll be offering with Bidsketch. Good stuff, I highly recommend it.

SixCentral Update

So it’s been a few days since I posted the big news about my first acquisition. The last few days I’ve been lost in emails, tweets, and survey results. At this point I have two proposal SaaS based apps that focus on designers. Obviously lots of overlap and I’m not going to be able to [...]

Something Big Just Happened

I’ve just made my first acquisition! Not only that but it’s a product in my niche. Not just in my niche, but it’s web based proposal software — just like Bidsketch. It’s called SixCentral and it’s pretty impressive stuff. Here’s the official announcement I made on the Bidsketch blog: http://www.bidsketch.com/blog/articles/big-news/ Here’s the announcement on the [...]

Flash Intro for My Screencast

I’m sure I have better things to do, but I did some work on the Bidsketch screencast tonight. I didn’t get too far with the actual video or the script, but I feel pretty comfortable with the software now. Reading the screencast lesson posted by Ian Ozsvald in the Academy, I came across this this excellent [...]

Private Beta Launched!

I’ve been working like crazy this last week trying to get Bidsketch into private beta. I’m exhausted and I worked till 5 AM twice this week, but I’ve managed to launch the beta! Woohoo! I’d be more excited if I wasn’t so exhausted I’d like to take a break but being that I need to [...]

Amazon Usability Failure

I love Amazon. I think it’s one of the best websites you’ll find when it comes to usability. But there’s one thing that’s been bugging me for years now. It’s this screen right here. I completely, absolutely, hate it.  Today I was checking out a book from Amazon when I encountered this screen. This is [...]