The first couple of months of 2011 have been nuts. Lots going on but not so much going on with Bidsketch — sort of. I say sort of, because Jan 18, 37signals blogged about my Highrise integration and tweeted a link to the blog post. This resulted in a small increase in traffic that day [...]
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Increase in Revenue and Possible Move
Posted by admin on February 21, 2011
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/increase-revenue-possible-move/
Last Update for 2010
It’s been a year since Bidsketch launched and it’s now able to replace a fair amount of my salary from my day job as a web development manager. It’s both exciting and nuts considering my first-year-goal was to simply hit 2k in recurring income. I’ve easily surpassed that goal but things are going to get [...]
Posted by admin on December 26, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/last-update-2010/
Pricing Experiment Update
So I just finished sending out a new email campaign in MailChimp to all my existing trial users. It was a message letting them know that I was making a pricing change to their accounts. What was the change? Both the Basic and Premium plans will be dropping in price. I had mentioned the pricing [...]
Posted by admin on May 23, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/pricing-experiment-update/
Five Minutes to a 10x Increase in Conversions
Bidsketch is a SaaS based product I launched just a few months ago. It’s proposal software made specifically for designers. It’s only been live about six months, but I’ve tried a lot of things to increase conversions. Mostly, they’ve been centered around A/B testing since I was trying to more efficient converting users before I [...]
Posted by admin on May 13, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/five-minutes-to-10x-increase-conversions/
Pricing Test
I just increased my pricing on Bidsketch. Previously: $9/month for Basic and $19/month for Premium. New Pricing: $14/month for Basic and $24/month for Premium. Did I add any major features? Nope. Sure, I’ve been adding some enhancements every couple of weeks, but nothing groundbreaking. Not just yet anyway. I was considering waiting until after I [...]
Posted by admin on April 15, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/pricing-test/
New Proposal Templates
I Just got in some new proposal template designs that I’ll be integrating into Bidsketch soon. I probably won’t have time to add them as part of the default templates until I get back from vacation, but I figured I’d post them on here as an early preview.
Posted by admin on March 8, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/new-proposal-templates/
Next Up: Freshbooks Integration
A while ago I mentioned that I was going to try out per-proposal pricing to see how this affects sales. As I started looking into it, I found that this is easier said than done. There’s a fair amount of rewriting of billing code and the proposal workflow to get this working. I’ve not received [...]
Posted by admin on January 28, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/next-up-freshbooks-integration/
New Bidsketch Screencast
I’ve finally updated the the Bidsketch screencast. I’ve been meaning to redo the whole thing since I went live with it. The old one was too long, and my voice is just terrible for that type of stuff. The new one is shorter and Emilie (my lovely wife) helped me out by recording the audio. [...]
Posted by admin on January 14, 2010
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/bidsketch-screencast/
Major Feature Release
I’ve been working like crazy the last couple of weeks to introduce a feature that will let designers upload their own proposal templates. Here’s the announcement: http://www.bidsketch.com/bidsketch-enhancements/custom-proposal-designs/ This was the major feature that everyone wanted, and I’m glad I was able to release it this week. The day job took over my life so finding [...]
Posted by admin on December 7, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/major-feature-release/
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 [...]
Posted by admin on November 19, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/bidsketch/traffic-month/