Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

Six Strategies For Avoiding Failure as an Online Entrepreneur

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Strategies For Avoiding Failure

Every week, I have the opportunity to discuss potential website development projects with clients. I regularly have the opportunity to debate the merits of ideas ranging from the brilliant to (in my view) the bizarre.

Furthermore, as a web development business, we’ve been privileged to work on some great successes. Our own Market Samurai is, as I write this, about to pass the 100,000 user mark (thanks again to the genius of Eugene, Brent & the dev crew). Other examples include clients like Theo & Meg of dlook.com.au. I hold them in high regard for creating an online directory that attracts tens of thousands of visitors daily and services a large and growing paid client base (especially as their initial business model for the site failed). It’s also exciting to see the growing success of the Sustainable School Shop and ‘member only’ projects like Grain Assist or FraudWatch.

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Insiders Tips On Software Development Pricing

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Insiders Tips On Software Development Pricing

What professionals know about pricing a custom software development project that most buyers don’t (and end up learning the hard way).

Having both won and lost our fair share of software project proposals, it appears that most buying decisions for large scale software projects typically come down to a choice based on three common factors. These are, broadly speaking, the quoted price and the perceived capacity to deliver and the more intangible ‘vendor likability’.

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