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12.31.07My Goal For 2008
Building A Service, Making Money Online (4)I thought I would make my new years resolution (if you want to call it that- I call it a goal) a day early and beat the bandwagon. My goal for 2008 is to grow Secure Delivery to the point where it is my primary, full time source of income. As it stands now, Secure Delivery is in the black but does not generate enough income where we can work on it exclusively- we have to make ends meet with other contract jobs, outside development, etc. I don't like that. What I do like is working on Secure Delivery. ...
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12.20.07Our Corporate Shirts Rock (In a professional way)
General Nonsense, Running A Service (0)I'm on a roll with singing the praises of companies I deal with lately. A few weeks ago my business partner and I decided that, like all proper companies, we needed some "corporate apparel". I did some searching online and found what I thought was the best deal- Queensboro. Queensboro is pretty cool for a few reasons- 1. They are located in North Carolina (where I am from, so I know they rock automatically) 2. Their listed pricing includes the cost of embroidery- no additional costs! 3. They don't charge a setup fee for standard sized logos (I ...
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12.07.07Coming Soon: Sales Charts and Analytics
Building A Service, Making Money Online (0)One of the advanced features we are currently implimenting for Secure Delivery is advanced charts and analytics that show where your revenue comes from. This will show SD users what products are performing well, what sales trends are developing, what percentage of their income comes from affiliate vs. non-affiliate (direct) sales, and more. Click on the static image below to see an example of the dynamic charts that we are integrating now: We plan to release a full analytics package that will show composite and drill down stats for each product and for every processor. Of course, this is ...
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12.07.07This Made My Day…
Running A Service (0)After working with a customer for about a week on an annoying PayDotCom issue we finally got it resolved. He sent me a nice email that really made my week- Jason, Thank you so much for all your help on this matter. You have gone above and beyond call of duty. I will be sure to talk your delivery system up anytime I can... Being a small company we can't afford thousands of dollars worth of advertising, so it feels good when we make a customer happy when they come to us with problems. After all, word-of-mouth advertising is the best ...
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11.29.07Woo Hoo! We Fixed “The Bug From Hell” and I Feel Great!
Building A Service, Mildly Irritating Things (2)When you run a big online service (code-wise in this example) there are always a number of bugs. Most of these bugs are minor issues that don't affect the functionality of the service- for example, on the Secure Delivery forums I know there is a slight table misalignment in the forum navigation bar that makes it 10px too far to the left. These kinds of bugs impact no one adversely, and to be honest I don't think most would even notice. Every now and then one of our users will uncover what we call a "show stopper", or ...
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11.14.07Oh No! We Have a Terrible Problem
Running A Service (0)This is just horrible! Secure Delivery has so many new sign ups over the past few months that our server is woefully overloaded and we are going to need to upgrade our servers to more robust hardware. We have so many users logging in with so many products getting delivered that our server is straining to keep up with the demand! I know, terrible problem to have, right? Honestly though, Secure Delivery is becoming more and more popular with new accounts every day. With the coming addition of BKF* in the next few weeks, I expect it will ...
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