The Brand Gap

I was reading a book called Inbound Marketing by Dharmesh Shah. I’m a huge Dharmesh fan but I’ll admit that this book is a little light weight for me. Maybe I’m not the intended audience, or maybe it gets into more advanced topics later on. In any case, I’ve put it on hold to start [...]

Traffic This Month

It’s been about a month since I’ve launched so I’m reviewing some Bidsketch numbers. I logged into Google Analytics to review the traffic, and I’m at over 11k visits for the month! This is due to getting several writeups, and redirecting all of the SixCentral marketing site traffic. I was averaging about 1,200 visits a [...]

Per-Proposal Plan

Today I had a user (anonymous) post a suggestion about a “per use” payment plan for Bidsketch. http://bidsketch.uservoice.com/pages/29932-general/suggestions/380184-add-a-per-use-payment-plan-for-those-of-us-who-don-t-usually-use-proposals?ref=title They state that certain designers just don’t write enough proposals to pay on a monthly basis. This makes sense in a way, a lot of people starting out might not use it all that much. This would [...]

Inbound Marketing

Just started reading Dharmesh Shah’s new book: Inbound Marketing. I’m at the very start so I don’t have much to report now other than it looks pretty damn good so far. Finished up Seth Godin’s book called Permission Marketing. It was pretty good, though I could’ve gotten plenty out of it if the book was [...]

Sales Figures at 3 Weeks

Ok so I’ve been live for about 3 weeks now and I have over 250 users on Bidsketch. About 20% of those are paid accounts, most are on the premium plan. I’ve introduced a Basic plan but I’ve received very fews signups on that plan even though I had people say they were going to [...]