I just sold my 4th bootstrapped SaaS business for 7 figures as a solopreneur. Obviously I learned a ton (like I always do with each startup). Here are 10 important lessons I learned the hard way: (Maybe you already know all of these. The list is far from exhaustive) Lesson 1 Wearing all the hats is risky business In the early days of SEOJet, signing up was by invite only. An automated email would get sent out after 20 minutes …
Category: Effectiveness
As many of you know apart from buying and selling websites and running Prosperly, I also own and run http://www.seoscheduler.com. It’s SEO software I created to make SEO affordable for anyone. Anyway, we were recently implementing a new product on the service (Where We Do The SEO For People) and I somehow made a mistake and uploaded an old file that listed our basic membership at the wrong (much lower) price. I didn’t realize this had happened until someone contacted …
Well I was on vacation with my family in California last week so I didn’t get a chance to post about it but what do you think about the new design of the website? I think it looks a lot better. You’ll also notice that the logo is different as well. I decided to do a complete overhaul. The vacation was fun but Disneyland was hot and crowded. (Lot of people want to see the new Cars land). If you …
I know, I know it has been a long time since I last wrote. I have been busy with filmmaking and other projects but I’m back. Onto the good stuff… I often run tests on pages of my site through crazyegg.com. They show you exactly where visitors are clicking on your website. It is very useful to see if your visitors are doing what you want them to do. So on the home page of LawnCareDirectory.com I have a section …
I recently sat through a webinar by Marketing Experiments. They are a web marketing company that puts on free webinars all the time showing the results of testing different elements on a website and how it increase conversion. The webinar I attended was on getting singular focus on your home page. Chances are that on your home page you are trying to cater to every single person that comes to your website. Unfortunately this is a backwards way of thinking. …