From Zero to Business in 7 Days - Open for Monkey Business
March 19th, 2008
Wake the kids! Phone the neighbors! copy2web is officially available for purchase. Yay!
Of course, this is just the beginning. Creating the product is only half the battle. Getting someone to actually part with their money is another issue all together. So what’s my plan here? Good question…
SEO, SEO, It’s Off to SEO I Go!
No one is going to find copy2web on their own and Google won’t put me on page one just because of my charming personality and rugged good looks. So I need to start optimizing the pages to get a higher page ranking. Bob’s got some info in his book, and there are some other resources out there that I might try.
AdWords
AdWords seem to be a pretty good way to get on the front page if you don’t have good SEO mojo. I’ve created an account and registered some key words and phrases: shared clipboard, distributed clipboard, web clipboard clipboard viewer, clipboard, etc. I’ve set up a limit of $3/day for this and it’s starting to generate some traffic. I’m hitting my $3 limit every day and seeing some click-throughs to my purchase page.
Pricing
The price of copy2web is currently $14.95. Why? Dunno. Seemed like a reasonable number. Especially if you’re paying in Euros. This might be a little on the high side, but we’ll see. Some experimentation will be needed here. For now, I’ll leave it alone as I’d rather lower prices later as opposed to raising them.
Watchful Waiting
For now I’m just going to leave things alone and track my analytics. Once I have a week or two of base-line data, then I’ll start tweaking and experimenting more to find out what visitors are doing.
So that’s all for now. Buy a copy will you? I have eighteen kids to feed! (not really)
March 20th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Congrats! Looks like a useful tool. Any plans on supporting Linux in the future? I have a Linux and Windows PC on my desktop.
Noticed a typo on the order page:
“Just click on the button below to pay with your credit or debut card.”
Should be debit card I guess…
March 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Wouter - Thanks for the feedback and the heads-up on the typo. As for Linux, yes. Soon. Very Soon.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:18 am
Useful tool and very good site, I’d not share the idea of application though on blog where main expected audience are software developers. I am using FTP to share files between Linux and Windows PC. I believe you have to add drag and drop files functionality there. There are plenty of other ways to exchange files but might be successful application in any way. For users that have no skills or desire configure samba or FTP might be a good way to go.
Now the question. You are using QT ?
Oleg
March 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
Oleg - Thanks for the feedback. Yes, drag-and-drop will be in the next release, as well as the storing of proper files ( drag a file to copy2web or drag a selection from some applicaiton ). Regarding QT, no…it’s all written in Java. -Brian
March 30th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Congrats on providing such a great service as well as a wealth of information to people like ourselves who are just launching into this new post. Thanks for this.