The hard truth about product creation

The difficult bit in the whole product creation lifecycle isn’t actually creating the product itself. In fact, would it shock you if I said that actually making the product accounts for only about 10% of the total time you’ll take to make it a success? Don’t be shocked. Anyone who’s made a product and sold [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 4, 2011

How To Calculate Monthly Revenue (Handy Revenue Calculator)

I was fiddling with some numbers this morning looking at conversion rates and it struck me that I use the calculator a lot for this kind of stuff and it would be ideal if I could just plug it all into a form and get the answers I need. So if you want to figure [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 1, 2011

Productizing your simple ideas – Why I built a new WordPress plugin

As many of you know I love writing code, and when I come across a great idea that should be codified I struggle to resist the urge of making something more of it. I’ve done this in the past with the Stylesheet Per Page plugin for WordPress and the hCard Generator plugin for WordPress and [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 26, 2011

How to reveal your visitor’s true behaviour in Google Analytics

I recorded this quick screencast today to show you this cool tactic I picked up from Rob at softwarebybob.com. I think it’s a great way to reveal the behavior of your actual visitors that aren’t just quick bounces. It’s just another lens in which to view the data in your analytics to reveal what your [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 23, 2011

Why website graders don’t work

This article is a guest post from Dr. Adam Stetzer, the president and co-founder of HubShout. Adam and his team contacted me to check out this great new tool they’ve built which is a different kind of spin on your average website grader. We exchanged a bunch of emails talking theory on what would make [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 15, 2011

Making your first product sale is a magical feeling

I have two cool announcements today. But before I get to that, I wanted to ask, have you ever worked for 6 months or longer on one project? Doing something incremental where you do just a little bit on it every day? This is what I’ve been doing on a couple of projects since the [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 12, 2011

Programmers Leveraging Their API Through Mobile Phone Apps

The following post is guest post by Ruben Corbo. Ruben came to me wanting to write something about mobile and how it effects our thoughts on business. What he delivered was a great article on leveraging our own APIs via mobile handsets. If you own a product and release a public API layer (or are [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 24, 2011

Comparison of ways programmers can make money online

Below is comparison table of some of the innovative ways programmers can make money online. It’s not meant to be a comprehensive list or a description of exactly what you will earn if you do any one of these. There’s tons of variations on these models, but it will give you an idea of what [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 2, 2011

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