Launching and growing a SaaS product
A few weeks ago one of the Micropreneur Academy members posted a link to one of the best resources I’ve found.
There are just some amazingly great interviews in there. I really like Andrew Warner’s (the founder) energy, and interview style. Excellent stuff that every entrepreneur should check out.
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 time to work on it was tough.
Still, I’m very happy with how it came out. You know you’ve got a pretty good feature when you’re done programming, you try it out for the first time, and it brings a big smile on your face, and makes you say — YES!!
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 reading The Brand Gap.
I’m about two chapters in so far and this book is fantastic! I’m very glad I picked it up; it’s one of those books that makes me take notes every few paragraphs.
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 month before this so I’m very excited about current traffic levels. Of course, a lot of this traffic isn’t sustainable, so I’ll need to work on my SEO to make it sustainable. In the meantime, I’ll take it!
Today I had a user (anonymous) post a suggestion about a “per use” payment plan for Bidsketch.
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 be similar to how MailChimp’s pay-as-you-go plan works. I may try it out in the next couple of weeks 🙂