Category: Business
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Small Business 101
37 Signals has a nice series of articles posted on how to start a small business. If you haven’t seen them, they are worth reading. How To Get Started Cash Flow Basics No One Starts With a Masterpiece Tips For Increasing Sales
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Erik Sink and the micro-ISV
Erik Sink coined the term “micro-ISV” back in September of 2004 when he decided to write about “Exploring Micro-ISVs” and his experiment with a shareware game called “Winnable Solitaire”. Erik inspired tons of entrepreneurs to launch small businesses to pursue their dreams of success as micro-ISVs (including me). His article was so popular that the…
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Gus On Indie Success in 1068 Days
Gus Mueller, owner of Flying Meat and maker of Vodoo Pad and FlySketch fame has taken the time to share his story of becoming a successful indie shareware developer in this article: How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days He’s included a terrific list of seven and a half lessons learned, a…
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Startup School and Wiki
These resources made the blog rounds a while back, but I just now got the chance to really look into it. Startup School has a bunch of great presentations on starting a business in both pdf and audio formats. There is everything from general advice through finance advice. The related website, Startup Wiki is just…
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Corporate Army Or One-Person Business
Do you use “we” or “me” when speaking for your MicroISV or one-person small business? Is it better to act as if you are bigger than just one person? Or, is the fact that you are one person actually a distinct business advantage? Yaro Starak discusses his thoughts on which way to go on his…
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Customer Support Woes
Why is it that some companies just don’t get it? Twice in the past couple of months I’ve experienced absolutely terrible service from large companies in completely different industries. My wife and I recently cashed in a few whole life insurance plans. The company my wife’s plan was with simply required one phone call and…
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Marketing in Forums
Wil Shipley recently went on a rant about “Sock Puppet Marketing”. Apparently, he has a “competitor” on the Windows platform that is marketing his software in forums that discuss Delicious Library. This was one of my concerns with posting to forums and blogs with an obvious intent to marketing a product. This is essentially spam.
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10 Questions for Small Business Owners
Rajesh Setty [Life Beyond Code] has written up a nice concise list of 10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small. …it’s not always the right answers that help – it’s asking the right questions. Article found via MicroISV
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I Think I Need a Web Site Designer
I have several web sites that need new designs. Two blogs (this one and Make Mac Games) that are still running the default Kubrick WordPress theme My company’s main web site My photography site I’m also in need of an e-commerce shopping cart that can be integrated into the site in both form and function…
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Logo Design – Part 1
Now that products have been announced and the company website has a basic and temporary template published, I’m ready to move to the next stop on the corporate identity trail. I need a company logo. As several small business owners have already done before me, I plan on writing about my experience through this process.…